cvt?
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From: under your bed...
someone posted that the cvt adapts to the driver - so the person who said that if you drive it peppy regularly it will perform fine.
i commute mine, and i dont race it, but when im out just drivin the back roads home or something, i find it pleasent! cant really complain, and i hardly ever use manual mode.
i think the weight/handling is more of an issue to me than the power/transmission, to each their own. the cvt is programmed to be fuel efficient, not win you rally races.
i commute mine, and i dont race it, but when im out just drivin the back roads home or something, i find it pleasent! cant really complain, and i hardly ever use manual mode.
i think the weight/handling is more of an issue to me than the power/transmission, to each their own. the cvt is programmed to be fuel efficient, not win you rally races.
It's only slow off the line, u can't launch it or anything. Also if u baby it and drive like a grandma for awhile you will start to notice that it becomes very slow. But if you do alot of spirited driving you should have no problems... I would even say its faster than a manual car and can beat it in a race from a roll of about 15mph or so. I have never seen a car pull so hard after 70mph and I've had a 05 mustang GT, 98 turbo'd eclipse, and a cavalier(lol)
Anyways, as someone else said, the car was designed to be fun but fuel efficient at the same time. If you wanted a fast car, you not only bought the wrong transmission but the wrong car entirely. As a daily driver though, it's pretty damn good and a hell of a lot better than a plain-jane Civic.
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From: the land between lancer and evo
You don't get out much, do you?
Anyways, as someone else said, the car was designed to be fun but fuel efficient at the same time. If you wanted a fast car, you not only bought the wrong transmission but the wrong car entirely. As a daily driver though, it's pretty damn good and a hell of a lot better than a plain-jane Civic.
Anyways, as someone else said, the car was designed to be fun but fuel efficient at the same time. If you wanted a fast car, you not only bought the wrong transmission but the wrong car entirely. As a daily driver though, it's pretty damn good and a hell of a lot better than a plain-jane Civic.
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From: Frisco Texas
You don't get out much, do you?
Anyways, as someone else said, the car was designed to be fun but fuel efficient at the same time. If you wanted a fast car, you not only bought the wrong transmission but the wrong car entirely. As a daily driver though, it's pretty damn good and a hell of a lot better than a plain-jane Civic.
Anyways, as someone else said, the car was designed to be fun but fuel efficient at the same time. If you wanted a fast car, you not only bought the wrong transmission but the wrong car entirely. As a daily driver though, it's pretty damn good and a hell of a lot better than a plain-jane Civic.
i agree
guys it only looks like a race car does not drive like one but thats good if i wanted a race car i would buy a evo or something i dont really understand why people want to spend crazy money on turbos and stuff sure its fun but the car is more of a dd than a track car
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From: Mobile, Al
My CVT is doing good for autocross. I certainly won't mod the car other than drop in filter and better tires. Those are only mods I can do and stay in H stock. I could do a catback exhaust too, but don't believe the gains are worth the money, or putting up with the noise. I drive it in sport mode unless I am commuting to work. Sport mode does much better on the track. I have felt the bog occasionally, but most of the tracks I run have a rolling start so it has not been a factor yet. When I am ready to move up in class, don't think I will mod it (TOO MUCH WEIGHT). Think I will buy something else. Other than that it is a great daily driver as stated in the previous thread.
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From: City of nonyabiz
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From: Mobile, Al
Two different drivers with different driving styles definately impact how the car drives. I found a document from mitsubishi about 2 months ago and it basically describes how the CVT and computer readjust for based on driver accelerator and brake inputs. See the diagram below for some details:
Based on your acceleration and braking input the ecu and tcm control the pulley ratio. I cannot post this doc b/c it is too big (38 pages total), but I did finally find the site where i got it from. Here is the link:
www.lancerx.ru/tech/lx_cvt.pdf
The figure I have attached is on page 27. The next section talks about "lift foot" and how the ecu compensates for that (I have found since I have quit lifting my foot off the accelerator except to hit the brakes the car responds much better). There is some good info in the doc. Some of it lacks in detail but you will definately learn how complicated the cvt really is, and you will get some valuable info from it.
Based on your acceleration and braking input the ecu and tcm control the pulley ratio. I cannot post this doc b/c it is too big (38 pages total), but I did finally find the site where i got it from. Here is the link:
www.lancerx.ru/tech/lx_cvt.pdf
The figure I have attached is on page 27. The next section talks about "lift foot" and how the ecu compensates for that (I have found since I have quit lifting my foot off the accelerator except to hit the brakes the car responds much better). There is some good info in the doc. Some of it lacks in detail but you will definately learn how complicated the cvt really is, and you will get some valuable info from it.