how? civic vs viper?! [Archive]

member

05-25-2003, 12:31 PM

http://flathat.woodstream.net/ColumbusRacing/AaronsVids/Cars%20-%20Honda.Civic.vs.Dodge.Viper(1).mpeg

was the driver of the viper drunk?

Civic98

05-25-2003, 01:04 PM

that civic is fast!

GetTheImage

05-25-2003, 02:36 PM

Geez, I dunno....the Viper definitely didn't look as fast as it should be. I taunted this kid drivin his mom's Viper a while back just so I could get him to rod it..damn that thing went ;) ;) ;) Oh yeah.

Twilight02ZX3

05-25-2003, 02:48 PM

wow this video is old. If you have $$$ anything is possible

member

05-25-2003, 02:49 PM

maybe he started in 2nd?

Twilight02ZX3

05-25-2003, 02:57 PM

Originally posted by member
maybe he started in 2nd?

Or 6th

member

05-25-2003, 05:32 PM

or 83rd...

pimpinprelude

05-25-2003, 06:37 PM

nooooooo... the viper isnt real! its a kit car with a chev 305...somebody i knew from another site was there at that race and knew the guy who owned it...yea it was slow tho...

member

05-25-2003, 07:11 PM

^^^ no wonder...:paranoid:

pimpinprelude

05-25-2003, 07:39 PM

hahah yea i would like to see a civic beat a REAL viper.......:rolleyes:

AzCivic

05-25-2003, 07:40 PM

Or it could have been an 11second civic vs a stock 12 second viper.

nonovurbizniz

05-25-2003, 07:47 PM

No I read a post about this somewhere else too.. there was something afoot in that particular video...

I was actually going to bring it up in another post but I couldn't remember what it was..

It's possible though. like az said...

pimpinprelude

05-25-2003, 09:00 PM

nonovurbizniz were you on the superstreet boards?? cuz thats whare i herd it......

nonovurbizniz

05-26-2003, 04:11 PM

no... not sure probobly h-t.

pimpinprelude

05-26-2003, 08:14 PM

ooo cool....

member

05-26-2003, 08:27 PM

he(viper) probably thought to himself...

"he's only one of those fast import car wanna-be's..."

pimpinprelude

05-26-2003, 08:41 PM

yea and he probaby thought after the civic beat him,(woow i should have gotton a real viper)...

member

05-26-2003, 09:56 PM

and the guy(in the civic) probably thought to himself...

"gee, i sure am glad it wasn't a real viper..."

AzCivic

05-26-2003, 10:20 PM

some guy watching on the side probably thought to himself.....

"damn I gotta take a piss"

member

05-26-2003, 11:00 PM

and the guy(in the fake viper) probably thought to himself...

"i hope he doesn't piss on my fake viper..."

93Honda

05-27-2003, 01:23 PM

a modded honda s2000 might be able to beat a stock viper

AzCivic

05-27-2003, 01:34 PM

so could a modded civic

thermal

05-27-2003, 01:50 PM

Dude..... It's a real VIPER! I was there that night when those 2 race in Houston around the westheimer area. The guy who owns that civic is a username st00pid. If you have been around the Honda web scene, you'll know this guy, or at least will recognized his posts. This mutha is a bad ass!!!! He is a full time tuner who runs a shop in Houston with especialties on turbo tuning. I saw another project of his on the track that ran freakin low 12's consistent with a stock B18B turbo semi-tuned! I think he was boosting around 15 psi....I cant remember. Dont ask me how he did, but this guy is a freakin genius. I do not live there anymore but I can assure that it was a real Viper. :yes:

pimpinprelude

05-27-2003, 03:56 PM

ooo well.. i was told wrong.... i dont lie eather, i was just going by what somebody else said....

TonitrusEN

05-27-2003, 04:42 PM

Fastest *ALL MOTOR*civic around (not a sponsored drag car like at NHRA) was a 10.24. Anything is possible if you have the money..

member

05-27-2003, 06:39 PM

but isn't that just the NAME?

you can swap a prelude engine into a civic and still call it a civic...although the inside really isn't.

failcaleb

05-29-2003, 03:40 PM

I have a friend who has a Viper and there is no way in hell that guy was even trying to win the race. If he had mashed it on the start, you wouldn't even have been able to hear that civic over the engine of the viper and the race would have ended in half the time. I've seen a viper do the 1/4 mile before...it looked like that guy was just criusing

AzCivic

05-29-2003, 09:01 PM

the video is crap you cant tell anything from it.

and if i was in a viper and all cocky and was going to just cruise in a race and all of a sudden a civic starts pulling on me I think I'd friggin hit the damn gas and win.

this was a race, a civic vs a viper, the civic won, the viper lost. deal with it.

who the hell makes a kit car to look like a viper anyway? the time and money put into it would be worth more than most used vipers i see for sale.

member

05-29-2003, 09:03 PM

who's bitching about it?

pimpinprelude

05-29-2003, 10:03 PM

i still think its a kit........

93Honda

05-29-2003, 10:56 PM

if you look at the video real close, you can tell what made the viper lose. In the beginning both cars are reving, if you listen to when they take off one of them peels out, and if you pay attention to the viper's lane there are skid marks for a good 20-25 feet. The viper was basically spinning his tires like mad but getting nothing out of it, that's why the honda pulled ahead.

member

05-29-2003, 11:29 PM

so then the civic DID beat the viper...

ahahahahahahaha!

no buts...the civic beat the viper...

ahahahahahahaha!

AzCivic

05-30-2003, 12:40 AM

yeah thats a good excuse when you drive a viper and lose to a civic. "i didnt have traction, i have a RWD car and i couldnt hook up better than a cheap FWD civic"

i'm sure everyone will understand.

