In my opinion, no matter what you do to it, no matter how fast it goes, it's
still an Econobox. It costs an obscene amount of money to make a honda
as fast as a Dak. For the money you put into it, you could've bought a
Dak and made it even faster! I've read a lot of import magazines and most
of those guys have a lot of radical mods that make the car non-emissions
legal and non-streetable. A 12 sec Civic doesn't run like a 12 sec Dak on
the highway, and you couldn't make a 12 sec Civic a daily driven car
(theoretically you could, but maintenance would be outrageous). If you
want a good luagh about imports, check out
http://www.riceboypage.com it talks all about the various arguments of
Import vs. Domestic and all the BS that goes with it. It's pretty amusing =)
-mike d.
>>> Jason Jennings <jason@spray-tech.com> 01/25/99 10:10am >>>
I saw the sweet car program on TLC last night. Yeah I hear some of
those rice rockets pull the 60s in under 4 seconds.... Most were
hitting ets in the 11s....wow.... Of course they were all juicing the
hell out of their cars, and messing with the timing like crazy. I even
saw a Honda mini van run a 14.2, holy cow bat man. I think I just
messed my pants. Not too mention the driver was the mom, oops no
offense. That little bus is kicking the fat boy's grocery getter of
Horse Power TV, hahahahahaha..... I hear there are a number of rice
rockets hitting the track in my area. The show I saw was checking out a
strip in Southern California.... There must have been hundreds of
Hondas....
Jason
1/25/99 10:12 AM
-----Original Message-----
From: Geoffrey Hackbart [SMTP:ghack2@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 25, 1999 2:14 AM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: DML: fast rice rockets
Ya, I saw the same thing. I also saw the import drag races on
ESPN2 one
night. There were some pretty fast cars there. Running betw.
10's and
15's. But most of these had NOS on them, among other things.
They were
pretty fast, but they all got beat out by one car. What was it
you ask?
Well, it wasn't American, but it wasn't Jap either. I was a
newer
Porsche. It ran like low 9's. I'd take that one. :O)
Later,
Geoffrey
~~98 DAK CC SLT 3.9L Metallic Red~~
>Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:01:39 -0800 (PST)
>From: Geoffrey Gaskin <lilblakv8dak@yahoo.com>
>Subject: DML: fast rice rockets
>To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>Reply-To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>
>Did anyone else see the show on TLC about cars. At the end
they had a
>spot about all the rice burning civics and such. THey talked
about
>how bad they were with NO2 and a laptop computer. Some
were
running
>in the 9's and 10's but most were lucky to see 15's. Sounded
like a
>really big beehive. One civic had a set of big slicks... on
the
>front! Looked really funny doing a burn out. Wonder how they
power
>brake? Anyway, just thought it was amusing and wondered if
anyone
>else had a good laugh about it.
>
>
>
>
>==
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