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Old Mar 19, 2012 | 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by RichieST
Uprated cams to open valves wider and for longer. Great for making power but bad for a nice smooth idle.
What he said would make sense.

However being it is a VTEC engine I am not convinced.

A VTEC has two sets of cam profiles, so not only do you gain power but don't lose drive ability on the "Around town" cam so to speak, i.e. below 6K RPM.

So I should think you would change the "VTEC yo" cam when tuning.

You can get something called a "VTEC controller" which changes the engine speed when the VTEC activation occurs, as to whether this actually has any gains in the real world I would not know.

Lovely engines and great engineering, I have friends who own DC2'S, I am also a fan of the EP3 CTR, although I don't think I would buy one personally, only as I am into older cars.

Martin
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