snootalope

This is kind of funny..

Last night after a concert I get a call from a friend who just bought a new Civic with a 'turbo'.. So I stop and check it out. Its got 18's and one of those huge steel lookin spoilers, it is kind of a nice car Anyway, he shows me the exhaust, and it was this gigantic chrome canister that made it sound like a semi truck.. I just wanted to see the 'turbo'.. He pops the hood and right away taps on the Air Filter box and says 'there it is' all happy and proud of himself.. What a joke right? To make a long story short, he got me off the line but not even through first I passed him and made it worse after that.. It was the Civic EX if anyone cares..

SonicDust187

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I am sorry to say it but your friend is a moron.

snootalope

I know huh!! Thats the second time I've had a damm Iowa person try and tell me a Turbo is an air filter!

SonicDust187

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Reminds me when my friend first saw an intercooler on a car and he thought that it was a radiator. Well I got $10 bucks richer and now he knows what it is.

snootalope

Kind of off the topic here, but I'm thinking I really need to do something to get me off the line alot quicker (besides drop a manul trany in it).. I was thinkin just cut my muffler off that is on there right now.. Is there really that much resistence in there? If thats gone, all there will be is that CAT all the way to the engine right? Good idea? Bad Idea? I'm even tossin around the idea of making it duel exhaust!!!

NickStam

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that doesn't count

snootalope

What doesn't count?

acMAX

your friend is......funny

NickStam

iTrader: (3)

beating civic ex's

snootalope

I had some guy in a 2k2 Eclipse try and tell me the same thing!! He was a total jackarse!!

I ended up beating him too.. twice Some people I tell ya!

Canuck

I agree beating a civic with just bolt-ons is wasting bandwidth, but the turbo coment was kinda fuuny. How would anyone call an airbox a turbo? I have never run across this rationalization so I am curious.

voltman

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Race a 540.

snootalope

that would suck..

I didn't know beating those Civics wasn't a big deal.. i was just kind of happy, and it was my first "new" honda experience !

SkyDaver

Well, you really owe him $10.

An intercooler is a radiator.

The difference is that the heat exchanger that almost every liquid cooled engine has, and is called the radiator, is used to cool the engine.

The intercooler uses the same principles (but not always using liquid to absorb the heat) to cool the air going into the engine (usually in conjuction with a turbo charger.)

And your air conditioner evaporator is a radiator, and so is the condensor.

max107

Agreed That Civic's pretty slow for a "turbo".

CitrusSpeed

when he pointed to the airbox and said there was the turbo, what did u say to him? we seemed to miss that part of the story

snootalope

My friend and I just laughed and shook our heads at him.. we didn't want to rain on his parade ya know..

Craig Mack

That is truly pathetic man. Sorry if this seems harse, but, even if you are automatic, you should have raped him off the line. Their 1.8L's put out, what, 50lb-ft of torque? Civic EX's do 0-60 in around 9-10 seconds.

..Are you sure you weren't running without your spark plugs?

Maxima06071

Or a GS400 from a stoplight....
Yeah your "friend" is a nOOb...mistaking an airintake for a turbo charger.....well K&N calls their filters "Filter Chargers" Just a bunch of putzs if you ask me..

snootalope

ouch man.. that is harsh.. cut me some slack, I spun a little bit off the line but once I grabed it was all good..

Craig Mack

Well if you spun a good amount and he is 5spd and dropped the clutch at 6,000 rpm's i'd understand a little more. But still, unexceptable. I forgive you though

Vyrus

iTrader: (4)

You need to reseach your Civics more. A 5spd '00 EX runs about the same times as an auto Maxima. Si is slightly faster than that. Although most Civics are jokes, there are still many you can't blow off. Remember there are many more Civics running 12s than Maximas, and there are Civics running 11s and 10s.
-Cyrus

ivelweyz

my motto: " if you can't spell it, don't do it!!!"...

PharoNDmist

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snootalope

funny..

Craig Mack

A civic EX won't do 0-60 in 7.4.....and I don't consider something that uses a whole differnet engine, tranny, ect. to be a civic. A car that uses it's original engine is the only car that gets credited for that time IMHO. No civic could come close to those #'s with their stock engine.

nismo2020

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civic ex's 5spd with all the regular bolt ons would get demolished by a bone stock 4th gen, autos are a little closer but same results.


my motto: " if you can't spell it, don't do it!!!"...

Cumalot

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No way, an auto Maxima should be faster than a 5spd '00 Civic EX. The SI is about even with an auto Maxima, maybe edge out the auto Maxima if the SI driver know what he's doing.