Meanist Civic you'll ever se.....errr I mean hear

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I love it. I can't wait to see and hear the video of when he gets it done.
 
Its the ultimate sleeper car. I can see it now you hear the V8 and are looking all around for thinking that surely can't be that civic making all that noise.
 
There's already a video of it, Fred showed it to me.

I'm sure he'll come along with the link at some point.


Edit: Link's been posted above.
 
xXSilencerXx
Its the ultimate sleeper car. I can see it now you hear the V8 and are looking all around for thinking that surely can't be that civic making all that noise.
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Meh. I think a Prius with a v-12 behind the driver would be the ultimate sleeper car.
 
philly cheese
Meh. I think a Prius with a v-12 behind the driver would be the ultimate sleeper car.
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The V12 will probably get better MPG than the Prius.
 
Before I click the link, is it Travis Chaney's car? If so, I've seen it. It's not done yet, but when I went down to a car meet last month, I met the man behind the car. Heck, I helped him push it back on the trailer. ;)

To be brutally honest, it'll be fast, but far from the fastest Civic out there. And, there's no way you could call it a sleeper. It already weighs twice that of a standard EK (the hatch he used as a platform) due to all the extra chassis re-structuring. It's mainly just a showcase of what can be done with spare cars and a welder.

PS. xXSilencerXx, is the only way you'll respect an import, is if it has a domestic V-8 in it? That's about the least educated statement I've ever read. 👎
 
toyomatt84
Before I click the link, is it Travis Chaney's car? If so, I've seen it. It's not done yet, but when I went down to a car meet last month, I met the man behind the car. Heck, I helped him push it back on the trailer. ;)

To be brutally honest, it'll be fast, but far from the fastest Civic out there. And, there's no way you could call it a sleeper. It already weighs twice that of a standard EK (the hatch he used as a platform) due to all the extra chassis re-structuring. It's mainly just a showcase of what can be done with spare cars and a welder.

PS. xXSilencerXx, is the only way you'll respect an import, is if it has a domestic V-8 in it? That's about the least educated statement I've ever read. 👎
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I don't know his name.

True you can't call it a sleeper but I still thinks it's awsome and would never expect.


Read my post more carefully. I said "as of now". I have never seen a civic worth a crap before. The ones I have seen are riced up POS's that have retards driving them trying to pass them of as something fast. I said as of now, show me a fast civic and I'll respect I haven't seen one except this and frankly don't care much enough about civic that I'm gunna go looking for the fastest one in the world.

I am NOT biased against everything not V8. I love all sports cars. V8 muscle cars are my favorite even though I'm not much for drag racing and stuff. I prefer road racing.
 
This car = WIN.
 
Wow.. That man is one HELL of a mechanic. 👍👍
 
That bloody amazing, he must have been really good at mechanics to get it all sorted....

On another note someone should swap out a huge engine into a Prius :lol: Can you imagine peoples shock as it smokes you at the lights!:crazy:
 
There's NOTHING that you can't fit a small-block chevy in, as they say.

Put a 13B-RE, 20B, or best yet, an R26B.
 
xXSilencerXx
I don't know his name.

True you can't call it a sleeper but I still thinks it's awsome and would never expect.


Read my post more carefully. I said "as of now". I have never seen a civic worth a crap before. The ones I have seen are riced up POS's that have retards driving them trying to pass them of as something fast. I said as of now, show me a fast civic and I'll respect I haven't seen one except this and frankly don't care much enough about civic that I'm gunna go looking for the fastest one in the world.

I am NOT biased against everything not V8. I love all sports cars. V8 muscle cars are my favorite even though I'm not much for drag racing and stuff. I prefer road racing.
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This car would probably walk on the Civette in every single style of racing. 2 minutes in, you'll see it on the track.
 
Ford Racing dropped a 5.0l Mod Motor into a Focus RS. Kept up with a Gallardo.

Eat rear-tire rubber, SIVIKLOVERZ! :lol: Last time I said something like that it became a long war with no winner.

And the fact that the SIVIK needed to be stiffened that much just goes to show that the Civics DO have the floppiest chassis' of all FF's.

The ****US isn't known for a stiff chassis, either.
 
Rotary Junkie
Ford Racing dropped a 5.0l Mod Motor into a Focus RS. Kept up with a Gallardo.

