Connie
Well-Known Member
Looking really good dude.
Nice to see someone else on here who understands the importance of maintenance as a necessary foundation you need before considering performance.
That's super clean for the age; an Accord that clean and old does not exist up here in the salty briny slushy north...I'm in pretty much the same boat as rusty. Check out Connie's thread in Member's Rides and you'll see, lol. I am once again jealous of another member's climate. I could easily get a car to hit a million km if rust wasn't such a thing up here.
Although I have had a transmission failure, the original did last 344k km with basically zero service before I got it at 140k km 4 years ago. (and I was going up a bigass mountain in West Virginia when it started to slip) It had black stinky gross probably original fluid when I got it, but a few drain and fills helped it last as long as it did. (DW-1 only, bro! lol) The transmission that's in there now had 300k on it when installed over 2 years ago (cheap used junkyard trans), and with the chassis now just shy of 473k km (I'll hit it on my way to work tomorrow), that would put the transmission well over 400k km and it's still working. I also drive the car excessively hard, because it's fun. Been trying to get it to slip for over two years, and it just won't lol!
The original transmission in my other 6G (Midnight) has 201k km on it and it's butter smooth even though it's 18 years old. Got it from an old lady and my girlfriend drives gentler than I do, so I'm sure it'll last the life of the car with regular drain and fills and nothing more.
That battery mount is a cool idea, too. I have a few spare brackets laying around.....do I need to pay royalties or can I just copy you?
Nice to see someone else on here who understands the importance of maintenance as a necessary foundation you need before considering performance.
That's super clean for the age; an Accord that clean and old does not exist up here in the salty briny slushy north...I'm in pretty much the same boat as rusty. Check out Connie's thread in Member's Rides and you'll see, lol. I am once again jealous of another member's climate. I could easily get a car to hit a million km if rust wasn't such a thing up here.
Although I have had a transmission failure, the original did last 344k km with basically zero service before I got it at 140k km 4 years ago. (and I was going up a bigass mountain in West Virginia when it started to slip) It had black stinky gross probably original fluid when I got it, but a few drain and fills helped it last as long as it did. (DW-1 only, bro! lol) The transmission that's in there now had 300k on it when installed over 2 years ago (cheap used junkyard trans), and with the chassis now just shy of 473k km (I'll hit it on my way to work tomorrow), that would put the transmission well over 400k km and it's still working. I also drive the car excessively hard, because it's fun. Been trying to get it to slip for over two years, and it just won't lol!
The original transmission in my other 6G (Midnight) has 201k km on it and it's butter smooth even though it's 18 years old. Got it from an old lady and my girlfriend drives gentler than I do, so I'm sure it'll last the life of the car with regular drain and fills and nothing more.
That battery mount is a cool idea, too. I have a few spare brackets laying around.....do I need to pay royalties or can I just copy you?
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