Are you serious?! VTEC is inferior to VVTi? This must be an April Fool's joke. Lets break down the very basics. VTEC controls valve timing AND lift AND duration on both the intake and exhaust cams. Whereas VVTi ONLY controls VALVE TIMING, albeit continously variable, on ONLY the intake cam. So please explain how this is inferior. It may seem inferior to someone who purchased a Celica GT-S and realized they screwed-up.West wrote: VVTi has always been considered better than VTEC and then there's VVTi-L...
100hp/Liter isn't too exciting when there's no torque... and considering the fact that the RX7's 13B produced 250hp/1.3 Liters...
A Ferrari 360 Modena makes around 100 hp/ liter... and the good thing is that there's TORQUE. BTW u probably meant that the S2000 made 120hp/liter... but u still have to rev like hell just to move it.
Quote: "Then there's VVTi-L" Please. This was the Toyota engineers realizing "Oh my God, we forgot to add lift to the VVTi system". This is still inferior because 1. Honda came up with the idea over a decade ago 2. It's Toyota 3. They put this engine in a "sports car" that doesn't even have equal length axles.
RX-7: Different discussion. Pistons only in this thread.
360: You know why it has more torque then an S2000?! Because it makes about 400hp. You can only make HP one of two ways: increase the torque or increase the revs (HP=TQ*RPM/5252). It doesn't make much torque in relation to the amount of HP it has. It doesn't need to because it revs to 9000. You'd be saying something different about the S2000 if it made 400hp which.....well.....revs to 9000 (or at least used to).