# How VTEC actually works

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**Created:** [March 26, 2007, 6:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-vtec-actually-works/188841 "2007-03-26T18:18:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 1:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-vtec-actually-works/188841/15 "2007-03-27T13:30:36Z")

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> [@Bar Tabs](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bar-tabs/28986/36):
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> If you could create a dual cam cylinder head with ‘VTEC’ and put them on a small block chevy, the industry would turn upside down.
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> …quick food for thought:
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> good example -
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> -1981 Corvette, standard 5.7l engine rated 190hp.  
> 4" bore x 3.48" stroke
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> -1993 Prelude VTEC, 2.2l engine rated at 190hp.  
> 3.425" bore x 3.57" stroke
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> now ask yourself, how does an engine with **less than half** the displacement make the same horsepower? Simple. Cylinder head design.
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> Figure out how to put a pair of dohc vtec heads on a v8 and i guarrentee it will make power.

ive heard that the rl should be seeing a v8 in the near future i could only imagine what a blast that would be in a s2000 shell

here is a little more indebt explaination of vtec[http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1689966](http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1689966)

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