93Honda

05-30-2003, 12:58 AM

rofl

Addict

05-30-2003, 07:30 AM

thermal was there, so I'd take his word over anyone elses.

http://www.cheesefrog.com/frog/cheezevsal.mpg

Apparently you guys haven't seen this video.

93Honda

05-30-2003, 09:28 AM

damn, it sounded like that honda's engine was about to fall out of the freaking car towards the end of the race.

Addict

05-30-2003, 09:39 AM

Originally posted by 93Honda
damn, it sounded like that honda's engine was about to fall out of the freaking car towards the end of the race.
He uses a dump pipe. That's why its so loud.

ebpda9

05-30-2003, 10:40 AM

welll you guys are really splitting hairs. you are saying that the viper is a better car than the civic ? yup it is it starts at 80k brand new where a civic starts at not even 13k. the viper got smoked so deal with it. video is the proof.

93Honda

05-30-2003, 12:13 PM

true, just cause the viper has a more "powerful" engine doesn't mean it will beat a civic. Both of those videos were based on acceleration to a high speed. it's probable a lot of cars could beat a viper. Of course if they went for top speed, the civic would eat dust.

failcaleb

05-30-2003, 12:51 PM

Having rode my friends viper, I would have to disagree with the general consensus that a civic can readily take a viper. It did happen in this instance, and mad props to the winner, but I would say that a viper with an experienced driver would take a honda 99% of the time...especially at the drag strip

sc0rch

05-30-2003, 01:22 PM

the last video..i agree "thats a bad mother ****er" even the dood in the viper is blown away by the speed of that civic

AzCivic

05-30-2003, 07:19 PM

Originally posted by failcaleb
Having rode my friends viper, I would have to disagree with the general consensus that a civic can readily take a viper. It did happen in this instance, and mad props to the winner, but I would say that a viper with an experienced driver would take a honda 99% of the time...especially at the drag strip

some people just dont get it.

thermal

05-30-2003, 09:26 PM

......at the same time this civic also ran a consistent 10.20-10.30 quarter mile. I have seen that car beat other Vipers on the track. The owner and tuner of that car is just amazing man. He really knows his shit........peace out

pdiggitydogg

05-30-2003, 09:44 PM

yay cheezfrog

failcaleb

05-31-2003, 03:45 PM

Originally posted by AzCivic
some people just dont get it.

Oh, I get it all right, and my statement still stands. This civic was a 10 second car and like I said, mad props to him, but how many 10 second civics do you see on average...I'd say about 1% is a conservative figure. I'm not bagging on anybody, I'm just saying this is the exception...and credit is definitely due to the guy in the civic. I wish I knew how to do that kind of shiat to a car

member

05-31-2003, 04:35 PM

but why are you even comparing general civics to vipers?

there's no "oh but...", "if he..."

the civic one, fair and square.

there's no "if he knew how to drive..."

viper = money

fast civic = money

that's it...

member

05-31-2003, 04:37 PM

so a stock viper would beat a honda 99% of the time even if it raced a gt-tuned nsx type-s...on a gt track.

interesting...

failcaleb

05-31-2003, 06:33 PM

Originally posted by member
so a stock viper would beat a honda 99% of the time even if it raced a gt-tuned nsx type-s...on a gt track.

interesting...

That's not what I said...go back and read my post to refresh your memory. Oh and the reason that I'm comparing civics to vipers is because that is what this whole fukking thread is about. Again, go back and read the post SLOWLY. Maybe you'll get it this time

AzCivic

05-31-2003, 09:57 PM

Originally posted by member
but why are you even comparing general civics to vipers?

there's no "oh but...", "if he..."

the civic one, fair and square.

there's no "if he knew how to drive..."

viper = money

fast civic = money

that's it...

someone who makes sense.

AzCivic

05-31-2003, 09:58 PM

sc0rch

05-31-2003, 11:23 PM

Yeah maybe %1 of civics are moded to the teeth to run that fast......BUT......the point still stands.....that civic burnt a car with 6 more cylenders.....also about %1 of people around here have a viper....The $ dumped into that civic was prolly equal to or less than the $ spend on a viper.......so it evens out sorta.....

member

06-01-2003, 01:02 AM

Originally posted by failcaleb
That's not what I said...go back and read my post to refresh your memory. Oh and the reason that I'm comparing civics to vipers is because that is what this whole fukking thread is about. Again, go back and read the post SLOWLY. Maybe you'll get it this time

that's what you said...

"I would say that a viper with an experienced driver would take a honda 99% of the time"

re-read that 20 times...

the price of a viper is fair to the money of mods up into a civic to stay up with the viper...

vipers are expensive...yes they are fast to start off with.

civics are cheaper...no they are not fast to start off with.

the money put into a civic that can stay up with a viper is expensive...yes it will be fast.

AzCivic

06-01-2003, 01:16 PM

just so you know, it wouldn't cost all that much to make a civic faster than a viper. It'll take money but not near as much as a viper costs.

member

06-01-2003, 01:42 PM

how much does a viper cost?

AzCivic

06-01-2003, 02:44 PM

Like 80k$

Addict

06-01-2003, 02:57 PM

Originally posted by member
how much does a viper cost?
RT/10 (http://www.edmunds.com/used/2002/dodge/viper/100070400/prices.html?tid=edmunds.u.mipmake.pricetable..1.Do dge*)
ACR (http://www.edmunds.com/used/2002/dodge/viper/100073906/prices.html?tid=edmunds.u.mipmake.pricetable..1.Do dge*)