1989 240sx vs 1994 Integra LS

[Self]

Originally posted by Self


Very very true, have a very good friend who drives one
As for 240s here...One of those near me too. If you guys remember an old member/moderator here and back at PH, her name was Ryuuko, when she used to come over and chill/race with me, I think one of her friends had a 240 and he claimed to be in the 10s. I could be wrong on that though, not positive they were friends, but they both used to come over and race. Either way, both my friend's civic and that 240 are VERY impressive cars

Hah! Guess I spoke to soon...Was just talking to a buddy on AIM who knows the guy with the "10 second" 240...He lied about being in the 10s. It's a 12 second car, still fast of course, but a long ways off from 10s.

[mynismo]

Originally posted by carrrnuttt




This is why I asked for street cars. First off, just like I told KrNxRaCer00, don't mention the race-dedicated cars. If you wanna go that route, the low eight-second FWD car of Stephan Papadakis runs a 4-banger that originally came in an economy-class Honda, and wasn't originally turbo-charged. Also, his crew's efforts, compared to HKS's with the 180SX, is still technically amateur. The 180SX is running a Skyline motor...a motor that came with a turbo stock. The 180 is also a no-money-spared project from a world-class company.

Now, if you want to compare apples-to-apples, you can check-out Adam Saruwatari's drag NSX, which is similar, as it runs a 6-cylinder configuration, and is a dedicated drag-car. It runs low 7's, and has a motor that originally came with the car configuration. The NSX motor, we all know, was never configured for turbo.

There are a lot of documented, street-legal, 10-second Civics in the U.S., of which I showed you one example in the video. Show me your street-legal, ten-second Silvia/180SX/240SX here in the U.S..

there was one on ebay that claimed to run 9's on street tires with like 800hp, but it was powered by a skyline motor. rb26tt i think. but it was street legal.

Not that I don't believe that there are those cars, it's just not as numerous as Hondas, because of initial cost, and cost of maintenance...which was the point I was making. The 276WHP 240 that somebody mentioned that cost 7grand...I can potentially create a 300-400WHP Civic for that much money...if the money is distributed correctly with no concern for the looks of the car. Hell, hybridsol's/dblovrhdcamron's low 10's-high 9's CRX cost them about 4grand.

i don't know much about hondas. how much would it cost to get one in the 10's? for a 240 it would probably be around 16-18 g's. you can pickup a 12 sec sr on ebay for 8 g's.

[S14Kyle]

Originally posted by mynismo

there was one on ebay that claimed to run 9's on street tires with like 800hp, but it was powered by a skyline motor. rb26tt i think. but it was street legal.

It was an RB25DET (skyline gts motor), and yes, it was street legal.

[fatninja19]

When all you guys mention street legal, in which region do you mean? A lot of 'street legal cars in Ohio may not be so 'street legal' in California. Perhaps the more accurate term to use here is 'streetable'.

[greenvillian]

The kid that Tat is taking about with the GSR swap in a hatchback is true but he ran a 14.1. I saw the timeslip. He spent 3500 on the whole setup because he put it in himself. Now that is 6500 left over and with that he can do internals and boost it and he would have a low 12 sec car. And buy the way that 14.1 run was on snow tires hehe!