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Posted by: J.red May 21 2013, 01:43 AM

A 2007 Acura TL Type S
Nighthawk Black Pearl
6 Speed Manual Trans
3.5 L V6
286hp 256 ft lb.
Fully Loaded

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Posted by: Faяaп. May 21 2013, 01:44 AM

I love the look of these cars.

More so when they are grey, with blacked out everything. But this is still awesome.

nice, congratz.



Btw, if you want maximum swag

Posted by: Mkid May 21 2013, 02:50 AM

He won't do it :'(

Help me convince him guize

Posted by: Faяaп. May 21 2013, 03:07 AM

Why would he copy someone else

Posted by: AndrewGMC May 21 2013, 03:07 AM

why doing that when you can do this


anyway
very c0o0ol bud
bongrats

Posted by: Josh May 21 2013, 03:20 AM

awesome! gotta love the engineering salary looks very clean

Posted by: J.red May 21 2013, 03:30 AM

It is! 100% OEM everything. Gotta love finding something like this locally that it's only owner was a middle aged female art teacher.

Posted by: Mkid May 21 2013, 03:38 AM

TL.

Posts picture of TSX/Accord.

Posted by: Unox. May 21 2013, 04:24 AM

not sure if it's the TL, but one of those acuras has a Dat A$$ to be proud of. i'd need to see one on the street again.

Posted by: Madset. May 21 2013, 05:17 AM

please tell me you're gonna lower it

a little bit at least

Posted by: Nick47 May 21 2013, 07:19 AM

the rear reminds me of a holden

Posted by: JoviBlue May 21 2013, 07:26 AM

strange attraction for those rims, I take it the civic is staying around too?

Posted by: J.red May 21 2013, 10:39 AM

Hard to tell because of poor lighting, but I'm pretty happy about dat ass.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95505293@N03/8763776675/
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And yeah, the civic is staying around.
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Everything is 100% OEM other than a little bit of stereo work. It's staying as is for a while. I bought this car for 2 reasons.
A.) Practicality

B.) I fell in love with it when I drove it as it is.

Posted by: Daniel. May 21 2013, 10:45 AM

Can't get over the fact how beautiful this car is and that we never got it. Congrats man

No plate in your sig but it shows in the pic with the Acura

Posted by: Brand0n May 21 2013, 10:49 AM

Daily's need love, too.

Posted by: Vicent M. May 21 2013, 12:33 PM

Thats looking awesome J.red

Its nice you bough a 4 door sedan (i know the civic is, but the Acura is bigger )

Posted by: DMC-12 May 21 2013, 02:24 PM

Very chunky, looks nice. I'd take all the badges off the boot cept for the Acura one in the middle

Posted by: J.red May 21 2013, 04:37 PM

Debadge a $50000 car? No thanks.

Posted by: Mkid May 21 2013, 04:44 PM

Yeah, don't do it. The TL-S badge is sick. And just taking off the acura one on the left would unbalance it.

Posted by: DMC-12 May 21 2013, 05:23 PM

Please tell me that's not just you wanting to show off how much it was new..



Looks badass without badges

Posted by: Henrique. May 21 2013, 06:05 PM

50k? really?

debadged cars are dumb anyway. Keep them

Posted by: J.red May 21 2013, 06:34 PM

Yeah the original owner payed 50k new. I'm proud to drive it and I'm not going to debadge it and hide what it is.

Posted by: DMC-12 May 21 2013, 07:47 PM

It's not hiding what it is, that would be putting a brown paper bag on it. If you really need the badges on the back of the car to tell what a car is then you need glasses

Posted by: Kubason May 21 2013, 09:21 PM

wow, that's awesome, do you have any pics of the interior?

Posted by: duncan May 22 2013, 01:42 AM

That thing is absolutely beautiful, congratulations! I love these cars; and I wouldn't change anything but the Donk stance it's got going on.

