mine is sluggish...

but that's because it's a stocker with a tired automatic transmission, stock boost, no mods other than a pod filter.


get in a manual 1G soarer with the boost at 15psi and a 3 inch exhaust.....

will be markedly different.


yeah, they pull hard though, and once going mine rips along fairly well... just the very low down speed that's the problem. But as JCMF has said once manual you can keep it in the rev range where the car is producing the most power (3000rpm onwards, really... really starts to sing higher in the rev range though)

Don't be fooled, they are heavy cars at around 1500kg... that's a lot for a 2.0L engine to pull around.


But they are great to drive... and once you up the boost a bit or do what JCMF suggested, making the boost come on earlier, they will be a much more drivable car. Great daily driver I can attest to that at least.


going for a cruise along the old pac with friends I can keep up fine, because the pace remains reasonable... if you take one for a test drive (and its an auto) make sure ECT-PWR is on... it does make a fair bit of a difference to how the car drives.


edit: oh yeah, once thing ive noticed with mine compared to other turbo cars i've driven is that the power comes on very linear... its not BOOM a big surge of power... it just increases very linearly from around 3000rpm onwards. but my car has issues and boost should be coming on earlier than that anyway.. ive got to fiddle with my timing more.



having said that, if you just put the boot into it, youll feel it really push you into your seat then.... i just mean from a standing start, its not like its just BOOM POWAH it really comes on nice and manageable, nice and smooth...

however i'd rather it the other way
that's why in a year's time I'd like there to be a vvti 1JZ under the hood

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think you may be suffering the same problem i had. to much TV watching has given you a false belief of speed. Buy you profile your around 19. So my guess is you have never been in a 15 second car. that is pretty quick. Most V8's will run about 15 seconds and the get up and go. i can run 17 and i thought i was flying. But yeah these 1G's go hard. hence why i am putting one in mine P.S find a Z10 they are so much better ha ha ha

the thing is that i do know wat 15 secs car is and even lower... ive driven all ma mates r33 , supra and i fink r33 runs like bout 14.4 or so... but i myself had an integra vtir till bout a month ago... and even the vtir runs quick after 4500 rpm and eats v6s like commos and can take the non turbo supra in the first 2 gears...i think with the vtir i should be able to run under 16s rite neva went tu a drag.. shouldve though ey.... and i dunno bout ma profile i dint know if it says 19... ehehhehe thats y im wondering if its sluggish for a 2l twinturbo i guess its bcoz its heavy... but i guess if i get a boost controller it will be better... maybeeh i will only know when i drive one.. i would love to have one though as a daily .. with bit of boost..ehhe

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unless that r33 was just an NA one i be tipping it being a bit quicker than 16.4 ,i think the integra VTIR would be good for a low sixteen maybe push high 15 if your lucky

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Whoah. Wait till you sit in a mid 13 - flat 14 second car

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ok whoa. first ... use paragraphs. makes your post easier to read. secondly, read my last essay size post. They are only sluggish off the line, and even then my experience is coming from an auto one with a tired transmission. Once you're already moving, they certainly get up and boogie nice and quickly.... Manual tranny would help the situation MUCH more... not only because less power is lost through the drive train, but because it's easier to keep it in the rev range where it's producing optimum power

soweee ijust edit ma post... the r33 run bout 14.4 not 16.4 ishh a typo... ehuehuh relazzz boyss....

n also btw ive been in an M3 which is 265 kw so i do kno very well how a fast car is... ok boyz lets make that clear im not a 16 yr old talking shit bout fast cars.. heheuh we raced a skyline with the m3 and omg... that thing is an animal the m3 had me and other 4... so 5 of us but it was crayzeeeeee.......

and i was just wondering how much psi can i boost the gz soarers without getinng a FMIC... ??..... AS merudo said 15 psi is that alrite without a fmic??... wats the std boost??...

i kno my integra wasnt the fastest car only 126kw stock eventhough i had extrators exhaust, air filter bablaa... but i loved it... it revved nice and handle corners nice... but now im lookin for sumfing cheaper which makes gz soarers very tempting...

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