Technique

Ya, good thinking waiting on the rubber till new rims... and definitely don't get sways without new rubber, won't do you any good...

get the comptech sways...

Technique

Oh, I'd say forget f/r struts... See my sig for what I've done on my own car ;-)

Dem1K

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wow, 5.94 sec 0-60?! And all you changed was the rubber?? Thats phatt man. Got any tips for launchin the car in a race as to not lose traction? Btw, what gear is our strongest & which is our weakest?

Technique

Rubber AND rims... BOTH are the key man.. I reduced about 50 lbs of unsprung and rotational weight by getting lightweight rims, and increased my stickiness by getting rid of the stock rubber...

Our strongest gears are 2 and 3... 4 is horrible... (2nd goes to over 60mph, like around 62mph, so don't shift to third before hitting 60mph in your 0-60) and 3rd goes just over 100mph... beyond that it's VERY SLOW acceleration when you hit 4th gear...

Best tip for launch - Put the car in SS mode, hold the brake down, push the gas slightly till the RPMS are about 1500 or so, then simultaneously release the brake and press the gas pretty hard (maybe 1/2 way down) and keep pressing it until it's floored within about 2 seconds... The 1-2 shift happens automatically, and don't shift to third until you are PAST 60mph and have hit your 0-60 time!

Does that make sense? It's also dependant on the weather, traction of the surface, type of tire you have, etc... So it's more just a matter of getting the gas pedal all the way to the floor, as fast as possible, without spinning the tires too much...

Good luck!

PS - Best tires to buy are Toyo T1-S proxes (best), Pole Position S-03 (2nd best), or Pirelli P-Zero Nero (3rd best)

I've used them all, and they are all kick-ass compared to nearly everything else out there... Of course, you have hoosier slicks and expensive p-zero assymettrico, etc... but those only last like 5,000 miles and have ZERO Traction in any weather except dry, hot asphault... so I don't consider those...

Dem1K

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Awesome man, you're a pimp

Where is Silicon Valley btw??

Technique

It's in Northern California, the bay area penninsula... Although I'm in the Washington D.C. area for the time being...

Dem1K

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hey so today i turned on my car and started to pull out and the engine made a weired "errr-uh" sound and went away..?? wtf was it lol

snoop_005

damn congrats on your car. I picked up my Silver 01 CL-P on the 30th as well!

Technique

That's normal. That's the ABS system pressurizing. If you listen closely, it does that TWICE everytime you start your car. It happens the first time after you drive about 10-15 feet, then the second time (a bit quieter) after another 10-15 feet or so...

Dem1K

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snoop: congrats homie!! we should meet up some time and chek out each others cars! I want to have like a socal meet sometime?? we always had socal meets on the lancerforums. It was fun.

Technique: fuck man!! u know everythng! LOL..I love it

Dem1K

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hey, on the stock tires...what should I have the psi set to for daily driving. The max load says 41psi...so should i do like 36?? Thanks

Technique

Stock tires... blah... so horrible...

Anyway, I'd run 32psi, like the manual says or the sticker in the door... You definitely don't want 36PSI on the stocks tires dude... They are horrible tires, and the more you inflate them, the less grip you will have...

First thing you should do is get new rubber/rims... Sell your old tires/rims as a set to an Accord owner.. They love our rims and it's a +1 upgrade for many of them... You can probably get like $600-$1000 for the stock set...

Or, if you can't afford new rims, get a new set of tires ASAP... Shouldn't cost you more than $600-$700 installed for 4 good toyo/pirelli tires...

Dem1K

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eh...i'm broke lol

toguro

hey ive had my cl since it came out and my lease ends end o' the month, dont make fun for no modding. I will mod soon

Bulldog01

I just bought mine yesterday, as the lease ends next week. I modded and raced it while it was still under lease.

