Like previously stated it's better to rev than lug. Can't you feel the car talking to you, the sweet spot on the 2.2 is 3.5-3.8k perfect for city driving, response, and shifts. The car almost shifts itself at that rpm. Bogg is bad!

 

[QUOTE=ZDan,Apr 18 2008, 09:42 PM]You had a FIAT that revved to 9k?!

 

Another vote for a little mechanical sympathy.

 

Driving the car at lower rpms can add serious life to the engine and drivetrain. Staying out of vtec often is a good thing if you want the car to go many miles trouble free. I've owned many different cars, and to me the key behind making an S2000 last like it's a Civic is to just drive it normally, with your occasional vtec bursts when you feel like having fun.

I owned an RX8 during my 01 S2000 and after my 06 S2000, and that is a car you want to keep the rpms up on more often, because it's good for a rotary, and actually is necessary to rev it high occasionally. I can't imagine this holds true for the S2000. One car feels like it's begging for more rpms at redline, the other sounds like it's gonna blow up. If only the renesis was reliable long term and didn't drink gas like there's no tomorrow, I'd gladly take it in this S2000.

 

Then why not buy the civic in the first place?

IMO vtec wont take away serious life from the engine, if it did, honda would not have put it there. Ive never seen a problem occur from someone vtec'ing too often...

Go big or go buy a civic

 

VTEC once per week is what you seek.

Any more, makes your reliability poor.

 

[QUOTE=RED MX5,Apr 18 2008, 10:32 PM] I've tried it too, and you can actually accelerate from insanely low speeds, in sixth, if you us a light enought application of the throttle and are willing to wait for the leasurely acceleration you can get without lugging the engine.

 

It's also pretty close to the way my wife drives. Hahaha, I'm a sucker for a woman who's a good driver.

 

Hahahaha.

Seriously, it doesn't matter whether you drive it like you stole it, or try to squeeze every mile you can out of the engine and every gallon of gas, as long as you're enjoying the car.

As for S2K-DJ's comments about the engine sounding like it's about to explode, I totally disagree, but understand exactly where he's coming from. Nothing revs like a rotary, but even compared to my old Fiat engines, the F20C is very noisy and harsh, with lots of buzzing and vibration. I expect this in a performance 2l I-4, and realize that it's perfectly normal, so it doesn't bother me. If you want the engine to stop sounding like it's going to blow up when you rev to redline, try a high quality tuned CAI. The sound of the car will then make you want to rev it to redline at every opportunity, becaue it's downright seductive.

 

how would taking it to vtec cost expensive repairs? when have you ever heard of an engine messing up because they vtecd too much? are you aware that there are people that track they're car on a regular basis and are in vtec for 20 minutes at a time on high mileage engines? modifry had his car supercharged I believe for well over 100,000 miles and I'm sure he took it to vtec regurlarly.