I went with a buddy to Brok..... a place in Oklahoma, last saturday and on the way there I decided to let my GST stretch its legs a little after I pasted a truck poking along at 60. I dropped it in to 4th and we were off to the races! The neddle on the speedometer kept climbing and climbing and climbing until it hit the buck twenty-five mark and my buddy started yelling at me to slow the **** down. So I slowed down. On the way back I just had to see how fast my lightly moded Eclipse could go. I got back to the same stretch of road and let my right foot get to know the floor-board real good. 100, 110, 120, 125, 130 and then right at 135 mph with 1000 rpm left till redline I hit what Im guessing is a govener and the gas stopped flowing and I couldn't go any faster............. What happened? How can I get rid of the govener, if that was what it was? Is that a normal thing to happen?

Thanks,
Matt

(If anyone asks, it never happened. )

Any vehicle will only go as fast as the HP will allow it, vehicle weight and aerodynamic drag will limit it otherwise every car would go 200 mph.

I don't think there's a speed governer, laws of physics probably got you.

unless he hit a fuel cut....

FWD 2G's have a speedlimiter at 130-135mph.

I stand corrected

Should be able to program that out with a eprom ecu.

Actaully easier than that.

http://www.dsm.org/how-tos/speedlimiter.htm

I looked through that guide on how to take it off of the stock chip, but I dont wanna risk screwing something up. If I got the AEM EMS would that get rid of the speedlimiter after I have it tuned? Or is the EMS something completely different?

Just honesty here, but if that seems like an overly daunting task, I'd avoid the advanced tuning of the EMS. Fuel control is a double-edged sword, and a system like that gives you more than enough rope to hang yourself.

On top of that, if you've got the cash laying around for an EMS with install and proper tuning, like $1500-2000, and you already have a bunch of mods, I'd look into furthering the base mods. The EMS is nice, but most of the 11 second cars are running some sort of simple piggy-back. How fast do you want to go?

Ahh so the AEM EMS is not the solution to my need for speed. It's a fuel control and timing chip right? What's the eprom ecu? Something like DSMlink? As far as just taking the limiter off of the stock chip goes; If I could get more info from someone who did it and drives it daily, I would do it. I just need to know if there were any side-affects after awhile, since my GST is my daily driver.

Damn I forgot the 2g gst's have the limiter... O well 135 is fast enough for me...

Your ECU is the computer that takes information from all of your sensors and then uses that to make your spark plugs fire and your injectors inject and whatnot. The ECU in 96-99 cars had no way to change the program used to do those functions. 95s had that program on an eprom chip. Eprom chips are easy to reburn. DSMlink is nothing more than a computer program that allows you to change that program on the fly in an easy mannor. AEM EMS is a whole new aftermarket computer. I would recommend it only for someone that has done all they can do with their stock ECU because as James said, you can get into the 11s and even the 10s on your stock unit with some piggybacks.

So I should just grow a pair and clip that retarded thing off, huh? Thanks for the info everyone!

Well I pulled up my big boy pants today and clipped it off. New top speed is 144!
Thanks again everyone for all the info!