gtman
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- Mitch
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The 1.5 turbo has a beefed up CVT from the Accord. JR from KTuner tested his EX-T for thousands of miles before his tunes even went beta. Many of those miles had WOT pulls. He was totally impressed with the robust-ness of the CVT. Yeah that's right, his tunes were originally designed for a CVT 10th gen, not a manual. Hondata's tunes were originally CVT only as well.This thread is about whether the CVT can handle being pounded WOT every day, not the Si. The Si was built to be taken to redline. Taking the CVT to red line by putting the pedal to the floor makes no sense. The power curve drops off fast in the higher revs.
http://ktuner.com/ktuner-civic-x-testing/
Derek who created the TSP tune, designed the tune with an incredible top end. Reason being? It's not the high rpms that's the issue for the CVT, it's too much low end torque that's the enemy.
No one is saying to constantly go WOT, but these cars handle it fine. Matter of fact an occasional spirited drive is probably better than never going beyond 1/2 throttle. The trick with the CVT is not to launch it but do WOT at speed.
And for the record this thread is about WOT pulls so even though the OP has a CVT, I don't see why Si guys can't respond to a member saying my car will blow up.
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