On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:43:52 -0500, "Anonymous" <com@com.com> wrote:

>I had an '83 V65, and I seem to recall a ~10K redline. But,
>I don't recall the presence of a rev limiter. You were free to
>float your own valves, and blow your own engine, back then.

The 83 Magnas didn't have rev limiters but all the later ones did. The rev
limiter was built into one of the two spark boxes. They were interchangeable
but the one with the limiter was slightly bigger.

IIRC the 1100s had a 9500 redline and the 700/750 models had 10,000 but I could
be wrong. In any case, shutting off at 7k is not a rev limiter kicking in, it's
almost certainly carb related. Could be a ruptured diaphragm or plugged jets,
or both. Could even be tight valves but I doubt it.

Gone but not forgotten:
'83 750 Magna
'82 750 Magna
'85 1100 Magna
'85 1100 Sabre
'85 1100 Magna (another one)
Still here:
'85 500 Interceptor
'94 750 Magna

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