Thinking about making a Honda drag car.

[from zero]

Please, PLEASE don't

1) Paint it a flourescent color
2) Put stickers all over it
3) Put HONDA across the windshield
4) Lower it
5) Get a huge spoiler
6) Get any spoiler
7) Get a bodykit
8) Get Tires and wheels within an inch of one another's diameter
9) Get a muffler that sounds like a thousand bees in a coffee can
10) Get fake dual exhaust
11) Get head/taillight covers
12) Make the interior flourescent

 

[Buddy_Christ]

10) Get fake dual exhaust

was in a shop my buddy worked in years ago. he starts showing me a mustang a customer had brought in, mid-80s model. ugly ass body kit, all sorts of cosmetic shit added to it, 1 foot wing, stickers in the windows, chrome rims, you name it, and if it was availible in the mid 90s, this guy had it on the car.

buddy tells me to look the car over and tell him what's wrong with it, besides looking stupid as hell. i saw dual pipes on it, then saw the emblem that labeled it as a DX (i think, whichever one was the 4-banger). asked him how in the hell the guy had dual exhaust on a 4 banger. he then reached down and grabbed the second exhaust tip and lifted up on it. the owner had actually cut out part of his bumper to mount a chrome tip 3" long ON A HINGE! pathetic.

 

[RottenWillow]

Please, PLEASE don't

1) Paint it a flourescent color
2) Put stickers all over it
3) Put HONDA across the windshield
4) Lower it
5) Get a huge spoiler
6) Get any spoiler
7) Get a bodykit
8) Get Tires and wheels within an inch of one another's diameter
9) Get a muffler that sounds like a thousand bees in a coffee can
10) Get fake dual exhaust
11) Get head/taillight covers
12) Make the interior flourescent

Have you ever seen a girl do all that dumbass crap to their car? Those are strictly wigger boy mods to impress other wigger boys or to attract our (girls') attention. But I feel your irritation FZ. I dislike that stuff as much as you.

kaalgsio I already know about Jackson but thanks for the link.

Crak I'm not planning any exhaust mods right away. The hp to be gained is fairly modest and the bank pretty high, plus the pain in the booty factor. First we're only doing the Vortech supercharger (centrifugal) and a new ECU. I want my car to still sound stock so when we do open up the exhaust it'll still be a pretty conservative note.

 

[Buddy_Christ]

ok, but think about this......

you're going to be shoving more air and fuel into the engine. that's fine, IF IT CAN GET OUT!

what a lot of the idiots on the street don't realize is that when they put these high-flow fart cannon exhausts on their cars, if it's not compensated for in the intake, you're losing power and could possibly (more likely than not) be creating a lean condition for your engine, shortening it's life. bad stuff there.

however, you're planning on going and bumping up your air/fuel mix that's being shoved into the engine, which DOES require a higher exhaust flow. it has to balance out or else you're not going to run right. if you're shoving too much into the engine and it can't get out, you're going to bog down a lot and you'll end up moving slower than you did before the mods.

your best bet is to match it all up and do it all at once. yes, it will cost you more to start off with and might take you a bit longer to save up the money to get all the parts necessary, but it's definetly worth it.

 

[BlkDragon]

What's real car in your opinion?

And here's my retort.
90hp per litre from a normally aspirated stock engine that typically lasts 300 thousand miles or better isnt a piece of crap. And for about 3K you can consistently run the quarter mile in 11 seconds.

3k

 

[Buddy_Christ]

oh shit! i missed the $3K 11 second 1/4 mile thing.......

gonna take a lot more than $3K to get something down to 11 second 1/4 mile times, unless you're spending $60K and upwards on the car to begin with.

 

[bwood]

I'm looking for anyone with experience creating major hp in a late model vtec Honda. I'd like to get a '99 or newer Honda with a twin cam vtec and add a centrifugal Vortech supercharger and an aftermarket ECU to manage the new fuel requirements.

Both my bf and my stepdad will be helping me and we have all the tools we need. We just lack experience and both me and my bf would look to correspond with someone who's done this kind of thing before.

Thanks.

first tip...never mention boyfriend during
request for help from board inhabited
by the anabolically enhanced males of the species...

mentioning a girlfriend though, may
actually help...depends on the pics...

 

[sweed]

To add at least 15 hp... add racing strips

To add 10 hp, put the windsheild washer fluid lights on the hood

and to make it really supped up, cut a Coke can in half and stick it on to the back of the muffler