Occasionally I have found that my car seems to hit the rev limiter at about 6000 RPM in first gear. It's a little disconcerting because I'm ready to get rolling. I think it happens when the car in not warmed up yet. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this normal and designed to protect the engine or is it possibly a sign of a problem? I have a 2001 with about 1100 miles on it.

 

There is a rev limiter that prevents vtec until the engine is warmed up (3 bars). Hence why people say make sure it's warmed up first. It's a very violent experience and not at all pleasant.

 

perfectly normal, make sure you have atleast 3 bars on the temp gauge before going even remotely close to 6k rpm's.
i would actully wait atlast another 2 minutes after the 3 bars on the temp before going to VTEC.

 

jelliotlevy,

Did you amke sure 3 bars were showing on the temp guage. You have to warm up the car properly before vtec. If the car isn't warmed u properly, you won't feel the vtec transition. You can also rev the car to about 7500 rpms beforethe rev limiter kicks in.

 

AND HOW!!!!!! I wish I would have read this thread back when I first got my ride. I couldn't figure out why the hell the car would thrash me about at 6k. OH GEEZ.... learn the hard way.

 

bayarea408 has a great point, it seems like it doesn't take long for 3 bars to arrive, especially here in SoCal, but it sure doesn't feel like the car is warmed up yet, so I usually wait a few more minutes past 3 bars just to be safe. And then .... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by jelliotlevy
[B]At that 8000 rpm, the screaming of the engine nearly drowned out my wife's screaming about that #@$&% loud noise.

 

Is the S2000 fly-by-wire, or just dirty ol' linkage?

 

Mine's 'fly by the seat of your pants'

S2000 is not fly by wire.

 

Mine is too, but you have to watch out for those pucker marks on the seat cushion.