I'm curious if the 1992 Dakota with the 5.2 magnum has a top speed governor?

My speedo reads up to 120mph, but I haven't ever taken it over about 90mph. Its a small truck, and I'm not as brave as I used to be in the old C barge.

I have done some searching and found reports that the 2nd gen and newer Dakotas have a speed cutoff at either a 98 or 113 mph range.

I guess I'm just curious as to why they would install a speedo that reads past the governor speed (if indeed the 92 has one)

Ive never heard of 1. I believe the limiting factor comes from being out of HP on the top end.

i've run my shelby dakotas all past 120 mph, with no signs of a governor limiting it from going faster. of course this isn't a magnum engine, just a lowly la 318.

my 92 dak 5.2 ran out of steam at 115mph. 4th gear,TC locked up, down hill with tailwind.

my buddys 2000 Toyota tundra with 265 HP v-8 shuts down at 107mph and holds that up hill down hiil with or without tailwind.

this is how I know the dak goes to 115mph it out runs the toyo on topend.

not sure if it matters, but you guys have the mag motors, and computers. might be a different deal on them, or the fuel system might not be keeping up. throw some higher flow injectors, off the 360, and see what happens.

He's is a V8

I had a 94 V 6 with a 5 speed and it ran out at 110 i looked at the tach and it was only at 3500 rpms i remember they used to sell a kit to get rid of it .

I would not be surprised if there was, Chrysler started putting them in the turbo cars as far back as 87 or 88 for liability reasons. Usually its tied to the speed rating of the tires that were on the vehicle when sold new.

I think it was 118 on the average turbo car, the Shelby Z's had Z rated tires and it was set to 256 mph in the code. The code does not let you shut it off, just set to the highest set point.

A cheap "fix" was to place a toggle switch in the speed sensor circuit and just break it as needed, not sure if that is practical on a Dakota or not with computer controlled overdrive.

I read that you can turn the key to the start position when you reach the governed speed and it would disable the governor as long as you held the key there..

I had one of those Accel coils on my 92 D150 5.2 Magnum, last year after chasing a miss and hard start problem for a few months I traced it to the Accel coil going bad. I put the stock coil back in and its been fine ever since. I also have a Mopar Hi-Performance computer which may move the rev limit up.

great... I will give mine a try, but as always I keep a spare coil, and CPS in the truck from prior experiences...

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I'm curious if the 1992 Dakota with the 5.2 magnum has a top speed governor?

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I don't know about top speed but they do have a rpm limiter which could relate to top speed if it had enough guts to push it that far.