Well, this is my first post here so just wanted to say I'm happy to be a member. Now I own a 2001 Accord EX Auto, recently I put the car in neutral and step on the gas to see where the Rev limiter was, and its at about 5~5.5k RPM, and if I just straight out floor it, and let go after bouncing the limiter, car is fine, but if I slowly creep up to the limiter, say I go to 3k RPM and slowly work my way up to the limiter and let go of the gas, the car dies. Then it starts up just fine. Btw it's a F23A3 ULEV engine. So thanks for the help guys! Also the car has 50k miles on it.

 

That's not a normal way to reach the rev limiter. In fact, I think it's an artifically low limit because the car's not movong & the tranny is in neutral. Under load (actually driving) the rev limit should be higher.

I can only guess that maybe the idle control system doesn't handle this properly because it's so different from normal operation.

Where are you? I don't think we get the F23A3 here in USA. F23A4 is our ULEV engine.

 

Ahh im so stupid, F23A4 is the engine, im in California, so that's normal? Good to know because the car has never stalled on me so just wondering. thanks again!

 

I can't say it's normal, since I've never done exactly that to any of my engines.

It's NOT normal operation rev your engine like that without any load, so the idle control system may not handle it very well.