Hello all new guy here with 1 quick question. I have never owned a turbo charged vehicle before so I dont know if this is normal or not. Under hard acceleration i.e. no lift shifting I am hearing a small pop from the exaust like a small backfire when i shift gears. Is this normal? Other than the small backfire noise I here my 09 runs perfect and comming from a background of small block chevys i am compleatly amased by the power and preformance in such a small package. Can't wait for the gm stage 1 kit!

 

the backfire is normal....mine does it a bit as well....Welcome to the site and enjoy your stay, as there is alot of useful info on here

 

thanks!

 

Welcome!!

 

Welcome! you will love your car. The pop means you executed the NLS. Any other noise means you probably hit the rev limiter.

 

hell yeah the pop means its working hahahah. I love that sound, I just wonder if it shoots a fire ball out. I want all the honda's up here to know I mean business time. welcome!

 

how many miles are on the car that your redlining and NLS?

 

does it matter? I did mine with in a couple weeks of owning it for sure. This whole break in, drive under 4k rpm is BS. The car has that 1k mile tamed down thing built in. I hit 140mph the day I bought mine. Beat the crap out of it with no issues, the car needs to know its your bitch.

 

yeah its normal man
and congrats on the car
you'll love it even more after some mods

 

1k mile tame down? Never heard of an ecu detuning itself to a set mileage.

 

Thanks all, no worry on the mileage just under 10k.

 

haha right. lmao

Welcome to the frenzy.

 

welcome, don't let them talk you in to spray painting on your car. it seems to be a trend here.

 

say what. oh thats right. people like to paint their interiors.

 

While not quite to that extent , that was my philosophy as well.

When did you do your 1st oil change ?

I did mine at 1600 - I'll let the second one ride for a while. I am at ~4600 w/ 73% life remaining - 2400 mile road trip to & from CO helped.

Britt

 

first oil change at 1500 miles. now I do it every 3-4k.

yes there is a 1k mile "break" in. The car drives insanely slow until then. I test drove a broken in SS/tc the night before my purchase and I had a ms3 before. On the test drive the SS was slow as **** merging on a highway..It finally woke up around 900-1200 miles (I drive 30k a year for work so I prolly did those 300 miles in 1 day hahah). Theres been many threads about it...

 

welcome, and you should hear that "pop" through an open downpipe... my cutout is ALWAYS open, and i have been told many times from buddies that watch me drive away using NLS and they say it shoots a MASSIVE flame... but,,, thats comin from a 3" catless DP with electric cutout lol... pretty awesome sight....

 

This is also my first new car! and its also makes that poping sound. its scared me the fist time.
so far it only has 1,400 miles on it.

 

i think he was talking about the evo mod.

 

ha, i painted some of my interior, but ya know what, i didnt half-ass it, i did it right, and took my time on it all. flawless. looks perfect. i dont have pics on here, but i do on my myspace. lotsa pics.