Car tuning: is it worth it?

[FallenAngelHIM]

welcome to america in the post-2000 era..."the age of cheapness"

why skrimp and save for a good turbo kit when you could be turbo'd for $600 zzOMG3!

why pay $400 for a dyno/tuning session when eddie from down the street will give you a street tune for a case of beer?

people aren't paying for quality so we get **** service/product in return.

Didn't read the whole thread, but smartest thing anyone has ever said, period.

 

[cvjoint]

what i have found is that most tuner shops dont know a thing when it comes to accords. half of em refused to tune my car when it had a unichip. when i did get it tuned i was ripped off and the car drove horrible.

Yep, my current shop works on NSX only for the most part. They've done good work so far but they ask me questions like "is this your daily driver" with a twisted look on the face as if I'm asking for it. I tell them I am willing to pay for them to redo the entire wiring, I ask them for it several times but till this day they avoid getting it done. Since part of the wiring has to be custom for an Accord it scares everyone so you end up doing it at shops that learn on your car and mostly **** up.

The point im trying to make is. An f23 with the basics with a 5 speed manual is pretty fast for WHAT IT IS. I dont bother making my car faster because FWD is only good for so much useable Hp.

I know my car will never be as quick as an STI or any other of those AWD sports cars, so I dont even really fawking bother with it. For 10k I could have bought a WRX if I wanted to rip around.

Yeah well see if I spent $1000 on the whole swap than I would be accused of being cheap, now that I spent 10 times as much and put a lot of work into it I come out as foolish for spending too much. Such is the way of our hobby, I am a fool to get problems so no one posts about problems but merely 'victory' stories , dyno numbers, time slips, so we never really learn that much, we do the same ****ty mooding to no end.

There is nothing wrong with our platform. If you want to attend Super Lap Battle with an Accord you are obviously going to fail in the face of the HKS Evo or Team Tarzan WRX but for a budget platform it gives amazing value: double wishbone suspension, lots of room/curb weight, an inviting interior and good visibility, somewhat easy to swap in a cam shifting 4 cylinder with a top of the heap breathing head.

Oh ya, you're the one with the dual 3" exhaust on a n/a motor for a future turbo setup.

At the rate I'm throwing money on it boost will come in 2020 . Anyway I've got plenty torque out of a stock block so I think it's safe to say the myth of 3 inch dual ruining performance has been busted.

Didn't read the whole thread, but smartest thing anyone has ever said, period.

I couldn't agree more. The misconception that tunning should be cheap has lead to the proliferation of low quality parts and labor. It's so bad that even if you do want to spend money you find yourself using the same bright painted cheap China part that decreases performance installed by a mechanic who rolls cars of the lot like it's an assembly line.

 

[HondaLuver83]

I guess you're right about a few things, I'm excited about taking my car to the race track this summer. I'll be getting a DC sports strut bar and a rear sway soon.

 

[cvjoint]

I'd love to race mine at some point this year too. I just got the Powerslot big rotor kits in the other day, I want to see if they take the proverbial 'heat'. Hopefully the 3rd. alignment job will be a charm and then I'll be set.