Posted by: J.red May 22 2013, 02:49 AM

How many times do I have to say that I'm not lowering it? It's got a great factory tuned suspension. This isn't the type of car that I'm about to throw a bunch of cheap mods at just for the sake of looking "cooler"

Posted by: Madset. May 22 2013, 08:30 AM

So a boso pipe is off the cards then?

Posted by: JoviBlue May 22 2013, 08:43 AM

You should do like really practical stuff to it like really awesome hidden subtle speakers that blow your mind, really nice exhaust note, steering wheel change(?), maybe an upgrade aero package(subtle though)(?) some under hood mods(Nothing major maybe just a chip or something idk) wheels nuts and little things like that :)would be coooool man, but it looks so good stock though

Posted by: J.red May 22 2013, 10:48 AM

I'm going to do window visors, refurbish the rims, and next summer have Lovefab build me an exhaust. The sound system is the one thing that the previous owner already had work done on. Not changing the steering wheel because it's got a nice one and it's got a lot of integrated controls. Can't do tuner wheel nuts on OEM wheels.

My civic is still the project car. I didn't pick this up to become another project car

Posted by: Daniel. May 22 2013, 11:07 AM

Not necessarily a project car but you could still change some small bits like the exhaust as you and Jovi said, subtle changes that make the smile on your face even bigger when you drive it

Posted by: N.OzolS May 22 2013, 11:30 AM

the usdm japanese cars are always so chunkkyyy

good buy, though. does look mean in the black

Posted by: J.red May 23 2013, 01:12 AM

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Posted by: Brand0n May 23 2013, 07:59 AM

manual tranny, thank god dude

beautiful interior, those gauges are sweet

Posted by: J.red May 23 2013, 10:54 AM

That's one of the parts I'm most happy about that I found this! Only about 1/40 of them produced were with the 6 speed manual. Everybody was all about the 5 speed paddle shift automatic back in the day, so now these ones are the rare ones that everyone wants.

Posted by: JoviBlue May 23 2013, 11:15 AM

sweet interior dude, f**k manual box is sick on rarity scale lol

Posted by: Mkid May 24 2013, 05:19 PM

I would say get swift springs but it looks like they have been discontinued for the TL.

But if you can find some used ones i'd say go for it.

And before you say anything, swift springs are amazing for performance. They only lower the car an inch and a half max and improve both performance and ride comfort. I had them in the ralliart before and they were amazing. Better than oem in every way.

Posted by: J.red May 25 2013, 12:39 AM

Well, it is a mitsubishi, so that's not too surprising

But seriously. There are so many other things to take care of before dumping money into aftermarket parts.

Posted by: Rywired May 27 2013, 03:44 AM

Wait you said the previous owner was a female?! and she drove stick lolwuttttt

Posted by: carhartt Aug 27 2013, 07:08 PM

nice find buddy, i really like the way it looks right now. there is no point of doing mods to that car, great as it is with some decent power, perfect for a daily

manual just feels a little truck like with rough shiftstick gliding and loud noises as you move the gear linkage on asian cars, or atleast it did on all the cars i drove.

Posted by: J.red Aug 30 2013, 08:45 PM

Thanks Bud, The only Mod I've done is OEM Window Visors. Only other things I've got planned are OEM A-Spec Lip kit and new wheels/tires next summer. Maybe tom coilovers. But like you said, this car doesn't need any power mods or anything stupid. It's a daily, not a project. As far as the shifting goes, the motion of this shifter is pretty smooth. Sometimes it has a little bit of trouble getting into 3rd and 4th. That seems to be a common thing with this transmission though, something about the syncro's not meshing quite perfect. But it seems like it can be fixed by using a GM Modified Syncromesh trans fluid.

Posted by: Brand0n Aug 31 2013, 06:39 AM

Yes Synchromesh works wonders dude.

The faggot that owned my car before me did not change any fluids whatsoever so changing gears in the FC was like trying to move a long rod through a barrel of rhino d**ks until I used that stuff. Worked amazing afterwords.


I assume rhino d**ks are hard

Posted by: Mkid Sep 1 2013, 02:37 AM

Armor plated even