ok, i have a stock 96 gsr, i don't street race much at all and i hardly ever drive over the 4000 rpm level...but today, this civic with nothing more than I/H/E tried to race me, i got a bad start but i ended up beating him by a lot passing him around 3rd-4th gear...i notced that the VTEC sound wasn't coming in until around 6000 rpms (like a sudden increase in power and sound), i thought it was supposed to engage around 4500 rpms with more of a gradual increase...is it just me or has this ever happened to anyone else?

 

happened to me once, but my check engine light came on. apperantly the connector for the tps had fallen off.

 

vec comes on at 4400 in a gsr and at 6000(somewhere in that area I forgot) the secondary runners in the intake manifold open up, which is probly what you heard. Im sure its working normal. So you smote him with 3rd gear Vt3c y0!

 

huh? I dont think so. Once my V-AFC was installed and I looked at where Vtev was coming on at it said 4400 and there are a million other posts that say the same thing.


[Modified by BVM, 8:19 PM 1/17/2003]

 

i just asked some guy about this and he said that vtec kicks in at 4400 but you can't really hear it, but at 5800 the intake manifold opens up and that has a really noticeable sound, thanks for all your help though, i appreciate it

 

flip that...vtec is at 4400 and most peps actually RAISE vtec

 

i definitely would not allow you to "tune" my gsr.