[b18c ya]

There is a customer at the Acura dealership I work at who missed a shift and bent some valves. Repair bill is $2000.00

With the head off you can spray brake cleaner into the exhaust port and it will leak out of the bent valves.

Watch your shifting.

 

[G2Integrity]

No, that's not why you don't miss a shift, that's why you don't get work done at the dealership. To quote George Costanza, "Why don't I just flush my money down a toilet?"

 

[b18c ya]

I agree.
There are guys there who will do it on the side for a lot less.

 

[honda115]

what happend was that when he missed the shift he didn't realize it and his car over revved... that there causes the valves to get fucked up.... not the miss shift

but i do agree.. could be dealer word on the street

 

[cloud7]

I accidentally shifted from 3rd back down to 2nd when accelerating hard on a test drive. The tach needle went past 9000rpm for a short time.. then I quickly press the clutch and shifted into 4th.... no noticeable damage because I pressed the clutch quickly.

 

[Lam]

yeah, i worked at a dealer myself and they will charge me 80/hr..
that's why i have my co-worker at the shop work for me ...much better, much cheaper...
go ask, most of them will do it on the side...
a lot of ppl tend to misshift on the RSX-S..
the gear are so tightly packed..we have on guy blown the engine with a misshift with 56 miles on the odo....and couple with f-up clutches and tranny

 

[SoFlaGS-T]

my lil bro did that, lucky for him, it was his 2nd day with the car... the dealership charged him 180 bucks as a "goodwill service" he totally lucked out... he's only 15 but now he's gotta wait till he's almost 17 to get his car since he was driving without his license and he had to come clean to my parents...

 

[cloud7]

a lot of ppl tend to misshift on the RSX-S..
the gear are so tightly packed..we have on guy blown the engine with a misshift with 56 miles on the odo....and couple with f-up clutches and tranny

I heard a guy had to pay $7000 to get a new engine into his car because it was so badly damaged...

 

[Del La Sol]

my dad got a 01' bmw 325i, a friend of mine in a 00' prelude wanted to race so i did, i had him then on the 3-4 shift i accidentally went into 2nd... the wheels locked for a second and the revs got high but i dont remember how high, i very quickly depressed the clutch and there has been no problems but as i realized what was going on all the stories i've heard about going into the wrong gear and breaking valves went through my mind and i almost shit myself

 

[b18c ya]

yeah, i worked at a dealer myself and they will charge me 80/hr..
that's why i have my co-worker at the shop work for me ...much better, much cheaper...
go ask, most of them will do it on the side...
a lot of ppl tend to misshift on the RSX-S..
the gear are so tightly packed..we have on guy blown the engine with a misshift with 56 miles on the odo....and couple with f-up clutches and tranny

I had a two friends of mine put on my JRSC for me at work,
they took their time and the install looks factory.

 

[Gsr_racer2000]

I did it before but when i miss shift the rev limiter just cut me. why don't i hear this from someone else. The rev limiter cutting off them...

 

[SpeedxRacer]

Same happedn with my friend he had 2k miles on his GSR and mis shifted to 2nd going 90 mph. Bent valves bill ran up to almost 2000.. his defense he was drunk ahah. But yeah I dunno why some motors are built better then others. My bro has mis shifted due to a bad clutch cylinder many times and the motors fine. Best thing to do is not to fiddle with short shifters, If installed wrong it can be such a pain in the ass.

 

[Skunk2TEG]

i was a lucky one also

i went from 3rd at redline into 2nd by accident and the the needle on the tach was burried...after a compression and leakdown test, turns out i just needed a valve adjustment really bad after that

 

[hondatech2149]

i did the same thing 3rd to 2nd at about 98, bent my valves.
I took the head off & got it port & polished, valve job, the works.

 

[MugenSi]

There is a customer at the Acura dealership I work at who missed a shift and bent some valves. Repair bill is $2000.00

With the head off you can spray brake cleaner into the exhaust port and it will leak out of the bent valves.

Watch your shifting.

 

[hondatech2149]

it happens more to GS-Rs than LSs

 

[HYPROPULSION_R]

I did the same thing in my Teg but the dealer paid for everything under warranty. All I did was play dumb and say the car started idling funny when I started it up one morning. It did take them about 3 weeks to fix though. One time I did it with my new crower valvetrain and crower cams but it held up...thank god.

 

[Key]

How come ?

why does over revving bend the valves? i would think there are other components that would go first. and why does it happen more often on the rsx ?

 

[Skunk2TEG]

valves

they get bent because after a certain rpm, the valvesprings cannot keep up with the speed, the valves dont open and close fast enough......in other words you float a valve and boom....the piston comes up when the valve is still open and if your lucky, the valve just gets bent instead of busting a hole through a piston

 

[chingro]

it happens more to GS-Rs than LSs

actually it happens more on ls...GSR's can take high revs....

and it happens to anycar that when the miss shift occurs, you left the higher gear in redline, and went into a lower gear.

just my $0.02