View Full Version : Gutted by a gutted HONDA


Bavarian_6shot
10-09-2005, 08:44 PM
1:30am lastnight: I pull out of the warehouse where the Finn's hang out. Pulling out onto 290, I cross traffic and head home.

I'm a little tired, and minding my own business [Going speed limit with the top down.]. I have a 30 mile trip on all backroads. As I start hitting my favorite twisties, a buzzing sound approaches me from the rear accompanied by a set of dim headlamps. Its another one of those stupid ricers. :help I start to get on it [I know these roads and want to play 'round with him].

We get into it, but soon I realize, he's hanging with me. Next, we break onto a LONG straight and I hear him drop a gear... [He's going to pass me?! Well, there IS a passing lane.] Sure enough, he pulls out and lets into it. I drop 3rd @ 45mph, expecting to leave him lookin stoopid. Sure enough, he came to my door and I left 'em.

Round 2, He pulls back out. Same scenario... WTF!? He edges past me and cuts infront, still on it. [sniff sniff, what is that smell!? Nitrous. Are you Kidding.] His exhaust is making my eyes bleed. We're on it, lay down some more twisties and come up to a known police speedtrap. I give him a directional towards a large well lit parking lot and we both turn off. "Sooooo, whats this all about?" "Bone Stock" "BULL" :stickoutt :rolleyes

We get out and start chatting. He pops the hood on this stock looking early 90's Civic HB. SURPRISE!!! Vtec swap, 12:1 compression, 110 oct, CAI, no CATS, piggy backed EMS, and a NX kit. "Could smell you the moment you passed me." Ends up he's a really cool kid with plenty of knowledge on cars. We keep talking and he's riding on 5-way adjustable koni's, lightened it up by gutting the interior, and to top it off tells me he's dyno-ed at "223 hp".

It was fast, but I stuck right on his tail even with the nitrous. :D He said it got really scary @ +120mph.

Summary: Raced a gutted, tuned, nitro-powered Civic Si swap. BUT I DIDN'T GET GUTTED. He had to spray to pull. :D Ended up talking in a parking lot for ~1hr, he was very cool.

steves325i
10-09-2005, 08:47 PM
wow, at least he stopped to chat. that coulda been a hell of an ego-crusher right there. i would say a valiant death all in all.

91notchback
10-09-2005, 11:31 PM
theres not too manny that will take that car but there out there. jood race thow.

Bavarian_6shot
10-09-2005, 11:51 PM
Ego crusher? Yeah, but I knew when he pulled even with me at first, this wasn't your average Civic. I guess he lives down the road from me.

He didn't really make it clear about the nitrous, but it was clear he pulled on me the second run.

Flawless
10-10-2005, 12:13 AM
OT:

That is the best sig ever!

MillerTime1nine
10-10-2005, 12:51 AM
.......nice story, to bad you lost but it was a great story.

speeds5
10-10-2005, 01:27 AM
What RPM does 3rd put you at 45mph?

XR7Gto328iS
10-10-2005, 01:54 AM
OT:

That is the best sig ever!

I was going to post the same thing. Makes me laugh every time I see it.

slocar
10-10-2005, 02:06 AM
What RPM does 3rd put you at 45mph?
I would imagine pretty damn low.

CDCJON551
10-10-2005, 02:21 AM
a stock M roady with 3.23 gears at 45mph should be 2nd gear. 2nd gear should pull to around 60 then 3rd to 90mph. you probably could have had him. but nice run. at least the guy was chill

MtechnicE36
10-10-2005, 05:35 PM
yeah, i had that happen once, this kid in a worked crx that was a complete sleeper and some mustang double teamed me. I was trying to catch the honda and the kid in the mustang was just sliding sideways down the highway, smoking the tires like crazy. I was so distracted i think i bounced hard off the rev limiter in 2nd and 3rd. By then it was over. The highlight of this was when i let off, he didnt and i saw a flame and huge cloud of smoke coming from the honda about a half mile up the road, and the 2 of them pull of onto the shoulder and get out. If done properly those things are no joke, at least from a roll, and in a straight line lol. Some kid around here was making close to 600HP in a civic, but he had like 40 grand under the hood. Apparently he got beat up by cops when he was a kid and got some huge settlement, but it was an annuity, so he just kept taking the payments and doing shit to the honda

Bavarian_6shot
10-11-2005, 11:56 AM
yeah, i had that happen once, this kid in a worked crx that was a complete sleeper and some mustang double teamed me. I was trying to catch the honda and the kid in the mustang was just sliding sideways down the highway, smoking the tires like crazy. I was so distracted i think i bounced hard off the rev limiter in 2nd and 3rd. By then it was over. The highlight of this was when i let off, he didnt and i saw a flame and huge cloud of smoke coming from the honda about a half mile up the road, and the 2 of them pull of onto the shoulder and get out. If done properly those things are no joke, at least from a roll, and in a straight line lol. Some kid around here was making close to 600HP in a civic, but he had like 40 grand under the hood. Apparently he got beat up by cops when he was a kid and got some huge settlement, but it was an annuity, so he just kept taking the payments and doing shit to the honda

Yeah, Im still waiting to win the lottery. Meh, Then I'll beat hondas! :devillook

giterdone
10-11-2005, 12:03 PM
nice story. I love talking with people aftwards. Too bad, up here, I'm always on the way to do something. So I just have to keep driving and settle for a nod/wave/thumbs up.

speeds5
10-14-2005, 01:33 AM
Thats what I was thinking, if he was in 2nd, he prob would have won.

a stock M roady with 3.23 gears at 45mph should be 2nd gear. 2nd gear should pull to around 60 then 3rd to 90mph. you probably could have had him. but nice run. at least the guy was chill

Hugo
10-17-2005, 10:22 AM
Apparently he got beat up by cops when he was a kid and got some huge settlement, but it was an annuity, so he just kept taking the payments and doing shit to the honda

:rolleyes