i also think honda messed up by not at least having a trim with a DOHC engine. they should've at least made the "Special Edition" accords DOHC,that would've been real nice.

 

I second that. I like it too in Mississippi since it is usually very hot. Although many times in the "winter" I will have to use the heat in the morning, then I have to use the A/C by noon, and I have to use the heat again at night.

I hate that too. After I first got my car, I used to always turn the A/C button off when I saw it come on after I hit the defrost button. then I would wonder why the defrost didn't work. then my wife rode with me and was like "Why are you turning off the A/C? Don't you know the defrost won't work right with it off?" (She has driven the 95 V6 since she was 17.) And I'm like: "Listen woman, I know more about cars than you do." Then I turned the AC button back on and the windshield defogged in less than a minute. I felt pretty smart. My response was somehting along the lines of: "This is the first car I've had that did that. I think it's stupid."
wife = 1
me = 0

 

When I was driving at lunch I thought of a few more:
The manual trans shifter is like 2 feet tall
Ashort shift adapter is almost a must since the stock shift throw is about a foot
When you shift, it sounds cheap, like it is made of plastic or something. If I shift hard/fast, I hear a popping sound that makes it sound like it is made of plastic (kind of hard to describe.)
Driving with the A/C on feels like the car has about 90hp instead of 150.

 

It's funny how the score always comes up like that, no matter whatactually happens during the conversation.

Our 2003 (7th-gen) Accord goes one worse. When you turn the defroster on, the AC lampdoesn't light up. But the AC DOES operate & it can't be turned off.

Do you drive at 5700 rpm all the time? At 3000rpm you probably don't even have 90 hp. The AC might take only 10 hp, but at 2000rpm you probably don't even have 60hp.

 

I really hate that too. The a/c robs the little 2.3 of its *****. Kills the mpg too. I lose about 2mpg. I guess it's a small price to pay for being cool instead of sweating bullets.

 

I usually figure the a/c is making my car as wimpy as a stock Accord.

 

I will have to agree with Jon here. When the A/C is on, you have to considerably press the throttle more to achieve the same speed.
Turn on the air during acceleration and you will see the tach drop for a sec, then compensate, and feel the car "let off" for a second as if you took your foot off the throttle.But, I have an older Accord w/ only 130 hp.

I thought someone told me that the newer Accords when the A/C is on, it shuts off the compressor during acceleration from a stop.


lmao, sometimes when I have friends in the car. I turn on the air. Then as I am accelerating moderatley fast from a stop i yell "ITS NAWWWZZ TIME[sm=alcoholic.gif]" and turn off the A/C. In which you feel a slight lurch forward[sm=nxsmile.gif].

 

i really have no complaints, i love my 6g.... the F23A1, just wasnt powerful enough for me, so i swapped a H22a4 into it, fixed that problem right up, it's pretty much just a drop right in job...

and i LOVE the coupe tails, look almost identical to the NSX tail lights, and as for the spoiler, i specifically picked out my 6G without the spoiler, i think they look way better without it, it just makes it look sleeker, the back end is just way to tall with the spoiler....

 

You know what I mean!

OK....so instead of having 60hp it feels like there is a hamster in an excercise wheel inside my engine compartment trying to make my car move forward

 

That's a very good way to describe it! Sometimes when i'm merging on the freeway I'll turn off the a/c lol.