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hey,

drove a honda before, and now driving fto..

just wondering a stupid question...

well, for those who has ignited a honda car before, you might notice that the time for ignition is soooo short, just maybe 1 second and two ignition sounds and the car starts.. but for other cars, including nissan, toyota, mitsubishi and all, they takes few seconds to start, and so many firing sounds of the sparks...

what makes honda cars so easy to be started?? i always think it is cool when i am igniting a honda cars...

what's the reason, anyone??

i've noticed that on nearly every make of car that exhibits this (Except of course, econoboxes, shithouse brands like hyundai etc) that a beefy battery, and upgraded power/ground cabling fixes that instantly.

just run some beefy 0awg to alternator>battery....battery>ground....and whatever to starter, and you'll find things ticking over faster. Generally.

Liquidity wrote:i've noticed that on nearly every make of car that exhibits this (Except of course, econoboxes, shithouse brands like hyundai etc) that a beefy battery, and upgraded power/ground cabling fixes that instantly.

just run some beefy 0awg to alternator>battery....battery>ground....and whatever to starter, and you'll find things ticking over faster. Generally.

maybe you r right. i got ground cable sets for my previous integra and it always start after 1-2 sounds. get a set from ebay and see if it helps.

hell, cable's not hard to pick up. theres always some fs at fast fours or CAA. Well, especially CAA, given most members there have used it for an amp install at some point and have some left over.

Hell, its not that expensive even from your local car audio store, or jaycar, etc etc.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Ralliart-Lancer-Evo ... dZViewItem

i think that thing might improve starting... also suppost to improve audio and performance, duno for sure if its works or not though...... it has a ralliart badge on it so it looks legitimate

i've got that stuff. cant feel anything. maybe it works but very marginal. its not real ralliart product. just an imitation. Tried to open it up and take a look whats inside, but its sealed tight...

stabilisers are purest bullshit in car systems. Your alternator has one built into it, its called a regulator.

A fair few of those ebay kits are quite simply, grounding kits (ie, big cables) with a plastic box over one cable. LIterally. Open them up, theres nothing inside but silicone holding the plastic box onto the cable. Ahahaha.

lawrencetlc wrote:hey,

drove a honda before, and now driving fto..

just wondering a stupid question...

well, for those who has ignited a honda car before, you might notice that the time for ignition is soooo short, just maybe 1 second and two ignition sounds and the car starts.. but for other cars, including nissan, toyota, mitsubishi and all, they takes few seconds to start, and so many firing sounds of the sparks...

what makes honda cars so easy to be started?? i always think it is cool when i am igniting a honda cars...

what's the reason, anyone??

i havnt really noticed that before, i've got a lexus, toyota, merc, bmw, hyundai, honda and holden at home, and they all start up around about the same time...

Well I know my Merc start a lot faster then my VW and my ex FTO. I barely have to crank it and it will fire up.

The only one i can't tell is all those new button start car, they all start around the same to me.

The slowest starting car have to be a rotary though.

some ecu's need to learn where thier crank/cam position is before they know when to fire injectors/plugs. thats why they turn over for a while so the sensors locate exactly where the crank/cam is and then they know what injector and spark plug to fire.

mitsubishi is not that bad at start up...
my evo basicaly starts up instantly?
maybe something to do with the grade of sparkplugs?
and in terms of fto vs civic...
last long weekend at wakefield i did 1:10 in the evo again
and my friend in a EK civic hatch outrun me.....he did 1:09.28

but his car was a race car and needs to be towed there and stuff...

Yeah which ever car is lighty or who ever has the most money to spend will be the fastest

Hey fto617 (sorry i forgot your name ) got any pics of that civic? or for the track day? If so, post them up in General section please

hey kev
my name is alan.
i'll ask him to send me pics and i'll post it in the forum
he arced in macau as well with his dc5r race car till he tottaled it on the track.
he has like a million trophies in his room! lol its not funny!
he said SBS or something used to broadcast the races he was on i have no idea what show it was.

I think my FTO is a dud hahahha.

People say they are beating XR6 non turbos fair enough, my mate has one, we boot it from lights, he is strait away at a 1.5 car length in front at about 40km/h. Theres nothing I can do about the crap FTO bottom end. With a manual maybe but I cant see an Auto keep up with something double its capacity at the start line???

At speed the FTO is good, but down low it has nothing???

I actually saw an FTO in Lalor Melb couple weeks ago, we dragged in my friends Gen 3 just to get an indication how quick another FTO is but couldnt because we were too far ahead.

Black FTO with double pipes in the middle bumper.

fto617 wrote:mitsubishi is not that bad at start up...
my evo basicaly starts up instantly?
maybe something to do with the grade of sparkplugs?
and in terms of fto vs civic...
last long weekend at wakefield i did 1:10 in the evo again
and my friend in a EK civic hatch outrun me.....he did 1:09.28

but his car was a race car and needs to be towed there and stuff...

Me too mine starts up with a couple of turns from the starter motor. I knew that my car did start up a lot quicker when I had my new starter put in.

The reasons why some cars take longer to start than others, is electrical but also the physicall mass of engine. FTO with its tiny cylinders short stroke and mass, it gets going a lot quick. Go start a big V8 you notice how the starters are much slower, as there is so much mass to turn.

I shuold do a video of my start up...my starts almost instantly...

THis only happend once I changed to 0.6 gapped IRIWAY7s - see my GB for details....

payaya wrote:

fto617 wrote:mitsubishi is not that bad at start up...
my evo basicaly starts up instantly?
maybe something to do with the grade of sparkplugs?
and in terms of fto vs civic...
last long weekend at wakefield i did 1:10 in the evo again
and my friend in a EK civic hatch outrun me.....he did 1:09.28

but his car was a race car and needs to be towed there and stuff...

Me too mine starts up with a couple of turns from the starter motor. I knew that my car did start up a lot quicker when I had my new starter put in.

The reasons why some cars take longer to start than others, is electrical but also the physicall mass of engine. FTO with its tiny cylinders short stroke and mass, it gets going a lot quick. Go start a big V8 you notice how the starters are much slower, as there is so much mass to turn.

I dont have that issue compliments of a couple of pounds shaved of the flywheel!

Going up the steep hills requires a few more downshifts thou

khunjeng wrote:I shuold do a video of my start up...my starts almost instantly...

THis only happend once I changed to 0.6 gapped IRIWAY7s - see my GB for details....

your gb? sorry, i'm retarded tonight. Whats gb?

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