Maxima 255HP vs Acura 260HP DYNO
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Originally posted by Acura2001CL-S
How do I explain it...simple better gearing and a higher reving engine. The CL-S is always in it's powerband and is gaining HP, while the Max's HP falls off in the upper RPMs.
How do I explain it...simple better gearing and a higher reving engine. The CL-S is always in it's powerband and is gaining HP, while the Max's HP falls off in the upper RPMs.
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Originally posted by Acura2001CL-S
How do I explain it...simple better gearing and a higher reving engine. The CL-S is always in it's powerband and is gaining HP, while the Max's HP falls off in the upper RPMs. I had a race with a Auto 2K2 Max and the very same thing happened. I would pull little by little in the upper RPMs, and the Max would fall off a bit in the higher RPMs.
How do I explain it...simple better gearing and a higher reving engine. The CL-S is always in it's powerband and is gaining HP, while the Max's HP falls off in the upper RPMs. I had a race with a Auto 2K2 Max and the very same thing happened. I would pull little by little in the upper RPMs, and the Max would fall off a bit in the higher RPMs.
But you're right. Gearing DOES make a big difference. The Maxima AT has 4 widely spaced gear ratios that are quite tall (45, 82, 128) vs your shorter and closer spaced Acura gearing (46, 76, 116). The shorter gearing can help to makeup the power deficit, and it also helps to explain why the Acura's tend to trap out a bit higher at the track than the 2k2 Max auto's. One the Max hits 3rd it bogs like mad for the last few hundred feet, but you guys are still cooking in a fairly hot gear.
But we won't talk about what happens on the highway after you go into 4th and the Maxima is still in 3rd
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Originally posted by ScreamingVQ
Basically put, the CL-S/TL-S will be playing the catch-up game during the 1/4mile. Crakura's trap higher though
Basically put, the CL-S/TL-S will be playing the catch-up game during the 1/4mile. Crakura's trap higher though
Max / CL-S 1st gear is equal. The Maxima weighs 200 lb less and has a TON more torque so it'll rip off the line faster than a CL-S. But the CL-S's 2nd and 3rd are much shorter than the Maxima's. So the Maxima is bogging away stuck with the taller gearing, meanwhile the Acura maintains a higher overall rate of acceleration and ends up about even with the Maxima at the 1/4 mile line. But because it was accelerating harder in 2nd and 3rd, the Acura's trap is higher, and it's in the act of PASSING the Maxima at the line.
So in shorter races from a stop, the Maxima has the advantage. In longer races to higher speeds, the Acura has the advantage. Unless you're going beyond 110 mph. Gearing then favors the Maxima again.
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Originally posted by Acura2001CL-S
I somewhat agree.
I somewhat agree.
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Re: Re: Re: Maxima 255HP vs Acura 260HP DYNO
Originally posted by SteVTEC
I did? hehe...show me where and make me eat my words
If I did...
I did? hehe...show me where and make me eat my words
If I did...
I HAIT searching for threads where I have to search threw everythting becuase there are no damn key words, argh..
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Maxima 255HP vs Acura 260HP DYNO
Originally posted by emax95
It's to bad you could not remember telling me that.. Well it took me a a ton of time but I found one of your 2 replies to me saying that the 2002'sw here not underated in the TQ department(or along those lines). http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?threadid=104971 enjoy..
It's to bad you could not remember telling me that.. Well it took me a a ton of time but I found one of your 2 replies to me saying that the 2002'sw here not underated in the TQ department(or along those lines). http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?threadid=104971 enjoy..
Anyways,
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