i cant beat this one civic

[drifting240sx]

there is this one 97 civic ex that i could never beat. he just has headers and everything else stock. and i have i/h/e regular bolt ons. i also need rear shock. does that really matter to get a good take off? how i know i need new shocks is because when i hit a bump then gas it there rear just jumps and is all over the place. sometimes that happend when i wanna peel out. so wut could i do to beat him? oh yeah he does this one thing that always beats me. whenever he gets close to red line he lets go of the gas then pushes down the cluch and lets go then gases it again for like 3 times. he always picks up speed doing that. thats bad for the tranny right?  

[DSC]

I think once you get near redline your supposed to shift.  :/ odd...I would say he can't drive but he's beating you so...

[zephyr]

uhm...theres no way an almost stock civic is beating you when you have i/h/e unless there's something wrong with your engine or youre shifting bad...maybe he's just a really good shifter...otherwise you should be slamming him

[drifting240sx]

well all i know about my car is that it has a lot of miles on it like 158000 miles. my cluch is going out on me and i need new rear shocks. i shift on 6k rpm and i shift really good. when i rode in the civic the guy keeped gasing and cluching it for 3 times and he realy picks up speed doing that right before red line then he shifts. i dont know y im losing

[240meowth]

i don't exactly get what you mean by clutching @ redline and let go gas and get on gas again.... do you mean he revs up his engine before he goes into the next gear?  i know it's bad for the clutch, but dosn't the help big time on the accleration of the next gear?  i do it...

[Nismos14]

ur car is messed up, and the clutch going and the shocks arent helping get that clutch fixed and race him again

[DragonReborn214]

You sure thats all he has? he is prob at like 140 hp, and you should be around 175....

[sykikchimp]

dude.. pathetic.. sounds like you need some more practice with that stick.. If your afraid to hurt something in your transmission, you shouldn't be racing.

Not to be harsh..  Just saying, driving fast is hard on a car.  Things break, and engine/drivetrain life is shortened.  Sometimes you really gotta tear into a clutch to get that #### honda that keeps fuckin you up.

(Edited by sykikchimp at 12:41 am on Jan. 30, 2002)

[drifting240sx]

i know i shift good its just my clutch is going out on me. and i know that he has dc sport 4 to 1 headers only. and how i know this is because my friend and i broke in his car and saw it. we hate him.

[Nismos14]

u sure he doesnt have a manifold with a TURBO bolted on?!?!

[hideyoshi]

Nevermind the headers, are you sure your friend is still sporting a D-series engine under the hood?

[Nismos14]

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i know i shift good its just my clutch is going out on me. and i know that he has dc sport 4 to 1 headers only. and how i know this is because my friend and i broke in his car and saw it. we hate him.
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what the #### man u broke into his car just cuz he beat u in a race?? thats a lil over-board....... and ILLEGAL!!

[chickenmanq]

Replace your shocks, then race him. &nbsp;It sounds like you loosing contact with the ground in pushing the gas. &nbsp;I'll be you're losing because of that lack of control on your drive wheels.

[drifting240sx]

we didnt break in because he beat me in a race. it was because he messed up my friends car and he wanted to get even. also he left his doors unlocked. and i am positive he has a d series motor and no turbo

[SHIFT]

your rear end is doing that because you probably broke your rear end mound, i should know it happened to mine and when i got on it the rear end would shimmy.

[SHIFT]

excuse me imeant to say rear end mount. peace out. as for the honda situation somethings wrong.

i think when hes reving between shifts hes probably messin with you cause your getting beaten. because there is no advantage too a pause between shifting

[BenNs13]

i personally think he got some laffing gas...haha.....cause it's been tested in my &quot;auto S13 coupe with bald tires and all dead shocks&quot; i've ben able to beat most civi EX with the basics...or at least keep up really close to them....and i ain't got shit in my car...maybe i have just been racing alot of DX's with EX's stickers......who knows....

[Grant]

um if he left his doors unlocked, thats not called breaking in &nbsp;:biggrin: j/k but why does he have headers, and no intake and exhaust? and is he gassing it 3 times or hitting the rev limiter?

[Nismos14]

ahhhh grants right hes probably nailing the 8000 rpm rev-limiter...... good point man