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GlassWolf wrote:cut springs redefining bump-steer

Hahaha, true true

jron wrote:The Supra is one of my all time favorites, it's japanese made, but I think it separates itself from all the civics and accords with that engine and tranny.

Yay for supras (proud owner of a 1990 turbo/targa)

geolemon wrote:Cavaliers and Focuses

It's FOCI! lol, sorry my buddy has an *snickers* SVT focus. I told him it was a waste of an SVT badge that could've rightfully gone on a lightning or moose-tang.

jonathan wrote:If you can't laugh at that, you're probably being laughed at

TRUE DAT!

glasswolf wrote:big difference between actually tuned cars, and riced wanabes.

FO. SHO.

I'm so damn sick of going "wtf is that...it's 30* and someone's weedeating? Oh no, that's just a civic". It's annoying. Some guy up the street from me is violating the "if your wing is taller than you are" rule with his black 96 civic ex. Huge fart can, huge wing, huge attitude (that's gotten him rocked more than once), and no taste what-so-ever.

Audiophile wrote:Some guy up the street from me is violating the "if your wing is taller than you are" rule with his black 96 civic ex. Huge fart can, huge wing, huge attitude (that's gotten him rocked more than once), and no taste what-so-ever.

I shut down a few of those.. they're fun :)
The attitude part helps.. that's how ya get em to wager cash on beating the "old land yacht" before you open the hood.

You know its not that hard to do up a nice import. All you have to do is keep it clean, and use the shape, and lines to your advantage. Same thing you do when tricking out an any other car. I think the problem lies in the axcess to hundereds of poorly designed parts, and next to nothing price. One example is the factory HFP ground effects. They are probaby 3 times the price of the stuff you find on ebay, but they look 100 times better. The same goes for a good exaust, or any engine mod. Sure you can get a fart can from pep boys for 50 bucks installed, or you can spend a couple hundred on a nice one down the road a ways.

glasswolf wrote:I shut down a few of those.. they're fun
The attitude part helps.. that's how ya get em to wager cash on beating the "old land yacht" before you open the hood

Sho nuff. He thinks he's hott stuff. He tried to race my 92 ford ranger--I laughed at him. He probably would've taken me, but when you have to resort to racing mini-trucks--you know you're slow.

jeremyc wrote:You know its not that hard to do up a nice import. All you have to do is keep it clean, and use the shape, and lines to your advantage.

This is so true. And I agree with the factory ground effects. I like nice clean "lip packages" instead of full on body kits *gags*.

To whomever said it earlier--huge "gaping" front bumpers aren't that ricey, as long as there's a "huge gaping" front mount behind it :)

Even some more aggressive body kits are pretty sexy. Veilside makes some sweet kits, but most people would rather drop $250 on a cheap knock-off from eBay than spend the $2,000 for the Veilside kit.
Then they find out they need another $1,500 in body work to fit the kit to their car and seal up all the gaps, and make the knock-offs actually fit the car.. and another $500 to shoot the kit to match the car afterward. This is another reason you see a lot of really bad bodykit jobs floating around on civics and cavaliers. People get in over their heads by failing to research the total cost involved before diving into a project car.

i have nightmares of those body kits. thats why you also see 2 tone cars where the body kit is one color and the car is another that dosnt even go with it.

We had a mitsubishi lancer in our shop today and it had a bunch of stickers on the door. Enkei, Nos, pirelli all that crap.

Its funny though because he had Oz wheels on it as well as Caliente tires. But, he didnt have those stickers on his door.

It was also automatic with a huge coffee can muffler on the back.

Stupid ricer.

"ricer" is the most annoying word ever...

I've got a Civic, not an Accord actually (but I can't tell you how many times people have confused it with an Accord! ).

I've had several people also ask me "what kind of body kit is that?"
"...er, there's no body kit. Car's just low. Well, I did have the factory moldings and skirts all painted body color, if that counts."


I bought the Civic originally as something to trick out for autocrossing...
You can't get much better than a Civic for a performance handling platform.
...not only is it light weight (any Cavalier is too, I'm sure), but it has (or rather HAD - pre-2001 ) a "real" suspension under it - thank god for a dual-unequal-length A-arm suspension... camber that increases with body roll angle? That's a great formula for grip.
...put some performance parts to replace the soft stuff - springs, shocks, anti-sway bars, wheels and grippy tires - and the car embarasses pretty much anything heavier than it. It's great fun.

But of course then I couldn't help but put a system in the car - and odd but true - it helped neutralize my handling, It actually helped my autocross times.
Now, I'm redoing the system, and it's looking like it's going to be a wholly heavier package... so I might be autocrossing my wife's Beetle this year instead...

(aw crap, that's right... the VW is an automatic... )