Civic Gets Dusted And Sheads A Tear
06-02-2004, 01:20 PM
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I really don't get the appeal of the Honda Civic. I can see from the standpoint of the daily driver, uses the car to go to work and back, that the car gets decent gas milage and has just enough umph to get up to speed. What I can't see is what all the rage amongst ricers is. I think their good cars, I just don't have 15K to make one fast, or maintain a stock car that is continuously torn down by crapy driving habits.
Yesterday I was driving my Rx4 into town.
At a series of stop lights a Honda Civic four door pulled up next to me, HUGH spoiler (that no matter how mutch you explain to the driver of the vehicle that in a front wheel drive a spoiler like that will only reduce traction to the drive wheels, he will still belive otherwize due to the self imposed delusion of performance gain that formed from the shame of knowing the spoiler is only for looks
), tacky grey body-kit that probably is the third one replaced after shredding the first few on speed bumps and roadkill, dual coffee can exhaust (only one is actually connected to the exhaust system. the other is visibly spotless, no tarnish, the difference between the two is night and day), cop-bait clear tail lights, and to top it all off the custom red/yellow paint job looks like a monkey could have done better coating its pooh in paint and then flinging it at the car.
The driver is the average young MTV punk that obviously hasn't been exposed to the real world. (Pardon the pun. I mean 40 hour weeks, little to no play, and your only hope is to win the lottery on Saturday and not even bother calling in on Monday ) The car is full of teenie boppers, crammed in like clowns in VW, faces literally pressed to the glass and everything. LOL
He rev'd his engine several times while the light was red. I despise that weedeater lack of torque sound. Light turned green so I took of as I normally do, as if I have to get up to flying speed before running off a short runway. I didn't even notice the Civic until his flyby. As I pulled up next to him at the next light he was grinning and bobbing his head harder than most mentally ill people I've seen.
I launched at 5k rpm spinning through first, then second but got traction quickly enough to proceed to redline through the gears. At about 110 I costed to the next light and waited there.
Now here is the good part. My windows are usually down when I drive as they were yesterday, Civic boy finally gets to the light so I ask "What mod and motor?" He replies in the most sheepest voice ever "Its Stock."
STOCK!! WTF! All that glitz and glamor on his car along with his aggressive show driving and its only stock. WTF? His teenie bopper friends are all wooping and holler, laughing their asses off at him.
before I can pull away from the stop he asks "What kind of car is that man."
I replied "It's a rotary and thats all you need to know." but I think all he heard was It's a rotary..... because I dropped the clutch half way through and split.
Yesterday I was driving my Rx4 into town.
At a series of stop lights a Honda Civic four door pulled up next to me, HUGH spoiler (that no matter how mutch you explain to the driver of the vehicle that in a front wheel drive a spoiler like that will only reduce traction to the drive wheels, he will still belive otherwize due to the self imposed delusion of performance gain that formed from the shame of knowing the spoiler is only for looks
The driver is the average young MTV punk that obviously hasn't been exposed to the real world. (Pardon the pun. I mean 40 hour weeks, little to no play, and your only hope is to win the lottery on Saturday and not even bother calling in on Monday
He rev'd his engine several times while the light was red. I despise that weedeater lack of torque sound. Light turned green so I took of as I normally do, as if I have to get up to flying speed before running off a short runway. I didn't even notice the Civic until his flyby. As I pulled up next to him at the next light he was grinning and bobbing his head harder than most mentally ill people I've seen.
I launched at 5k rpm spinning through first, then second but got traction quickly enough to proceed to redline through the gears. At about 110 I costed to the next light and waited there.
Now here is the good part. My windows are usually down when I drive as they were yesterday, Civic boy finally gets to the light so I ask "What mod and motor?" He replies in the most sheepest voice ever "Its Stock."
STOCK!! WTF! All that glitz and glamor on his car along with his aggressive show driving and its only stock. WTF? His teenie bopper friends are all wooping and holler, laughing their asses off at him.
before I can pull away from the stop he asks "What kind of car is that man."
I replied "It's a rotary and thats all you need to know." but I think all he heard was It's a rotary..... because I dropped the clutch half way through and split.
06-02-2004, 03:53 PM
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good job...
as for most civic racers, well, they like to call some swaps as stock, being the swapped engine is in stock form, prolly to hide some of their shame as seeing how the 3000 dollars spent on their gsr swap has netted no real gains.
as for most civic racers, well, they like to call some swaps as stock, being the swapped engine is in stock form, prolly to hide some of their shame as seeing how the 3000 dollars spent on their gsr swap has netted no real gains.
06-03-2004, 09:48 AM
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All I've done after getting the little beast running was to replace the motor with a fully rebuilt 13b, swaped the 4 speed for a 5 speed from a 84' Rx7 GSL, and have a custom exhaust installed replacing the restricting stock one(header back, no emissions, 30 year old cars are exempt from smog tests here).
My ambitions are by fin de anyo to have a 20b under the hood with a six speed. Im all about the sleeper and no one expects any thing from a mid seventies rotary they don't even recognize.
I'm still working on the pics.
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P.S. Thanks for the replies.
My ambitions are by fin de anyo to have a 20b under the hood with a six speed. Im all about the sleeper and no one expects any thing from a mid seventies rotary they don't even recognize.
I'm still working on the pics.
RE420B
P.S. Thanks for the replies.