Performance difference

My little brother has also recently gotten a 1998 Acura Integra GSR (same model, and year as mine, cept his is black (the bastard)) Anyway, I drove his car, and wow... there is something different about the car, it pulls a hell of a lot more at 3k rpm's than mine does. My engine feels softer, and fluffier than his. He has no performance parts, just stock parts. I have used his air filter, to see if that was clogged, but that did not make a difference. His car has 107k miles on it, and I have 71k on mine. What could make up for the performance difference?? My car is definatly slower than it should be stock, and I don't know what it might be. Oh, he uses 10w30 mobil 1 synthetic oil, same as me cept I use 5w30 mobil 1. I'm a bit perplexed here, any thoughts?

take ur car in for a major tune up it needs one every 30K. You'll feel a difference and smoke his high milage GSR. wut color is urs?

I don't think you need a major tuneup every 30k, probably more like every 60-90k on an integra. However a tuneup definantly sounds in order if you notice such a difference. Clean, replace, or check:
air filter
fuel filter
spark plugs and wires
clean/balance your injectors
belts

I don't think you need a major tuneup every 30k, probably more like every 60-90k on an integra. However a tuneup definantly sounds in order if you notice such a difference. Clean, replace, or check:
air filter
fuel filter
spark plugs and wires
clean/balance your injectors
belts

90K? so like 2 tune ups for the life of the car? go 30K i notice a big difference

Yea, I just replaced the fuel filter today, and definatly noticed a performance increase (probalby just freeing up the power that was in the clogged filter). I'm getting a CAI from AEM soon, so I'll have a new filter with that. As to the Spark plugs and wires, I have NGK Iridium plugs, and NGK wires. The only thing I haven't done is check/balance the injectors. Can you suggest a way to do this? I've never serviced injectors other than replacing them on a 1995 honda accord. I don't even know how to test them. Also the same applies with the belts. I'm not sure what to do to check them. I know that I am getting a squeaky sound from the driver's side of my car in the engine. I can locate it to the accessory belt, but I think it's something like the idler pulley... if my car even has that, but a friend mentioned that it would make the exact sound that my car was making. Thanks for the advice!

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My car used to make a squeek from the drivers side but it would go away and come back and go away etc... i used to think it was a belt too till i figured out it was from my fan when it switched on. maybe your fan squeeks? sounded almost exactly like a belt but it wasnt...

My car used to make a squeek from the drivers side but it would go away and come back and go away etc... i used to think it was a belt too till i figured out it was from my fan when it switched on. maybe your fan squeeks? sounded almost exactly like a belt but it wasnt...


I am pretty sure it's not the fan, it squeaks when the fan is not moving, so I really think it's something to do with the accessory belt... I wonder, is it serious? or just noise?

mine used to do the thing with the fan too. You sure ur accessory belt is not loose?

mine used to do the thing with the fan too. You sure ur accessory belt is not loose?


Hmm... I have not checked that. How would one go about checking to see if the accessory belt it tensioned properly?

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