They think it's waste of time spending large ammounts of money into the CL. I say it's true, only if you don't appreciate and understand what you can do to your car. I'm saying you can upgrade parts of the car for the better. Those who think otherwise, don't assume that it's going to be a super car or anything like that. It's not. But if upgraded correctly, it would benifit your car to an good enough extent. The one's who are actually putting in effort and hard work into their cars are the one's that gain the tuning/building experiences. And it's with experience you become a more knowledgable person.

 

Ah-men. That is the best thing I've read all night. Thank you for setting the record straight. I love the CL. It is eligant, that is why I bought mine.

Oh well, I got to sleep, you all take care.

 

Your response proves my point to a certain extent. The thread creator seems to want to dump 35k into a car in order to "show off" as you put it, for people on car forums and at car shows. Also, he has no "passion for Honda/Acura tuning" as far as he stated in his first post saying, "In my opinion, the pinnacle of true luxury sports coupes are the Mercedes CL and CLK series (particularly the AMG). So if you were trying to replicate those cars..." It has nothing to do with being a projecct for him as far as I can tell by reading his posts.

 

I didn't reflect my posts in regards to the title of this thread. I am defining a true enthusiast.

 

Believe me, I both appreciate and understand what can be done to ANY car. However, that doesn't mean that I'm going to spend $35,000 upgrading an Acura CL. If I wanted the learning experience I would go take a class or work in a shop. Also, plenty of people who have spoken in this thread have spent countless hours working on their CL, don't just write them all off as people who don't put in effort and hard work in modding their cars.

 

I did find it silly however, to compare an AMG to our CL's.

 

My points were in reference to the creator of this thread and his sentiments.

 

Whom in specific had I mentioned that they hadnt put hard work into their cars? Don't get shit twisted. I said those who put in effort and hard work into their cars deserve the credit.

True, you could learn things from a class or by working at a shop. But to learn things on your own, without such sources is something to definitely be proud of.

2 completely different point of views, yet both are understandable.

 

Then why quote me?

 

Never mind. I read your response.

 

aww man, if I knew what I was getting myself into. Anyways, my downfall was mentioning AMG in the title. Guys, I wasn't trying to give a plan to turn a CL into an AMG wannabe, despite what the thread title implies. I was merely mentioned AMG because imo the best stock luxury coupes are mercedes AMG coupes. I only looked at them for inspiration not as a blueprint.

One thing though that I do not appreciate is LLWesMan's attempts to belittle me. Dude, take a f*cking chill pill, no need to call me an idiot, you don't know anything about my intellectual capacity to be making that statement.

For anybody who had thoughts about doing big things with their CL but had some of their dreams weakened by the various points posted on this thread . . . .

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France

 

I know what you mean, dude.

Don't be discouraged by somebody elses opinion. You must move foward and proceed to succeed.

To those who dream; those that build; those that work hard on their cars, I give you all props. That is what I want to see in this forum. Builders; innovators; pioneers; technical information; and constructive conversations. I highly respect those who shed their cars blood, sweat and tears. Also those who are commited to their project and their work.

 

Anyone can go ahead and buy another car. But for someone to build their car to their own customization is a different story because you have gone the extra mile to share and appreciate what you have and what it has become.

 

I wasn't "attempting to belittle" you. I responded to a couple of things you said that's all. You made a comment and it completely contradicted what you had initially said and then you followed by saying to the people who didn't agree with you that they "suck." If you aren't willing to have your ideas and questions responded to and debated then don't post them. Thats what happens on forums.

 

Its a forum, debating ideas is the whole point. Nobody is saying he should get off the boards or be banned.

 

Debating is good.

 

you guys forgot one thing, RWD

 

I've seen a civic on ebay once converted to RWD via a transaxle mounted in the rear with LSD....so I'd assume something could be rigged up for our cars if you were to put that much $$$ in it.

 

Word of advice to all

If you want to be original and have a different car, like me, to work on and make a statement be aware that it takes money and lots of it.

If you want a good daily driver that you can put about 3k and have something nice to drive then a CL is your best buy. Most people feel because of the limited amount of parts that the CL is to expensive to fix up. Also the car comes with so many things that many people are happy with what they get when they buy it.

My final comment is this, To be a pioneer in the import industry you have to take risk and chances. You also have to pick a project and devote everything to that project, money, time, ect.... Most people when they started out working on imports were doing things like taking a sock and discovering short ram. Others with more money went the custom direction. When you pick are car like a cl you pick for one of the two reasons above, either for a nice looking, low or non-modded car, or to try and have a luxury show car thats out of the normalality that comes with the import world.

Basicly it boils down to this, If you got this car and you want to make it a super car you got to be willing to dish out the money, other wise you need to get something else that you can just bolt everything on to it and be happy being like other people, which is ok nothing wrong with that if thats what you want but with our cars thats not real possible

The forum asked what would we do when making an above average luxury coupe

Thats what I want to build my car into so this is an easy one

350-400hp non turbo motor
(nitrous will be included along with a supercharger, and I know luxury cars don't use nitrous)
Custom interior that remains a stock look but still has upgraded features like stereo system, navi, dvd, ect... Some cosmetic things like two tone leather, suede, ect....And keep the outside clean but sporty with lips exhaust and wheels. Make sure all the power can be stopped and contained and your done.

 

I've seen an mid engine CRX w/ an c30 or 32 inside.

 

[QUOTE=roddymerritt]Basicly it boils down to this, If you got this car and you want to make it a super car you got to be willing to dish out the money, other wise you need to get something else that you can just bolt everything on to it and be happy being like other people, which is ok nothing wrong with that if thats what you want but with our cars thats not real possible[QUOTE]First of all, our car's wouldn't receive such treatment because the fact that it's simply not a true sports car. If our car's were true sports cars, we'd see a more sportier profile which would most likely include rwd; 6 speed v6 powerplant/comptech supercharged; larger brakes; etc. Our cars are luxury-sport compacts, and it is irrelavent to compare 2 different categories of automobiles because they don't resemble each other at all. So, if Acura were to revise the CL, they wouldn't go all out tacking on "balls" onto our cars. They'd stick to the factory "luxury-sports" specs.