Getting my new valves! - Honda Forum / Acura Forum

SiRiusRcr214 · 05-09-2002, 08:20 AM

Well about 4-5 weeks ago I posted about how I down-shifted from 5th to 3rd well I ended up taking it to Acura to have them take a look at it, and it turns out that my 3rd cylinder has low compression and some valves are bent. Well they said that it would be like 2 g's to fix, so I ended up going to jotech and I am getting skunk 2 titanium hi compression valves, retainers, and springs, and a free oil change

for a grand. Then I am gonna take my ecu to them and get it installed and my short ram which was orignally a cai converted back into a cai for like 100 bones.
Damn I can't wait to get my baby back!

StyleTEG · 05-09-2002, 11:21 AM

Not a bad outcome for a bad event (5->3 downshift, ouch!)

Did you car run pretty strange afterwards warrenting the trip to the dealership?

wU-rAcEr · 05-09-2002, 08:46 PM

im glad u said that. because if i have a problem i can go2 dallas for it also. but i dont know if my car could make it if i bent a valve. i live n san antonio, so dallas isnt that far but its not close either

SiRiusRcr214 · 05-10-2002, 08:29 AM

ya, my car would shake like no other and if I drove longer than 20-30 minutes my cat would get red hot.

sweet · 05-10-2002, 12:10 PM

hmmm, downshift from 5th into 3rd=smoke most cars.....

unless you're goin like mad fast in 5th, but how could or why would you get into 3rd then???

SiRiusRcr214 · 05-10-2002, 02:53 PM

i was going about 80 i guess, and i was being stupid!

Etylorcen · 05-10-2002, 03:39 PM

Damn thats a damn good deal for ti valves...you sure they aren't ss? And the retainers and valve springs are ti?

North1st · 05-10-2002, 04:35 PM

I down shift to 3rd from 80mph all the time. because I love smokin most cars.

sweet · 05-10-2002, 09:19 PM

GSR motor/tranny can do about 95 mph in 3rd. dropping from 5th to 3rd at 80 mph shouldn't do anything bad to the motor, unless it's in real bad shape or not used to those rpm. even if it's not regularly beaten and tached out it should still be fine.

gotta get rid of the carbon buildup!!

right on North1st!

aznmc16 · 05-11-2002, 12:55 AM

i drop from 5th to 3rd all the time on the freeway. the only way i see possible to mis shift is from 3rd to 2nd.

i did that once.. luckily i wasnt' racing.. and i barely tapped redline on 2nd.

qbsi · 05-11-2002, 09:18 AM

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Originally posted by aznmc16
i drop from 5th to 3rd all the time on the freeway. the only way i see possible to mis shift is from 3rd to 2nd.

i did that once.. luckily i wasnt' racing.. and i barely tapped redline on 2nd.

remember he said he was going around 80mph. shifting to 3rd when going 50 might be ok but not when you're going 80!!
read the post before you answer man.

North1st · 05-11-2002, 10:20 AM

Yeah I'm going 80mph in 5th... I drop to 3rd I have about 2k rpm left before redline.

aznmc16 · 05-11-2002, 12:51 PM

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Originally posted by North1st
Yeah I'm going 80mph in 5th... I drop to 3rd I have about 2k rpm left before redline.

yup.. gotta love gsr's..

Lx_coupe · 05-11-2002, 12:59 PM

ok..........

sweet · 05-11-2002, 01:52 PM

is there something that a few people are missing?

maybe some of you don't drive GSR's or don't drive GSR's to their full potential. it is ideal on my setup (and most other GSRs) to drop 3rd gear when rolling between 75 and 85 mph. you drop right into your best powerband and smoke most cars. high revs wear motors faster, BUT most Honda motors have high redlines straight out of the box so use them to their full potential. the motor is not gonna blow up unless it's tuned improperly. there's really no reason to have a GSR/ITR/S2K/SI etc. motor if you're not gonna use the power in the 8/9K band.

peace out