True. If you aren't afraid of hitting the limiter, you must have some heavy duty reinforements in that puppy.

 

it has more to do with the fact that i know what the engine is capable of, and i also built it from scratch. in building it, i got a good idea of what goes on at high rpms.
not to mention ive already put my engine thru some really rigorous testing, including running a constant 30% lean for about 4 months, and beating on it at a high level simultaneously.

imo - if it was gonna pop, it woulda popped 20,000 miles ago
(knock on wood)

plus building it was at least half the fun of driving it, so if i do blow it up, ill just pull it and rebuild it, and throw it back in.

ive pulled a number of 4th gen engines, and done a few dif swaps. i can pull an engine, rebuild it (assuming i have all the nec parts), and drop it back in the car, in about 3 days.

~boomer

 

Well the reason you can hit 69 is because of the H23 tranny. That tranny when mated to a H22 won't make you faster than someone running a H22 with a H22 tranny, the gearing just isnt made to rev as high as the H22 does.

 

I've hit the rev limiter probably in excess of a thousand times since I've owned my car. BTW that's 100% serious. Anyways if you're trying to drive while bouncing off the rev limiter yeah that would probably kill the motor after a while but hitting it on the 1-->2 shift or at say the top of third or fourth isn't going to wipe your motor. I'm certain Honda built enough saftey into the car not to have to worry too much when running hard.

 

true that