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 RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (*large pics*) | « » 2:47 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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http://forums.clubsi.com/showf...93445
Not sure why the necessity to downshift when already at 7,000RPM... maybe he wanted to upshift to 6th gear instead.
| Quote » | | never seen a nearly stock engine blown this bad A couple of weeks ago, I was cruisin with my friend on a Sunday in his RSX-S. His only mods are: intake, exhaust, and a Hondata Flash. Well, he decides to drop the hammer and show me what his car has. He started redlining every gear. He was at about 7k RPMs in 5th, and for whatever reason, he decides to downshift into 4th. The gear box on a RSX-S is real close together and it's a 6 speed. So, instead of shifting to 4th, he accidentally shifted into 2nd gear right around 7k RPMs. All of a sudden, we hear a "boom" and it started to stink real bad. Right after that, we heard the chunks of the block falling out from underneith the car and hitting the chassis. The smoke got so bad we couldn't see infront of us, so he slammed on the brakes and pulled to the shoulder. We jump out of the car to realize his motor was on fire. Needless to say, we put the fire out before the fire truck came, and got a friend to pull us back home. |
 
Apparently these are pistons...
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (jeff y) | « » 2:51 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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http://webpages.charter.net/mr...2.jpgits nuts fell out.... what are those btw You gotta be some kinda dumb if you hit second gear and let it engage..... ive accidentally hit second and let the clutch out before it was all the way engaged
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (jeff y) | « » 2:51 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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So he came up with a new definition for OWN3D?????  
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (jeff y) | « » 2:52 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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Well, he gets points in my book for creativity.
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (jeff y) | « » 2:54 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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that really sucks for him. I smell a lot of money bringing that car back to its original condition.
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (vw_ev73) | « » 2:58 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by vw_ev73 » | | that really sucks for him. I smell a lot of money bringing that car back to its original condition. |
Your probally right on this one.
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (vw_ev73) | « » 2:59 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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that's real bad.
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (Rennwagen) | « » 3:05 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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It was the car getting revenge for the owner putting that shopping cart handle on the back of it... 
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (Anthony.L) | « » 4:32 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by Anthony.L » | | It was the car getting revenge for the owner putting that shopping cart handle on the back of it... |
haha, yeah, it got it's revenge by killing itself.
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| Re: (jbaudio) | « » 4:59 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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Why does the gate let you throw it into 2nd at that speed? My truck wouldn't even let me throw it in 2nd if I was going around 60mph (like 3500rpm in 5th)...the only way I can throw it into a lower gear at high speed is double clutching, but that's like from 5th to 3rd 
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (jeff y) | « » 6:15 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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I read that over at ClubSi. I kinda feel bad for the kid. It blows me away that he is holding the pistons in that one pic 
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh | « » 6:25 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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I know what that feels like. My engine blew up to, it wasn't my fault though it had nothing to do with shifting it or anything. I was driving on the highway in 5th and all the sudden I hear this explosion come from the front of my car then I see my oil light come on and my car died so I went and pulled over. What happened was one of my connecting rods broke near where it connected to the pistion and then the rest of the rod whipped around and smashed a hole in my block, it was bad times...  That coin is a quarter. But I smell an Integra Type-R engine swap in that guys future.
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (Anthony.L) | « » 6:41 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by Anthony.L » | | It was the car getting revenge for the owner putting that shopping cart handle on the back of it... |
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| Re: (jbaudio) | « » 6:53 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by jbaudio » | | WTF I thought I was dumb for joining the Military. |
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and all that happened right before a 25mph zone
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| Re: (Rangerks) | « » 7:27 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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similar thing happened to one of my friends. Went from 3rd to 2nd instead of 4th on the track (1/4 mile) broke his tach haha and his trans basically fell out. Guess what..acura covered the expense! UNDER WARRANTY!
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| Re: (stock60) | « » 7:51 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by stock60 » | | similar thing happened to one of my friends. Went from 3rd to 2nd instead of 4th on the track (1/4 mile) broke his tach haha and his trans basically fell out. Guess what..acura covered the expense! UNDER WARRANTY! |
Happened to me in my VR6, just driving along down shifting to pass someone and accidentally threw it into 2nd. I thought it should be covered under warranty but the stealership told me I was racing the car  . It amazed me how they figured they could tell me what happened to the car. Eitherway, it happens he wont be able to get it covered under warranty unless he gets the ECU re-flashed or swapped out...
