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My friend from work has this miracle motor (d16 - sohc) in his 1996 Hatchback Civic, its a honda motor so ofcourse it was a backyard project that he slapped together for fun and just happened to run (3 months and counting). He gots a huge turbo on it that by chance is boosting 10 psi out of nowhere, used to get 8. His motor isn't even dyno-tuned, he's running it with an auxilary fuel pressure regulator that's always on, miracle motor. We decided to run, my 1999 Camaro SS (pulled by only one axle, automatic, and on 225-60-16R...it's in a beaten stage) vs his Hatchback. Rolling at 20 mph, he took off a second early but pulled 2 car lengths ahead and not till 120 was I about to pass him, he broke. At a dead stop we both burned out til 60 then he got me by a length because he got traction sooner. He actually did pull slightly though throughout the rpm range, he beat me like this Evo 9 did. Can't wait till I get my Eaton LSD and Moser Axles in June thanks to Bush's refunds, then I'll put my 285-30-20R BF Goodrichs on and handle them stock.

 
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HaHa must be a pretty wicked throw together your friend has, I thought about turboing my integra so many times because its so cheap for parts on imports its rediculous.

 
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Time to start thinking of ricer excuses ironically haha.

 
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haha sounds like quite the car there.

 
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wait you have a SS and dont even have LSD??? the hell....nice race there, there are some imports that are no joke.

 
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he should have a posi... ummm dude your camaro is screwed up if it didn't

 
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ive been beating by a turbo civic.. but it ran 12.8's on the quarter and i got beat by a half a car..

 
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sorry for so many post... now i put about 2 cars on him!

 
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at the track?

 
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Cheap parts you say?? not acording to me... its always more expensive to tune those japanese cars compared to our... especialy over here...

 
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Maybe tuning wise, but parts wise? Its like apples and oranges. You can 'beef' up like a little b20 vtec for little to nothing comparatively. Hence why there are so many teenagers around the US in little hondas with cars they think are 'beast'. I mean think about it, how common are turbos for those cars? How common are turbos for muscle cars?

 
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Thats the first time Ive heard someone from europe use the term "expensive" lol.

 
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I agree with Phate, my friends turbo kit cost $600, the STS kit is over $4000. But it takes 10 lbs of boost to chase down a badly stock SS, any V8 with 10 lbs had better run away from Lambos. And my SS is only pulling one axle because of a bad diff.

 
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That crazy , i guess you dont need dyno to configure your car to get some good results.