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And you also have to figure, most people buying Honda's for "RACECAR" purposes aren't exactly chasing high end parts, let alone often in the tax bracket to even afford so. Most Honda guys from back in the day were sponsored by stickers of products they never bought, Ebay, and McDonalds dollar menu. So, the quality of parts usually matched that mentality and the fact they wanted to look/sound fast, but not put the money into the car to be fast or handle better.
Late 90's I had an intern with an almost new Civic that had a custom built Acura 1.9 Turbo installed. Roughly a 230-240 HP motor. It also had the fart can exhaust. He couldn't plant the HP to the street. It sounded bad but it couldn't keep up with my wife's 96 Volvo 854. I had adjusted the blow-off on the turbo, added a less restrictive air intake, and alcohol injection post-turbo. I also has sticky tires. All the Volvo's mods were to increase fuel mileage but upped the HP from 222HP to 260ish HP. City gas mileage went from 19 to 22 And highway from 26 to 29mpg. Unless you stuck you foot in it.
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Tony
NE ATL
'04 XLT regular cab 3.slo stepside
Semi retirement