About a week a go i was on my lunch time heading home with my type-s, that i think looks really nice since i change my rims for 17 inch chrome and dropped the car for 2 1/4 inches. I wasn't expecting anything when this teenager with he's accord stop beside me at the red light. I saw the big tacometer on is dash and the guy looks at me and start to rev is car. I started reving and we were both waiting for the greenlight. " I know that down here (quebec, canada) all the kids swap into there honda's b-16, b-18 and h-22..." so i wasn't confident even do he had a 92 accord! Bang, green light; i launch about 2800 rpms and floor it untill i it 8000 rpms, perfect shift into second for him and me and now it's to close to say who will win, shifted into third and now ia have 2 bumpers in front of him and were doing 120 kmph (72 mph).
We had to stop but we were near the highway so he propose me to go on it. I said let's go! When we arrived on the highway it was perfect, no car at all! So we sart the second lunch at 40 mph: Totally different story, he keeps up with me untill 110 mph and after that, ciao man, he was getting far behind...I stoped and i ask him : so what do you have and he said to me a h-22 but he didn't change the original exhaust so the flow wasn't good...He asked me for a last launch at 0 mph: we stoped in the midle of the highway and at third horn sound we guned it,: It was like the first race but at high speed he coudn't keep up with me...I believe that the fact he has is original exhaust, wich is preddy small, could make a remarquable difference.
Notice: i only have a C.A.I for engine mods, and pull out spare tire and the tools for lighter weight....Voilà

nice kills man. that kid needs to get some better exaust for sure, lol.

You really put chrome rims on a type s? : (

I know chrome rims are heavy but it really looks good. Plus, the roads here in Quebec (Canada) are really rough! Chrome rims are solid, nice but heavy...So i did the compromise between performance and style but to be honnest, im really not sure if there a difference or not?! It's only 17 so it's not the weight of 18 inches. I even took one of my 16 inches stock rim and the chrome one on a balnce and the weight difference was only 2 pounds. Finally if i wanna go on the track i can put my stock rims and that,s it and maybe next year ill buy other rims. What are u suggesting me???:naughty:

I don't see the connection between rough roads and the necessity for chrome rims.

But regardless of that, good kills... even if it was against an H22 Accord :wink:

I don't see the connection between rough roads and the necessity for chrome rims.

But regardless of that, good kills... even if it was against an H22 Accord :wink:

It's not a necessity, it's because chrome rims are more solid than the light weight rims. One of my friend bought nice light weight rims for he's wrx and after 1 summer season there good for scrap. Believe , the road down here comes with plenny of potholes that can damage your rims real bad and real quick.:banghead:

how are chrome wheels more solid? they're just alloy wheels dipped in a chrome bath. guarantee your wheels aren't stronger than a set of lightweight forged wheels

how are chrome wheels more solid? they're just alloy wheels dipped in a chrome bath. guarantee your wheels aren't stronger than a set of lightweight forged wheels

tht's what wverybody told me... and maybe there,s dirfferent quality for lightweight rims? To be honnest, i don't care, i just love chrome rims and and a few persons told me that chrome rims are usually solid rims...voilà

I do know that it looks relly nice on my car.:smokin: