Exactly right. Either buy a short bristled detail brush or make one from a brand new paint brush and cutting the bristles to 1/2" or so. That brush will remove excess wax from all sorts of places. A must have little tool for any detailer.
Ah Well the skies were gray cast. I should have known but couldn't resist.
and it was a new car 9 months ago.. its been through alot. Im happy it still looks like new.. and yea.. 30,000 in 9 months is alot isn't it?
Is there such a thing as loving to drive too much?
My car had alot of downtime too.. week in a half in a bodyshop getting bumper/radiator/etc replaced(hit a tire tread in the middle of the highway, couldnt change lanes.)
then after bickering with my dealer getting my hood repainted which also took a week. and then close to two weeks when my transmission failed..(after it was replaced I installed a transmission cooler against future breakdowns)
:nixweiss
For all my bad luck with it I still love it. closest thing Ill get to a NSX til after med-school.
AzN Retribution-a little off the subject, but have you thought of swapping the stock torque converter for a Level 10 stall converter? geaux4it on superhonda and hondasociety had pretty good results from the swap...along with a lot more wheel spin off the line! The Level 10 converters can handle 500+ hp from what I have heard, so it seems to be pretty stout.
Two members on v6accord.com have had very bad experiences with them.
L.I. Accord had a custom turbo on his AV6 with the levelten tranny pushing 300whp to the ground. The tranny didn't last a hour the first time. It spent more time at LevelTen then he spent driving it. by the third time LevelTen rebuilt his tranny they started blaming it on the shop, the shop was blaming it on LevelTen, and he was out 10000 dollars or so. Same with hondasarus I believe. I dont know what happened to hondasarus but LI Accord has a IS300 now I think a much more suitable tuners car(2JZ Straight Six)
Also I believe there is a matter of a couple weeks downtime(You need to have your tranny taken out by the shop and sent to LevelTen then they send it back to the shop and they reinstall it in your car)
Both gave up on their turbo accords and sold their car and the kits on ebay because of the transmission. Swapping in a CL-S 6-speed would seem easy but its not because you'd have to switch the ECU and other things too. and good luck finding one in a junkyard.
The reason the Honda transmission is different is because honda cut a few corners and didn't use a normal planetary transmission but instead what would be a manual gearbox with two clutches and a torque converter. It is very efficient in minimizing powertrain loss but it also makes it amazingly undurable as any automatic TL-S/CL-S owner can tell you(They share almost the exact same tranny design except theirs is 5 speed ours is 4)
I can't vouch for LevelTen. Im just looking at examples Ive seen so far. you know of any threads where I could see geux4it's good experiences cause I've been a bit skeptical of LevelTen's TC.
There is another company currently R&Ding a Tranny Rebuild Kit for us called Art Carr. Its supposed to include everything including a LSD. but I don't expect that to be out for awhile.
I'm not really talking about a complete Level 10 rebuild, just the converter, which raises your stall speed so you get more torque mulitiplication off the line. I was running a 4000 stall converter in my Chevelle, and the improvement off the line was amazing.
I do know how difficult Honda automatics are to rebuild...it took the shop 5 tries to get mine right...but in the first 4 times according to the new manager and new tech, they were not removing the valve body and replacing all the o-rings and springs. It seems all they did was through in a new set of clutch packs. In a total of 14 months, they had my car nearly 40 days.
I'm not really talking about a complete Level 10 rebuild, just the converter, which raises your stall speed so you get more torque mulitiplication off the line. I was running a 4000 stall converter in my Chevelle, and the improvement off the line was amazing.
I do know how difficult Honda automatics are to rebuild...it took the shop 5 tries to get mine right...but in the first 4 times according to the new manager and new tech, they were not removing the valve body and replacing all the o-rings and springs. It seems all they did was through in a new set of clutch packs. In a total of 14 months, they had my car nearly 40 days.
I have a 90 Accord. How the shop handles a rebuild is up to them. I didn't have Honda do it. Not only did the shop screw up my original transmission and crack the case, they also bent my flexplate. They ended up getting a different transmission and rebuilt that-but like the first 3 times, they didn't touch the valve body. The new manager and tech figured it all out and now it shifts fine.
Thats alot of driving!
In a total of 14 months, they had my car nearly 40 days.
