Originally posted by Cronic
I have a friend who has a 1.5, he floated a valve, and it didn't break. Car ran like shit tho. 
he obviously wasnt revving it too hard. if you "float" collapse in a honda a valve you tend to break them when the piston smakcs the valve unless it did close just not all the way. He got lucky but ive never seen a car without any damage when floating a val;ve.