I have to agree on this point. Besides that you have a minimum of 10 years
of technology. I would be willing to bet that a TR7 with equal
modifications could out handle and outrun a Honda Civic. In fact I have
done it many times.
BUT the fact remains that these morons are not making them handle. THey are
building them to drag race. Starting with an econobox platform they just
have no clue. Most are mot using a 2 door lightweight car like a Civic SI.
If I invested as much money in my car as these guys do to make a Civic go
low 13s I would have a 10 second car in my Z28. And it is topless. They
dont make a topless Civic. Unless you count the now dead Dull Slo. I have
owned both a CRX Si and a Dull Slo and do not regret getting rid of either
one. I hated them both.
Cant wait til my house is done and I can bring my cars home.
John
> > Some of us middle aged people actually modify the Hondas into
> > fairly worthy
> > competitors. My 1990 Civic Si has been graced with a non-US 135
> > HP DOHC engine,
> > tuned SS exhaust and new suspension components.
> >
> > At the risk of drawing substantial abuse, I will state the following:
> >
> > My Si will out-accelerate, out-corner, out-run and generally
> > out-perform any
> > Triumph car ever built. This is not a brag, simply an engineering
> > certainty.
>
> How much are you willing to bet ????
>
> I should probably point out that your car is modified ... and I would
wager
> that (just for example) Tim Suddard's Ro-Spit will make it look like ... a
> Honda !
>
> More powerful engine ? But a non-US TR5 had 150 bhp, as it came from the
> factory ... with the potential for substantially more.
>
> And even with my lowly TR3A, I've yet to meet a Honda on the street that I
> can't out-corner. I don't have the raw power (my current engine is nearly
> stock), but I do have this bad habit of passing people with tricked-out
> Hondas on freeway entrance ramps.
>
> Randall
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