welcome to wacky Wednesday's, where everyone has a chance to show off their
car mods, and here's this week's winner,
hello everyone this is my 2008 Acura TL this TL the third gen was actually
available from 2004 to 2008, and it is considered one of Acuras
best-looking sedans even to date, although it is how about 14 years old
for this specific 3rd gen model, it is a 2008 it is the base model, in the year
2007 and 2008 there were two options, the base which I have here and
also the type S which came with a 3.5 liter the Brembo brakes in
the front, the stiffer suspension amongst other things, I've had this car
for about three years I've put about 60,000 miles on it, so I definitely do
drive a lot, one of the things that are left to be desired in this car is fuel
economy, it is not the best when it comes to fueling, but she definitely is fun the
base came with a 3.2 liter v6 VTEC engine, now the VTEC was only on the
intake side, most Honda's have them on the intake and exhaust but this one just
had it on the intake, so not as a special but VTEC nevertheless so first I'll go
ahead and show you the interior, the custom seat covers over
here I have the double din radio. aftermarket radio, the car did come
with navigation, but the navigation is about 10 years old now, so I just use my
phone and I plug it in to the double din and that does have Android
auto and apple carplay, I also have a custom steering wheel it is a carbon
fiber ish that's not real carbon fiber, you can see this is not holding all that
well up to time and I've only had it for not too long, but it does look great
the car is automatic, no please no, yes boohoo automatics, but you know it
gets the job done, this is my first car so I
wasn't looking at anything you know special over the top I just wanted
something to get me from point A to point B and then I became a car guy, and
I'll show you what happened after becoming that car guy, so this is not
your typical Acura TL, this one is supercharged, it'll be really hard to see
but the supercharger is is a centrifugal supercharger it looks like a turbo, it's
a belt driven to a turbo essentially, it's hidden all the way down there where
the AC use to be, what? how many people have called me crazy, pretty much all my
friends and family, but it is a joy to drive, this car came with the three
points two liter v6 the base model, what I did was, I actually swapped it out with a 3.5
liter from the Type S, this one specifically came from the bigger Acura
RL from 2007 and I actually built the motor so, forged pistons, the crank
is already forged, forged rods, because the first time I built it I
threw a rod actually at threw four, through the automatic transmission
I get with pump gas 93 here in Jersey, I get 437 wheel horsepower and on 85 which
we have one gas station also so I can take advantage of that,
it makes 484 at twelve pounds of boost
that's a pretty good chunk of power for an automatic transmission, and the
transmission has been holding up real well, so we're going to go ahead and turn
it on
and that's pretty much it, I still have some more plans for the car I wanted to
do a manual swap, because with a manual swap, this car in the exact same
conditions that it is now, will be making about an extra 60 horsepower to the
wheel, so I will definitely be tipping over the 500 mark with e85 and the manual
is just a lot more fun, so thank you guys for watching hope you enjoyed and have a
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