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Enjoy! Especially you 2.5 TL guys

 

haha he got owned and cant reply to his own post

 

ouch lol

 

Lol!!!!

 

and he was so confident and thought the sales guy was a fool

 

well, you gotta admit the sales guy was also pretty lost, he said it gets about the same mielage as the 4cyl. what 4cyl? the other option is a 6cyl.

and he also claimed it's a v5....which is obvious he didn't know shit lol

 

Good Times.
I dropped off my vigor at Acura today for service and told him to use the 2.5 TL specifications for the motor (swapped).
first he thought it was a 6 cylinder, then he figured out it was five and though i swapped a 5 cylinder into a I4 car...
it took a lot of patience on my part.

 

what's the difference between the vigor I5 and the TL I5? was it really worth a swap? or was it for other reasons...as far as i see they have the same specifications (same power/tq numbers, same dispalacement, both 20valve sohc, ect.)

 

^ Just a newer motor.

~Cheers~

 

but if you mate the 5spd to the vigor motor OBDI, i figure your can drop this into the TL and have a MT???

 

that's fu**** up, why did they not have a manual in the 96-98 TL?

 

same reason they didn't have a MT in the 99-03TL??? cuz Acura goofed...

 

2.5TL had slightly higher compression, although i swapped because i bought the vigor with a dead motor and used the G25A4 block. I like the EGR system from the vigor (G25A1) better so i used the intake manifold from the A1

 

lol thats classic. I went threw a few those when i was lookin around for a car. I dont know much about cars mechanically but i know enough to know when dumb asses like those dont know wth there talkin about

 

Which Acura dealer was this??

 

lol the dealership up here in colorado inst to bad. from what i understand. but most past experince with dealships leads me to blieave they are nothing more then bullshit lmao

 

It is a bit strange owning a 5 cylinder.

My first car was a V-7 Pontiac Catalina with about 90K miles. One owner who "always got it serviced at the same shop for the life of the car". The rear plug on the Drivers side was behind a compressor, so it was NEVER changed - the cylinder had no compression at all (just along for the ride) so it was a 7 cylinder. I abandoned that car at a shop in Ocean City Maryland when the timing belt broke.

 

Hmm, it shudn't be too bad at 90k with original plugs. I think our TLs are 105k miles no tuneup, so that would mean 105k on the original plugs. Mabe those older cars had to get em done more often, but even if so, why would he cylinder have no compression because of the spark plug not working?? And how would you know it has no compression? you have to remove the spark plug and put your finger or a compression gague to find out.

if the fault was only the spark plug then it should run if you replace it.

Also correct me if i'm wrong but isn't that V8 (or V7) with pushrods? I wud think so because it's an american v8, and if so then it does not have a timing belt.

 

Yeah... A mechanical engineer I worked with was a weekend mechanic (charged for oil changes, tune-ups etc.), so we tuned up the Catalina and found out that you couldn't get to the rear spark plug, so we pulled the AC compressor (I think it was the AC compressor) and got to it.
The plug tip was completely gone and when he put a pressure gauge on the cylinder - for some reason (the rings were worn?) there was no compression in that cylinder . So essentially it was a V-7. Probably not very fuel efficient.