Im getting my dads 1999 TL for my first car, it has 160,000miles on it. I dont know if i should get any engine mods on it or not. I just dont want to get H/I/P and have my engine blow up and waste all that money but i have always dreamt of making this car a beast. My dad never really drove the car hard, but he never really took great care of it(a damn shame). Any help with my predicament whould be great. thanks

 

Speaking from experience...if I was in your shoes Id focus my money more on personalization & possibly suspension modifications. Leave the go-fast stuff later for your next car when you can afford to put it on a better platform. The end result of you putting money in go-fast mods will be minuscule, compared to if you put that same amount of money on suspension.

 

Skip the boy-racer crap, save your money, go to a good college, get a very high paying job and then you can buy your own TL and do whatever mods you want.

 

Truer words were never said!

 

for fun get springs, oem kit and rims

done deal!

 

u guys think my engine whould go if i got mods on it?

 

if i dont get any engine mods.....and i still drive this car fast..how much longer do u think it will last..i am just really worried about how much longer this car will last...but if its going to last i want to do some engine mods

 

or mabey do sumthings to get it back up to par

 

Before you mod it you should definately go through and do ALL the general maint. stuff and stage 0 so to speak, a sample list from another forum, an old volvo one of mine, this one for a 850 turbo I believe, so some stuff may not apply:

Plugs
plug wires
cap/rotor
oil/transflush
filter (oil)
hoses (the little vac lines)
samco hose kit
02 sensors
fuel pumps
clean injectors
clean IC/IC plumbing
Air filter

I would do at the very least:

Plugs/wires
oil/trans flush
oil/air filter

Its what I am doing right now for as cheap as I can afford.
How well was it taken care of by him?

 

TL has no spark plug wires

 

the engine on the tl is the best and strongest part of the tl. dont worry about blowing the engine! it would take ALOT more than I/H/E to blow or hurt the honda engine. if you have the money do it. be more werry about the tranny though!

 

Mine sure does :P, first gen though, I just wander around all the forums, theres some stuff that would fit really well in to a general TL forum.

 

Holy sh*t!...best advice from a messageboard...I wish there were more people like you on other messageboards.

 

thanks for the input guys..im probally going to go all engine now...sleeper look..hehe show all the ricers at my school what a real car is...hehe

 

the only thing i may stay away from is a ZEX kit

 

16 yo + 99 TL + mods/$$ = trying to show off and wrapping around the basketball post. Good luck to you though. I suggest a better stereo. The stock system is the only glaring shortcoming of the TL.

ps.s ...sounds like you are going to be a ricer! hehe

I'm just jealous. My first car was a 1973, rusted out Plymouth Satelite with a non working passenger door. Yet it had an anti theft alarm.

 

hey i take no offense to that rusky, yes i know even my friends are pissed im getting this car, im not trying to make my car a ricer, but its just im one of those guys, if u can make somthing nicer, why not do it. Ohh yeah and i am making my sound system a lil nicer. New speakers and head unit(B-day thing)