please avoid this. this can be very bad for your synchos. a honda of america employee (woodwork) confirmed this.

 

Money shift = Mechanical overrev

Meaning you downshift one or more gears or misshift resulting in engine revs higher than redline because the tires rotate that fast and the engine revs will match that speed and the rev limiter will not and can not prevent it.

So you overrev the engine and eventually the valves touch the piston head and bend because the valves go up and down so fast that they begin to float. I believe it was somewhere around 10.400rpm that the floating begins...

So money shift is a gearshift that costs lots of money in the worst case.

 

Its the Cadillac of hybrids!

 

Yes, maybe they operate more efficiently, but you're still using up more gas in higher RPMs. When you VTEC, you're getting only 7-9 MPG. Yes, you may be at 99.99999% efficiency, this just means you're efficiently using more gas.

I'd say when I drive, I shift every 2 seconds or less until 6th gear. I accelerate fast enough to where I can shift and be around 2500 RPMs in the successive gear. I get around 26 city and 29-31 on highway.