yeah but do your homework so has the vtec fist introduced in the the early preludes and very late 70's civics although it was not the engine that it is today. it was none the less a vtec
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">No car used VTEC or was badged with that name in the mid 80s. The official JDM Honda factory manual actually states that the very first VTEC engine built by Honda worldwide was a B16A put in a Integra RSi in April of 1989 (before the NSX in 1990).
But Zetec was the name used by Ford's racing engine (not at all related to the current Zetec badged 2.0 liter) used in formula racing back in the early 80s.
IOW, Honda was the one that twisted their technology (making it spell VTEC is a stretch of the imagination...
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But lets face it, it really should be something more similar in name to Toyota's VVTL if they REALLY wanted the abreviation to just stand for the technology.
am sorry this post is going on so long, but the svtf is aka duratec
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">The SVT Focus engine is still a Zetec. There is a new line of Duratec four cylinders coming to America though, but the modified Zetec in the SVT Focus is NOT one of them.
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PS: I HATE HATE HATE that. I went to go check out one of the RSXs when it first came out. And thats what the salesman at the dealer was telling everyone (including me). It has this VTEC-i technology that is like a small supercharger for the engine. Small supercharger? WTF!
I swear half the rice boys I talk to that swear that VTEC is the shizzy also don't have a clue what it does or what it looks like. It just lets you run two sets of cams. Typically if you run aggressive cams you sacrifice things like idle and low rpm power. If you run "mild" cams, you lose on top end. Cam changing allows you to choose between two sets of cam profiles (one for high rpm and one for low rpm) and cam phasing helps improve output a bit more as well by rotating the cams (what the SVT has on the intake).
[ 01-22-2003, 02:48 PM: Message edited by: Ducman69 ]