my top speed is about 10KM above what is in my Avatar.

I have not yet met the road conditions to push the 6th gear all the way up. One thing is that I found the car quite unstable past 220KM/h.

So to hit 240 on the speedo, i'd want to have a free highway an NO WIND - Damn the car is sensitive to cross wind!!!!!

If you have not seen, I have hosted a video in another thread.

 

that's why it's called Drag limited

is ur accord with the 2.0 engine or the 2.4 engine?

 

2.4L but that darn thing is rated 190HP while the US TSX is 200hp - would that have anything to do with the way they rate the HP like DIN vs ASE or whatever it is. A lot of discussions are on going about the extra power of the 06 but honda/acura would have changed the unit of measurement...?

 

I thought the Type-S was 220 hp with the 2.0 l engine? So yours basically has the TSX engine?

 

That's the Euro-R with the K20. The Type-S and Euro 2.4 Executive are K24A3 190hp.

 

i got traded my g35 coupe (no options btw) in basically straight up to get a tsx w/nav. wanted more amenities (the g35 is fast, but i live in L.A. where being able to go super fast i found was not all that useful).

but while i did have it , and on the one chance that i had to drive it fast i did. was on my way to vegas. hit 135mph and we were going up hill. that 3.5L vq is well an insane engine and it was still pulling. as i entered nevada i got a ticket going 105, and well it was cited at 81. cars like that make you speed.

anyway... i have read european reviews and they figure the 190hp version there can do 141mph. i dont think this would be super bright in a fwd car, as its hard to control cars at that speed on fwd. the steering gets a little too twitchy.

i wouldnt doubt the tsx can hit at least 130 though without too much effort. i doubt its limited very low, most cars are limited in the 140s if they are unless they are trucks.

i used to drive a 2001 nissan altima also. for comparison it has a 4 speed auto, 155hp 2.4 L engine, and weighed a little over 3000 pounds. hit 115 in that on a socal fwy and well... thats how i know that steering gets a little bad up there, though i'm confident the tsx can hit over 115. summer tires could help. but still a stupid idea nonetheless.

its definietly not worth it though and the tsx isnt that kind of car. i dont know, i just got the tsx but part of me is happy it is no g35 it probably seems to appeal to a more mature part of me.

 

I'm guessing the Hondata upgrade for the manual and the automatic would get rid of the speed governor.

 

Question, doesnt our tsx come with a fairly low drag coefficient? like 0.27cd? Even the G35 coupe has like 0.28 slightly higher than our car, so is it just that our car doesnt have enough horses to push beyond?

KC

 

i learned this the hard way. was signaling in the rain on a normal street. was about to go since there were no cars and was about 10% into the lane, car behind speeds up to fill the gap, so i went back into my lane.

everyone had stopped in my previous lane, hit car in front of me at like 10mph. this was in a previous car not my tsx.

so yeah in LA always signal while already changing lanes. you really have to be a real ass here, especially on the freeway, or the richer parts of town (like santa monica is a horrible place to drive) where people in nice cars just cant let you by, it would kill them to do it i swear.

seems to me the suburbs are a lot easier to drive, people will let you go and such.

 

One of the things I like about the TSX, though, is that you don't have to be doing 150kph to enjoy the drive.

I would think, however, that an A-spec car's lowered stance would make it faster. For camparison, my 91 Civic Si, lowered, with intake and exhaust, had more than the stock 108hp, and it would run up to 205kph (about 130mph), considerably more than Road & Track's figure of 175kph. Hitting 175kph in 4th gear (my self-imposed speed limit/and performance limited top track speed) at 7200rpm, could easily have been a daily occurance. People used to cruise through Toronto rush hour traffic, at certain times, in certain places, at 120-140kph, but I don't go that way any more. [Bit of an aside: when the government introduced photo-radar, commuter traffic turned into bumper-to-bumper freight trains, in an attempt to hide each other's license plates - doing 130kph. Crazy! It was amazing that we didn't have the regular 80-car pile-ups that I saw in Germany.]

