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lol, this thread is awesome, thumbs up to your mate! What a dude!!
VTEC is used to get more power at higher revs. When the engine gets to a certain RPM, it will activate a second set of cams in the engine causing the valves to open for longer, getting air in, and exhast out faster. That is why you get a 'kick' when it activates. VTEC Just kicked in yo!!!
The VVT on the 1.8t uses a hydraulic adjuster which makes the inlet valves open later and have a slight overlap with the exhaust to make the cat converter warm up faster to cut emissions. It is NOT a performance enhancement.
They are both variable valve timing, but aimed at completely different purposes. Toyota have something similar called VVT-i, but it is different again to VVT and VTEC.
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at least that's how i know it but no where near as technical
the reason they make good power when you slap a turbo on is because you have the low down power of the turbo and then the high end power from the v-tech