blacknight07601

Exactly. It's like hitting the rev limiter but at 4900RPM's
The first time it happened to me, I was scared. I was racing a 99 base TL and going through a nice left hand turn I was pulling on him, but suddenly my tach started bouncing at 48-4900RPM's and I was like WTF. So I posted my experience and did a search and come to find out, a couple of other people had the same problem and said it was due to low oil. I'll admit, I was overdue for an oil change so when I got it changed I went back to the turn and hit it harder than before and kepy accelerating and the car pulled through there nice and hard.
Here's a few other links of guys who had the same experience
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And that's only on this board. Almost every board I'm on, someone has this problem with their Accord

98CoupeV6

Moo, check your oil yet? Was it low?

Good info blackknight, I had assumed that the first thing he would have done after we responded would have been to check the oil.

moogotzskillz

i just changed my oil, still same problem, and my oil was good before i changed it anyways.

i got sick and took it to a shop to diagnose it(on the machine) it said Vavle timing oil preasure sensor, so i went and bought it from HONDA for $114. and still did the same thing, so today after work i'm going to the store and checking it again(after i kick that dudes ass for the wrong thing) not really .


thanxs yea'll, adn keep me posted

98CoupeV6

If it was valve timing oil pressure sensor all that would happen is that VTEC wouldn't activate IMO. You might want to take it to Honda, this is a really weird problem that I'm boggled on. I'm dying to learn what is causing this.

moogotzskillz

illl keep yea'll updated....

RKV

hey 98coupev6, if i have a CEL(vtec malfunction, not sure if its 1259, unless theres only 1 vtec code), whenever i accelerate hard, the car feels bog downed, and the theres a point where the tach jumps up and down (im not accelerating anymore also), i assume that is the rev limiter, is that bad for my car? im tryin to trouble shoot if its a bad vtec solenoid or a bad vtec pressure switch.

98CoupeV6

VTEC malfunction? That's very rare. Since VTEC is oil pressure actuatued, there's a solenoid (as you said) with an oil filter (a screen I think) near it. I've heard of that screen getting clogged from using dirty oil, so check there. If that's fine, I guess troubleshoot the code.

blacknight07601

That's a possibility also.
I'd also have then check the VTEC solenoid also.
But regardless, if it's not a low oil pressure problem, you should have some type of code instead of someone guessing the problem/solution

RKV

im not guessing, i checked the CEL code, cuz I had a CEL. btw, i did what u suggested 98coupev6 with the cleaning the shield. the code im getting is 1259, unless like otherwise stated theres more then 1 CEL for bad vtec. i took the car to honda, they said get an oil change, did that. then they suggested an oil flush, i said, wouldnt the oil change be the same as an oil flush if that was the solution (being low oil or flushing out contaminents), the technician said i am probably right, so they did not do that. NEXT, they did actually what u suggested 98CoupeV6, the vtec solenoid shield gets clogged, so they cleaned the shield, and NOW i STILL have the code. so its either 1) bad solenoid 2) bad vtec pressure switch ... your thoughts gentlemen

blacknight07601

I'd lean toward a bad solenoid. But I'm not sure.