How do people win races with Honda Civics?
 

Nothing against Honda. I know they're great cars... but the honda civics only get about 100 horsepower (I know the new ones get more, but I usually see people with the older ones)































I know you can soup em up and stuff. But I even know people that win races with them without hardly doing any mods. And most new normal commuter cars out there will get a few hundred horsepower.































Is there something else other than horsepower I should be taking into account?

Hi mate to partly answer ur question its mostly all about power to weight ratio, these civics out there don't weigh all that much, standard they are about 900 kgs or 1980 lbs and i've seen people reduce the weight in them to about 700 kgs or 1540 lbs which with a few mods would pull not alot of power but with a car that light u can beat alot of other cars out there.































alot of people transplant the standard civic engine for the integra type r engine which in most countries is double the power of your average 88-97 standard civics, from what i can remember (correct me if im wrong) the 1st type r engine makes 141 kw or about 188 hp at the flywheel.































the only main drawbacks to these civics is the limited modifying u can do to make a substantial increase in power without turbocharging or supercharging in fact alot of people with these cars use nitrous oxide which is a massive increase in power and torque, the other drawback is keeping the wheels from spinning, the more power u get the more trouble it is to get ur tyres to grip.































i hope this helped answer ur question and goodluck

im sure theres plenty of other factors, but boost and bumping compression and technology can go a long way now a days