Trans Am, Mustang, and....Civic?
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Trans Am, Mustang, and....Civic?
Okay this happened like 2 months ago when I was back home on leave for 3 weeks before shipping out to Hawaii...me and some friends went to this spot where cars usually hang out for racing and whatnot. Well I was riding with my friend in his 97 Transam slush. It was slush but it was fast. Well a guy in a 2006 Mustang GT stick comes up and asks my buddy about his Trans Am b/c he had the chalk on his windshield from the race track earlier which had his 1/4 mile time(14.7 or something?) anyways a 94 civic hatch comes up and the 3 of them decide to do some racing. I know street racing is a bad thing and should never be done but....I was a pasenger so I was just there for the ride. Well first up the Civic and the Mustang do a race from a dig. After 3 honks the Mustang leaps off the line like a bat out of Hell and is quite a bit ahead of the civic. At this point I'm thinking "yeah right like that little hatch stands a chance in Hell against that 300hp pony"....and to my surprise the civic catches up with the mustang and stays on his rear and in the end the Mustang wins by a nose. At this point I'm thinking that the Civic must be turbocharged and all but came to find out later that it had an H22A dropped in. 200+hp in a 2400 lb car definitely stands a good chance against a 300hp 3400lb car. It was cool to see the hatch keep up with the stang. My buddy's Trans Am didn't fare as well b/c he didn't get any traction off the line. It would have been pretty darn close if he had gotten traction and it probably would have helped to have the 6speed.
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My reasoning exactly, when I get done with my "project(s)" I'll have at least 1 2500 lb car with about 300 hp, and possibly 1 more 2700 lb with 350-400 hp . Its all about the power-weight ratio.
I have a hard time believing the Trans Am lost though...was it an LS1? Even with the auto it'd still run a mid-high 13 in the 1/4. I had a '00 Camaro Z28 with the same engine and transmission as that Trans Am, and I absolutely PWNED a new Mustang GT on the highway. Took him from about 65-70 mph to 120-130, he was a good 4-5 carlengths behind.
I have a hard time believing the Trans Am lost though...was it an LS1? Even with the auto it'd still run a mid-high 13 in the 1/4. I had a '00 Camaro Z28 with the same engine and transmission as that Trans Am, and I absolutely PWNED a new Mustang GT on the highway. Took him from about 65-70 mph to 120-130, he was a good 4-5 carlengths behind.
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Drop that engine into my 2400 lb. Prelude Si....now that would be a sleeper and it would kill everything that gets in its way of total world domination.noob5,000,000 wrote:could you make the F20 or F22 (S2000) work in a FWD honda? that would be intense.
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Probably could, I don't know if Honda uses different bolt-patterns for its longitudinal (S2000) and transverse-mounted engines. If they use a different pattern you just need an adapter plate I think.noob5,000,000 wrote:could you make the F20 or F22 (S2000) work in a FWD honda? that would be intense.