I was driving up in the hills of Palos Verdes and got slowed down going up a hill by a guy turning left in front of me. I punched it into VTEC to get going again. I really didn't notice the VTEC surge, probably due to going up the hill.

Anyone else experience this too.

Before people ask about my oil and stuff, I still feel the surge on level ground. Just didn't feel it going up the hill.

 

Same here not much of a VTEC surge if any going up a hill, but very noticeable on flats sections

 

This has always seemed weird to me. My Stook feels 5 times faster uphill than it does in a straight line. To me, it should be the opposite because the car has no torque to speak of and hills can pinpoint that weak spot. This is probably a synthetic feeling of speed because of gravity/weight transfer, the car is in fact slower uphill...it just "feels" faster, the way a Caddy feels fast because of the soft suspension, weight, and lots of torque, but in fact is nowhere near fast. Goofey physics.

Andrew

 

I go up the hills in Palos Verdes (Crenshaw/Hawthorne) every day, and that's where I do most of my VTEC-ing. I feel a bit of a punch at 6k, but mostly it's the odd feeling of continuously increasing power going uphill and upRPM that I love.

 

Hey wk,

Where in RPV do you live??? I saw a red one going up Hawthorne that turned left right before the Ralphs market (I think it's a Ralphs). I can't remember the name of the street that he turned on. Just wondering if it was you I saw. I asked RHES2K the same question, and it wasn't him.

 

During the S2kDays event, we were going up and down hills all weekend long. However, I don't think anybody VTECed once!

 

VTEC surge is more subtle going uphill but it's there. I don't usually VTEC going up Hawthorne or Crenshaw, cause it makes the bars on the gas guage disappear really fast. But the fastest I've ever gone up Crenshaw was at about 105 MPH, two in the morning. I was in fifth gear and the car still pulled strongly. I could've gone faster but I had to slow down for the bumps and the turns.

 

That's pretty crazy Ray. 105 mph is pretty fast to be cruising those hills.

Some of my friends that live in PV tell me horror stories on the number of tickets they get driving the Hawthorne or Crenshaw hills. I couldn't believe how many my friend got in one year. Seems like there area ton of cops that patrol that area. It's really not fair though. You can easily go 80 mph downhill in neutral.

 

It was two in the morning, and the only other car on the road was the A6 2.7T that was chasing me. Need less to say that he was smart enough to hold back, still at about 80 MPH. I was using both lanes, pretty much going straight up. And I slowed down for the corners and kept the wheels straight over the bumps. Those damn bumps are right at the beginning of the long curves. I can't understand why they even put them there; may be to try to slow people down. The only accidents that I have seen going up hill were at those bumps, where few cars went over it too fast while cornering and bump steered, putting it into a spin.

I am too scared to ever try that again. On the rest of the way home, I couldn't even hold the clutch pedal down with my left foot, because it was shaking so badly. The fastest I've ever gone up since then is 90 MPH which is pretty easy when the sun is still out.

Going down hill fast is probably even more dangerous, and something that I am simply not willing to risk. Before they put those grooves on the road, people use to spin out in the rain going down hill, simply by braking through corners. Back then they didn't even have side rails.

And the cops only pull you over on the way down and only near the end of the down hill. There is usually a cop on a motorcycle with a radar gun hidden under a tree shadow that radios another cop below to pull certain cars over. They don't setup that kind of radar traps too often, but when they do it's a massacre.

 

Rolling Hills Rd?

[Edited by s2kblk on 06-01-2001 at 05:43 PM]