How not to drive a RSX

This may be old to some of you, but I thought it was intesting so:

http://subzero.mine.nu/celica/RSX-S_misshift.mpeg

Must of been a rough day. Takes him something like 9 seconds to get to 60 then... well, watch and see.

"for my next trick, i'm going to make my valves levitate..."

haha..good one drift...

and wow. lets talk about how he cant drive. at all.

damn!!...looks like he went to 2nd instead of 4th and hit like 11K+ rpm.....really needs some driving lessons:D

Originally posted by drift
"for my next trick, i'm going to make my valves levitate..."

And after that he'll see if they can quantum tunnel though the pistons. :)

BTW, the guy that sent me this video works in the service at an Acura dealership. He said that there have actually been quite a few cars that have come rolling (behind a toe truck) in where the driver apparently had similiar driving "skillz".

A guess that 6-speed is little tricky eh?

Originally posted by SickLude
haha..good one drift...

and wow. lets talk about how he cant drive. at all.
he missed 4th gear:confused:

Originally posted by Someguy


And after that he'll see if they can quantum tunnel though the pistons. :)

BTW, the guy that sent me this video works in the service at an Acura dealership. He said that there have actually been quite a few cars that have come rolling (behind a toe truck) in where the driver apparently had similiar driving "skillz".

A guess that 6-speed is little tricky eh?

I heard that this was a very common happening in hondas and acuras, and that they were covered under warenty but now that the RSX is out its happining alot more and thus they changed the warenty and are now not cover such a thing. Sux for them....

man if i blew my engine every time i missed a shift or hit the wrong gear in the heat of a race id have spent quite a bit of money on rebuilds by now. its an honest mistake, not necessarily bad driving (although he looked like he was redlining the piss out of it even before he missed the shift)

see thats why they invented this thing called a rev limiter. my car has one, and i like it! with all their technological marvels in the new k-series motors honda couldnt put in a damn rev limiter?

Originally posted by ldelaysionl
see thats why they invented this thing called a rev limiter. my car has one, and i like it! with all their technological marvels in the new k-series motors honda couldnt put in a damn rev limiter?
Rev limiter is not going to prevent that from happening smart guy. When you downshift, the wheels spin the transmission. So you shift into 2nd, at 90 MPH, the transmission is spinning at that speed. When you release the clutch pedal, the engine then tries to spin up to that speed. Thats when you go to 11K RPM and fuck things up.

Go here if you want to see some people that think they can go 80MPH in second gearhttp://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/t33023.html

that guy is a dick

Originally posted by NSX-R-SSJ20K
that guy is a dick

You refering to me?

that movie made me cringe. seriously, painful to watch. i wanted to cry when he revved to hell.

the integ gears are really close as far as the shifter goes from what I understand and the RXS is I think alittle worse

Originally posted by CivicEx95

Rev limiter is not going to prevent that from happening smart guy. When you downshift, the wheels spin the transmission. So you shift into 2nd, at 90 MPH, the transmission is spinning at that speed. When you release the clutch pedal, the engine then tries to spin up to that speed. Thats when you go to 11K RPM and fuck things up.

why then if i miss a shift and hit a lower gear than i should will i bounce off the rev limiter??? why then dont a lot of hondas and other cars for that matter have engine blowing problems anywhere close to as common as the rsx??? is it a coincidence the rsx is the one without a rev limiter??? i think not...

I dont know about the rev limiter helping or not but the space between shifting gears on the integ and the RSX are closer together than the other hondas, makes it easer to miss mostly 4th cuz if your hand slids left any you wind up in 2nd

I dont think that just because the gears are closer that people should miss shifts. that's what they made short shifters for is to HELP make shifting easier. Do the RSX gears not actually click into gear or is it kinda just like yankin the gear shift left all over the place in one big circular motion?:rolleyes:

Originally posted by ldelaysionl

why then if i miss a shift and hit a lower gear than i should will i bounce off the rev limiter??? why then dont a lot of hondas and other cars for that matter have engine blowing problems anywhere close to as common as the rsx??? is it a coincidence the rsx is the one without a rev limiter??? i think not...

I've never driven an RSX, but I'm betting it does have a rev limiter. Cause if you put in neutral and push the gas all the way, its not just going to rev and blow up.

yes im sure it has a rev limiter but that has nothing to do with this guys problem the engine wasnt making the transmission spin wheels were spinning the tranny and that spun the engine understand havnt you ever gone down a hill in gear your not giving your car any gas but it keeps revin higher

ive heard from several owners the rsx doesnt have a rev limiter. of course i havent actually sat in one and revved it way up to see but thats what a few owners have told me. i couldnt believe it at 1st, but after i heard it from more than one person i guess its true. maybe none of them know what a rev limiter is. :confused:

a guy i know with an rsx type s did the exact same thing as this guy did, and ive heard of several more doing it and i wanna know why its so common on rsx's as compared to other cars...

All cars have rev limiters. On some its electronic on others its and engine explosion.