i was trying to race this accord v6...but then my take off sucked so i crazy redlined it in 1st, 2nd, 3rd and this funny smell came from my car...how bad or did i mess up my baby?

05 TL MT

 

Where you slipping the clutch and/or braking hard? Maybe that's what you smelled.

 

From what I have experienced, this might be that sulfur smell...Usually, when I accelerate hard on my car, I get that smell and I had posted that on the forum and people were saying that it's the sulfur and then I went to the dealer for them to check it and they blamed it on the gasoline that was coming from california...?!?!?!?! Ur baby is fine, don't worry about it =)

 

hahaha..I don't know...i wasn't paying attention....maybe clutch slipping though....

will one incident like this make me have to change my clutch? thanks...cause i think it's the clutch smell..

 

Chances are it was not the clutch, unless you were slipping it A LOT at launch, and slipping it during shifts.

I think it was the sulfur. Again, you "could have" ruined your clutch, but chances are one race didn't do it.

 

If you burnt the clutch, you would already feel the difference...

 

I used to have that same smell, when i redline and accelerate very quickly, but at that time, the car only had bearly 2kmiles on it. I now have 4,443 miles, Oil < 15%, and a message came up saying A1 service due soon. But now my car feels much faster, and it feels like its just getting faster and faster. But now i no longer have that sulfur smell, so it either comes from pushing a young engine hard, or i would think the brakes. I havent been braking hard these past 2 months, but do accelerate real fast, so maybe that sulfur smell has somethng to do with applying the brakes at high speeds and quickly.

 

D'you win?

 

haha..nope......i was just revving in one spot and hit the redline while on my launch...technically..it wasn't a race.....cause he just zoomed..and i was in one spot revving..haha.

 

if you hit redline and the car really wasnt moving in first yet that smell might be your tires.... as they must have been burning good!!!!! either that or the clutch.... but once a clutch starts slipping it will get worse and you would probably notice that ....

 

Is the Accord V6 really that powerful?

 

if it smells like rotten eggs/sulfur, it's extremely likely that there's no damage. This smell is common to relatively new catalytic converters...I have experienced this myself with my car as well as cars of friends (04 4Runner, my 04TL, brother's 04 Accord...)

Search around, you'll find the same response from others.

 

Yep...according to the numbers it's exactly as fast as our TLs...

240hp Accord ~ 270hp TL + heavy noise deadening and luxury items

 

Crap. Redlining at launch is probably not the best way to go fast...

I would say a max of revving to 3K then getting it going. I agree with ONAGER, if you were redlining and the car wasn't moving, you were spinning the hell out of those EL-42s. That should explain the smell.

 

accord v-6 is a really stout combo but the tl isnt that much heavier as to give up the difference

my sister has an 03 accord with the v-6, but the sedan didnt come with an manual, only the coupes can get a manual. the manual tl will eat both the coupes and the sedans lunch (with a good driver, which terse isnt, sorry dude i had too ). now an auto tl verses a manual coupe, my nod would go to the well driven coupe. but auto vs auto the tl should pull ahead, especially as speed increases (very slowly) but it would be close... very close

from what i have seen the times are almost identical (auto vs. auto) but the tl has a higher trap speed 1-2 mph, which means it was pulling the accord, ever so slightly

 

i just thought about it...and maybe I'm thinking I didn't have it in a gear...

 

I've maxed mine out a time or two and then parked shortly after. The smell from the exhaust is pretty strong - that catalytic converter smell, rotten egg odor.

The only time I've noticed it is when I've rev'd the engine hard.

 

Car & Driver tested the TL auto and recorded 0-60 times of 6.3 sec. The Accord coupe w/6 spd. tested @ 7.1 sec. I've seen no lower than 6.8 for the Accord but as low as 6.1 for the TL auto.
I drove the 6 spd Accord before buying the TL and while it's a lot of fun it just won't keep up with either TL version.

 

You may want to double check that.
Here is the link: http://www.caranddriver.com/article....rticle_id=7011
The Accord coupe w/6 spd is tested @ 5.9 sec.

The 6 spd also does not have an intake resonator (Honda claims this is to give it a more aggressive sound) and it also has a dual intake manifold that the autos lack. Either way you are looking at some extra unadvertised HP.

Also, 240hp is based on regular gas. It has been stated by a couple Honda engineers that the engine is good for another 10hp increase when using premium gas.

 

I think the 6 SPD accord would give the TL a nice run. Really depends on the drivers too. I have trouble not spinning my tires when lauching quickly and then when I hit 2nd and 3rd, I chirp the tires. Kind of annoys me since it slows my acceleration slightly.

 

Always hard to win a race that way...but it happens to everyone...

 

the Accord V6 is extremely quick compared to the model it replaces. With 93 octane fuel it makes nearly the same power as the 2nd Gen TL-S/CL-S.

There was one at the track this fall that was running 13.9-14.1 all night with an AEM intake as the only modification to the car. It also had HUGE slicks, but the 60' times really weren't all that impressive. They were slicks designed for a RWD car (they actually came off an RX-7 or a Supra I believe) and the added weight definitely hurt the car's top end. But a stock 6-speed Accord coupe is very capable of hanging with a TL 6MT.

 

Yeah, probably sulfur (rotten egg smell) from the catalytic converters - they just can't process the exhaust fast enough at that engine speed and they get really hot. Not sure what chemical process causes it, but it's happened to almost all the cars I've ever had occassionally when you run them at max throttle for a while.

 

My co-worker has an 05 Accord V6 Coupe AT, maybe we should race some time