So I had the car at the track for the first time today. I had a great take off and had 6 or 7 lengths on a z28. I missed 3rd, finally got it in 3rd and my backend kicked out and it sounded lick it hit the rev limiter pretty hard. I slowed down and went to turn off the track I couldn't hit boost and it seemed like I had no power in 4th. I let the car cool down turned it off and it seemed like everything was fine. The only thing I've noticed is my service light comes on when I start the car blinks a few times at turns off. Not sure if that's normal or not... What would cause the car to lose boost and 4th gear for a short amount of time?

 

Valvetrain damage? Read someshere on here that our valvetrain can get easily get damaged if overrevved. Might want to have that checked in any case. Or maybe when you dropped in back in third you got a major boost leak somewhere, check all your hoses and clamps.

 

If your check engine light comes on you could be going into safe mode and no vtec?

Valve springs can go if you really over rev ( the money shift)-going from 3rd to 2nd. Our car will let you do this, it's bad!

 

The maintenance required light is not the same thing as a Check engine light.

 

I'm guessing the maintenance required light is because of an oil change. I just changed the oil so it's probably close to it's time. After I turned the car on and off everything seemed to have ran fine. It shifted great still and all the power was still there. No over heating no loss in acceleration. Could there still be a problem?

I think what happened, it happened so fast was I was going into 3rd and missed or didn't get in all the way. I then put it back in 3rd or in 3rd for the "1st" time. I never went from 2nd to 3rd or from 3rd to 4th to 3rd or 2nd to 4th to 3rd. If that makes any sense.

 

what times did you run?

 

the first run was a 15.6 perfect luanch and went sideways in 3rd... my 2nd run was a 16 something I had a horrible 3.5 reaction time and didn't push the car very hard just wanted to make sure the car was ok. I was changing gears at 6k to 6.5k. I was hoping to get a 3rd run knowing everything was ok but they were closing. I seemed to have huge traction problems.

 

what can I do just to make sure everythings ok? Would a compression test be enough?

 

anyone?