I know I know I just baby her way to much. Spent so much time lubing up all the contact areas of the soft top today so nothing will ever leak.

I'm starting to get better though

 

When i saw this post i just knew it was either silverknight or purple haze one of those idiots

 

Nothing will happen if you v-tec it!

 

to you cacophony

 

And you think this makes your engine stronger??

some would say otherwise

 

My Accord has VTEC, but I seldom get into the upper ranges in it, so I wouldn't think that anyone should necessarily have to use VTEC in the S2000. Sure, the S2000 is a sports car and has the ability to rev high, but that's not necessarily why everyone bought it. Believe it or not, some people bought it just for the convertible top, some people bought it just because it was a novelty item (in '99, 2000), and some people bought it because they thought it was "cute".

Everybody has their own reason for owning one, and not all of them care that it can reliably rev to 9K RPMs. Even if the engine will withstand plenty of trips to 9K RPMs, it'll last longer if you don't rev it to 9K every day, and some people want it to last longer.

 

mxt, I understand what you are saying and like I said above... There are many Ferrari owners who don't take their cars to redline ever for many of the same reasons you state in your post. The thing is though, its stupid. There are other convertibles (just as there are other red, pretty looking cars) on the planet that are much cheaper if you don't care for speed, handling and all else that makes this car more expensive than say a miata. Perhaps the miata would have been a better choice for silverknight as they look similar, both are convertibles and so on. I just feel that if you are not going to use the performance of a performance vehicle you SHOULD NOT buy one.

I would argue that it is a very different story for someone with an accord. There are a myriad different reasons why someone would buy an accord and that it comes with a VTEC engine is just a byproduct of some other features. In the S, I find it hard to believe that you justified spending X number of dollars more on the S than for some other "cute convertible" based on some other feature the S has, since there just aren't that many other than engine/handling.

I completely understand comfortably cruising on the highway 70% of the time if you aren't in a rush to use every ounce of performance but if you don't wring it out and enjoy going through the twisties when you drive, you spent 10,000 too much on this car. period.

 

That's rather harsh, dude.

 

Sure it will. She'll let out a wail, pull like hell, and raise goose bumps on your arms.

 

I don't mean to be harsh. I think that SilverKnight has every right to spend his money however he wants but from an economic standpoint he may have made the wrong choice is the point I am making. I'm not calling him less of a person for his desicions or saying it is better/worse for the engine to rev it. It just doesn't make sense to pay for performance if you are not interested in it or are scared of future hypothetical costs you will incur due to pushing an engine that is meant to be pushed.