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What context? You were the second post on the thread and answered OP's (very general) question with this: Your answer is wrong. 70W-75 or straight 75 weight is what is "supposed" to be used in these cars, per Honda's recommendation of Honda MTF, which performs in that range. 75W-90 oils...

Honda MTF is not labeled with a weight, and Amsoil's 5W-30 MTF bizarrely uses the wrong (motor oil) weight scale instead of the correct one (gear oil). I don't blame you for being confused. You have to dig deep in the specs to figure out what is going on. Honda MTF supposedly has these...

I wasn't making a point about preference. You specifically said "75w-90 is what it is supposed to use for gear oil on these cars" and that's completely and objectively wrong.

Yes that's exactly what I'm saying, not sure if that is true for @johnloov who you were replying to though.

I would echo your experience on my Tacoma that calls for 75W-90 (Redline MT-90 is great, very slick shifting compared to the OEM fluid) however I'd note your location and put an asterisk on using MT-90 (instead of an oil with a viscosity closer to Honda MTL) in other parts of the country that...

I don't mean to single you out because I've seen plenty of people repeat this, however your post was first and shortest. The owner's manual recommends "Honda MTF" which (see below) is equivalent to a 70W or 75W. From page 805: Our cars would be the ones "without auto idle stop" that require...

If you have a Motive power bleeder for doing your brakes/clutch, you may have noticed that Motive does not offer a Honda/Acura adapter for it. The CTA 7030 adapter gets mentioned quite a bit for solving this problem, but it's plastic and the other adapters I have for my Motive bleeder are...

The ATE and Bosch fluids seem like great options for a daily driven sports car if you keep up with the maintenance. One thing to keep in mind with brake fluid, as a general rule of thumb: DOT 5.1 absorbs water faster than DOT 4, which absorbs water faster than DOT 3. If you truly want the...

You'd think wrong, lol. When it's -20°F out, your clutch pedal will not move as fast until engine heat gets into everything, if it can. It's also one of the very good reasons to delete the CDV, because it exacerbates the problem.

It matters in the cold, as I mentioned above. Higher viscosity fluids impact the operation of the clutch when it's frigid out.

If you're not tracking the car, honestly any DOT4 or DOT3 will do. The difference in boiling points remains with the higher-end fluids, but boiling brakes is something extraordinarily hard to achieve in street driving outside of coming down a mountain pass with no engine braking. This is a...

So to start this debate up, I'd also recommend Castrol SRF for certain applications but not changing it a minimum of once a year on a street-driven car. Castrol's recommendation for SRF is 18 months. However, Catrol's recommendation is based on the intended use of SRF, which is racing. It...

You'll spend more time thinking about it than it would actually take to reinstall the spring. The clutch pedal assembly is meant to be worked on/replaced the same way much of this car is engineered. Unplug two sensors. Remove clevis pin to master cylinder arm. Remove three bolts from firewall...

So I want to be as clear as possible on this point: the pedal feel and the pedal weight are only tangentially related. This purpose of this exercise was not to make the clutch pedal heavier, that was a side effect. The clutch pedal is still among the lightest of the higher-performance cars...

The CDV delete is the only thing that really made my MkV Supra drivable/enjoyable. BMW's version of the CDV seems more intrusive than Honda's as I don't really notice it in the ITS, but it's currently warm out and these things have a magnified effect in the colder months when the fluid is more...

I'm asking you to argue a conditional hypothetical in support of your subjective opinion that clutch pedals feel better when they're less linear. I didn't insinuate that you ever said that a heavier helper spring would be better, what I'm saying is that if less linear clutch pedals feel...

Okay so I just have to repeat myself: Speaking subjectively, is it your subjective opinion that a clutch pedal feels better the less linear it is? Is that the argument you're going with? In that case, can you argue why installing a heavier helper spring wouldn't make the clutch pedal feel better?

Wild to me that people will talk about a subjective difference when I went wayyyyy out of the way to provide objective measurements utilizing a load cell and then published the data for free. Purely math here, Pearson's correlation coefficient or "r". For the stock setup, r = 0.89 For the...

You've experienced the FL5 with and without the assist spring in order to make such an affirmative statement, yes?

We aren't even talking about the same spring, and yet you're still shouting me down. There is a difference between a return spring and a helper spring that is explained in the OP. Our cars have a separate return spring built into the clutch master cylinder. That still exists in my car and...