I recently bought a s2k last week. Its a 2003 and it has 24,000 miles on it. Well today when i was leaving work i was pulling out into traffic so i got on it alittle bit and it felt a little sluggish and i was thinking WTF, Then the vtec didnt kick in and right at about 7500 or 7400 the engine boged down and made a weird noise (sounded like missing a gear or grinding the shit out of one) but i wasnt shifting or had the clutch in. So i let off and slowed down. I stop the car and took off again same thing happen so i drove it to my mechanic and when i took him in it....nothing happen of course. and it hasnt happen since but any ideas WTF happen???

 

was the car fully warmed up? 3 bars? *shrugs*

 

^^ My guess as well. Chris, until the car gets to 3 bars on the temp gauge, v-tec won't engage and you will encounter the rev limiter.

 

^^ so the rev limiter at 7500 ??
i don't recall on if it was at 3 bars but it wasnt like i jumped in it and took off. i was at the stop sign for awhile...... thank you for the help so far though

 

this happend to my ap1 as well but i didnt get a weird noise i was mashing it in second gear. and when it hit about 5k it bogged down...i was thinking the same WTF happend did i break my car but at after that it has never happend again i've been able to mash it fine and hit vtec fine with no problems. i think that it wasn't warmed like everyone else was talking about hopefully that was it.

 

Another vote, cold RPM limiter.

 

That "cold-rev-limiter" is also known (by some ) as the "Idiot-rev-limiter"



Idiot as in : I Didn't thInk befOre revving It.

 

...did the car rev past 7400-7500 rpm or did it stay there?

 

it hit 7400 and made the noise and bogged down so i let off the gas...

 

WTF