2.4L 2007 (5Speed) Mods: Injen CAI
A guy in a 4 door civic 2000-2005(I think the ES model) was in front of me doing around 80 MPH. He started to pull away, so I decided to try and "reel" him in. I put it in 4th and I thought I would pull up pretty fast on him. No sir, I think I might have creeped up on him a little, but I thought my car had more in her.

I was thinking either it was modded with NOS or I got beaten by the classic Civic higher redline.

What gives?

 

I'm guessing your drivin a manual tranny. At 80mph, couldn't you have dropped her into 3rd?? Maybe I'm tired...please correct me if I'm wrong

 

Yeah you should have been in third.

 

At 80 mph 3rd is the pull gear. Trust me a Civic ES redline doesn't matter. If he had NOS you wouldn't have made it anywhere near him. I think it was just an error in downshift thats all, no sweat. Maybe you'll get him next time!

 

Hehe NP, I'm super tired here at work too
Yea, she is a 5-Speed. I didn't bother putting her to third as I already was getting close to 100 MPH and I didn't want to launch a piston into space



Good to know.
Thanks guys.

Now will someone please buy HP-Tuners in my area. I want the 7K redline

 

i just raced my 2.4 against a srt4 last night. he beat me the first 2 runs blown away. i got a great jump on him the 3rd time all through 1st 2nd and 3rd after that he pulled away easy. yeah i got fulle exhaust and intake with injector swap and tune. after 4th is crankin at 7rmp at about 125 then i shifted to 5th and just theres no power left. just doesnt go very much. ooh well.

ryan.

 

Why are you trying to race at 100+mph in a cobalt anyway?

 

no we were going 40 then slammed it. and then 20 and 50 three different runs.

ryan.

 

ive noticed my car pulls extremely hard from 0-80, then so so from 80 - 110...then is a straight up pooch from 110 to 120.

 

yeah the 2.4 is a dog after about 110 just slow. but i do know shell go 135 just takes some time. but i aint gonna be driving that fast for a long time. got cought speeding so i have to go to court. lol! should be ok though im takin a drivin class to remove 2 pts so i should have 10 lol. after that im goin to the track and then dyno well other way around atleast. and then out to cedar point wooho this weekend guys.

ryan.

 

damn i wish my ss 2.4l was a stick..

my old z24 was a stick.

 

I would not even waste my gas on the next time with that type of civic. Next time tell the girl not to race from a 80mph roll lol. Tell him to go from a dig. You should crush one of those cars pretty well.

^ Yea hes right. Small engines with only 4 cylinders have less high end then a bigger motor. Starts to die down, but that has nothing to do with the civic. If he was already on it, it just was not a race. Another words as they would say in Pinks, he jumped it.

 

Sorry to throw my 2.2L comment in here, but...

At the track my first time w/ my 'balt, I was killing a civic w/ a B18C swap (w/ race interior) until I got to about 70mph, and then he just creaped on past me. I had him by about a half car from the start, pulled on him till about the 1/8th mile, and then he reeled me in and passed at the 1000ft mark.

Our cars are pigs from 80+.

 

i agree with everyone else third gear is good at 80

 

ours doesnt pull well at 70mph for a short while, then from 80-110 it does real well then lays down for a nap again. lol

 

What mph are you guys hitting in 3rd near redline? Seems like I'm hitting 6400 around 85 mph on relatively flat highway..

 

darksargent your only hitting 6400 redline do you have a 2.4???? the redline should be about 6850 on a 2.4 thats stock. i have a new redline. mine is about 7100 for all gears. but i also have all parts listed and tuned so she really smokes now. i think i can hit atleast 85 at 6800 im not sure i dont remember ill have to run it again soon. well ill check back on that one.

ryan.

 

Yeah, no my redline/fuel cutoff is a bit higher, but I tend to like to shift before 6500 after reading a lot about the 2.4 running extremely lean due to the stock injectors.

 

shift at redline ftw and it is 6800 on a stock tune

you can take 3rd to near 150km/h which is about 90mph

next time shift to third,

 

yeah im sure i can easily get to 90 in third i just dont remember looking at the speedo. just the tach so i can squeeze my power out in those higher rpms which is about 5k to about 7100.

ryan.

 

Mine didnt take TOO LONG to get to 145 which is the fastest i got it too till i seen a cop in the median...lol needless to say i didnt get caught beings i still have my liscence and im 19. lol but yes 0-80 is really the power after that it drops.

 

i did run it today and my 2nd gear will get up to 55mph or 56 at redline. 3rd is about 90 atleast.

ryan.

 

didn't all this happen during the srt race?

 

yes most of it was during the srt race yes. today i ran 55 redline in 2nd and 3rd was like 90 95 dont remember.

ryan.

 

i dunno, mine pulls pretty hard up till the triple digits, but i don't run that fast too often.