Charley-TX
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- First Name
- Charley
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- Aug 25, 2017
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- Austin TX
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- 2017 Civic EX-T
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Long story short.
the car has 20,000 miles so it is broken in :
I decided to "air-it-out" a bit on this long straight remote road (on private land).
Flooring it from a stop.
The transmission is in D, the CVT does its thing, revving the engine towards 6000 while at the same time moving the CVT cones, just as normal CVT operation. I can't remember at what speed it reached it apex, but when it reach 6000 RPM it stopped being a smooth acceleration and it acted like a conventional trans being paddle shifted to next gear... or could also compare it to a manual trans revved to red line. The engine RPM dropped suddenly from 6000 to 5000 with a little slurge, than kept revving to 6000 and did another shift. At this point it was going about 89 mph. so there was 3 definite distinct shift while producing some pretty good roaring engine sound.
Here is where it becomes interesting (if we can call it that).
Shifting the trans to S -sport, same procedure, flooring it and holding it there.
This time there is no RPM drop, no shifting point, just goes to 6000 and stays there as the car accelerates.
Has any one tried it? is it normal?
I will give it an other try next week when I am out on that road. Out - in the sticks.
the car has 20,000 miles so it is broken in :
I decided to "air-it-out" a bit on this long straight remote road (on private land).
Flooring it from a stop.
The transmission is in D, the CVT does its thing, revving the engine towards 6000 while at the same time moving the CVT cones, just as normal CVT operation. I can't remember at what speed it reached it apex, but when it reach 6000 RPM it stopped being a smooth acceleration and it acted like a conventional trans being paddle shifted to next gear... or could also compare it to a manual trans revved to red line. The engine RPM dropped suddenly from 6000 to 5000 with a little slurge, than kept revving to 6000 and did another shift. At this point it was going about 89 mph. so there was 3 definite distinct shift while producing some pretty good roaring engine sound.
Here is where it becomes interesting (if we can call it that).
Shifting the trans to S -sport, same procedure, flooring it and holding it there.
This time there is no RPM drop, no shifting point, just goes to 6000 and stays there as the car accelerates.
Has any one tried it? is it normal?
I will give it an other try next week when I am out on that road. Out - in the sticks.
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