usually i drive from my house for five minutes in the residential area (stop signs and 25 mph speed limit, so no vtec/speeding) until i get to the parkway (stoplight) and so i'm always warmed up before i even have a situation where i get on to vtec (same thing with leaving work).

i was out and stupid me forgot that i hadn't given the car the five minutes to warm up when leaving for home today and banged the limiter hard (almost hit my head on the steering wheel 'cause i was snapped forward so violently from the stop of acceleration). summer is definitely over, before i could get my car hot and it'd stay hot for an hour after i stopped driving, certainly not now (still top down but a lot cooler barely 70s this week).

 

take it easy on her, you wouldn't just stick it in hard to your gf/wife would you? you want to warm her up, loosen her up...

 

...maybe?

 

lol precisely . Within the first week I bought my car when I was almost 19 my dumb ass tried to get to 9k pretty much as soon as I left the colleges parking lot. It violently ceased, jumped OUT of first gear, and I proceeded to soil myself. I have moved far far away from that level of intellect since then. But we all make mistakes . That IS on an AP1, in reading your encounter I suppose AP2s limit themselves at 8k. Just take er easy, no harm done

 

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the cold rev limit is way below 7k though isnt it? My AP2 wouldn't even get to VTEC if I remember correctly, it would slam into the wall around 5-6k as I recall (only happened once or twice by accident, got wheel spin in the cold when pulling out into the street).