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Old Nov 23, 2003
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Impressed with road manners

If it's not obvious already... I think its kinda stupid to fool around on public roads.. .but I kinda broke my rule tonight.
It should be known I went way out past the boonies into boofee on a deserted road in broad daylight (as in, not at 3 am on a populated highway through downtown) before I did this, but I took the car up to what I would consider "way too fast" (I'll leave it up to you to figure that out).
Once I finally got "movin", I was rather impressed with how well the car remained planted to the road. It didn't seem to quiver or lift at all (aside from feeling the road quite a bit more), but Honda did something damn right and this thing has a pretty good bit of downforce on the nose. Now I can't wait to put this thing on a road course where I can go "way too fast" and not worry about anything at all.
I know most of you have already figured that out... but I was quite surprised to find out how well it stuck. That was the first time in 27000 miles I tried that.
All I'll say is I was somewhere above 3rd gear, but not to 5th yet (playing redline tag of course.)
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Old Nov 23, 2003
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with my springs and rims, the car is very stable at high speed, not nervous or twitchy at all. If not for speed limits I would have no problem driving over 100 on the highwat all the time.
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bad justin.....haha just kidding. you need to play with your car a little more to know how it feels. I suggest driving it fast on the shoulder in the middle of traffic...that always works. Just kidding....
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Old Nov 24, 2003
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I get almost 90 in third
I've taken my 2001 civic to what it shows on the speedo as 138mph before I backed down
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yeah depending on mods you can expect 84 to 88mph NA..in an EX
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mods wont change your top speed in a gear. You can possibly get to that speed faster but your gears limit your speed. I know you already know that just clarifying for people who dont
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And I know all the vetrans in this thread already know
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