OK, I've owned a couple RX7's & 300Z's for the majority of my joy riding days... When my wife & I had our 4th child (total of 7 now ), I abandoned the 300ZX for a 2002 V8 Chevy Suburban (needed the space & LUV MY TRUCK).

Now I'm back in a manual 5 speed with the CL Unfortunatly, I've conformed so much that i'm noticing that I tend to shift between 2.5k & 4k at most.

From what i've read, the vtec doesn't kick in until over 5k... Is that correct? If so I guess i still don't know what its like to own a vtec

Anyhow is the vtec somewhat equivalent to a supercharger?

 

Nope It's just a different lobe on the cam that it uses, It's bigger,= more power

 

No it's not anything like a supercharger

 

seven kids?

 

Don't worry about vtec, you wont really be able to feel vtec in an f22 or f23 powered CL. When you get into something with dual overhead cams and vtec, thats when you'll see the difference. Or turboing ur f series.

 

Kind of on the same topic but. But for the people with f 2.2 and 2.3 5speed.when your going 80mph what is your rpm at?

 

My girlfriend is one of nine.

 

and my mom is 1 of 7... there plenty of big families out there, sure im not a big fan, im having troubles just being 1 of 2 (dealing with the other is the problem)

 

mines usually around 3100 rpm i was wondering the same thing actually

 

around 3k at 80mph

 

same here. cool thanks for the answer peoples!

 

vtec is like that commercial. This what sex is like in an ordinary condom "good night". This is what sex is like in a durex(vtec) condom "gooooood morning"

 

^^^hahahahahaha

this is how it works
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q24D0xv49d4

 

floor that mofockie and find out my man.

 

My "mofockie" goes through 1 quart every 380 miles. I'm concerned that if I floor her too hard she will simply.......

 

floor it everyday,9 lives baby!!

 

no wonder you get 13 MPG....you need to get a ticket to realize you cant floor it

 

if you want a tru vtec feeling you have the wrong motor.

 

 

me is content with that VTEC noise

 

you don't even have the vtec noise..........real vtec is 1000x louder than our little f22's.

 

^ lol

 

tell me about it, my friends K20 RSX can be heard far away in VTEC, and it sounds good to boot, as does my other friend's K24 Accord. for some reason though I deinately prefer the tone of my F22 over his K24 though

 

F22?? what tone?? lol

 

theres a slight tone to it.

 

shhhhh, if you wanna shut me up send me an H22 that I can try on for size

 

my vtec dont even pop that hard. its probaly because of me ECU.

 

it's supposed to be smooth transition, not a pop

 

mines pops like a futha trucka. i have a vafc and i have my vtec set to 4600 on my 3.0

 

have any of you guys ever driven an odyssey? i have to drive one every day at work, and that vtec is anything but discreet. it goes from waaaaaaaa... to BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH

its funny though. half the people at my school think i drive a white mini van cause i'm always in it. :-P

 

how does on ''set'' his v-tec to operate at a lower rpm? is it even possible?

 

You need a piggy back vtec controller like the Apexi VAFC-II

 

still trying to figure out how to use mine...

 

Would it be worth it for me to invest in a VAFC-II? or is there something like it that would work better for turbo applications? cause i want vtec to engage sooner than it does to help hit full boost faster, but i dont wanna waste $$$ on stuff i dont really need

 

i think it's been made pretty clear that vtec is a joke on the f22/f23 engine. save your money

 

best way to set it up is on a dyno. do a run where it engages really early and the another engaging it late. find out where they overlap and that's where you set it.

 

I have a vafc II for sale? anyone interested

 

what bout air fuel mixtures? like leaning it out a bit? bah, i'll do this once everything else is good. like my exhaust, tires, tuneup. i'm still smokin' even without this tune.

 

i can't see how engaging vtec earlier would help the turbo spool faster as it's the intake side that have extra lobes. the air gets in faster but it's same exhaust cycle, and that's what spins the turbo.

 

that you can kinda do that just with an a/f gauge, but yeah a dyno would make that easier too.