As a planned TSX-owner to be, I don't find comments like "the TSX is prefectly stable at 80mph..." off-putting, but - laughing - it makes me wonder at what speed is it not stable at. My Civic was stable at every speed, with stock 185/60-14 rubber, and even at Shannonville, or Mosport, with your foot floored, after setting up for a corner, it was still wonderfully stable, even "sideways"!

 

I drive a european accord type s 2.4 190bhp

if i remember correctly 140mph and still pulling

i think the revs were around 5000rpm in 5th

it is quite stable at these speeds

 

on another note the autobahn is one of the safest roads in the world -fact-

 

1994 Acura Integra (not Type-R) top speed 132 mph
1996 Honda Prelude (not S-Type) top speed 138 mph

From back in the day when I was stupid.

I am now in a 2005 TSX and while I will not push the car to these limits there is no doubt the car would get to 140 mph. It has a bigger engine than both the above mentioned cars and does not weigh significantly more.

 

Want to share my experience with topspeed (some sightseeing in germany ). I hit about 238 km/h (148mph) in my 2.4 AT.

About 6500 rpm in 4th gear (automatic tranny mode, a/c off). Nice to notice when the engine hit about 6000rpm (in 4th gear) I even felt a clear bump in power and accelaration .
I felt it had some power left to go some faster... but the road was not all empty and it were windy conditions (and about freezing temperature).

Till about 200 km/h (124mph) the car felt perfectly stable, even with the windy conditions. Above this speed it all feels a bit tricky... definitely 2 hands on the steering wheel ... and so fast when passing trucks... but it gives a certain kick

 

 

This may have been brought up already but I swore I saw a video on this forum by the member that was the fitment vehicle for the 2004 6MT supercharger that topped out at 145 mph. I don't know if the Comptech reflash changes the govenor level. I am sorry I can't find/remember his memebr name. No disrespect of course. I'm envious!

 

No need for CAI at those temps.

 

The inside of the engine bay would still be hot, neh?

 

the stock air intake is already cai !!!

forgot to mention I also checked my speedometer with a gps unit... the speedometer shows about 4 km/h too much... independent on speed... I checked it from about 50 km/h until 160 km/h.

 

I recall reading, some time ago, that the European Accord/TSX had a different ground clearance, and tire size, which would affect acceleration, top speed, and handling. My Canadian brochure lists ground clearance at 154 mm (I guess that's non-A spec), and tire size is 215/50-17. Does the European car use a 205/55-16?

 

There are some differences in specs of the type-s... for a while it had 16" ... for about a year it has 17" 225/45 (my 2005-er has / and latest brochure confirms)
my ground clearance is 145mm according the brochure (all types here, even 2.0 has 145mm).
My type-s version has some stiffer suspension as the 'normal' eu accord's to my info. I even think all european accords have stiffer suspension as US tsx. For a few years ago when the us accord en eu accord were the same we also had bigger brakes... don't know about now.. I have 300mm brakes front and 282 back.

 

I gotta say that's the funniest race story i read in here
playing catch up is not a race...lol......
i din't know GS400 is that slow tho

 

I´ve had my Euro Accord type-S up to 135-140mph(230km/h), almost exactly the same car as the TSX!

 

139mph for me with 2004 5AT, wife in the car and a duffle bag with a night's worth of clothes.

I can't seem to find the open road by myself and really see what it can do.

It was 3am on the Interstate and next to no one was around. Until a Altima or Maxima buzzed me while I was going 110. I couldn't tell which one it was because it seemed they were going ~150 when it passed. I mashed the pedal and it took a while to get to 139. It feels as though the car had a little more even though I had additional weight.

I don't think I'll be going that fast anytime soon. I was pissed off that my flight landed three hours late & I was hopped up on Mountain Dew.

ftr I'm on Goodyear Eagle F1 GS-D3 not OEM rubber