actually, hondas can live through mis shifts. my brother has a 91 STD hatch, D15B1, it smoked like crazy, so he purposly tried to blow it up.
He'd go through first, go throgh second to redline, then rev it up, and SLAM it back into first. the tach would jump around to about 9,000, and the engine didn't blow. I figured it woud've exploded right then and there, but it didnt. It did however blow up a couple days later, but it ran good up until then and started knocking while he was driving a long trip. Just goes to show you that even the shittiest honda engine can take a hell of a beating. BTW, the people that had the car before him was getting rid of it, so they thought it would be funny to put a brick on the gas pedal until the car blew. well it didnt blow obviously, but it rev limited until it shut itself down. my brothe rput oil in it, and it started right up.
