ZodiakTL

anyone here got the SC for the TL-S yet? i know a few people on the cl board did, but it doesnt look like anyone here has posted about it...

agean

is it even available yet? should be soon...

car_lost

yup its available.

ZodiakTL

not only is it available for a couple of weeks now, but tim has a great deal on it through the autocarparts.com site... i know this sounds like a commercial, but u can save a lot of money if u buy through him vs. comptech directly

drcookie

Check with Dean in acura-cl.com . He probably could give you a deal as well.

Cheers !!!

car_lost

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juniorbean

iTrader: (5)

yeah, I think that's about right. We have it for $3950. buy it from anyone but Comptech and you'll save some coin.....

Oh and yes.. it's available.

agean

so who's gonna be first over here?

AFitchTLS

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TypeSDragon

so who's gonna let me borrow $3780 dollars??

AFitchTLS

Maybe with a nice Tax Return?? hehe Go through your old things and Ebay it. Or just wait til you have it all saved up.

Birch

Well?

Any word if the extra work Comptech is doing to tweek the auto s/c will be a no charge item for those who bought it right out the gate?

I'm about 70% sure I'm ordering one unless I have a great two months trading. Then I've got a CLK55 that I've been eyeing up!

Sidulator

I'm anxiously awaiting review from someone before I think about shelling out that kind of money.

LiQiCE

Personally, I'd go with the 3.5L upgrade instead of the Supercharger route. ~$2500 for parts plus install and typeR is running his 2001 CL-S in the high 13s with the upgrade.. I'd rather go all motor versus the forced induction though.

ArN 2000 TL

But the SC is a bolt on app vs. upgrading all those parts, etc...

LiQiCE

The 3.5L upgrade only involves swapping a couple of parts which are all Acura OEM parts for the MDX (block, crank, rods, pistons)... Probably just about as difficult as installing/tuning the SC.

srarndt

Does anyone know if you can do the 3.5 AND the supercharger???

ArN 2000 TL

OEM or not removing the crank, rods and pistons is a LOT harder than bolting/tuning a SC and only moving your battery and/or windshield washer reserve.

ArN 2000 TL

How come Comptech doesn't have it on their site under TL?

AcuraTLDriver

where on the auto car parts site is it?????

car_lost

im not sure, but if you go to their forum, look around and you will see that its available.

LiQiCE

Isn't there a lot of tuning involved with getting the SC to work right too though? I recall hearing that you need to make sure your fuel ratio is correct for the SC.

I talked to a mechanic yesterday at the Import Xpression bbq that said the 3.5L upgrade wouldn't be too hard since most of the parts bolt on ... removing the motor would take some time, but it wouldn't be too hard (as far as I understand it)..

ZodiakTL

the 3.5l upgrade is one of those things thats just kinda more dangerous cuz only rick case acura warrantees it(to my knowledge). there's a few dealerships that will honor the SC warranty if they install it because its comptech, so its a lot safer to do in that sense. also, it's probably a lot easier to order, being a complete kit, vs the damn 3.5l upgrade that i've been after for almost a year, and still cant get the person who started it all to do it. i'm sure that u can get a lot of good tuner shops to do the same 3.5l swap, but that also means ur car will be out of commision for a week or more, and there's no guarantee it'll be done right. if ur doing a SC install at an acura dealership, u'll get a loaner and u'll have somewhere to go back to if ur seeing issues... imho

r10apple

Um, which dealer is going to warranty your car with the s/c? Mine flat out will warranty anything but the s/c, mostly because of the tranny issues, but I suspect other stuff as well...They've been really good with anything I've done to the car and their service is impeccable, but the s/c thing to them was and absolute "h=ll no"...

