i was just wondering what else can i do for my 2004 acura tl as u guys know they dont make to much for this car but anyways this is what i got so far
AEM CAI
Greedy Evo II exhaust
ZEX nos kit with a purge kit

what else can i do ???? that doesnt involve a turbo or supercharger

 

pulleys, tb spacer, jpipe, tons more!!!! u can also go with exterior mods if u dont have any and suspension work as well.

 

i just want to get that hp up i can get a stage 3 turbo but thats going to cost me 6 g's to get it tuned and the whole 9 but i dont see me messing with the suspension since i just drag my car

 

stage 3 turbo? not likely

its been BEATEN to death, and there is absolutely no turbo kit what-so-over for this car.. and if you found a place to to custom-fab one, it will be ALOT more than 6g's.... plus engine management is still in the balance, as nobody has succesfully tuned a 3G TL


not to bash, but why do people keep putting NOS in their TL ? im a HP whore.... but i would never put my car on juice.....

 

im real good friend with the guy that is going to do my turbo and he told me 6 g's

 

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

ok how are u going to see if im all the way across the states

 

pictures!

 

STS Turbo and my friend is going to be doing all the custom work for me

 

Since you have the nitrous already, concentrate on exhaust mods. Open it up at any cost. Delete the precats and run at least 2.75" piping back to the mufflers. Intake mods will do practically nothing while you're on the bottle but exhaust mods will make huge improvements.

 

ohhh... sts turbo.. the turbo that goes like under the car or something?

eh...

 

lol i have a friend who offered to do a turbo for me in FL.....who races single n twinturbo mustangs from 9secs to 7 secs....hes got everything under the sun to fabricate something silly for this car... but he said its gonna cost minimum 11k n up. Another thing he said....wtf would u bother? its fwd.... the pipes would pretty much be routed to where the battery sits stock for the turbo to replace that whole space.

 

i dont think i could ever fathom a 500whp acura tl.... fwd is NOT good for serious power... my n/a tl-s is already all over the road when i light it up, torque steering every possible direction

 

Seems to me like this guy is just trying to stir the pot for fun...

 

^ he'd be better off trying to smoke it for fun

 

well i will have everything on in about a month or 2 and as for the price for the STS turbo its only 2900$ so if it takes 8 g's to do the work ......that would be very dumb

 

Again, as we all know, the problem with turbos and these cars is engine management, not the physical fabrication. If we had the management issue resolved, I would hang a turbo off of each head in place of the cats and call it a day. The STS system really doesn't solve anything and adds more potential problems.


I've thought about this since I have 5 turbos laying around. The smallest I have are two stock GN turbos but I've thought about an ultra low boost setup just for a couple extra hp, not racing since I'm deleting the cats anyway.

 

i was told puting a turbo on this car is about like any other honda civic and accord of course my guy can be a dumb ass but yea i was just wanting to know what else can i do

 

hm...

 

yeah a buddy of mine wanted to do a custom turbo set up for me, but i told him its not hard to get a turbo set up on these cars, its just the engine managment.

 

even though you dont wanna lower you car, I'd say lower your car. And a lip kit would be nice. And wheels.

 

If you are planning boosting the car anyway, why are you concerning yourself with other performance mods right now. Chances are, anything that you bolt on at this point will either be rendered obsolete or insufficient once you attach the snail anyway. So IMHO you are wasting your money. I will also reiterate what everyone else has said as well, without an effective standalone EMS you risk major heartache & headaches when you completely destroy your engine because you insited that it could be done.