Opinions on specs for 7-13 axle setups - your dream HH truck

I've wondered in the past that those limiters are effective: same as if they passed one here in. The states.

Pay a keyboard warrior $100; now your ecm is limited to 100kmh... On those 17.5 tires against 5.64 rears. Problem solved?

 

My truck has a speed limiter when I go into Ontario. It's attached to the bottom of my right leg. Its the best. Easily adjustable to changing speed limits. No computer required. Let's just hope they don't ever check its settings. Probably set to a much higher default than they would like.

 

Their test is probably the same as what you're doing to the rest of us.

 

That's the first step in the game. Have 3.55s? Change to 4.56s

Second step is there is a cruise reward setting in ECMs. So your pedal and cruise can be set to 65 mph, but cruise rewards gets you 75 mph.

Third step is a bully dog plugged into the ECM OBD port and do what you want. Apparently $1000 CDN. The only thing I would check is if it leaves a footprint. Throw it in the sleeper if you get pulled in

 

I've been running into Canada for the past 4 years and have never once been questioned about limiters. They really don't seem to care as long as you don't get caught speeding.

If you don't give them a reason to stop you they won't bother wasting the time.

 

I got the fullest inspection I've ever had in Ontario last year. The guy was a retiring saftey auditor and accident reconstruction specialist. He was a real friendly guy but the last person you want to try and bull****.
I was sweating bullets the whole time, but a governor was the one thing he never asked about.

 

To be honest though, I don't want to run 100 mph everywhere. But if I could get to 75 to get a run at a hill......or hit 70 to pass the guy governed at 62...life would be better.

 

About 4.5 years ago when I was working for Schneider I drove from El Paso to San Antonio across 10. It was scary being stuck at 60mph with big trucks passing me doing 80+ and cars close to 100.

Did a similar trip last summer empty. Kept the cruise locked at 85 the whole way.

Funny thing about my KW, the speedo stops at 80mph. At 81mph the needle drops and stops working until back below 80. Only way to know my speed is to switch the cluster to the digital speed.

Factory governor kicks in at 95. I try not go past 75 often seeing as my steers are only rated for 65.

If they ever pass a speed limiter law in the US I'll move on. After 2 years with a limiter and now having the trust of my employer for the last 3 I will never drive a limited truck again.

 

Once at the Lakeshore scale in Ontario near the border, the officer actually plugged into my OBD port to check. So it does happen occasionally but you're right it doesn't happen often.

 

Better yet I have heard of something special. Not sure of the details 100% but you can set some parameters and have it for example; if you're getting above say 3MPG (instant calc) then you have a wide open pedal, anything less and it's limited at 105 km/h. That means if you are not moving, your MPG is 0 and it will show limited at 105 km/h.

That's how it's supposed to work anyway. The person who told me about it has not (yet) put it on his truck.