FINALLY a decently fast street Honda.
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FINALLY a decently fast street Honda.
60 foot 1.613
330 foot 4.391
1/8th 6.541@114.42
1000ft 8.356
1/4 9.871@148.46mph
Car has no wheelie bars, stock glass and most of the stock interior. 2130 lbs with driver.
http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=311954&page=1
FINALLY, a FWD Honda WITHOUT gutting it out to be a tin can with wheels, and WITHOUT wheelie bars, which every FWD honda has needed to get lower then 10.0 in the 1.4 mile so far. MAD props to this guy.
330 foot 4.391
1/8th 6.541@114.42
1000ft 8.356
1/4 9.871@148.46mph
Car has no wheelie bars, stock glass and most of the stock interior. 2130 lbs with driver.
http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=311954&page=1
FINALLY, a FWD Honda WITHOUT gutting it out to be a tin can with wheels, and WITHOUT wheelie bars, which every FWD honda has needed to get lower then 10.0 in the 1.4 mile so far. MAD props to this guy.
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man that is nuts. imagine pulling up to that guy at a light and trying to race him[IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG][IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG][IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG][IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG][IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG] Thread Starter
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Rep Power: 0 Wheelie bars and traction bars are the same product, different term.
The point is (in a FWD application) to keep the rear end from loading durring weight transfer thus the name change.
This weight transfer is actually an advantage to RWD cars, since the rear is obviously the end that had the drive wheels and therefore can use the weight transfer to get added traction, so they are not needed in all but the highest HP RWD applications.
On very high HP RWD cars they tend to lift the front end off the ground, and thus "wheelie bars" are installed to help counteract that (and to stop the car from flipping over).
While not needing to stop the car from flipping over in FWD apps, wheelie bars (err TRACTION bars as FWD guys have renamed them for their application) brace the rear end of the car allowing much less weight transfer to the rear of the car, keeping most of the cars weight, over the front wheels, where traction is at a premium.
And, yes some use hydrolic systems for auto leveling, but the same is true for the RWD applications. Sometimes springs arnt exacting enough over varying load to be useful, hence the liquid hydrolic systems.
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The point is (in a FWD application) to keep the rear end from loading durring weight transfer thus the name change.
This weight transfer is actually an advantage to RWD cars, since the rear is obviously the end that had the drive wheels and therefore can use the weight transfer to get added traction, so they are not needed in all but the highest HP RWD applications.
On very high HP RWD cars they tend to lift the front end off the ground, and thus "wheelie bars" are installed to help counteract that (and to stop the car from flipping over).
While not needing to stop the car from flipping over in FWD apps, wheelie bars (err TRACTION bars as FWD guys have renamed them for their application) brace the rear end of the car allowing much less weight transfer to the rear of the car, keeping most of the cars weight, over the front wheels, where traction is at a premium.
And, yes some use hydrolic systems for auto leveling, but the same is true for the RWD applications. Sometimes springs arnt exacting enough over varying load to be useful, hence the liquid hydrolic systems.
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Rep Power: 0 I don't think it looks like ***. Sure, its an older car, but the body is perfect, paint is nice 'n shiny. I'd drive that thing on the street, esp to be able to smoke whatever the f.. wanted to test me!
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Rep Power: 0 Agh! Where's the body kit? Where's the aluminum wing??? You mean body kits and wings don't do anything helpful to our car? [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/IMG]
But I see wings on Skylines, so wings must be good for our car. Any civic that wants to be fast should have one. [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/IMG]
I apologize, but I hope people take a good look on that car and realize there's no plastic or metal junk on the car, and it'll smoke just about any other civic out there. And if you talk about some cars being looks, vs some car being fast, ask yourself which car looks good:
1) The civic with a fancy kit and fenders that gets utterly destroyed when raced against a non-economy car
2) The pretty regular looking civic that'll burn just about any sports car out there?
I'm probably opening a can of worms, but HA! Bring it on.
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But I see wings on Skylines, so wings must be good for our car. Any civic that wants to be fast should have one. [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/IMG]
I apologize, but I hope people take a good look on that car and realize there's no plastic or metal junk on the car, and it'll smoke just about any other civic out there. And if you talk about some cars being looks, vs some car being fast, ask yourself which car looks good:
1) The civic with a fancy kit and fenders that gets utterly destroyed when raced against a non-economy car
2) The pretty regular looking civic that'll burn just about any sports car out there?
I'm probably opening a can of worms, but HA! Bring it on.
-Aki
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Rep Power: 0 Sweet car!!! AND a sleeper, I like it better already. I couldn't imagine driving that thing down a quarter mile in under 10. Holy ***** dude. The more I think about it, I would like to get an 88-91 CRX and put a B16 in it. That really wouldn't be that expensive, maybe 3 grand for a car and engine (more for parts probably) Then I can have my daily driver civic and a car to work on and make it actually fast. I don't think I'll be going to beat a 10 sec in the 1/4 anytime soon though. Haha.
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Rep Power: 0 the only kits that do anything for your car are mugen! They increase arodynamics. but like most of us rice boys (myself included), we are all show with either lil go to non. My kit is heavier, and my spoiler does nothing for aerodynamics. ans actually from what I have read, unless your doing 150 no spoiler will help. my car is a show car Not a race car. Well atleast eventually!
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Rep Power: 0 I have heard indy car style spoilers, F1 etc... work at speeds as low as 45 mph. They are pretty big and efficient. I don't know if any commercial spoilers would be that good. It probably takes some wind tunnel time and that would be expensive. Plus, most of us don't need it, so the maker probably doesn't bother. I'm just sayin its possible to have a spoiler actually do some good, but it'll be at highway speeds or up I'm thinkin...
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