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Strut tower brace on '99 Accord
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Re: Strut tower brace on '99 Accord -
04-15-2007
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your best bang for the buck is front/rear anti sway bars. |
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Suspension Techniques makes a nice set that requires no drilling, only existing bolt mounting points are used. |
So far it seems Intrax is what I'm looking for, they do titanium shock
sets for the F355, ffs!
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Your stock '99 Accord will probably beat the mod'd Alfa around any street course, I'm not 18. |
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assuming equal horsepower, and the Accord will probably have more of that, too. I'll be looking for 180 out of the 2liter Alfa, easy, really; 10.4 Borgos, hot cams, big valves, header and Webers, should sound like half a 308. Accord's at 150 out of 2.3. |
broader. And then there's the six! But glad to see you have the
four.
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...Or I may go with a G1 S2000. I'd like to do the Alfa myself, thinking a year out either way. Newer Accords are even better, or would be on better than stock tires. I'd recommend my car highly to 98% of the public, I won't have another one when this is gone. |
balance in two seconds. Just so you know.
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or tested to those kinds of stresses. Even my 1979 was really just the very best 1959 technology available. Looking for sound, feel and style, not an autocross racer. |
the street in too low a gear, it sounded FANTASTIC! Oh, and the
classy brochure! Stock Hondas have zero of that.
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Wait, actually I did throw around a 1999 CL-6 a bit, a few years ago. It really wasn't happy, it seemed to me, it held the road, but there were funny creakings when I stopped, that discouraged further experimentation along those lines. Yes, the Alfa was happier at that sort of thing, but did NOT hold the road as well. More fun, but worse times. Fun is the objective, |
an old VW Microbus, 66hp, you can play boy racer all day long, and
nobody even knows it! Me, driving in modern Los Angeles, there is no
fun. Sniff. Just TMC. Sniff.
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It's 600-800lbs lighter than a BMW 3series, about the same weight distribution. The BMW comes standard with wrist-sized sway bars. Less weight difference than that, I think. You're right, 3000 vs 3200 on an 1999 323, but the BMW is a cloth manual seat window crank unavailable stripper at that weight, in the real world the 328's about 3500. |
street at 3200, plus or minus air and such?
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Aren't all BMW still rear-wheel drive and almost 50/50? Not 50/50. Very nose heavy, twitchy in the rain and useless in snow. Betcha they come with lower profile tires, too. Rubber bands stretched over tuna cans. A significant percentage of BMW dealers' net profit derives from selling $1000 replacement wheels. List the numbers side by side, I have no idea which models you're thinking of. What's wrong is it rolls over onto the outside front sidewall. Sounds like wrong tires. Have you tried lower profiles? Not an option given the roads I drive. There is truly a bathtub sized pothole on my approach to the George Washington Bridge, for two weeks now. |
roll off them turning the corner at 20mph. High profile, but putting
on something like the then-stock Michelins that all went away. But
seriously, if you want handling, sticking with high-profiles is going
to be a serious limitation.
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What kind of turning are you doing, cranking it full over at 80mph? 60-ish. |
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Uninvolved cell-phone addled goat herders driving Town Cars, or princesses driving TSXs, are a constant hazard. |
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Hint - Accords aren't designed for that, BMWs, even street 3xx's, pretty much are (or were, I haven't followed them for 10+ years). No they were not designed for that, but they can be modded to stiffen them up. Does anybody rebuild Accords for high-speed racing? Fast and furious Civics, sure, tho I have no idea how good or bad those really are. American Touring Car series. And you need this on your COMMUTER car? Yes. Greater control and predictability are elements of dynamic safety, and improve this driver's satisfaction index. |
car out and toss it around a few corners to see how it drifted, I
learned that in (and before!) my Alfa. Now, if I have a high-speed
emergency, I'm less prepared. Fortunately my car is MUCH better
prepared. Looks like in five or ten years we'll have dynamic
stability on new cars. In twenty we'll probably have complete
autopilots, might be illegal to drive manually much after that, at
least in the city. I miss the old Alfa, sort of, if not the scheduled
maintenance bills.
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My man, I'm still an Italophile at heart, but you're never going to make an Accord handle like an Enzo, ... which seem to be cracking up here in Los Angeles at an unacceptable frequency anyhow! Better trade the '99 for an old BMW, and be ready for major disappointment at how an old Alfa compares to either. I know an Accord will never turn in like a 355, but it could be and will be a good deal sharper and more stable. |
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