Eat rear-tire rubber, SIVIKLOVERZ! :lol: Last time I said something like that it became a long war with no winner.

And the fact that the SIVIK needed to be stiffened that much just goes to show that the Civics DO have the floppiest chassis' of all FF's.

The ****US isn't known for a stiff chassis, either.
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Why would honda go out of their way to design a chassis for a car that was never ment to have an un-necessarily large engine anyway?? Would be a waste of time - so wat you just said was not just a waste of time but laughable.

Honda lovers do not always like big engines - infact thats why i love mine - small engine high hp / light / nimble / high revving / FWD (thats right i just said it - i love front wheel drive).

Oh and as i have mentioned before ROTARY'S SUCK

xXSilencerXx
Read my post more carefully. I said "as of now". I have never seen a civic worth a crap before. The ones I have seen are riced up POS's that have retards driving them trying to pass them of as something fast. I said as of now, show me a fast civic and I'll respect I haven't seen one except this and frankly don't care much enough about civic that I'm gunna go looking for the fastest one in the world.
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So you wouldnt find a Turbocharged K20 fast?

or how about a small / light car with nearly or over 200 hp fast??
 
Rotary Junkie
Ford Racing dropped a 5.0l Mod Motor into a Focus RS. Kept up with a Gallardo.

Eat rear-tire rubber, SIVIKLOVERZ! :lol: Last time I said something like that it became a long war with no winner.

And the fact that the SIVIK needed to be stiffened that much just goes to show that the Civics DO have the floppiest chassis' of all FF's.

The ****US isn't known for a stiff chassis, either.
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It's easy to tell that you're 14. You have absolutely 0 car experience and even if you did drive a go-kart or two, it still doesn't prove that you know anything about Civics. I'm not even going to sit on a high horse and praise Civics on this one, you're plainly ill-informed. The reason he had to throw that much tubing in, was so the Corvette's drivetrain had a place to mount. He had to hack up the majority of the floor, as well as the firewall, just to fit the engine in there, thus making most of anything structural non-existent. There's no unibody car out there that could take that much trimming around structural points and NOT require that much structural re-configuration.
 
barryl85
So you wouldnt find a Turbocharged K20 fast?

or how about a small / light car with nearly or over 200 hp fast??
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I have never run into or seen a turbo K20. It sounds like its fast. My point was I don't spend my time on the internet looking fast civics. It's not what I'm into, I like high power cars. The civics i do see are the riced up ones around where I live that constantly want to street race and do dumb crap.


With barely 200 hp I would not consider it fast. You to specify light weight though, I don't see 200 hp and think speed demon. I think average sedan with a little bit of kick.


@ toyomatt84: Ok that looks fast and I'll respect it but, I'd like to see it run against something other than itself.
 
xXSilencerXx
I don't know his name.

True you can't call it a sleeper but I still thinks it's awsome and would never expect.


Read my post more carefully. I said "as of now". I have never seen a civic worth a crap before. The ones I have seen are riced up POS's that have retards driving them trying to pass them of as something fast. I said as of now, show me a fast civic and I'll respect I haven't seen one except this and frankly don't care much enough about civic that I'm gunna go looking for the fastest one in the world.

I am NOT biased against everything not V8. I love all sports cars. V8 muscle cars are my favorite even though I'm not much for drag racing and stuff. I prefer road racing.
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You don't have to go looking really... Just look in the Import section and you will see tons of 4 banger civics that would waste this car.
 
Dang thats some awesome fabrication. Not the kind of car I would have put it in but you definetly have to respect the work involved to do something like that. Believe me I know. :sly:
 
xXSilencerXx
I have never run into or seen a turbo K20. It sounds like its fast. My point was I don't spend my time on the internet looking fast civics. It's not what I'm into, I like high power cars. The civics i do see are the riced up ones around where I live that constantly want to street race and do dumb crap.


With barely 200 hp I would not consider it fast. You to specify light weight though, I don't see 200 hp and think speed demon. I think average sedan with a little bit of kick.


@ toyomatt84: Ok that looks fast and I'll respect it but, I'd like to see it run against something other than itself.
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Ok, here's Cheesefrog (a well known Honda tuner) going up against a 10.7 second Viper. I won't lie and say the car isn't built strong, but it does prove that 4-cylinder engines CAN be a force to reckon with.

