Awesome.
I'll be interested to know how the car feels with this new battery.
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Thanks. This has been an incredibly fun project. Not sure I can sell this car now.
Battery install was fairly simple, I just had to be careful not to get electrocuted and die. All those warning stickers send a message! Honda wants several hundred dollars (I've read between $200-$500) for the labor but it's not too bad, about 4 hours total being super careful.
So the car is quite different now. MPG is about the same, the IMA doesn't help efficiency rather it adds power making efficiency more possible because you can actually move along without having to floor it all the time. The added torque is nice, iirc it's about +30. Believe it or not the car feels "peppy" - that's the word the reviewers use and it's true. 1878 pounds moves around easy. From 0-30 the car has plenty of power if you rev it. It as VTEC too so that's helpful. It's interesting to note the torque curve and acceleration data below:
0-20 mph (s):
2.3
0-30 mph (s):
3.5
0-40 mph (s):
5.5
0-50 mph (s):
7.8
0-60 mph (s): 10.5
So sure it's slow to 60 but 3 seconds to 30 isn't bad. Any decent acceleration dies off after 40mph but still it feels quick because by then you're in traffic and about doing the speed limit.
Here's something crazy...my fuel bar (to the right in the pic below) is still at all full bars even after 100 miles on this tank. It's a 10.9 gallon tank and from what I'm reading 600-700 miles is normal per tank.
I'll be doing a few more vids in the next few weeks to document the IMA experience. My Insight videos haven't attracted nearly as many as my Fiesta or Prelude ones but I guess that should be no surprise, most people seem to have great disdain for these cars.