Help me drive

[KaMaKaZiPyRo]

Ok I have a 1991 honda civic hatch with a ZC engine 89', and a short ram intake, well everytime i race i get beat, lol, its gay, but when should I shift, this is for everyone who owns a zc engine, in first my RPM's redline at 4000 or around there, and after that it just seems like its laggin, cuz i shift then slam on the gas, and my RPM's jump from about 1000 to 6, 7000, i hate it cuz then i gatta wait till like it catches up or sumthin then i can slam the gas again, but i only gatta deal wit it for a lil cuz i know a guy wit a four door civic who always beats me, lol its a SOHC engine wit CAI, spark wires, and muffler tip, he always beats me and i dunno if thats spose to happn, hes got like 160Hp i think though, but the same guy knows a place where we can get b18c's with about 270Hp or sumthin around there, and its a stock engine, about 5 0r 600 dollars for the swap, i cant beleive it yet though, but ill post again if its legeit, but plz sumone tell me wat im doin wrong or do ZC's just suck ass?

[CivicSpoon]

Are you gasing it before you let the clutch pedal back up most or all the way? If that's the case you're not giving the clutch enough time to grab and engage. So try not to gas it so much and go easy on it till you know where it engaes and know how to drive it regularly. But if the clutch pedal is up most the way or all the way, then you're clutch is f***ed; and it's not gripping and just spining. Either one of these would cause your RPM's to jump high very quickly.
There's no way your buddy has 160hp with just those mods on a SOHC engine; the most he could have is 135-140 at the crank. And there's no way there could be a stock b18c that has 270hp; the Type R has 200hp stock. Unless of course the motor is turbo'd but it sure as hell won't cast just $5-600. Sounds like the guy you know is spitting out bulls**t to you.

[91civicDXdude]

Is this a joke post?

ts a SOHC engine wit CAI, spark wires, and muffler tip, he always beats me and i dunno if thats spose to happn, hes got like 160Hp i think though

he same guy knows a place where we can get b18c's with about 270Hp or sumthin around there, and its a stock engine,

[civic_geek133]

^^ my thoughts exactly

[BLU CIVIC]

hmmm...he's a spy...

[KaMaKaZiPyRo]

Well, he showed me that engine inna magazine, but it was at nite and i could barely see it, butimma go look at it tonite and then ill tell yall, and he prolly has other shit on his engine but i didnt really ask, but ya i think i juss cant drive cuz im gettin a lil better imma kep racin him though, lol, ya my clutch is fucked cuz i burned it every once inna wile i can smell it.

[CivicSpoon]

"The Beast" Crate motor. Remembered the ad in the Aug Modified mag. Here's the only link I could find, and no price; page 8: http://go.mrgasket.com/pdf/74026G.pdf
You're better off buying an ITR complete sway than spending all the $$$ you'll have to shell out for that thing. I'm sure it's reallly expensive, but 270hp and 185tq is nice.

[Hilikus Funkin]

yeah sounds like to me that your clutch is messed up and what do u mean ur car redlines at 4000 in 1st?

[travagliante]

hmmmm maybe it gets 160hp on a stock engine is because its got a High Performance muffler tip. Come on people youve never seen those the add like 20 hp at the wheels.
lol
um im thinking you a bad drive and it seems like he has that much.

[Cjz89civic]

Is crack part of your daily regimen. Sort of like counting calories but you count rocks?

[KaMaKaZiPyRo]

lol wat do u mean, anyways when i said it redlined at first it was redlineing in first at 4000, cuz when it got too 4000, it would get loud u know like im redlineing, and the RPM needle wouldnt move past there it would just like move from like 4000, to 3500, u know like when it redlines but ya, and the ghuy SAID he had 160hp, i dunno, i didnt wanna go against his word cuz i dont know all that much and the "mods" i said he has were the obvious ones, i dunno if he did anythin internally, i doubt it but i dunno, o ya, and the intake manifold didnt look nuthin like mine, i dunno if it was stock, but i like pointed up, like intead of facing the left it went strait up, i dunno wat the deal wit that is. But i know a stock D15 or 16 i forgot has 125 or sumthin, cuz his cars a 96 LX, and i think a CAI adds 10-15 so thats 135 i dunno the rest, but ya...

[civic_geek133]

Originally Posted by KaMaKaZiPyRo

i think a CAI adds 10-15 so thats 135

your luckey if a intake on our cars adds 5

a CAI adds no noticeable change in performace

[KaMaKaZiPyRo]

O shit, foreal? I didnt know that, but whats the point of even getting one then? Cuz like wen im lookin around online some say up to 25 Hp, but what about that manifold, those come stock or what?

[BLU CIVIC]

intake, full exhaust (header, cat, cat-back exhaust) adds somewhere in the range of 15-22 bhp which equals about 10-8 fwhp

[KaMaKaZiPyRo]

o shit, thats it? damn thats, sad, so how do people get like 3 or 400hp?