how does ur car drive with the ac on???

i have a 95 LX sedan 160k miles 32MPG bone stock...the car is super slugish like any other LX...but when i turn the ac on is just stupid, the car becomes a moped lol...have to put 2nd gear going up hill and have to almost redline the car to keep up with other cars normal driving lol...

how r urs??

 

same, 95 dx coupe. having longer gears doesnt help the minimal loss of hp with a/c on.

 

mine drives awesome...wait i dont have ac.
get better engine grounds.

 

Mine's pretty doggy with AC on, and I'm swapped.

 

mine runs fine

 

mine doesnt drive superslow but u can feel it.
i turn it off on on-ramps and to pass other ppl
my little 102 hp cant keep up

 

turning on the AC is comparable to pulling a loaded trailer.. lots of load on the engine.. and these are small little engines.

 

I've got a DX hatch and I run with AC all the time. Not hot on the coast, but humid and my windows fog up without it. The car doesn't like going up hills in 4th/5th gear very much, but the AC has little do with that. I just filled up yesterday and did the math...got a SOLID 40 MPG. At almost 280K miles at that.

fm

 

so would a minime swap inprove much more??? could i keep my stock AC and stock PS?

do any of you guys have this problem...i have a stock d15b7 and in normal driving i have absolutely no power from 1k to 4k rpms...after 4k rpms its another complete different car...it fells like vtec i swear lol...cloged fuel filter?

 

Don't know about the minime swap. My D15B7 does exactly the same thing...nothing until about 4K when it seems to kick in suddenly. I was wondering the same thing you were..."did someone swap heads on me? " If it is a clogged fuel filter, I'd like to know. If it's normal, I'd like to know that too.

fm

 

mine is sluggish but i do what wannaBjdmca6 does and just turn it off for uphills and on ramps.

 

mine to it feels like vtec. absolutely slow from 1k to 4k

 

even my type S is a lil sluggish with a/c on. i could only imagine a motor with half the Hp ... maybe thats why i took it off my d16 =op

 

my d15b1 felt the same way (i know i know OLD *** motor) when i had a b7 cam in it... my solution? i put a d16a6 cam with a y8 cam gear in it. really opens up the bottom end... and i'm rockin a 4spd tranny... just a thought for you guys

 

ok that makes me feel better then lol...so its not some problem that i have in my engine...all d series are slow from 1k to 4k...


does anybody know if i can keep my stock ac and ps if i put a d16z6 head?

 

when i did have a/c in my 95 dx and had 4 ppl in the car it was ridiculous! i gave up on it and took it out when i swapped my motor.

 

dont see y couldnt keep them. and on my b16 with its awesome torque (ya right) i could feel a difference with ac on and off! not ALOT but i deff could feel it

 

here in cali having a car without ac is rediculous...IMO

 

ya i was out there for 2 weeks on vac once. ac was on ALL the time in the rental! but in PA its not to bad, so i usually just put windows down and open sunroom and im good to go!

 

meh i dont live in a place where it gets too hot. and ive made it through 2 summers without it. i love to roll my windows down anyways and listen to my car . it takes 50 lbs off the front of the car anyways.

 

ya. i just took mine off to. well had to! damn non ac turbo mani lol

 

yes you can, has nothing to do with the head. si's (d16z6) came with ac too...

 

my car is a slug of the light but drives great. but you can defintetly feel it,

 

x 2. I have wondered if my 93 Civic DX was the only one sluggish, especially uphills or accelerating, with the A/C on. Good thread.

 

Mine feels like a turd with the A/C on. It's really annoying without cruise control though, because at 2800rpm cruising at 70mph or so, when the A/C cycles off, the car starts to move again, so constant pedal adjustment is required or else I end up speeding on freeways.

When I first bought the car I was worried it was the torque converter clutch letting go and reapplying for no reason XD.

Mine still has quite a bit of power, starting to question the black smoke at 4500rpm and beyond though... May need an oxygen sensor.