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Originally Posted by DaX
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Originally Posted by Compaq888
rh77 have you seen the famous video of a civic hatch smoking a yellow EVO??? This just proves you don't have to buy a 30k car in order to go fast.
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For roughly $10,000 I was smoking the **** out of Mustang GT's and nearly all 4 cylinders with my Civic.
If you're willing to do the work yourself, you don't have to spend that much to blow away the competition. |
My aim wasn't to go out street racing, and I'm not a mechanic. I wanted a one-off Rally car that I could have some fun with, and the EVO was the first one to fit the bill in the 'States. I had been watching them on the WRC for a few years at that point, and really wanted one. The EVO-8 isn't designed just for straight-line stuff -- if you dragged it too often, the clutch would be fried in no-time. I had a '99 Civic Si (B16A2) with no major mods that I could've easily modded to go fast in a straight line, but to have an AWD car with a warranty, recaro seats with 5-point harness points, four doors, a usable trunk, A/C, and a hand-made carbon-fiber spoiler seemed like perfect fun. Especially by putting Winter tires on in the colder months. I couldn't wait for the snow and ice. SUVs were sliding all over the place and here I was having a blast, in control. The pull from the turbo in 2nd and especially 3rd gears was truly memorable -- in any weather condition. The rear LSD locked-in when slip was detected and off you went. The steering was super-quick and handling was almost too good to keep up with. I could go on, but I won't bore you with the how much fun this car was (and I got to drive it to work every day) :-) It's out of my system now, and I'm driving a de-tuned Integra at 15 MPH under the highway speed limit. Who would've figured :?
-RH77
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