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Look how many members have turbo? And alot of others that aren't on these boards. Every car company is coming out with some sort of tuner addon car except honda. And those companies should know that civic is one of the most modded cars out there. They made turbos for the other models so why not ours? Maybe once the new models come out
...Every car company is coming out with some sort of tuner addon car except honda...They made turbos for the other models so why not ours?
exactly...there are turbo setups for some retarded cars (1954-1979 Volkswagen Beetle, for example...), but not for one of the most popular tuner cars in the world?...that sucks much...
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They say rigidity has been increased in the 7thgen. Does that make a handling diff?
Why is the 7th gen EX faster than the 6th gen EX. They have the same HP. Do we loose less to the wheel? (stock vs stock) Does it have to do with gearing?
I would say no because the car is old and has prolly lost hp over time (unless you're really good about maintenance.
My mechanic told me (so I don't know exactly how true it, but does kinda make since) that most Hondas as they get older, get some carbon dewposits on the heads, mostly if they are driven slow all the time and the carbon is not blow out. Anyway this small amount of carbon in the piston heads can actually raise compression a little and give you more power. He siad he has seen as much as 1/4 of an inch of deposite on the heads of some Hondas, then he shrugged and said, then soem young kid gets the car, revs it up and blows the head gasket because of the higher compression. Don't know how true it is, but makes a good story either way.
The 7th gen civic is faster in every trim line than the 6th gen civic.
Except in the case of the Si. The 6th gen Si is faster than the 7th gen Si.
As for handling, I think that yes, the 6th gen civic generally does better in auto-x than the 7th gen. zzyzx could give you a definite answer on that though.
not true about the si, my dad has a 7th gen si and i have raced 3 6th gens with it and stayed dead even i mean not a inch diffrence with all but one which had i/h/e which pulled about a car on me
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My friends have a 96 w/sri and 98 EX manual w/cai. I have a 01 civic manual LX. They are just slightly faster. Their drivers side window is like 1 or 2 feet ahead of mine until about 70 or 80. Not much of any difference at all. We are all good shifters as well. I have beaten Base RSX's in my basically stock LX. Id say its all up to the driver, and if 2 drivers of the same skill are driving, and the older EX is slightly modified, it would win by a couple hairs.
My mechanic told me (so I don't know exactly how true it, but does kinda make since) that most Hondas as they get older, get some carbon dewposits on the heads, mostly if they are driven slow all the time and the carbon is not blow out. Anyway this small amount of carbon in the piston heads can actually raise compression a little and give you more power. He siad he has seen as much as 1/4 of an inch of deposite on the heads of some Hondas, then he shrugged and said, then soem young kid gets the car, revs it up and blows the head gasket because of the higher compression. Don't know how true it is, but makes a good story either way.
you wont really gain more power from the carbon deposits. what it WILL do, however, is unseat the piston rings if enough of it builds up. carbon build up is bad in every sense of the meaning.
not true about the si, my dad has a 7th gen si and i have raced 3 6th gens with it and stayed dead even i mean not a inch diffrence with all but one which had i/h/e which pulled about a car on me
you wont really gain more power from the carbon deposits. what it WILL do, however, is unseat the piston rings if enough of it builds up. carbon build up is bad in every sense of the meaning.
Yeah, like I siad, a greasy mechanic said it, I don't really believe it my self. I think when I was talking to him we on the subject of how my '94 civic DX was faster than my '03 civic EX stock for stock, but I say it was the fact that there was over 300lb difference and the DX back then had nothing but an alternator on the motor (todays DX has power steering too).
