Hmm, not true for me. I can hear my car's initial x-over, and the secondaries are just as noticable.

But I've driven stock GSR's and you can't really tell. There isn't supposed to be a noticable difference going into VTEC with a stock GSR.

 

odd, mine is rather quiet.

 

An intake will fix your problems.

Mine is loud as shit just with the airbox cover off. Even with it on though, the change of tone is definitely there.

 

my gsr is all stock and i hear the vtec...not very noticable but u can hear it at around 5000rpms or so...

cant wait till i install my aem v2

 

OK. I took the Airbox off the car and noticed a huge differance in sound. Hitting 3,000rpms the engine gets louder and the vtec is really heard. Not sure why it took the airbox coming off for it to sound like a GSR should but oh well.

 

wire up a vtec light...its pretty easy, and its a surefire way to make sure vtec is engaging. vtec on a gsr with a stock ecu should engage at 4400 rpm, with the secondaries opening up at 5600 rpm. i drilled a small hole into the plastic right behind my shifter and put a green LED in. just splice a wire into the vtec solenoid, run it through the firewall and into the car to the LED, then run another wire from the LED for a ground. i think its kinda cool at least.

 

sounds interesting
never heard of anyone doin that before
cool mod

 

BTW do you know of any QUIET 8 second cars, cause if you do id love to see it

 

my VAFCII does the same thing.

 

i don't have like $350 to drop on a vafc II right now...so since it only cost me like $4 to do, it seemed worth doing for now.