why is flooring your car bad?

[butterbeer2fd]

this may sound stupid, but my friend does it on a daily basis on his honda odyssey LOL. is flooring your car bad (from a 0 mph start) because it lets in a bunch of oxygen and the fuel injectors can't keep up so the a/f ratio is messed up? sorry i'm still quite noob at cars, but hey i'm learning

 

[blinx9900]

no thats not the reason. well i dont think flooring the car is that bad but it has a few problems:

-puts pressure on the transmission (assuming its an automatic) and will lead to premature wear.
-burns A LOT of fuel.
-wears out tires faster.
-wears out engine faster (assuming he's revving it up higher than normal)

 

[Tmus]

and its bad if your in the wrong gear?

say like 30mph in 4th and you floor it. am I right in thinking that

 

[blinx9900]

and its bad if your in the wrong gear?

say like 30mph in 4th and you floor it. am I right in thinking that

low rpm and high load are never a good mix, which is exactly what your doing in 4th gear at 30mph... but if its an auto id worry about the trans more than anything else...

 

[benkei]

I have a habbit of shifting up into 5th when I'm doing 40mph... Is that bad? Just the Spoon N1 gets a little loud for cruising in lower gears!

 

[blinx9900]

I have a habbit of shifting up into 5th when I'm doing 40mph... Is that bad? Just the Spoon N1 gets a little loud for cruising in lower gears!

thats fine i do the same, its different for us cause we have super short gears.

 

[benkei]

Oh right, I've read the thread again so I misunderstood it the first time. He's on about flooring it in 5th while doing 40mph! lol. I wouldn't bother, the pedal would go down, the noise would go up, but the car wouldn't accelerate!