Extractors torque et al

Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 5:22 pm

This brings up a good point,

I find that my 94 1800 (auto) is fairly flat when "lugging" up a hill etc in traffic and does not readily change down as it would be expected to, unless I give it a heap of "wellie", in which case it drops too far and too dramatically. It's fine on the open road when I am pushing it. Would the timing change and a bit of torque tweaking help this? Do I need to have a look at the adjustment of the transmission.

Any comments or shared experiences?

Eric

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:26 am

My 92 1600 auto is like this as well. To get it to drop down requires a lot
of accelerator depression. I find that it is much better to just drop it
into third (ie O/D off) manually, or even down to 2 for the windy bits or to
get up and go when passing. Not sure about the 1800 engine, but the 1600 has
different pistons to drop the compression slightly, so causing peak torque
to be developed at lower revs to better suit the auto trans. Acceleration
from stopped is somewhat slow though. Not too bad once it's moving. The
gearbox doesn't allow enough revs to develop a decent amount of power from a
standing start.
My car has had the cat removed and a Genie header installed, plus a smaller
rear muffler. It's somewhat noisier than standard but I think it sounds
good. This was done before I bought it. Don't know how this would compare
with a normal setup. I haven't tried the 14 degree advance setting but would
like to see what effect it would have, especially with this version of the
engine.
The rear muffler on my car was made for an earlier model Honda Accord,
apparently. Because of its size, when I fitted the spare under the floor,
all the muffler man had to do was re-align the exhaust pipe. The cost for
the work was about $90.00 including the labour and a short piece of exhaust
tubing.

Grant.

EricW · Post by **EricW** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 7:55 am

Thanks Grant, that's pretty much how I drive the car too.

I think the manual is the far nicer car to drive as a sports car, (well it
would be wouldn't it), but of course the choice is not always ours.

Maybe we should buy two MX5s, now there's a thought for the day!

Eric