I don't think I have it, but a weird thing happened today. I was pulling out of a parking lot and lost a little traction. I then revved it a little and hit redline. I wasn't looking and assumed I hit the rev limiter. Shifted into 2nd and hit what I thought was the rev limiter but it was only at 7k before it shut off the throttle. Slowed down and tried again a little later and everything was back to normal. I'm assuming it noticed the slip and held the car back a little? Anything to worry about? BTW, 1st post so hi all. Just picked up an 02 silver. Been reading this site for a few weeks now. Best resource I've found so far.

 

warm it up before u redline it! u got to have 3 bars on the temp guage or u will have a limiter at7k.

 

Thanks I didn't know that. I knew there was a reason I liked this web site! I normally do warm it up, but I was trying to deal with traffic.

 

lol the 7k redline freaked me out the first time too. I knew it had a limiter, but for some reason, I thought it was allready warmed up. I was at corner 10 at road america (I was track working that day to get free track time). I took off from the corner to go into the paddock, and I was like WTF?!! I only had the car for a week and I thought that the prior track day had killed it .

 

You have no traction control or anything resembling it.. If your temp gauge isn't reading 3 bars, the ECU will cut fuel around 6k rpm. Thats probably what happened.

 

I thought it was a few seconds after 2 bars came was when it allows vtec to kick in.. at least it is on mine. .

 

Yeah I have hit vtec on 2 bars also. I usually wait to 3 bars just to be sure. But I think it is somewhere around 2 1/2 bars till there is enough oil pressure to vtec.

 

Engine temperature not oil pressure is what allows the VTEC to engage in this case. The bars on the temp gauge have absolutely nothing to do with oil pressure to the VTEC solenoid.