Hate to break it to you but I made my Omni run 12s on a lot less than it
took to get my Dak into the 14's
KW
-----Original Message-----
From: mike d. (Michael Z-Sykes) <msykes@su.edu>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 5:02 PM
Subject: RE: DML: fast rice rockets -Reply
>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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