John, I agree with every word you wrote except the above. If you are in or get around to Sydney, I would love to offer you a test drive in my 2012 Accord Euro (CU2) 6-speed M/T I managed to cure of the rev hang completely and without ECU re-flash.….I can’t see any easy way around this problem with a FBW system....
I encourage you not to give up on the late model Accord. When mended, it is a beautiful car to drive. I never had a Honda before and picked up my first one a month ago (mainly as a challenge to fix its rev hang) at auction for less than $16K with GPS and 50K km (also with hardly any thread on tyres and 2 days of rego left). I can imagine that previous owner got tired of the rev hang and decided to dispose of the car. His loss was my gain.
I love the car and revving the VTEC to 7 grand for a snappy upchange. I made a minor mod to the traction control (or VSA - Vehicle Stability Assist) to disable it automatically on each take off and re-engage at 30 km/hr. to avoid the horrible bogging-down feeling at speedy take offs. The VSA was far too aggressive, cutting down power at first sign of traction problems, well before any wheel spin.
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