First off let me say wussup, I've been gone for awhile

anyway I just crossed 20,000 miles on my 2001 ITR and she feel faster then ever. I've "heard" from someone when I bought the car that its not gonna BEGIN to get fast until around 25-30k on the clock. He said "You think its quick now just wait", sure enough it "feels" faster. I've raced WRX's, S2K's, Mustangs, 330 ci's etc when I got the car and won by ALITTE. Now I RIP most cars off the line (maybe except for the stang and the REX) and I always win and by acouple of car lenghts too.

Has anyone else ever experienced this?? Or am I going crazy? Maybe its the cold weather, maybe my ATS is kicking Major ***, Maybe my Mugen parts are doing their job. BUT it feels alot quicker (oh by the way I'm comparing my car with the performance parts on the car, not stock vs modded)


[Modified by hooptie157, 6:21 PM 12/10/2002]

 

The B18C definetly breaks in over time.

 

That's great to hear. My first time at the track with crappy launcing and 8000kms on the odo and I hit 14.7's.

Can't wait till the car is fully broken in. I'm at 10 000kms right now. I should be there in 4 years.

 

I was gonna say, I'm sure the really nice dense, cold air is helping. Be CAREFUL, this cold weather means cold tires/NO TRACTION, and ice patches/gravel on roads..

 

I ran a 14.60 stock in like 60 degree temperature with 70k on my car

 

That's what I hear also.. that the motor does need to get settle into.... like every new item installed on the car (internally).. it just needs time to flex it's power... but after that 25K-30K mark... just keep up the maintenance...

 

nice time

 

Definately gets better as the mileage increases. As do a lot of other Hondas that I know of.

 

My integra def got faster as it reached 30k. Hopefully the same will happen in the s2k. I got 6500 on it now.

 

most cars get quicker after they've got some miles on the clock, just look at pretty much any Road & Track long-term test conclusion, they show performance new vs/ 50k miles, and the cars are almost always quicker after 50k miles, sometimes by pretty big amounts.

Those guys with million-mile old beetles must haul ***

 

Some carbon build-up on the piston heads=slightly higher compression. That may account for some of it.

 

Perhaps a lagit statement....but...

I'd bet that is slim to none. You'll be lucky if all that VTECing won't burn it off anyway, plus it should take 100's of thousands of miles to see any real difference.

Still possible.

Perhaps you've just learn to drive it better so thats why it's faster?

 

It happens. I remember in the SCC project car, the car was faster than stock after over 100k miles and they were wondering why.

 

You might be surprised how much is actually on there. My pistons are being replaced w/ CTR's, and at only 25k miles, there was quite a bit. Also, it doesn't take much to raise compression in small amounts. I'm not saying this necessarily accounts for anything in this case or in others, but there is definetly a very slight increase in compression w/ carbon build-up. Obviously the more you drive, the more you get, the more pronounced it is. Now even if everything I said was true, it remains to be seen how much of an increase in power would be felt........

 

This is very interesting and I never knew that. However, at what point (miles) does the car begin to get weaker and slower?

 

Different for everyday. It all depends on how you drive it and how you maintain it. Kind of like the human body.

 

If I remember correctly, Ed's 98 w/ 120k+ on the odo still put out 170 whp with stock exhaust manifold.

 

I think It's just you are going crazy