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Originally posted by 89transam
[B]What would seem silly to me, would be to dump a bunch of money into this car for performance. I mean think about it, A jackson supercharger kit probobly costs upwards of $3000 and it would still be a 15 second car. You can buy an entire "fast car" like I mentioned above for that price.
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Agreed, but yet I still have grocery getters with huge body kits and 18 inch rims revving on me everyday thinking they are fast. Where I'm from if you are going to make your car look fast, you need to be able to back it up. You don't have to have the fastest car at the strip, but people see a modded up car and want to see what makes it go. A stock engine under the hood makes you look like a poser. These are often the ones who get hurt because they drive aggressively and their cars are still set up in stock soccer mom configuration but all the extra stuff they do to the car throws the handling off even more. It sounds like BoCo has that part okay (I think I read in another thread that he has done some or will do some suspension work on it).
Bottom line is Civics aren't race cars. You can dump alot of money in performance mods in them, and they are still slow in the 1/4 mile and the FWD doesn't handle road courses well without a professional driver. The other option is do a lot of glamour work on it and look like a wannabe. Maybe the scene is different in your area, but I can only talk about what I know.