Was it a GLS? Or GLH, I forgot what they were called. They look cool
though, all turbo ect...
Bill
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Klaus Wilkens wrote:
> 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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> > >1998 RC Black Sport V8 auto 3.55
> > >Geoffrey Gaskin
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