Ford Triton V10 maximum RPM Redline - the scoop from Ford August 26, 2009, 02:55:02 pm Yahoo Message Number: 105293I recently brought up a question regarding the RPM redline on the Ford 6.8L V10. As suggested, I called the Ford customer service line for the cutaway motorhome chassis, and they gave me a range of between 5000 and 5100 RPM. So, for those who worry about such things, that is the word from Ford. I haven't exceeded 4700 yet and I hope to be able to keep it under 5000, but some of our little hills here in Colorado sure do exert some serious gravitational pull.Larry Just back from a tour of Monarch, Slumgullion, Silver Creek, and other miscellaneaous long downhills...
Re: Ford Triton V10 maximum RPM Redline - the scoop from Ford Reply #1 – August 26, 2009, 04:11:27 pm Yahoo Message Number: 105294I would think Ford would use rev limiting perimeters
Re: Ford Triton V10 maximum RPM Redline - the scoop from Ford Reply #2 – August 26, 2009, 04:43:44 pm Yahoo Message Number: 105295Yes they are, but I wanted to know what Ford had established as a redline for my own information so that I could stay away from it. I think having an electronic rev limiter is great, but I don't 100% trust that it will sense what the engine is doing in time to save it if I'm not paying attention on a downgrade. Probably overkill on my part, but I am a charter member of the disaster patrol.Larry
Re: Ford Triton V10 maximum RPM Redline - the scoop from Ford Reply #3 – August 27, 2009, 12:14:03 am Yahoo Message Number: 105303.....having an electronic rev limiter is great...what the engine is doing in time to save it ......QuoteLarry Back at the first of this summer at the LD Butterfield GTG I sat in on a session of the SCAN GAUGE - I finally have ordered mine, but not until I had a scare of concern over my transmission coming out of Colorado - Technoz, I think, has info on the Scan Gauge and can get from their web site too - The Scan Gauge can take a lot of out of many concerns with our dear LD's engines etcVirginia, Jim and Cricket Starr and Midnight Roadie
Re: Ford Triton V10 maximum RPM Redline - the scoop from Ford Reply #4 – August 27, 2009, 12:15:56 am Yahoo Message Number: 105304...at the first of this summer at the LD Butterfield GTG ....OOPS - it was Spring - Time flies when wandering around in one's LDVirginia
Re: Ford Triton V10 maximum RPM Redline - the scoop from Ford Reply #5 – August 27, 2009, 12:59:16 am Yahoo Message Number: 105305"I think having an electronic rev limiter is great, but I don't 100% trust that it will sense what the engine is doing in time to save it if I'm not paying attention on a downgrade."Larry Your thinking is correct. The computer will not let the engine over-rev going uphill but cannot stop it from doing so when going downhill. Luckily, the V-10 makes such a racket (mostly intake noise) when it revs over 4500-RPM that I cannot stand it, forcing me to pay attention and to slow down or up-shift. The V-10 is a good motor but do not like the intake or exhaust note. The V-10 does not have the sweet sound of a V-8 or V-12, the harmonics or something is wrong.Larry
Re: Ford Triton V10 maximum RPM Redline - the scoop from Ford Reply #6 – August 27, 2009, 10:03:02 am Yahoo Message Number: 105306Larry I agree on the exhaust note...that's why I'm putting a 327 in my 57 Chevy 1/2 ton 4X4 project. Of course I may have to run it on something other than gasoline by the time I finish it. A hybrid hotrod 4X4 pickup?Larry Jones