$1750 for 6.5 HP, a story of rice....

[white00GT]

it only made 6.5 more hp that before??? Oh I know what the problem is.... it's a RICE!!! they must of not put the 10hp each stickers on the car before they made the dyno pull


Stickers..getting rice over the 100hp mark for years =P

[Unit 5302]

Originally Posted by white00GT

it only made 6.5 more hp that before??? Oh I know what the problem is.... it's a RICE!!! they must of not put the 10hp each stickers on the car before they made the dyno pull


Stickers..getting rice over the 100hp mark for years =P

Okay, so the Civic weighs in at 2700lbs.

Stock = 105whp or 25.71 lbs/hp
Modded = 111.5whp or 24.22lbs/hp

Those modifications probably cut between 2-3 tenths off the quarter mile time of the car. Though ridiculously expensive for the mods that were made, it's every bit as effective as the same mods on the Mustang.

The base model Civic was never really made to be a performance vehicle, but I wouldn't doubt that an additional 6.5whp is "noticable" on a car like that. Keep in mind, that's 6.5whp peak, not average. The modifications may have made a much larger difference over the entire power band of the engine.

People often point out that a catback system on a 5.0 Mustang is maybe worth 5 to 10hp, tops, it helps out a great deal ABOVE where the peak power of the engine is made. After all, most of us don't shift a 5.0 at 4200rpm the last time I checked.

The modifications made the car were legitimate. It's not like they added a tornado to it or something. Yeesh.

[Dark_5.0]

Lets dont forget the 96GT project car on HP TV. Every bolt on ever made and an aftercooled supercharger and only put down 308 to the wheels.

I put down more than that on motor.

For real ricer performance the DSM's are were it is at. My Talon traps 109mph @4000ft with modest mods. and can pull a 1.7 60ft on street tires. Yeah it breaks alot but it is a fun little car.

[Ieatcamaros]

Originally Posted by Dark_5.0

Lets dont forget the 96GT project car on HP TV. Every bolt on ever made and an aftercooled supercharger and only put down 308 to the wheels.

I'd like to see that one. Not that I don't believe you, but that was also the first year of the 4.6 in the stang too. Somewhere I read that the 96-98 stangs were among the slowest mustangs in stock trim.

[Skyman]

300rwhp for a 96-98 blown gt is pretty good.

[Dark_5.0]

This car has every bolt on imaginable and an aftercooled supercharger.

Hammers old car put down over 400RWHP with similar mods.

[The Deuce]

Originally Posted by Dark_5.0

This car has every bolt on imaginable and an aftercooled supercharger.

Hammers old car put down over 400RWHP with similar mods.

Hammer also had motorsport heads and intake(baiscally a Bullit).

[84LX89GT]

Originally Posted by Dark_5.0

For real ricer performance the DSM's are were it is at. My Talon traps 109mph @4000ft with modest mods. and can pull a 1.7 60ft on street tires. Yeah it breaks alot but it is a fun little car.

Yeah a guy at my work has a Talon that will run 13's......i think he's driven it a couple times. (1 turbo, 1 engine, numerous half-shafts, etc.)

Launching an all-wheel drive car i imagine can get expensive.

[redsn95vert]

I've got a better one for you guys.....I forget what the mag is (import tuner or one of the other import mags) but I was looking at it at work and in the back they have a section called power pages, they take a stock civic hatch, dyno it then do a performance tune up, dyno it, headders and dyno it, cat back system and dyno it, etc...
At the end they do about $1500 worth of parts alone and gain only about 10hp

Give me $150 and I could get 10hp on the dyno alone