Lol - it's ok, I'm not at redline or anything. I just let it run higher than usual... move my shift points up a 1000 rpm or so, and don't mind letting the car drive for a while at 4-5K. It heats up MUCH faster than if I just shift through the gears to 5th, and let the rpms settle around 1500 or so, in my "gas saver mode"... takes FOREVER that way. I mistated when I said "really high revs"... let me correct that to "medium revs."

I knew a guy around here with a white Civic EX coupe who would routinely drive around town (smallllll town here) at 7000-ish rpm in first and second gears... he also had a cheap N1 knockoff muffler, just the muffler, so it sounded like the classic "angry swarm of bees" swooping across town. You could hear him from almost literally a mile away if you were in the right place.

Surprisingly, though, his car took all this punishment and came back for more every time - the first time I was really impressed with the D-series engine. He must have done this redline dance around town all last spring, and the car never died or leaked or burned oil or anything... yeah Honda....