I was driving on the fastlane(two lane highway) doing 75 when this civic to my right started to race me. I just floored it on 6th and he was only 2 cars behind me. I didn't know they were that fast bec. he stayed on my tail the whole time.

 

There are alot of turboed Civics running around out there.

 

6th has no pull! You should have dropped it to 5th and left him behind. I often run in 5th at 80+ MPH when in heavy traffic, just to give myself maneuverability options. I always drop to 5th when I'm doing any signifigant accelerating.

 

I used to have an Si and they are decently fast once they get above 5K rpm but my Z would spank my old Si even modified. Someone would need to spend 7-10K to be able to keep up with a Z.

 

5th? sheez.. 4th! Even 3rd if he's only doing 75mph.. blip that throttle and drop it! 3rd will run up to about 85-88 before shifting into 4th.

Then you'll see the Z take off

 

Agreed, 6th really isn't a "power" gear. Definitely should have stepped down to fourth, possibly 3rd if you really wanted to let it loose.

 

uhh.... yea dude, u need to go back to driving school. obviously if u leave it in 6th u will not get much pull. esp if you're doing under 70 almost anything would be able to keep up/

 

Dude,

You should have double clutched it and dropped it to 3rd or 4th, believe me you would have left him.

 

I eat SI's for lunch

 

I raced a heavy modded new body coupe style Civic Si with a Turbo.. I raped him.. He ran a 14.7@97 with a 2.6 60'.. And were talking HEAVY MODDED with TURBO.. He was like 5 car lenths behind me when I crossed the 1/4

 

haha -- you guys run some pretty pathetic SI's ---- my boy only has about $2500 in his SI, we did a 2nd gear and 3rd gear pull --(from a roll of course) and i couldnt pull on him with myZ! -- oh - and ill mention that his car is also ALL MOTOR! -- some people just dont know what there doing with their hondas

 

I agree. It seems almost all of the Hondas I see at the track that have potential are just dumping the clutch off the line and doing almost as big of a burnout as they did in the waterbox with their street tires

 

I just have one thing to say...

 

not really that -- they just dont know how to build them properly -- they go to pepboys and get apc rice parts and whatnot -- hondas are very potent car in the right hands --- my 92 hatch would have kept up with my Z ---- but that got stolen -- oh well -- ill rebuild

 

Oh yeah, so what were his mods.?

 

3" custom intake
ITR intake mani
KOs header
carsound cat
custom madrel bent piping with ES muffler
70mm tb
no ac-- no ps----- and lightened a bit
toda spec b cams --- full toda valve train ---- toda cam gears --- and titanium retainers -- toda timing belt
obd 1 ecu -- chipped by JUN for now

i know its hard to belive -- and i build honda motors -- we instaled his valve train and cams ourselfs n **** -- but i didnt think hed be able to keep up with the Z -- i was prety impressed myself!!

from a stop though id probaly spank him, in the launch at least