set that high you should definatly feel it....its a lil bit too high for a stock setup i think....but i dunno how its tuned....did this just start happening or has it been that way since you bought it?...what about the secondaries? are they still there? if its always been this way it could be a fucked up map...if it just started doing it it could be plugged cat like mentioned above or possibly a timing issue...like the timing not advancing properly (dizzy)...does it missfire at all in the higher rpms?..hell it could even be a fuel issue....im pretty sure that it dumps more fuel in vtec...and if somthing in the fuel system is fucked it wont get the fuel it needs.......i need either a better discription of whats happening or i need to drive it.