ZodiakTL

i believe PAA will be reasonable about it. if i come in with tranny problem again, acura has extended warranty to 100k miles on it, as long as they see similiar problems. now if i come in and my 1st, 2nd and 3rd gears are melted, then obviously its not their fault... but again... part of the reason of getting it installed at the dealer is that they may find in your favor... also some dealerships are asses about u coming in with say a blown tranny, and they'll go, you have an intake, so ur warranty is void... normal dealerships like PAA will not do that... they have to be able to prove that the intake is responsible for ur tranny failure, and good luck to them doing that. so if u have a problem with ur tranny after the SC and come in and they find that it has all the symptoms that acura has issued the 100k warranty on, why would the SC make a diff? now when u modify the engine block, it can lead to all sorts of stuff (as i imagine) where they can damage sensors during an install, the ecu wont know what to do with the additional displacement and so on and so forth.. i'm sure the people who know what they are doing will avoid those problems, and may never have an issue, but as of yet, i've only heard of two places that have done it, and one was acura itself with a guy who worked very closely with the engines. i was trying to get doug (the original guy) to work with PAA to see if they'd be willing to pick up this mod and offer it at their dealership, but doug disappeared on me and never got in touch with Wayne G. at PAA, so thats where it stands... dunno how much sense this rant makes at this point

2fasttls

well if I can get help to post my pictures I can post my pic of my cars inner beauty

r10apple

2fasattls is back!!!

You got all that $$$ for your ride, tease us with the possibilities and now have no camera for pics? C'mon...Buy a disposable and take it to Eckards--they'll develop 'em and put 'em on a CD!!!

Hokie D

So, what does this blower do for 0-60 and 1/4 mile on TL-S and it's 3.2L high compression engine?

r10apple

Well, my guess is that with almost 50whp for just the s/c, and imagining that combined with i/h/e (almost another 37whp), you'd be close to 5.0-5.4 to 60 and somewhere just south of 14 in the quarter give or take conditions, traction, tires, etc...

this is me

Anyone actually install one of these?
All i been hearing is s/c this and s/c that but no pix or time slip on the track. (I'm talking about the TL, i know there's a few people have it on the CL board.)

r10apple

2fast, 2fast, 2fast...Hear the chants???

juniorbean

iTrader: (5)

Actually.. the S/C for the automatic only adds 35-40whp. Plus Comptech's number of 35-40whp is including the Icebox since it comes with the kit... however, adding the headers should still give you the 30whp they do alone... so with the S/C and headers you could be in good shape.

ZodiakTL

i thought the 40whp was with headers as well? well either way, i'll be getting mine in a matter of 2 weeks or so, just waiting for my refund, dont wanna take money out of savings... what interesting is that Comptech said they are working on an ECU piggy back which might yeild more power to equal the CL-S manual gains in the very least...

r10apple

Go Zodiak, go Zodiak...I'm assuming you have a camera and can take pics of the finished product?

My taxes went to paying for a bunker buster overseas...

Hokie D

Would be nice if they could firm up the TL-S shifts. Those shifts are wimpy, wimpy, wimpy!

juniorbean

iTrader: (5)

You go!! And yes, you're right.. they are working on an ECU piggy-back for the auto S/C owners which will squeeze some more power out of the S/C

As for the headers, dynos usually show 28-32whp on the big three (Comptech, Stone, or OBX), and keep in mind that is peak power... and usually comes up high in the RPM band.

ZodiakTL

i do have a camera to post the pics, its the SC i'm missing
and i make sure to pay more taxes than i should, this way we can always start wars in more than just one country and build as many MOABs as we need

heh... i meant that you needed the headers to see the 40whp gain from the SC, meaning u'd get less from the SC without having the headers already installed but either way its a moot point since i have them :p

nsrayani

sorry this may be a little off topic, but ZodiakTL, do you have any pictures of your car? i remember seeing them on this site a while back, and i searched them, but they're all dead links now but from what i can remember....it looked real tite....do u have any pics of ur interior? with all the alpine equipment too? i would really love to see pics

ModAddict

I've had my order in for a few weeks. It should ship this week. Unfortunately I'm also waiting for the Stone headers, and worse yet, they are going direct to Jet-Hot which will delay yet another week. I don't want to put the blower on before the headers, and then again after the headers. Imagine having a blower sitting in your garage, in a box, while you're waiting for your headers. At least there are a few things I can do. I can install the fuel pump, fuel preasure regulator, transmition cooler. I can change the battery and mount the brackets and change the alternator pulley. I'm thinking I can rig up the ice box temporarily also. If I milk it long enough, it may not be that bad.

PeterUbers

iTrader: (1)

It shifts a helluva lot faster than my maxima, that's for sure... i don't recall another auto tranny that chirps into second gear like my TL-S -- do you?