Originally Posted by dingy
Yeah apparently no vtec engine has let go
Originally Posted by Sean Bicknell
I do remember reading somewhere that Honda have NEVER had an internal failure with one of there VTEC's That is a mighty impressive statement if true!!!
Well its not!
I co-ran the service department at the local Honda dealership for about a year and i remember one standard prelude VTi came in that had thrown a rod out the block, infact ive never seen so much damage to a bottomend, pretty much everything was smashed to pieces!
Wasnt failiure due to oil issues or anything like that, and the car had FSH as itd been in 2days before for a service, it jus died a terrible death one day.
Apart from that we never ever had any engine failiures, jus silly niggly ECU probs etc.
Remember a CRX Vtec at a track day throw a rod once, and a mates 4door Vti did its headgasket once too.
There mustve been 1000s of VTEC engines die over the years, amazingly reliable, but this "never failed" thing is a total myth.
Originally Posted by EIL132
Why are people talking about road cars
They bear no resemblance to F1 engines or indeed cars
Exactly. The people who design the road engines for Honda/BMW will probably have absofookinlutley no input to the race engines (and the other way round) whatsoever