my fuel cut off is at 117 mph on the stock ecu. Is this normal?

 

no, it think its 112, but yes there is a fuel cut on the stock ECU

 

hmm...any one send theirs to get chipped? any suggestions?

 

Usually if you get it chipped they will remove the fuel cut, give you a better fuel map, move your vtec engagment point, raise your rev limiter, and sometimes disable other sensors.

 

yes its normal that it cuts off at around 180-185km/h, its a speedlimiter imposed on all JDM cars

one way to avoid this is to rechip as many have stated or buy a speed limiter disabler made by few compaines (HKS, Apex and few others)