This has me worried:



Dual VTEC selenoids. I think this is VTEC-E, right? It was made to run 12 valves from 2.5k-6k, then 16 valve from 6k-7.2k, but wired together I am unsure about? One is to engage the remaining 4 valves, and one is the actual VTEC solenoid, to move the cams to the more aggressive lobes. Who would do something like that and how is it supposed to work? I would think hardwiring one of those vtec solenoids to the ignition, eliminating the 12 valve option all together. I am not sure how others have dealt with the 2 solenoids but the timing and fuel maps on the low cam are still expecting the engine to have 16 valves, not 12. seems to me that it would run real shitty out of vtec if those solenoids were wired together.

The previous owner stated "vtec hit like a rocket" but I think the reason why it "hit vtec like a rocket" was probably because it was running like shit up to the vtec engagement point, then finally hitting the power it was supposed to be making when the extra 4 valves and high cam activated at the same time (due to the solenoids being wired together.)