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| Re: (Sg4227) | « » 9:06 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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It sucks to be him. I bet he won't make that mistake twice.
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| Re: (ZackaryMac) | « » 9:10 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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I seriously doubt Acura will even entertain the thought of a warranty on this one.Hope the kid has a large bank account.
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (jeff y) | « » 9:10 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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Shouldn't the rev-limiter have prevented that?
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (jeff y) | « » 9:11 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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| Re: (Rangerks) | « » 9:44 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by Rangerks » | | and all that happened right before a 25mph zone |
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| Re: (Reflex5.5) | « » 9:57 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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Ouch, that looks painfull... If he redlined 5th and downshifted to 2nd I think it could be tricky to react right on time...
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (MEIN_VW) | « » 9:59 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by MEIN_VW » | | Shouldn't the rev-limiter have prevented that? |
Rev limiters only help to cut the fuel if you overrev in acceleration or neutral or something, but if you drop down too far gear-wise it's all mechanical, nothing to cut off
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (MEIN_VW) | « » 10:09 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by MEIN_VW » | | Shouldn't the rev-limiter have prevented that? |
It can't; the engine was physically overrevved by gearing multiplication and road speed. Nothing the engine management can do about that, really.
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (SeattleGLI) | « » 10:32 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by SeattleGLI » |
Shouldn't the rev-limiter have prevented that?It can't; the engine was physically overrevved by gearing multiplication and road speed. Nothing the engine management can do about that, really. |
yup, on some rally cars, the engine wont do it because the tires just break loose, but its quite difficult on pavement. I almost did it on my VR6 one time, I was going like 70, and went into second. Luckily the VR6 is geared pretty high, and the engine was just a tad into the red, just about right where the fuel cutoff is. The car was fine though it scared me. The RSX shifter is suprisingly easy to do that too also. when I drove my bro's RSX-S, I accidently did it a few times, but it was at low speeds.
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (jeff y) | « » 10:38 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (jeff y) | « » 11:05 PM 6-1-2003 | |
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that sucks.i guess he was going to fast and let up on the clutch before he realized he was in second
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (fitch) | « » 1:17 AM 6-2-2003 | |
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ouch!
that's definatly a good amount of damange (serious understatement)
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (Gary C) | « » 2:10 AM 6-2-2003 | |
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A number of people have killed their S2000s this way. It's actually
suprisingly easy to slip into the wrong gear in the sense that these
shifters will 'let you.' I'm very careful to take the time to shift
properly--I think a lot of people race through the box faster than
they are able--and they pay for it. On the new Celica's they have
actually designed a 'lock out' feature that prevents you from killing
the tranny by making it impossible to drop into second from 5th.When I taught my girlfriend to drive my car, the first thing I taught
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| Re: (shftat6) | « » 2:40 AM 6-2-2003 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by shftat6 » | | I seriously doubt Acura will even entertain the thought of a warranty on this one. Hope the kid has a large bank account. |
i dunno, warranty can be wierd, we warrantied a mp3 that had a similar issue. it was stock though, if they find out about the ecu reflash thats where the trouble(in hispockt book) will begin.
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| Re: (norman) | « » 2:44 AM 6-2-2003 | |
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A tad off topic, but are all RSX-S made in japan? I know the JHM vin = Made in Japan (Japanese Honda Motor Co.)?
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (ogmius) | « » 8:25 AM 6-2-2003 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by ogmius » | | haha, yeah, it got it's revenge by killing itself. |
Well... most teenagers kill themselves to get revenge on their parents... No one ever said it was smart... they just said it happens.
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| Re: RSA Type-S engine + 16,000RPM = uh oh (jeff y) | « » 8:41 AM 6-2-2003 | |
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| Quote » | | He was at about 7k RPMs in 5th |
And this one time... at band camp... I raced a Lamborghini on my bicycle... and then... like... I took a flute... and shoved it in my MAF. I won, BTW. The 1.8T can nevar loose! Being an engi-nerd, it took me about 3 seconds to plug the numbers into my handy-dandy gearing calculator to see that in an RSX, 7k in 5th gear is a pretty impressive 130 mph... especially for a 25 mph zone. You'd have to be, 1) lying, or... Yeah... that's probably it.
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