[3g Legend]

as i said, we did remove the whole resonator box leaving just the lower part of the original airbox in the engine bay. then we installed a K&N cone filter straight on the TCS.
after that we went for a test drive. sound was amazing. you can cream your pants when driving in tunnels. but then we step on it and the RL was not going faster than 115mph. with all the original airbox and K&N hiflow my RL is doing 147 mph.

has this been repeatable on another car??? I removed my resonator and can still get up to whatever mph I've been comfortable with jamming to Vegas on the 15 freeway.

 

[Ryambo8713]

Where can i get these books you speak of RLuke

 

[RLuke]

Where can i get these books you speak of RLuke

at Honda/Acura. but keep in mind, they are expensive and not every dealer will sell you them. here in europe you have to pay about 300$ for them.

has this been repeatable on another car???

i don't know. we only tried this on one RL. are you sure you can make it to topspeed?

 

[3g Legend]

Well above 120 thats for sure...but if there are any CHP officers reading this, I'm only lying and you can't prove anything!

 

[Ryambo8713]

wait most US cars have speed limiters, so what does the speed limiter, limit the speed to for U.S. RLs

 

[3g Legend]

CAI does not work on the 99+ RL. they need badly the resonator box, cause it is working perfectly with the 3 stage air intake.
when you remove all that stuff and put a K&N filter just in front of TCS, you will loose about 30 mph topspeed. already done that.

Alright I'm ending this BS that keeps getting posted. Personally I despise when people post shit on the internet and then it magically turns into fact.

I have a 96 RLegend and I have removed my intake resonator. 2 nights ago I thought of this wack ass comment and decided to push my car risking a ticket. I gave up at about 140mph thinking I've proved to myself my theory of morrons on the internet. :nutkick:

Anyway, don't take it personally. Maybe you messed something up on your car or something is different from my base model vs yours with the TCS, but just removing a resonator, that would obviously free up some intake resistance, would not drop your cars overall top speed. If anything, it probably helped acceleration or increated top speed.

 

[ChrisK]

wait most US cars have speed limiters, so what does the speed limiter, limit the speed to for U.S. RLs

Are you sure the RL has a speed governor? I don't recall any Acura or Honda having one.

 

[ChrisK]

As for removing the resonator, I can't see how different that would be from removing it on the 2G Legend. It too has the TCS, 3 stage induction manifold, based on the C Block, and we used to remove the resonator on Legends all the time. I've still been able to do 135+ with that car with room to spare. How would the RL be so different?

 

[3g Legend]

As for removing the resonator, I can't see how different that would be from removing it on the 2G Legend. It too has the TCS, 3 stage induction manifold, based on the C Block, and we used to remove the resonator on Legends all the time. I've still been able to do 135+ with that car with room to spare. How would the RL be so different?

Exactly!

But I guess something could be different with RLuke's car and it being in Europe...

Aloha!

 

[RLuke]

OK, it seems to me the US RL's doesn't care about this box being removed. mine does. also the european RLs have another ECU, which are supplied with different fuel maps than US versions. maybe this makes the difference (MAP sensor, fuel maps, etc.).