rev up your engines, jsph says scotty is it bad to always shift
from normal to sport mode in my automatic acura tl, I'm a spirited driver and have that
habit, is there any long term damages, no because when you go from normal to sport
drive, all that's doing is, it's telling the computer that you're now driving in sport
mode so it will shift later so you'll have more acceleration, you'll get worse gas mileage,
it isn't going to hurt anything, the computer is set up to run them both ways so switching
back and forth isn't going to hurt anything, and if you're a sporty driver, I'd say leave
it in sport other than when you want to get better gas mileage, put it on normal, because
I mean once your on the highway and you're going 65 it's already in top gear anyways
so it doesn't matter your cruising at one speed and it doesn't matter if it's in normal
or sport once it's into the top gear, but you are a spirited driver you might just
leave it in sport but just for your own curiosity drive it a tank full of gas on normal and
drive it for a tank on sport and see what the difference in gas mileage is and if it's
a lot I wouldn't use the sport as much, alex says what are your thoughts on the type
r hondas, they're good vehicles because most of the type r's as far as I know most of them,
almost all of them are standard transmission, honda is a motorcycle company, they made engines,
they always made great engines, their transmissions in automatics are a little
weak but their standard transmission were good and those are standard transmission,
I had a customer that just bought one of those new and he love it, it's fun to drive around,
he brought it around and we took it for a ride on the highway, it was fun to drive their
well made cars, and if your talking about the honda motorcycles
yeah their r's are killer racing bikes, the are really screaming motorcycles, they started
out as a motorcycles company so they know engines, those are good cars if you want to
spend that kind of money, jackson says scotty I'm thinking about buying
a 1991-92 pontiac trans am firebird as my next car what do you think about it,
well back in 91 and 92 they were pretty good cars, they had those big v8 engines and all
that stuff but your talking about what, a 28 year old car, that's an old car, if your
going to buy one, you want a mechanic like me to check it out, all good mechanics have
a check out fee most guys charge about $100, you want it checked out before you throw your
hard earned money out, could be a lot of problems with it,
but they were solid v8 engine cars that were relatively simple back then, their transmissions
were still well built, and they were rear wheel drive cars, let's
face it Americans were masters at building rear wheel drive cars, front wheel drive cars
meh, they're still not that hot at making them,
and those were rear wheel drive cars, God is my savior says scotty what do you think
about high octane boosters, do you think it's ok to use them in a 2011
toyota camry se, well you'd be wasting your money it doesn't need it unless your putting
a supercharger or turbocharger on it, you don't need it,
it's made to run on normal gas, now I have customers with really old cars, 67 mustangs
their made to run on high octane gas, they won't run right unless you put an octane booster
or the customers of mine that are really particular about it, they will buy aviation fuel, they'll
go to an airport and they'll buy aviation fuel that's 100 octane and they run great
on that, the octane boosters work to some extent but
you don't need them on a modern car, their not set up for that,
your better to buy a higher quality fuel if you got an old car, than just add the booster
because to boost it up so much you'd spend a fortune buying the octane booster because
each can only boosts them a couple of points and if you got 93 octane and you want to get
up to 100 it might take pints of that octane booster to get it up to 100,
shepard says scotty what's your opinion on a new ford mustang 2018, I like them buy I
got to admit, I'm old school and I go for the v8 engines, I just do, now they've got
an ecoboost 4 cylinder that can put out 315 horsepower or so and I had one and it was
fun to drive around but unfortunately they gave me an automatic transmission one and
I hate those, if I would have had the speed or 6 speed standard ecoboost 4 cylinder I
would have liked it more, but I really like the sound of the v8's if
I was getting a mustang I would get a v8 it's just a classic sound you know, and I really
don't give a rat's behind about gas mileage because on my own car I only put like 900
miles on it last year so, I wouldn't care if the thing got like 12 miles a gallon because
I don't drive that far you know so it wouldn't be that much difference to me, and if you
do drive them conservatively I had a 2018 with the v8 and that new 10 speed automatic
transmission and it got like 23 miles a gallon on the highway going 65 miles an hour so there's
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