Civics Kick Ass

[Rice cruiser]

In my school there are alot of kids who thimk that imports are a waste of time and money, they all have gas guzzling, heavy muscle cars i can't wait to drop a new engine and kick all there asses and prove them that imports are good cars!:smoka:

[b16b bomber]

That is so true...my friends prelude kills mustang cobras all the time:sun:

[Polygon]

Sure!

[Rice cruiser]

Muscle cars are gas hogs and are expensive to keep up imports if tuned and suped up can kick any street muscle cars ass.

[Polygon]

Now, look. I am not ripping on imports, there are a lot of imports that I like. But the truth is, a good muscle car will mow you down. Sure tune the hell out of your Honda and it will beat a muscle car, but tune the hell out of the muscle car as well, and say bye bye. Trust me, I have tuned both and raced both.

[Rice cruiser]

You do have a point, if you do tune muscle cars they will definitly win. one thing that i think is unfair is that if you put an Exhaust on a import and you get at most 10hp if you are lucky but for muscle cars you put on an exhaust and you get 50hp, thats on good thing about muscle cars. but they are gas hogs:smoka:

[Polygon]

The reason you get more bang with the exaust is because those engines suck and blow better than a little four banger.

As for the gas, doesn't bother me too much as I only take my muscle cars out on the weekends.

[Swonder67]

But the fact of the matter is, they don't make big heavy musclecars anymore. Their handling is shitty. They are like boats, and yeah, they can do burnouts pretty easy but driving around is cumbersome. My all time favorite car was a 1970 Dodge Challenger with a 440 6-pack. 6 barrels, can you believe that?!?! You hit the gas once, and you're at ahalf a tank. I've driven a Challenger, and I've also driven a 1976 trans AM, and no joke, I'd take my civic over those two anyday... well, maybe not the trans am. hehe. I loved that car.

[Rice cruiser]

A kid in my school has a gto 402 and he thinks that no import can beeat him, same with a kid who has a 350 camaro they don't know how good imports are because you can have them as daily drivers and still have alot of power and good control!!

[F20C]

The reason why Exhuast can gain 30hp on Domestic car is because of Displacement.

[F20C]

Import doesn't really mean gas saver and Domestic doesn't mean gas guzzler. That was true 15 years ago but not anymore now.

[Polygon]

And you can always improve handling.

[F20C]

Originally posted by Polygon
And you can always improve handling.

Yes you could with aftermarket parts. However the main part of how car handles is the chassis. If you have a soft chassis doesn't matter how big anti-roll bar you put in the car still have it's limits for improvment. You need a solid chassis to work with or else you be down big time.

[Polygon]

Originally posted by F20C


Yes you could with aftermarket parts. However the main part of how car handles is the chassis. If you have a soft chassis doesn't matter how big anti-roll bar you put in the car still have it's limits for improvment. You need a solid chassis to work with or else you be down big time.

True, unfortunatly true.

[blatch]

look. i love imports, and i hate domestics. but realize that YOU WILL LOSE to a Z28 '95+ period. it really doesn't matter what kind of engine you have.