I have a 3.0 cl and it was pretty fast when i first got it, but I dont know what the hell is going on with it now, DAMN! CIVIC's are woopin my ass and i mean woopin by like 5 cars or more, is soooooooo freakin slow! the gears take years to go threw and my 2nd gear doesnt throw when u slam it??? obviously i kno is tranny but is that real reason behind why my car feels so slow? or i might be engine also?

also,
I hear a crapaling noise when i rev the car i dont kno if its the cat. or the headers???? but i dont think that is a big deal of slowing down my car is it?

MY CAR is falling apart!!

 

i have no i dea what you just said........

 

was that a rant or a question?

 

LOL sry just that im getting really desprate! I just dont know why my car is so slow now! plz help!!

 

if your torque converter is shot, which it prolly is, you loose alot more than the normal 25% power train loss. you can test your torque converter by putting it in d4 press the brake and press the gas at the same time... dont try to do a burn out but it will "stall" at a certain rpm the service limit is 2400 to 2550 rpm.. if it goes above that your tc is a paperweight. if its below that you have a bad lock up solenoid. eather way its time for a rebuild. do the same thing in all the gears d3, 2, 1 and reverse.

 

wait, so hit the brake and floor it and if it doesnt go above or below 24-2550 then your fine?

 

^ lol dont floor it just give it enough gas to get up to that rpm, then try to go beyond that rpm with a little more gas...

 

ok, so as long as it gets up there then were fine?

 

more or less but thats the limit for the 3.0.. im sure the 2.x is different. if you have a 2.x..

 

yeah as long as it doesnt pass about 2500

 

unless you have three feet im taking this is a test just for automatics correct? lol

 

Iam going to try this. Man what a piece of crap tranny rebuild they did at the shop I sent it to. I fixed tranny june 22 and its messed up already!!!! BTW how much is a Dr. evil tranny this shit about changing trannies every freakin time is pissing me off!!

 

does this damage the tranny at all, because im not having any problems so i dont feel i need to try this and fuck somethin up

 

stuff doesnt usually stay in perfect condition when your beating the crap out of it racing civics and the likes all the time. Take it easy and maybe it will last you a while.

by the way, your car was fast when you got it? lol lol lol

 

no it doesent mess it up.. if you neutral drop it, or floor it durring this test, than yea but it stalls for a reason.

 

yea automatics only. manuals dont have torque converters.

 

can you define stall?

 

of course, if you go past the limit, its designed to stall, almost like a safety feature

 

its kind of hard to explain. it relates stall speed to rpm and axle speed. it varies once your moving. if your t/c blades on the inside is worn than youll have a higher stall. basically if you dont have a stall every time you came to a stop your engine would die. like leaving a manual tranny in 1st and commin to a stop.

heres an article:

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/torque-converter.htm

 

 

I tried it and it went to 2,500 normal?? on d4,d3,2,1 i tried it on all of them they all gave me 2,500 rpm's?

 

yea sounds normal to me. have you done a compression test yet? maybee dirty air filter or fuel filter. or hole in your plug wire.