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Posted by Displacement_Replacement (Member # 1428) on :
 
Anyone go by chance today? I went..I will say it was my first time to see some pro drivers. It was a bit scarry, Lingenfelter crashed pretty bad. He's ok though. He had a cavalier that fliped over after the 8th.

saw some cool cars run...saw a unibody Rx7 (looked almost stock, except a big wing) that ran 8.65 (13B), A Supra ran 7.8's and the turbonetics celica broke another record, ran 7.04 @ 202.

I also saw to all motor first gen RX7's run 10's, I think one ran 10's and the other was 11's if I remember correct.

Was a fun evening. I believe now that any car can be fast. I stopped counting the number of 11 and 12 second civics I saw. They were noisy as hell and annoying but they ran 11's and 12. There were ALOT of them too.

Anyway was alot of fun. I was gonna run in the brackets for fun but just watched instead.

David
 

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Posted by y2kgt01 (Member # 1257) on :
 
any car can be fast....... but some with 1/20th the money u would have to spend on another. example, 20 hp from a gay ass civic.... intake, exhaust, chip, cam. 20 hp form a mustang- headers. imports are a waste of money to try to make them fast.
 

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Posted by HungryHippo (Member # 537) on :
 
imports is an extremely broad term... there are I4's, I6's, TT I6's, v6's, TT v6's, v8's, v12's, rotaries many can be made fast just as easy, to a certain extent

[ September 10, 2002, 10:11 PM: Message edited by: HungryHippo ]
 

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Posted by FAFTurboTeg (Member # 1680) on :
 
yea but civics are very economic and still get 30 mpg if you put heavy turbo mods on them. Also 20 hp on a civic is more effective than 20 hp on a mustang becuase the civic is much lighter. Civics weigh 1500 pounds less than a mustang.
 

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Posted by yesIdid (Member # 58) on :
 
The debate never dies ...

Civics and Integras are trendy vehicles right now; they're also ECONOMY cars. Not hot-rods.

The day they break the 300 mph barrier-mof, I don't think they've even brokem the 200 mph barrier-is the day you may consider a four-cylinder eqipped car a hot-rod/dragster.

People can build Chevettes to run single-digit ETs, it doesn't mean they should. Mustangs and Maros, at least, have some heritage .


 

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Posted by Displacement_Replacement (Member # 1428) on :
 

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Originally posted by yesIdid:
The debate never dies ...

Civics and Integras are trendy vehicles right now; they're also ECONOMY cars. Not hot-rods.

The day they break the 300 mph barrier-mof, I don't think they've even brokem the 200 mph barrier-is the day you may consider a four-cylinder eqipped car a hot-rod/dragster.

People can build Chevettes to run single-digit ETs, it doesn't mean they should. Mustangs and Maros, at least, have some heritage .

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Originally posted by Displacement_Replacement:

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Originally posted by yesIdid:
The debate never dies ...

Civics and Integras are trendy vehicles right now; they're also ECONOMY cars. Not hot-rods.

The day they break the 300 mph barrier-mof, I don't think they've even brokem the 200 mph barrier-is the day you may consider a four-cylinder eqipped car a hot-rod/dragster.

People can build Chevettes to run single-digit ETs, it doesn't mean they should. Mustangs and Maros, at least, have some heritage .

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You guys know I am NOT a fan of 4 bangers, right? I wasn't posting this to cheer the civic.

First thing to say, I watched a 93 Rx7 2 weeks ago run a 14.2 @ 102 and a 14.1 @ 102 at sears point. he was stock except intake and 18 inch wheels. He was slower than what he should have done, except the wheels were very heavy.

He added a computer and a midpipe (replaces the cat) and he ran a 12.75 @ 110 on wed.

Now with that said, any mod on a 93 + RX7 nets tremendous gains. I understand to get a civic to do good #'s is very very expensive.

Also, a 1993 RX7 broke the some land speed record a few years ago at the bonnieville flats. It ran 240 MPH. The turbonetics celica ran 7.03 @ 202 the other day.

David.

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Originally posted by jayl:
and chuck samuels in Pro 5.0 went 6.50 @ 220 .........and thats on 27 lbs of boost......on a 390 cubic motor.......pretty impressive if you ask me........

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Originally posted by Displacement_Replacement:
GM and Ford don't hold the patent on V8's
David

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Originally posted by jayl:
how much does that rx7 weigh? just curious

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