Went up to visit Comptech today. Their shop makes me drool, you can eat of the floor! Anyway they showed me the CL-S supercharger proto-work in progress. They expect end of year to market. It was so sweet to see all the prototype brackets, hoses and Supercharger being fit to our car! They also show me the CAI......looks very functional. I left purchasing a chrome oil filler cap...looks cool!

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AgStreak
Comptech headers/exhaust
Comptech Springs/sway bar
Tenzo 18"
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?...752&p=43051086

 

That's reassuring news . But I'll believe it when I see it. Hopefully by the end of the year as you say. Glad they're at least doing R&D.

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Frank
01-S White/Parchment
Comptech Sways & Springs

 

is their cai the shape of aem's (s shape)? or does it just go straight down.



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'01 cl-s blk/blk :: comptech headers, comptech springs, comptech sway bars

 

I thought that the SC was going to be made for the ACCord first? Or are they making them for both models at the same time. How did the SC look?

 

It makes an S shape, he said it's the "icebox" from the Integra.

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AgStreak
Comptech headers/exhaust
Comptech Springs/sway bar
Tenzo 18"
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?...752&p=43051086

 

Very observant! Yes they actually are stuffing it in an accord, but very few mods are need for the CL-S.They are paralleling development.



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AgStreak
Comptech headers/exhaust
Comptech Springs/sway bar
Tenzo 18"
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?...752&p=43051086

 

Who's supercharger (roots type/Paxton, Vortech/centrifugal, etc.) are they using -- Do you know?




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2001 Satin Silver Cl-S w/ NAVI

• Mud Guards
• Wheel locks
• Toyo 235/45ZR17-97W* T1S Proxies on Stock 17" CLS wheels
• Gtech 1/8th tank 40F ~=6.1
• Zaino magic
• 14.8lb 17x8" SSR Competition rims on the way
• Sways, headers, CAI comming soon

 

You didn't take any pics by any chance did you? They probably wouldn't have let you.

 

Paxton is into Centrifugal. Eaton makes the roots style... Been to the Eaton plant several times (Good 'ole Athens, GA.) and know the GenIII M90 very well.

BTW, Paxton appearently pulled out of the automotive market recently

From the last I heard, it was going to be a centrifugal unit. Not unlike what was used on the S2000. My guess is that they will need to do similar to what Stillen did on the Maxima, have a drive shaft across the engine.

 

Mike B visits Super Honda Online with some regularity and in their ongoing Supercharger Update post, He said that yes indeed they were looking into doing the shaft across the engine. The Vortech Civic Si is the same way.

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Kenny
Slow TL

 

The parallel development had better be on a transmission or will they ship you a dozen replacements with every supercharger kit??? That should cost about $48000 for just the transmissions and another $7500 for the S/C. Oh yeah, forgot to add the cost of labor, the trans is a bitch to swap in the CL/TL/ACC. Honda R&D had a mule Accord with a S/C and the trans departed the state of "integrity" so often, the car was moth balled.

 

damn it cost that much,,,48000,,,fuck that...

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ALeX RamireZ

 

So will this future supercharger work with a CL-P? Or how about the TL-S????

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2001 CL-P Emerald/Parchment

 

Originally posted by syncivic:
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The parallel development had better be on a transmission or will they ship you a dozen replacements with every supercharger kit??? That should cost about $48000 for just the transmissions and another $7500 for the S/C. Oh yeah, forgot to add the cost of labor, the trans is a bitch to swap in the CL/TL/ACC. Honda R&D had a mule Accord with a S/C and the trans departed the state of "integrity" so often, the car was moth balled.

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Just curious.... Do you have a guess for how much power the "stock" CL Type-S tranny is good for? Are there any particular gear sets, or other pieces that let go first?

You comment makes me wonder, how much power over stock, the current non-modified transmission will take.

BTW -- I don't doubt what you say, but I've always heard good things about Comptech. Is the transmission so weak, that even some serious "re-work" wouldn't be worth it?



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2001 Satin Silver Cl-S w/ NAVI

• Mud Guards
• Wheel locks
• Toyo 235/45ZR17-97W* T1S Proxies on Stock 17" CLS wheels
• Gtech 1/8th tank 40F ~=6.1
• Zaino magic
• 14.8lb 17x8" SSR Competition rims on the way
• Sways, headers, CAI comming soon

 

1 of my friends from Autobots (RACING CREW), and he works for AEM. he told me that because CL-s is still too new, so there r very a few of parts for it, but after about 2 years, there will be plenty but they aint gonna be cheap as the parts 4 civics tho.

 

We'll have to see. Oh an on Superhonda Online, Mike B explicitly said that the target price for the supercharger was between $3000 and $3500. So I don't see how it'll total to 7.5 grand...

Labor install for an SC shouldn't be too much, its basically an oversized bolton...

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Kenny
Slow TL