Dem1K

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see I would mod the engine but coming from my past car (an 02 Mitsu Lancer OZ) which had intake/exhaust/high flow cat) that shit got so annoying after a while you know. Whenever I was driving on the freeway it was hard to talk to someone in the car. It just got extremely annoying. And from what I'm told, a header gets your engine to be REALLY loud and the intake gets loud as well. Bleh, we'll see what I'll do. I want to get the cosmetics done first :P .

Question about tint on this car: After getting my windows tinted, when i look through my rear window @ night at the car lights behind me, the lights pretty much reflect vertically through each line on the window, as if they're multiple lights (if you understand me?) I was wondering if this happens on everybody else's CL after tinting the rear window..because I don't believe it did that b4 I tinted the window but i'm not sure. Some1 please help to let me know. Because if it isn't supposed to do that, I'll go back to the shop & complain :\

thanks!!!

Dem1K

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oh so, what are all the engine mods that are possible for this car, and what do each mod net on the dyno (whp)?? These are all the ones that I can think of...please fill in the gaps

- intake
- exhaust
- headers
- SC
- chip??
- pulleys
- ?????

& what type of pipes are there. I hear y-pipe, b-pipe, etc...thanks for helping me out!

Legend2Die4

thanks for the compliments u guys!

IAMDRKMAN: Welcome to the forums man, i just got my car back in october ( i think) also lovin it! hope your enjoying it!

Dem1k:
as far as the reflecting thing goes... i dont know if thats normal... i could just be used to it? the tint could be f'd up. how does the tint look other than that? and kinda weird but do you think its your rear-view mirror acting up (the elctro-chromatic thing) or something weird like that? turn around and look out it.... any different?!? maybe turn off the electro-chromatic and see if its normal? i dunno man

-bryan

Dem1K

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whassup Legend..

I tried both...I turned off the auto-dimmer and it still did the same shit, plus I looked directly through the rear window myself w/out the rear-view mirror and it did the same shit. I don't know?? It's weird, the tint itself looks like its in great shape. I got it done bout 4 days ago...the tint place says it takes 10 days for all haziness/bubbles to go away, so maybe I should wait on it for another week and go back if its the same eh?

sham

I bought mine from Tustin Acura as well. Good people there. Just don't make the same mistake and take it to college in Indiana. I get stuck left and right and the car is dirty as hell all the time. I feel so bad for my car.

Legend2Die4

Thats true, i forgot about the "setting time" Wait it out, see if it clears up?! Also, was it a pretty good high-end tint?
peace
-bryan

Dem1K

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how do i know if its pretty good high-end tint?? I just went to the shop that did it for me last time. They're called the California Tint Shop. So yeah?

Legend2Die4

good question! lol, i dunno, what was the name / brand of the tint they use? Was it 3M or maybe Sunguard, or somethin like that? my biggest thing was a nice warranty. How is that back window doin? has it cleared up at all in the last few days? the company that tinted mine said after a few days to press around the edges to smooth it out. have u tryed that? but sounds like ur problem is the entire surface?!

peace
-bryan

Dem1K

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thx legend, Im'a find out what tint they use....here look

Night Time Defogger Distortion

At night you may notice that the light from headlights will reflect off of the defogger lines. This is caused by the film having to bend slightly around the raised defogger line, it varies from car to car, and there is nothing that can be done about it.

i got this off of: http://www.tintdude.com/care.html

Does anybody else get this reflection?? Cuz I have it on mine. I was just curious. Thanks

That's exactly waht I'm experiencing :\

ac2001cls

What is the OEM spoiler?

Dem1K

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um.......the OEM spoiler?? its the spoiler that comes as an option from the dealer...

Anyway, does ANYBODY have this problem w/ their tint???

pimpscls

hey technique how is your 0-60 so good. do you have CAI

Dem1K

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and can anybody answer the previous question about all the performance mods you can do to the car.

Thanks

Technique

Read the first posts in the thread... I talked about that already...

Dem1K

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so I found out what kind of tint the shop uses, and they use Madico tint. Ive been looking it up and supposedly Madico is a leader in the industry, and TONS of people have it and have said nothing but great things about it??