Got a new car...

The SPEEDY · May 23, 2005

Whats up guys? It's been a while since I've posted over here, I've been spending most of my time with the girlfriend. I've started lurking around here again so I figured I'd toot my horn a little.

Well I bought a new car a few weeks ago (still have the TA)! It's a 94 Honda Accord LX. Yeah it's a 4 door family car... and it's got a few problems too, but the body is in great shape. It's due for a timing belt, and the water pump is leaking, but being a Honda Tech I do timing belts almost everyday , and parts won't hardly cost me a dime.

I'm also putting a ford 9" in my TA. The list of parts that I'll be throwing at it include:

Billingsley 9" street package with 33 spline axles, locker, and 4.11 gears

Denny's Nitrous Ready Driveshaft

Textralia clutch kit

Wolfe Subframe connectors

Wolfe torque arm

and a few driveshaft loops

Then I'm headed to the track where I will side step the clutch a 4400 and see what happens. I doubt my drag radials will hold but we will see. I'm hoping for a 1.7 60' or better which should get me down to low 12's high 11's.

Jester4736w · May 25, 2005

What else you got done to her? I'm a true and true F-Body lover, always interested!

The SPEEDY · May 26, 2005

I haven't done a lot to the TA yet. Just Pacesetter long tube headers through and off road y-pipe (no cats) dumping out of a cut out in the stock cat back. It's very loud and I never have the cap on it.

Other performance mods are: pro 5.0 shifter with a cut down handle, clear MTI lid w/ a fram filter, self ported throttle body, throttle body bump stop mod, throttle body bypass, free ram air mod. I will be getting a coil relocation kit this weekend, along with removing the AIR system. Man I wish I had bought race style headers.

Suspension is completely stock as of now other than I have removed the rear rubber isolater and put heater hose on the spring coils, and I cut a full coil out of all 4 springs. I did this purely for looks as I can't stand the way a stock f-bod sits, looks like a 4x4. I was suprised that it handles better now, I think it's just because of the lower CG. I will replace the spring in the future. Oh yeah, the rear spring are 1LE springs. I have a few other 1LE parts laying around but thats not the direction I want to go.

I will be putting a cam in it this winter, other cars with my setup and the cam I plan on installing have put down 410hp to the wheels. So that another reason I'm putting in the 9" along with the fact that I broke 2 posi units just with headers.

As of now my stock zo6 clutch is toaste or I would take it to the track and go for broke, but then I'de have another 10 bolt laying around with a blown torsen, lol I'm selling this one.

For almost a year now the TA has been my daily drive and I've put 15k miles on it already. I was getting really upset with myself because I felt like I couldn't take care of it the way I wanted to having to drive it as much as I was. So now it's at a body shop getting the front bumper and hood repainted, gravel roads are hell on paint. It will now serve as my weekend/hott date with big titties car, LOL.

SnakeEyeSS · May 26, 2005

remember, honda react well to injection system cleaning....(seafoam!).

So why'd you choose a 9" over a 12 bolt? everyone is telling me to go with a Moser 12 bolt and have Moser install a Moser Ford 9 inch, which they told me they will do....but the Moser [full] 12 bolts are supposed to be industricable by themselves. Mods sound good!!!

The SPEEDY · May 26, 2005

12 bolts are plenty strong, but you have to remember my car weighs 3600lbs with me in it and has a 6spd. So I'm going with the 9" because it's even stonger than the 12 bolt and is proven to last longer behind a 6spd. Like I said I'll be dumping the clutch at 4400, if the tires hold I'll dump it even higher, the shock on the drivetrain from that kind of launch is hell on every part of the drivetrain, thats why I'm going with the best. A lot of guys are starting to break 12 bolts in their m6 cars.

I've already done a "decarb" on the honda, and your right they do respond very well to them, I recomend them to customers with high mileage vehicles all the time.

SnakeEyeSS · May 29, 2005

12 bolts are plenty strong, but you have to remember my car weighs 3600lbs with me in it and has a 6spd. So I'm going with the 9" because it's even stonger than the 12 bolt and is proven to last longer behind a 6spd. Like I said I'll be dumping the clutch at 4400, if the tires hold I'll dump it even higher, the shock on the drivetrain from that kind of launch is hell on every part of the drivetrain, thats why I'm going with the best. A lot of guys are starting to break 12 bolts in their m6 cars.

I've already done a "decarb" on the honda, and your right they do respond very well to them, I recomend them to customers with high mileage vehicles all the time.

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although from my expereince, GM 4 bangers responded the best. which is a bad thing b/c they carbon up so bad. we had one with 30K miles that put out so much black smoke we had to get out of the bay to breathe. anytime a 2.2L GM motor came in I went running when they pulled out the BG. The hondas had plenty of miles and somked less.

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AS soon as I get this motor broken in..........and my new house furinshed......and the initial bills paid........and save up some money........and install the Moser 12bolt w/9inch gears....and switch over to Wilwood discs........Supercharger Time!

put that way us seems so far away