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Old Apr 3, 2011 | 12:54 AM
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Old Apr 3, 2011 | 12:59 AM
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Very nice. Hope nothing serious broke ha.
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Old Apr 3, 2011 | 01:12 AM
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how and why did that happen to your engine????
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how and why did that happen to your engine????
This must have been from one of those extremely rare instances where brute force did not solve gregrob's problems.
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Didn't happen to my engine. It was a buddies failed experiment with stock pushrods.

And yes brute force would have solved his problem, he just wasn't using enough.
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VTEC kicked in.
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blame it on the optispark!
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That's actually VERY impressive...
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^ man I'm impressed,lol, I agree this is what happens when vtec kicks in lol
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Originally Posted by the_merv
VTEC kicked in YO'.
Fixd.
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So what was the experiment that ended in a win/fail?
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haha someone beat me to it but....

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Nope. Baby cam, aggressive lobes, 1.7 rockers. I told him to buy pushrods.
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Tow it ,spray the tow truck
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Hell I did that in 07. I must've been ahead of my time lol Mine happend a bit different tho..

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