NightHawk_Type_S

Have any of you guys forgot that you were in SS mode and accidently bounce the RPMs off the redline? It sounds like when you're playing a video game (i.e. Gran Turismo) and you've got the gas pinned down while in neutral. Well, I have accidently done it twice and I hope I haven't messed anything up. Did I?

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2001 Black/Ebony Type S
w/ Navigation
Formerly PIAA 19169 Road Lamps
Now Polarg M-6 Road Lamps
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/Album...061&a=10179514

TakeFlight

Nope, that's the rev limiter doing it's job so that you don't mess anything up.

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2001 Acura 3.2 CL Type-S
San Marino Red / Parchment
non-nav - wheel locks - splash guards

soopa

I've done it a countless # of times...

quite embarrasing actually... when you do it on the highway everyone around you looks and stares thinking... "dumb ass"

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2001 Acura 3.2 CL Type-S
San Marino Red (Navigation)
PIAA 19173 Ion Yellow Fog Lights
Aftermarket Black Wood Trim Kit
Retired: 2000 Acura 3.2 TL

NightHawk_Type_S

Yeah, I've done it passing a slow poke in the fast lane. I totally forgot that I was in SS mode and as soon as I was right beside him, thinking I was gonna blow by, I hear VR, VR, VR, VR... ah s**t, how embarassing.

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2001 Black/Ebony Type S
w/ Navigation
Formerly PIAA 19169 Road Lamps
Now Polarg M-6 Road Lamps
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/Album...061&a=10179514

TakeFlight

I too did this a number of times with my Intrepid. Very easy to do if you forget you have it in SportShift (or AutoStick) and have the music really loud.



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2001 Acura 3.2 CL Type-S
San Marino Red / Parchment
non-nav - wheel locks - splash guards

YuppieCL

i did that only twice. once during break-in (that may be bad) and once last month. weird thing is is that while in SS i noticed i was climbing towards 7000rpm so i tap it, but it doesn't go. i hit the limiter and the car jerks, tap it up again and nothing. car stays in 2nd @ 72mph. i could only get it out by going into d5. weird. never happened again though. btw, is it bad to purposefully activate the abs? with all the snow still on the ground when pulling to a stop sign or yield i once in a while press harder then normal on the brakes to have the abs turn on. i do it w/ reasonable judgement so dont think i'm like doing it on the highway or at an intersection. just on side streets. i like to see how fast it'll take my car to actually stop.

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YuppieCL

JSuppi

Dude Yuppie,
Your weird , well anywyas I don't think that's bad when your doing it in the situation that you're doing it in. Now if on the other hand it was completely dry and you were doing it, it may not be so hot on the tires (call me a dumbass, but if you do it enough times, and I do me enough, wouldn't you get flat spots in the tire compound??)


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01'
Black/Ebony CLS

DDT-TypeS

I just came home from dinner. Put the shifter into SS mode. Going up a small incline (hill) @ 5th gear. All of a sudden, it changed to 2nd gear and stayed until I upshifted AFTER I was on flat ground again.

This *grade logic* shifting is great. I guess it's a manual transmission with a smart automatic watchin' over you at all time. I like that actually.

Also, it won't let you shift up or down a gear if you are either on a steep hill or going way to fast (80mph shift down to 2nd gear is impossible?)

pimpintypes

I don't usually have the problem with SS mode, but since I use D4 and D5 regularly, I sometimes forget that I'm back in D5 and hit the gas while mistakingly tapping the shifter up into Neutral (thinking I was in D4 shifting to D5). Ooops.

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'01 Pimp Daddy Gold CL-S - Comptech Springs
Coming Soon: new 17" wheels/tires (can't decide which yet), maybe Comptech Sways
My PimpinTypeS