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Originally Posted by Exage
It's actually better to have the switch point lower, the consequence is less kick. Power is accessible towards the end of the midrange. So I respect your opinion Mitch that it's detuned (with you owning a 8th Gen Si), however I believe it's just less abrupt then the past non cam-phasing Honda engines (B series).
I don't land on my high cam even with redline shifts because it's set [stock] at a silly 6700rpm. The tuners that use the Apexi-PFC always decrease it to 5800-6200rpm on this engine, trading the "kick" for better performance and land on upshift. It gives a hell of jolt and noise in 1st and 2nd stock though.
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And that's all the off topic from me today...
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I'm sorry, what I mean is that there is a flatspot in the torque curve of a stock k20z3 in the 500rpm leading up to the switchover. When people software tuned their otherwise stock engines, they saw the torque curve smooth out almost completely during the transition. The conclusion of which is that Honda purposefully detuned the engine in the few hundred rpm leading up to the switchover to provide the "vtec kick" that people were expecting.