I don't know man, a number of years ago, our neighbours got very, very drunk (could hardly stand up) and attempted to drive their beat up early eighties (carburated) V6 Chevy Celebrity. Well, they moved about 20 feet and stopped, then tried to move again. My guess was they knocked the car into neutral, then because of their extreme drunken state forgot to put it back in drive, so they just stood on the gas, foot right to the floor. Those cars didn't have any rev limiter, so who knows how high it was revving, but I tell ya, I have NEVER heard an engine scream like that before! They did this, foot on the floor in neutral for what must have been 2 minutes or more until something happened and the engine stopped running. Now, being drunk as they were, they popped the hood and opened the radiator cap. How the idiot didn't get horribly burned from the 10 foot tall steam geyser amazes me. The engine was toast, they pushed it back into their yard and a few weeks later had it hauled away. I swear to ***, if they had managed to actually drive that car, I was going to phone the police. They could hardly keep their balance, I fear what they could have done if they had managed to get out on the road.
How to abuse a Honda Civic engine....
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Wanna bet? When I was a teenager the son of one of the men who worked for my dad had a Chevy II with the old "stove bolt" inline six. I can't count the number of times I've seen him put the pedal to the floor with the engine in neutral and just let it rev as high as it would go. He would win tons of money racing some of the hotest cars in town in a quarter mile run. His only stipulation: You couldn't shift out of first gear. His Chevy II with that two-speed Powerglide would run about 50 mph in first, so you'd see these guys with their 327s and 283s, 302s and 390s beat him off the line, but by the end of the 1/4 mile he'd be out in front still screaming along in first gear. A few guys actually blew their engines up trying to beat him. He kept that Chevy II for three years and it was still running like new the day he sold it.
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Yeah well my papas cousins brother in law had a Yugo that he would drive 769 miles a day to work in first gear only! That thing had 2,009,098 miles when he finally retired it.
lol my GF took my loaner TSX to work and left the shifter stuck in 1st! It has the Tiptronic-like shifter...which she has past experience with...I dunno what she was thinking. She said "it revs high", I did not figure it out at first until I saw the trip computer was on 20 mpg, I gave it to her with 34 mpg. Redline is at 40 mph, she drives 15 miles to work on back roads, do the math. No wonder it needed a quart of oil the next day.
Here's another Honda abuse video
http://www.cb7tuner.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=27047&highlight=caught+fire
http://www.cb7tuner.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=27047&highlight=caught+fire
I'm afraid, G-Man and 55, I still stand by my statements, and you anecdotes didn't sway me....in both of those cases you cited, the engines had oil in them, probably close to the right amount, without 1-2 quarts of water being added to them, so that right there makes it a poor comparo....they just had to survive high revs. And in your story, 55, you even said that the motor was toast at the end after 2 minutes of high revving and the rad overheating. This honda took what looks like 30-40 mins total of being over-revved, with water being dumped in it, and steaming out all over the place. Yet the motor never locks up, blows, hydro-locks...nothing. No American-manufactured car could ever do that, period.
Again, I have nothing against them, I drive a Cavalier and am quite happy with it, I just accept it won't survive 1/10 of what a Honda or Toyota will!
Again, I have nothing against them, I drive a Cavalier and am quite happy with it, I just accept it won't survive 1/10 of what a Honda or Toyota will!
It sure sounded like the engine seized up... I've heard that sound before on another engine that did the same thing...
I stopped watching at 5 minutes. What a waste of time.
I was kind hoping to see the clutch come thru the firewall and up thru the roof.
I was kind hoping to see the clutch come thru the firewall and up thru the roof.
Those imports are made of superhuman materials and quality, that's why you see so many 30 year old ones on the road. If you have a rev limiter, you should be able to floor the pedal all day long w/o damage. That's what the rev limiter is for.
Man that sure looked like a bunch of fun!
Water works just fine on a plain bearing. Everything else was likely not very happy though.
Was that a French video?
Water works just fine on a plain bearing. Everything else was likely not very happy though.
Was that a French video?
Shame on you for hoping for such a thing to happen.quote:
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I stopped watching at 5 minutes. What a waste of time.
I was kind hoping to see the clutch come thru the firewall and up thru the roof.
That's an awesome story about the Chevy II!
Apparently these guys mis-read the instructions when doing an auto-rx.
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