Damn, even with all that you think I'd only be able to pull 15.5? [&:]

 

The exhaust it self isnt that much of a upgrade. But doing the right upgrades is what counts. Im not positive if you'll be able to hit 15.5 on the spot, but a mid 15 isn't bad.

 

I know exhaust alone is not a huge upgrade, but I was under the impression that the stock exhaust was incredibly restrictive for boosted applications, so I thought a more free-flowing exhaust would give at least two or three tenths... but you're suggesting that the entire I/H/E/C might not even give me another half a second, that's kinda discouraging...

 

it is a restriction, and should give you a decent gain, but oddly enough, a header hardly seems to do anything for an SCed car. i guess that goes to show why a header design is important, that the gains go away once the flow demands are drastically changed from near stock, meaning flow velocity is wrong for the boosted motor.

 

I bet your car in stock form is a high 17 or low 18 so those are not bad numbers at all.


Have you tried the horsepower one yet?

 

I tried it twice, I got 112 the first time and 130 the second time.

 

That's alright - my '97 when it was all stock with some problems registered on the Gtech as a 17.7@89mph and my '01 (stock with bad tires) was a 16.02@?(forgot). I've yet to see what the SHO runs in stock form. So, yeah, you're definately not slow compared to my '97

My friend's SHO was down in the low 15's stock.

 

Yeah, I'm not complaining about the supercharger. It did it's job pretty much as advertised. I'm just griping about the car in general compared with, say... a five-speed, which I sorely miss [:@]

 

Yeah I hear a lot of people say that, but then I also hear a lot of people, especially over at superhonda.com, swearing by kamikaze 4-1 headers (or the significantly more expensive hytech headers). Could it be a DOHC vs SOHC thing?

I tried the power braking thing tonight, and managed to get 7.4 to 60 and 15.9 quarter mile on my first and only try launching from about 2000-2200 RPM. The car really won't rev much higher than that without moving or bogging. I think I might've let off the gas a little after the 0-60 time came up, cuz I wasn't originally intending to run a 1/4. Anyway I didn't try any more, since I was just seeing if it made a difference or not. And it's not really something I'd be comfortable doing often anyway... isn't it bad for the tranny? I thought I heard that somewhere. [&:]

 

is it you who has the HCF G-tech or you have your own?