PeterUbers

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I have to admit -- conditions are key:

Here are the ingredients for a perfect run:

-1/4 tank of gas (less weight)
-Only one person in the TL-S (see above)
-Dry road, um, duh
-Sequential Sportshift in operation, VSC off
(VSC takes some juice away from acceleration by helping moderate the lateral movement using ABS)
-Good reaction time: at green punch it 75% until traction cntrl is over, then 100%
- 1st gear: 7000 rpms -- use that VTEC to your advantage
- 2nd gear: 6000 -- you'll find that 3rd has more of a pull by shifting slightly early
- 3rd -- use all you got here, cuz it plateaus early on in 4th!! 7000 rpm
- 4th -- well, at this point you've achieved the 60 mph spec, now you're racing for the 1/4 mile time

My personal results (sorry, I had too):

0-60mph 6.3 seconds
1/4 14.9

Not too bad

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Road Rage

Nice - have you tried identical setup but with full automatic?

hunter001

Good run. But the 3rd gear will accelerate like a demon to about 100mph....and it is better to pull in 3rd than 4th, since 4th and 5th are overdrive gears..



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PeterUbers

iTrader: (1)

I haven't tried times with the automatic D5, but I suspect (after having revved pretty high in D5 in a semi-race) that it would be slower --

Ideally, the computer doesn't want the car to use all of the tranny's potential -- and let the engine rev too hard during a D5 full throttle acceleration. It would be excessive engine wear -- so, the caveat is, use the SS at your own peril -- just as a motorist with a manual tranny does with his car. I could be wrong, but just my take.

I didn't know that both 4th and 5th were overdrive -- actually, now that I look at the gear ratios:
(:1)
1st: 2.563
2nd: 1.551
3rd: 1.021
4th: 0.653
5th: 0.470

Fourth and fifth ARE pretty flat -- makes sense -- who'd be racing after 100?? (me!)

I let my buddy w/ the Regal GSE drive my car today -- he has driven the IS300 extensively in test drives, and he said the car is significantly quicker, but doesn't handle nearly as well -- prob. due to the front-wheel drive in some respects and the higher suspension.


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RAdams

3rd gear in my 2000 TL takes me to 100MPH (could hold it a tad longer using SS to bump the cutoff) so it stands to reason that, in a TL-S/CL-S that has the exact same gear ratios and final drive ratio but a higher redline, you'd be able to go faster in any given gear (save for when aerodynamic drag pulls in the reins)

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Guest

You actually went zero to sixty in 6.3seconds in a 2002 TL-S?
That is darn fast!

I'm impressed.

That beats the BMW 330i from what I can tell.

s2ktaxi

A 330i manual transmission will do mid to upper 5 secs on a 0-60 quite easily. Though the 6.3 is quite comparable to an auto 330i. But considering the TL-S has more power, it ought to be faster.

Road Rage

A 330 will do mid to upper 5's. Who says?!

My M3 would not do that consitently.

hunter001

I don't think the Auto 330i would come anywhere close to 6.3Secs 0-60, even though the gearing of the BMW is pretty aggressive.....

In the hands of professional testers of Road and Track, with power-braking and whatnot, the 330i with manual transmission managed a 0-60 of 6.2 secs (Road and Track, January 2001).....in the hands of common folks like you and me, no way can the BMW even touch that figure....so to make un-substantiated claims like the "manual BMW easily doing 0-60 of mid 5s" and whatnot, does not sound very credible...if it is an apples-to-apples auto transmissioned BMW, I predict that the TL-s would humiliate it in acceleration....even though the BMW would edge the TL-s out in handling in bone dry weather, while the TL-s would out-handle the BMW in anything but bone-dry conditions....

just my 2c



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Louisiana

the 1/4 mile is the more important number.
I think the VTEC would outperform the Bimmer 330i.

s2ktaxi

My sincerest apologies... the high 5's 0-60 number I quoted was with a slightly modded 330i. C&D posts a 6.1 time for the 330i with manual transmission.

tankmonkey

you don't need 4th for a quarter mile run in the type s. third is good for over 100mph (110 maybe?) and your terminal speed in the quarter will most likely be between 90 and 95mph.

juniorbean

iTrader: (5)

Try racing it in full auto (D5) mode. The guys in the CL-S' prefer this over SS and actually think it's quicker. Since the cars are basically the same, the results could be too. Give it a shot!!



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ZodiakTL

i just got my TL-S yesterday, love the car.. but more on the topic, my '00 TL did the 1/4 @ 91, which should place the TL-S right around 93-94... and also, if u use auto, go into D4 it will give you much crisper acceleration... it worked the same way on 93 maxima, when u took off the over-drive (4th) it had much better pickup.



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