#1: You should throw codes if VTEC doesn't engage. You are running a VTEC ecu, yes?
#2: no other fix, unless you shim the whole engine up, and that could get ugly.
#3: Glasspack. Glasspack glasspack glasspack. You can put that thing all the way back to a stock sound with a glasspack and a Borla universal.
How do you like your victor X? :ugh: