No Supercharger on a TL-P?
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No Supercharger on a TL-P?
I can't believe that no one has tried to intall a supercharger on an 02 TL-P. With all the power hogs on this site I would have guessed that someone put the Accord V6 SC in their car.
Can anyone tell me if they thought about it and if so why they haven't followed thru?
-Ice
Can anyone tell me if they thought about it and if so why they haven't followed thru?
-Ice
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Not true. I've seen pics of one 99 TL-P with the AV6 S/C installed. Most people haven't followed through because it's either too expensive for them or they are worried about their tranny.
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most of it has to do with the money and worry of the tranny
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what damages can it cause to the tranny? thanks.
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Originally Posted by NYZGREATST
not to mention, it would make more sense to get a -s and then S/C it
I someone has a P they aren't going to get an s, and I am sure that getting an s is more than $4500.
I personally have a TL-P. When I bought my car a few months ago I had no idea about modding or anything along those lines. In addition I was able to get my 02 for 11.5Gs. Now that I've been reading the forums I want it to go faster point blank. Why do people try to make their S's go faster. Why not just buy a faster car right?
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Originally Posted by fsttyms1
most of it has to do with the money and worry of the tranny
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Originally Posted by black_tl
Well like someone said before, the tanny is know for being weak so any thing to put more stress on it will just cause it to go out faster.
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the tranny is hit or miss. you can baby your car all you want, but it can still happen. it's happened tons of times to stock cars driven by older people who dont mod or even know much about it. it doesnt have to do with how much power and what not.
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Originally Posted by car_lost
the tranny is hit or miss. you can baby your car all you want, but it can still happen. it's happened tons of times to stock cars driven by older people who dont mod or even know much about it. it doesnt have to do with how much power and what not.
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erratic shifting. it's easy to tell.
about the S/C... its very possible to retrofit it. im surprised more people havent done it. i've seen one and it was pretty awesome. its pretty much plug and play. im sure whatever has to be customized is very simple.
about the S/C... its very possible to retrofit it. im surprised more people havent done it. i've seen one and it was pretty awesome. its pretty much plug and play. im sure whatever has to be customized is very simple.
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Originally Posted by car_lost
erratic shifting. it's easy to tell.
about the S/C... its very possible to retrofit it. im surprised more people havent done it. i've seen one and it was pretty awesome. its pretty much plug and play. im sure whatever has to be customized is very simple.
about the S/C... its very possible to retrofit it. im surprised more people havent done it. i've seen one and it was pretty awesome. its pretty much plug and play. im sure whatever has to be customized is very simple.
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Originally Posted by Ice Man
I gotta admit thats a funny thing to say. It would make more sense to get an S? if you want more factory power, bigger wheels and tighter suspension Are they doing trade ins or something that I missed? just bite the bullet and pay the extra
I someone has a P they aren't going to get an s, and I am sure that getting an s is more than $4500.depend how much you want to spend and how long you look, i found a TL-S for about 2000 more than TL-p's in the area, but i had to drive 3 hours away to get the deal
I personally have a TL-P. When I bought my car a few months ago I had no idea about modding or anything along those lines. In addition I was able to get my 02 for 11.5Gs. Now that I've been reading the forums I want it to go faster point blank. Why do people try to make their S's go faster.why are you trying to make your tl-p go faster? Why not just buy a faster car right?
I someone has a P they aren't going to get an s, and I am sure that getting an s is more than $4500.depend how much you want to spend and how long you look, i found a TL-S for about 2000 more than TL-p's in the area, but i had to drive 3 hours away to get the deal
I personally have a TL-P. When I bought my car a few months ago I had no idea about modding or anything along those lines. In addition I was able to get my 02 for 11.5Gs. Now that I've been reading the forums I want it to go faster point blank. Why do people try to make their S's go faster.why are you trying to make your tl-p go faster? Why not just buy a faster car right?
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Ok you missed my point. Why would you tell someone who has P to get an S? If they wanted a different car then why not get a faster car period. Personally I don't like the S's interior. The point is to make what you have better. I don't know how else to spell that out. That should be a fairly easy concept to grasp.
That also leads to my comment about why people try to make their S faster. I mean if some one wanted a diff car then they would get one. Everyone who talks about performance mods want more out of what they have. If they wanted advice on a diff car they would state that question and ask "should I get a different car?"
My point is I don't have an S, I don't want an S, I want to know about a Supercharger on a P. Point Blank
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That also leads to my comment about why people try to make their S faster. I mean if some one wanted a diff car then they would get one. Everyone who talks about performance mods want more out of what they have. If they wanted advice on a diff car they would state that question and ask "should I get a different car?"
My point is I don't have an S, I don't want an S, I want to know about a Supercharger on a P. Point Blank
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Originally Posted by Ice Man
Ok you missed my point. Why would you tell someone who has P to get an S? more factory power, better suspension If they wanted a different car then why not get a faster car period. Personally I don't like the S's interior.its the same except 1 is wood grain plastic, and the other is black wood grain plastic, oh and i got the type-s shifter The point is to make what you have better. I don't know how else to spell that out. That should be a fairly easy concept to grasp.i would think getting better from the factory would be a fairly easy concept to grasp also
That also leads to my comment about why people try to make their S faster. I mean if some one wanted a diff car then they would get one. Everyone who talks about performance mods want more out of what they have. If they wanted advice on a diff car they would state that question and ask "should I get a different car?"
My point is I don't have an S, I don't want an S, I want to know about a Supercharger on a P. Point Blankwith your s/c and other mods you will still get beat by mildly modded SRT-4's, EVO's, WRX STI's and other so why spend an extra 5000 on parts when you could have added it to your orginal 11.5 and got a TL-S, and had a better platform to start from
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That also leads to my comment about why people try to make their S faster. I mean if some one wanted a diff car then they would get one. Everyone who talks about performance mods want more out of what they have. If they wanted advice on a diff car they would state that question and ask "should I get a different car?"
My point is I don't have an S, I don't want an S, I want to know about a Supercharger on a P. Point Blankwith your s/c and other mods you will still get beat by mildly modded SRT-4's, EVO's, WRX STI's and other so why spend an extra 5000 on parts when you could have added it to your orginal 11.5 and got a TL-S, and had a better platform to start from
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Originally Posted by Ice Man
Did you read my original post? When I bought my car I wanted the TL, I didn't care about beating anyone and I got it a great price. I don't have a S and I am not going to sell my car to buy one. I can't change the past dude, yet you keep hawking on this point which is not doing either of us any good. I mean if you have a time machine I can borrow, I'll go back in time and tell my past self to pick up a S instead. That I way I won't have to sit here and read as you keep reiterating moot points. Or better yet I'll go even further back and tell my parents to get some microsoft stock during its start up and that way I can buy an F'in M5 like I really want. I promise I'll give you the time machine back as soon as I return!
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...yet you keep hawking on this point which is not doing either of us any good.
According to the CompTech website dyno graphs (click here) , a SC (along with headers and exhaust) adds 45 hp. At $4,495 just for the SC (no installation, no headers and no exhaust) that's about $100/hp.
A Type S adds 35 hp (225 vs 260 - I think an S is 260 hp).
In my area, the price difference between a 2002 TLP and a 2002 TLS is $1,250, or $36/hp.
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the supercharger is more like $3500 and you can find a used one for about $2500.
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Originally Posted by MikePA
In terms of cost/hp, a SC is an expensive way to add horsepower.
According to the CompTech website dyno graphs (click here) , a SC (along with headers and exhaust) adds 45 hp. At $4,495 just for the SC (no installation, no headers and no exhaust) that's about $100/hp.
A Type S adds 35 hp (225 vs 260 - I think an S is 260 hp).
In my area, the price difference between a 2002 TLP and a 2002 TLS is $1,250, or $36/hp.
According to the CompTech website dyno graphs (click here) , a SC (along with headers and exhaust) adds 45 hp. At $4,495 just for the SC (no installation, no headers and no exhaust) that's about $100/hp.
A Type S adds 35 hp (225 vs 260 - I think an S is 260 hp).
In my area, the price difference between a 2002 TLP and a 2002 TLS is $1,250, or $36/hp.
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Originally Posted by MikePA
In terms of cost/hp, a SC is an expensive way to add horsepower.
According to the CompTech website dyno graphs (click here) , a SC (along with headers and exhaust) adds 45 hp. At $4,495 just for the SC (no installation, no headers and no exhaust) that's about $100/hp.
A Type S adds 35 hp (225 vs 260 - I think an S is 260 hp).
In my area, the price difference between a 2002 TLP and a 2002 TLS is $1,250, or $36/hp.
According to the CompTech website dyno graphs (click here) , a SC (along with headers and exhaust) adds 45 hp. At $4,495 just for the SC (no installation, no headers and no exhaust) that's about $100/hp.
A Type S adds 35 hp (225 vs 260 - I think an S is 260 hp).
In my area, the price difference between a 2002 TLP and a 2002 TLS is $1,250, or $36/hp.
Dually noted.
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Originally Posted by 03SSMTL-S
This is my point exactly its a cheaper way to gain hp and if its not enough s/c the tl-s, go from 260 hp to 305 hp, instead of 225 hp to 270 hp, not to mention the other upgrades on the tl-s.
Please explain this to me because you seem to know something I don't. If someone already has a TL-P what is the use of telling them they should have an S. Are you purposing that they sell their car? Other than that I'm lost at what point you are trying to get across. I know the S is better but I have a P. So can you please stop bringing up what the S can do, please. I am trying to ask nicely here. Thanks
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Originally Posted by Ice Man
So you are saying that a cheaper way to gain horsepower is to convert my car into a S? I didn't know their were type s conversions.
Please explain this to me because you seem to know something I don't. If someone already has a TL-P what is the use of telling them they should have an S. Are you purposing that they sell their car? Other than that I'm lost at what point you are trying to get across. I know the S is better but I have a P. So can you please stop bringing up what the S can do, please. I am trying to ask nicely here. Thanks
Please explain this to me because you seem to know something I don't. If someone already has a TL-P what is the use of telling them they should have an S. Are you purposing that they sell their car? Other than that I'm lost at what point you are trying to get across. I know the S is better but I have a P. So can you please stop bringing up what the S can do, please. I am trying to ask nicely here. Thanks
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Originally Posted by MikePA
In terms of cost/hp, a SC is an expensive way to add horsepower.
According to the CompTech website dyno graphs (click here) , a SC (along with headers and exhaust) adds 45 hp. At $4,495 just for the SC (no installation, no headers and no exhaust) that's about $100/hp.
A Type S adds 35 hp (225 vs 260 - I think an S is 260 hp).
In my area, the price difference between a 2002 TLP and a 2002 TLS is $1,250, or $36/hp.
According to the CompTech website dyno graphs (click here) , a SC (along with headers and exhaust) adds 45 hp. At $4,495 just for the SC (no installation, no headers and no exhaust) that's about $100/hp.
A Type S adds 35 hp (225 vs 260 - I think an S is 260 hp).
In my area, the price difference between a 2002 TLP and a 2002 TLS is $1,250, or $36/hp.
The baseline hp figures in their graph includes the headers. So headers and supercharger are more like a 65 horsepower gain, on a type S. The gains for headers on a premium are less. Still and expensive route for horsepower.
Comptech lists the gains of the supercharger of 40 to 60 wheel hp. Another site claims 42 to 48 wheel hp. The Type S delivers 35 more crank horsepower. To put it into more even terms. The Supercharger adds somewhere between 52 to 78 crank horsepower to a type S gain over type P gain of 35 crank horsepower. The Type S Wheel horsepower gain is around 27 horsepowe versus a type P to a superchargers 40 to 60 wheel gain.
A question I have is where is the gain. I remember seeing in a CL brochure that had a graph of horsepower of the base engine and the type s. The horsepower plot for both engines was the same up to a certain point. When the type P stopped breathing the type S kept climbing to it's 260hp mark. The point where the type S kept going was quite high in the RPM band, the exact numbers I do not remember. A supercharger adds horsepower throughout the RPM band. In the comptech graph there is a 20 horsepower gain at 3800 rpm and goes all the way to 45 horsepower gain at 6800rpm. Having extra horespower only at 6000rpm and above is much harder to notice. You'll do much better with 20 horsepower boost across the entire rpm band versus 40 at peak rpm.
Having said that you'd still be better off with a type S then superchargering that.
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Originally Posted by 03SSMTL-S
There is no conversion (worth investing time and money into), why not sell your tl-p (is there a reason you wont or cant sell?) and get an tl-s, your thinking of spending a lot extra on the s/c why not put that towards a type-s and get a better platform to start building from, and as MikePA has shown you would get more hp per dollar by doing this, not mention the other upgrades that come on the type-s. Even with the s/c on your tl-p you only get 10 hp more than a type-s (that with the addition of h/e, and assuming you can s/c a tl-p). the main point is why dump a lot into upgrading hp in a tl-p, when a little more into buying a tl-s and get the same result and a better platform to upgrade if you choose to do so.
Ok, thanks for clearing up your point. So yes, I have already put like 3G's into my car to make it feel like mine. Including sound system upgrades and installations, light conversions (interior and exterior), paint job and some other things. Now this is on top of things that can be removed like headers and TB. I did a lot of this before I even though about performance mods. Now granted I could take an L and start over but to me I love my car, not the TL as a vehicle, but my car. I don't feel like throwing 3Gs away. I can live with out a supercharger if it comes down to it and it can not be done, but I want MY car.
Along side that I am not a racer, I am a driver and not many people can out drive me point blank. So I appreciate your suggestion on another car but trust me if I get another car it will be the M5 and not another TL. So if you feel like your answer to my oringinal question is "you can't put a SC on a TL-P" then thank you, your comment is noted and leave it at that.
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Originally Posted by Ice Man
BTW the supercharger will give more gains to a TL-P than a TL-S
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My '99 TL-P, albeit only a 4 speed, has been "paid for" for 4 years. It is not plagued with the 2nd gear tranny problem that the 5-speeds have. My tranny may go, but it isn't as likely as on the 2000 models and later.
Also, I love being able to downshift to first whenever I want to corner. Can't do that in the 5-speed unless you gate-shift.
IMHO, the '99 model looks better than the '02 and later models - I like the front end and back end better.
I'd be interested in adding a S/C to this car one day. I'm NOT interested in getting an -S model. If I was getting another TL, it'd be an '05 model or later.
From what I've read in the past, the Accord AV6 S/C from Comptech goes into the -P model TLs with minor modifications. The dealer would be able to make the modifications, and would have Comptech for support if they have any questions.
If I remember correctly, Bigman on this forum has an S/C in his TL and he says it drives much better than before - not much need to downshift when he wants to "hit it" to pass, etc.
I say go for it! :-)
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Also, I love being able to downshift to first whenever I want to corner. Can't do that in the 5-speed unless you gate-shift.
IMHO, the '99 model looks better than the '02 and later models - I like the front end and back end better.
I'd be interested in adding a S/C to this car one day. I'm NOT interested in getting an -S model. If I was getting another TL, it'd be an '05 model or later.
From what I've read in the past, the Accord AV6 S/C from Comptech goes into the -P model TLs with minor modifications. The dealer would be able to make the modifications, and would have Comptech for support if they have any questions.
If I remember correctly, Bigman on this forum has an S/C in his TL and he says it drives much better than before - not much need to downshift when he wants to "hit it" to pass, etc.
I say go for it! :-)
Cheers!
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If I remember correctly, Bigman on this forum has an S/C in his TL and he says it drives much better than before - not much need to downshift when he wants to "hit it" to pass, etc.
I say go for it! :-)
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I say go for it! :-)
Cheers!
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there is no one on the board that has a tl-p with S/C, although there are a few out on the road.
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Originally Posted by 03SSMTL-S
BTW a TL-S with a s/c will have more hp than a TL-p with a s/c had to say it!
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Originally Posted by fsttyms1
theroretically the TL-P could make more with the SC due to its lower compression there by allowing alot more boost!
These numbers may be wrong but I think for each pound of boost you increase horsepower by 7%.
The Premium has 9.8:1 compression?, and the S 10.5:1? You probably couldn't run more than 1 pound of addtional boost maybe two.
Type S 260 Hp 4 lbs boost = 332crank Hp 259 wheels
Premium 225 5 lbs boost = 303 crank hp 236 wheels
Type S 4 lbs boost = 332 crank Hp 259 wheels
Premium 225 6lbs boost = 319 crank hp 248 wheels.
It's close.
Add an intercooler and you could probably run 2 more pounds though. But you could do that for either.