i was coming home from work at about 9:00PM traveling north bound on Route 9 in sayreville,NJ heading into south amboy, when a 94-95 Accord Sedan flew by me. i couldnt tell if it was a LX or EX . it was stock height and a nice exhuast coming out at an angle. so i downshifted into 4th and line up with him at about 65-70 .then we both took off in 4th (he had to have been 5MT) and he took the lead by barely anything and it remained that way throughout 4th which was an eternity for our cars. nearing 100 we both started to slow because he had to take turn off onto RT 35 in south amboy. the outcome was my front bumper was by his rear passengers doors the whole time, which counts obviously as a loss. this race pretty much came down to weight, because the 5th accords are alot lighter than 1st gen CL's. it was such a frustrating lost. its weird that i beat a 6th gen accord coupe but lost to this car. thats why i think weight played a huge role.

 

Sucks man, get some more performance mods, and go back after him

 

all im getting is exhaust next and thats it. im gonna save for another 1st gen CL or 4th gen Accord and make them project cars. so i gotta save up.

 

4th gear at 70? wtf?


70 is like 4k rpms in 3rd gear.. are you nuts.

DOWNSHIFT YOU PUSSY FOOTER!!

 

Word if you are racing 4th gear is for 100+ and never I mean NEVER put in 5th

 

ive done that before at around 70 and my car jerked back hard and i lost some speed. i really wasnt trying to do that again. and plus i want to keep my motor for a little longer.

and no at no point in the race was i in 5th. i only threw it in 5th at the end of the race.

 

Man you won't kill that motor, I use to beat the living crap out of that engine and Señor Shiney runs laughing gas on his so I highly doubt you will blow your motor. Even when I first got I was racing my boy's Audi and downshifted from 5th to 2nd by accident and didn't blow it, killed my clutch but not my motor.

 

seriously... thats 3rd gear territory... fourth was not where you wanted to be at that point

 

o man i hate when the happens. yea your probaly right but im really paranoid when it comes to that, i cant help it.

 

laughing gas

 

o man i hate when that happens. ive only done that once from 5th to 2nd. your probaly right about blowing the motor. but i just get paranoid about that, i cant help it.

 

i did the 3rd to second before.. except i was on the nitrous and i blew some 3 foot flames out the exhaust lol


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lol @ sen-or

 

that was such a frustrating loss. ive always wanted to race a 5th gen accord and when that time finally comes i blow it. or he was just faster than me. by the closest race ive ever been a part of. my front bumper was by his rear doors

 

You shot yourself in the ass by leaving 3rd way too early, and why arent you at school..

 

yea you might be right, i left early cuz my school is taking exams, and i only had to take one today.

 

I'm not too familiar with the first gen CL's, but I'm assuming they came with SS (sport shift autostick) as well as the newer ones. I have the auto with autostick in the Acura and Mercedes, and when I downshift from 3rd to 2nd or from 4th to 3rd I just pretend it's manual (minus the clutch of course). Slightly ease into the gas as you shift down to match the engine RPM with the trans, this will prevent the jerk (engine braking) just as if you were downshifting in a manual car. Same applies even if you don't have the SS mode.

 

i donno. but i have a 95 ex 4 door accord auto. V4....and i beat a 00-2 accord coupe V6 from about a 25 mph roll. he was also auto. we were both bone stock. *shrug*

 

There is no SS mode in the 1st Gen

 

He must of had a blown tranny not to smoke you.

 

i always take out 5th gen accords, but when i race my buddies 4cyl 6th gen coupe (stock) he always takes me by half a car length MAX....

 

you would have won .. driver error on your behalf

down shift!

 

stop speeding on rt 9...yer gunna get fuckkkked

seriously though race on the bridge!

 

i already got fucked by the white castle and the peter pank diner (bullshit safe corridor zone) luckily i had a PBA card so i got out of a 85 in a 50, and i didnt have my radar detector back then either.

 

i have never lost to any 4 cyl accord, no matter what year, when i had my CL. Came close once, but never lost. Maybe cause i never shifted out of 3rd till 100+

 

me too man. watch out for old bridge. a lot of instant on in the town and a lot of police dont have radar detectors

 

many have tried. but i also have a 3.0

 

well i still beat a 6th gen Accord cp. 5MT so i still good about that, but now that i think about it i effed up and shoulda downshifted into 3rd.

 

you started in 4th you better have already been haulin ass or else yes that is why you lost
good kill on the other accord

 

yea i was in third in that race, but i didnt have my header back then. he downshifted into 2nd like an idiot at 50????

 

That's an inline 4, there bud...

 

nice bubble. very uncommon in jersey to see a legit bubble back. every civic i see is rice, except for this kid i work with.

 

Thanks, there's a H-T meet coming up in a couple months if you're interested. I'll probably be there in the Civic. It's a PA, NJ, MD meet so it probably shouldn't be too far for you. The West Chester meets are usually big. It would be nice to see some clean CL's represent. Check it out!

http://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1504095

 

yea thats sounds good, thats a pretty far drive for you though??

 

Probably 5 or 6 hours. It would be worth it though. Winter is killing me. I'm looking forward to meeting up with some Honda's guys.

 

^ usually i hate civics with a passion but i love the way urs is soo clean....any pics?

 

Lets here about that 6th gen Accord cp that you beat.....

 

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=174447

 

(copyed and pasted from an old AZ thread in the fall)(i didnt have my header at this point either)

i was at my high schools football game last night and i asked this kid in my class if he wanted to race me tonight. he agreed and we hit up a popular highway to race on. his boy in a shitty looking del sol was with him. i had a feeling this kid was gonna be trouble from the start. so we get to the spot which is on the Edison Bridge in sayreville, new jersey. were both heading northbound in sayreville heading toward perth amboy. the kid in the del sol speeds buy us before we race. me and the kid are lined up and both in 3rd at about a 40-45mph roll. my buddy whos sitting shotgun does a 3-2-1 count and were off. i immeadiatly take off through out 3rd and halfway into 4th then he starts catching up but not enough to beat me. then the fag in the del sol is in my lane which is the fast lane. the motherfucker purposely did this. mind you this is a 3 lane bridge and i have no idea why he couldnt have been in the lane furthest right. so i had to slam on my brakes from what ever speed i was going (i reallly didnt no how fast i was going) to about 50mph. i would say i had him by 1 1/2 car lengths before that scumbag in the del sol pulled that stunt. so i didnt bother following them because i had a party to go too in my hometown of south amboy, so i just let them take off. i didnt feel satisfied and im not even sure if i totally won. this is probaly gonna be a huge aguement at school on monday. his car is a 5spd completely stock with subs in the back and he had no passesngers. he has a F23A4 engine making about 148hp. and i have a aem v2 with a little over 108K and my friend was with me and i had a full tank of gas with a budweiser beer ball in my trunk (not that had any effect on the race). i defenitly want a rematch. let me know what you guys think about this.

 

Try to get that rematch. Sounds like you could have held that lead if the ass-hat in the Del Slo wasn't being such a tool.

 

exactly, and it was some what of an upghill race to cuz it was on a long bridge.