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MadMachine
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Oh lets not even talk about "The slow and the cheesy." That movie PISSES ME OFF! First of all, that blower sticking out of the hood of the charger...FAKE! Second of all, come on people, you can destory all the eclipses and civics you want, but they don't make Chargers anymore and enough of them were ruined by Dukes of Hazard, so why are you destroying yet another one of the very few big mean cars left? Also, the scene where the Charger smokes the tires and lifts the front end...that's LAUGHABLE! In order to lift a 3700lb car, you will need slicks, period! If your lifting the front, it's because the rear is really hooking into the pavement, and NOT smoking the tires off the line. Total condraction of what they tried to portray in the movie. I could go on and on for a long time about this, because there is just so much crap, but hey, it just backs up my view on those little "Pocket Rockets." 9-10 seconds is the best they can run, they aren't streetable, and they explode very often! Bearings need to be replaced after almost every run in a 9 second ricer. In fact, I've seen someone try to skip it for two races, and he heated up the crank so bad that it sheered and sent the entire rotating assembly through the bottom of the motor. It should be illegal to take an economy car, spend that much money on it and it still be slow. Besides, even after thousands in rims and tires, and tens of thousands in motor work, all you still have is a civic, nothing more. A civic, known for being an economy "Sensable" car worth little to nothing compared to how much you spent on it.
If you do what I did, and go buy yourself a real car, not only do you have the pride of owning a peice of history, but you have a car that you can put into the 8's or 9's if you want, drive it 7 days a week on 93 octane, and will continually go up in value as time passes, unlike a civic, which just becomes an ever increasing peice of shit as time passes. Example, right now I'm building a 540 BBC for the Chevelle. Even after I put that motor in the car, the car will not go down in value, because I will be keeping and bagged the OEM motor. Which do you think is worth more, a 1970 LS6 454 making 500ft/lbs of torque and 450 HP, or a 99 civic Vtec engine making an entire 160HP, and pitiful torque? Yet we spent nearly the same in original purchase price, so who really got the better deal?
If you do what I did, and go buy yourself a real car, not only do you have the pride of owning a peice of history, but you have a car that you can put into the 8's or 9's if you want, drive it 7 days a week on 93 octane, and will continually go up in value as time passes, unlike a civic, which just becomes an ever increasing peice of shit as time passes. Example, right now I'm building a 540 BBC for the Chevelle. Even after I put that motor in the car, the car will not go down in value, because I will be keeping and bagged the OEM motor. Which do you think is worth more, a 1970 LS6 454 making 500ft/lbs of torque and 450 HP, or a 99 civic Vtec engine making an entire 160HP, and pitiful torque? Yet we spent nearly the same in original purchase price, so who really got the better deal?
