Is it me, or is my car just slow

[LMFK7]

Traffic light turns green, I shift to first, my car gets going and the car behind me signals because I'm moving too slow at take off...

This is what I've experienced most of the time driving and I'm wondering if I'm just not giving the car enough gas to accelerate.

Can anyone else relate?

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[charleswrivers]

Traffic light turns green, I shift to first, my car gets going and the car behind me signals because I'm moving too slow at take off...

This is what I've experienced most of the time driving and I'm wondering if I'm just not giving the car enough gas to accelerate.

Can anyone else relate?

Honestly... not really. You've got a light car with a decently powerful engine. A smidge of lag or no from the turbo... you shouldn't be too slow for traffic.

Maybe give it a little more gas as you come off the clutch... you may be bogging/near stalling the engine. Not to insult you if you're a manual guy... I've got an Si and while there's a little more power, you'd actually make more power immediately due to a turbo that's spool faster and make torque rise earlier.

My vote is either there's something wrong with your car... or your taking off so gentle as to bog the engine down to nothing. I'd experiment with a higher RPM upon releasing the clutch. Not drag-strip-launch or anything... just bump it up a little bit more and get into the throttle a little deeper once you're off the clutch.

 

[nuowner]

Traffic light turns green, I shift to first, my car gets going and the car behind me signals because I'm moving too slow at take off...

This is what I've experienced most of the time driving and I'm wondering if I'm just not giving the car enough gas to accelerate.

Can anyone else relate?

Some people are just impatient assholes.

 

[Driveitlikeuboughtit]

Some people are just impatient assholes.

If this is happening to him over and over, I'd suspect he's actually taking off too slow.

 

[jakdotdot]

Traffic light turns green, I shift to first..

That's half the problem.. I'd recommend trying to be in first by the time the light turns green. This isn't always possible, but the quicker you leave the light the better.

Honestly, it is probably your driving.

 

[Zeffy94]

I feel this way in my Type R too. I don’t think it’s the car. I think it’s just me not accelerating properly. It’s the first to second gear shift that throws a wrench in my quick acceleration plans usually.

 

[LMFK7]

Honestly... not really. You've got a light car with a decently powerful engine. A smidge of lag or no from the turbo... you shouldn't be too slow for traffic.

Maybe give it a little more gas as you come off the clutch... you may be bogging/near stalling the engine. Not to insult you if you're a manual guy... I've got an Si and while there's a little more power, you'd actually make more power immediately due to a turbo that's spool faster and make torque rise earlier.

My vote is either there's something wrong with your car... or your taking off so gentle as to bog the engine down to nothing. I'd experiment with a higher RPM upon releasing the clutch. Not drag-strip-launch or anything... just bump it up a little bit more and get into the throttle a little deeper once you're off the clutch.

Yes! my car does bog when i do accelerate sometimes. So it is me that's causing this car to take off slow. I'll put in more gas and release the clutch a lot quicker. Can't wait to get off of work and try this out!

thanks guys!

 

[LMFK7]

I feel this way in my Type R too. I don’t think it’s the car. I think it’s just me not accelerating properly. It’s the first to second gear shift that throws a wrench in my quick acceleration plans usually.

I guess I'm just being too careful on this car since its my first ever new car that I ever had. I know it sounds corny but man, this car makes me feel like I'm 25 again!

 

[LMFK7]

That's half the problem.. I'd recommend trying to be in first by the time the light turns green. This isn't always possible, but the quicker you leave the light the better.

Honestly, it is probably your driving.

Yeah, I may be babying this car too much where I don't wanna give it some force. Won't be doing that anymore!

 

[GoldClass]

Traffic light turns green, I shift to first...

Consider to shift to first while waiting for green light or about to turn green? This can save the shifting time off while the light is green.

 

[fiend busa]

Get Ktuner, enable launch control, dump the clutch at every green light.

 

[civicls]

If this is happening to him over and over, I'd suspect he's actually taking off too slow.

No, people are impatient a**holes.

 

[jakdotdot]

No, people are impatient a**holes.

'If you run into an a**hole in the morning, you ran into an a**hole. If you run into a**holes all day, you're the a**hole.'

 

[Deleted member]

That's half the problem.. I'd recommend trying to be in first by the time the light turns green. This isn't always possible, but the quicker you leave the light the better.

Honestly, it is probably your driving.

Any time the clutch pedal is pressed the clutch is being worn. If slow shifting is the problem he should just learn to shift a little quicker instead of sitting at a light with the car in first and the clutch to the floor. Either that or just make up for the slow shift time by accelerating a little more briskly once the car is in gear.

 

[jred721]

Take it from someone who owns a CVT 2.0L Civic, if my car is fast enough for traffic with that horrible drive by wire throttle combined with the CVT response, there is absolutely no way in hell that your hatch sport is having trouble keeping up. I agree with everyone saying that you're probably driving in such a way that the car bogs out off the line and Im not trying to be an asshole at all by saying that, just my take away based on what you said.

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