WARNING! ADULT LANGUAGE!


And, if you want to say that turbo's aren't allowed, here's Bisimoto's 2.2L SOHC N/A drag car. Yes, that's a 9.8 run.
 
Yeah guys, that LS1 EK is now pretty damn heavy. I know for a fact how much those steel beans weigh because I carry them every day at work, and a 3-foot section as thick as that ones he used is damn near 50 pounds. Talk about overkill. You could support the entire weight of that car with just one of the beams he used. He could've gotten away with using steel not even a quarter that size.
 
toyomatt84
Ok, here's Cheesefrog (a well known Honda tuner) going up against a 10.7 second Viper. I won't lie and say the car isn't built strong, but it does prove that 4-cylinder engines CAN be a force to reckon with.
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:lol: Alright you got me. There are some crazy civics out there.
 
toyomatt84


This car would probably walk on the Civette in every single style of racing. 2 minutes in, you'll see it on the track.
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This guy isn't evne finished with his car yet and already people are discounting not only the work he's doing but how fast its going to be. Until he says "its completed" I'd stop the bashing and speculating on how fast or not his car is.

And that yellow Civic with that 11000RPM engine has one hell of a noise. And it looks decent too--not all riced out.
 
JCE3000GT
This guy isn't evne finished with his car yet and already people are discounting not only the work he's doing but how fast its going to be. Until he says "its completed" I'd stop the bashing and speculating on how fast or not his car is.

And that yellow Civic with that 11000RPM engine has one hell of a noise. And it looks decent too--not all riced out.
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I'm not putting down his work at all. I've seen the car in person (and I have the pictures to prove it). He seriously has done an amazing job setting the car up. I'm just saying that this isn't going to be a record breaking Civic by any means. It's not going to be all that fast on a track, especially compared to a K, B, or H-series that's been properly tuned.
 
:lol: I'd rather own a V8 Civic than a V8 Neon.
 
the civic is a little... unique very cool i must say
 
JCE3000GT
:lol: I'd rather own a V8 Civic than a V8 Neon.
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I'll take the Neon.

Or maybe a rotary, RWD Protege. Get the thing to shut up and you've got a sleeper (Although silencing a rotary should be illegal)

barryl: And why do rotaries suck (Again I must point out that it's "rotaries", not rotary's. I'd figure you'd have remembered that type of thing from english class.)?

Also, IIRC, the Frankenfocus didn't need to get tubeframed to fit an engine that is physically the size of a big block in width. (Actually, it's wider than a 427 side oiler.)

So I wouldn't jump to conclusions all that quick. I have done no reading on this car other than this thread, as I don't have the patience for extra pages to load on dialup. So, it WOULD be safe to say that I am relatively poorly informed on the subject of this car. However, can it be said that this car was poorly executed? If you have to hack that much of the car up, why didn't you simply rip EVERYTHING off it, make a tube frame, (nice and light, and VERY stiff, preferably.) and bolt all your panels onto that? So that the entire car is just sheetmetal wrapped around tubing and nothing else.

However, if a better approach had been taken, it wouldn't have been needed. It's fully possible to fabricate a k-member that can support a SBC. Might need to cut into the shock towers a little, but you could just ditch them with a Mustang II front suspension. (And maintain stiffness)

There's nothing you can't stuff a small block chevy in. Even if it WOULD be better with a Ford. (And a Ford would fit just as easily.)

toyomatt, if you can PROVE that there is not room for a SBC in the engine bay of a Civic, I might start rethinking that. Without those shock towers, almost anything will fit.

If a Focus can fit a mod motor in the engine bay while still having the shock towers intact, why the HELL can't a Civic support a SBC? Don't say weight, because an aluminum LS1 doesn't weigh all that much.

Since we were running a full vette drivetrain, we don't even need to clear the trans at the firewall, just the torque tube. So why did it need that much hacking, again? Sure, we need to cut upward a little to make it clear perfectly and raise the center of the floor. One or two tubes crossing through the firewall and it's gonna be STIFFER than stock. Sure, a little hacking at the back to get the rear suspension/trans in, maybe a couple crossmembers as well, whatever. Total weight added would be about 5-600lbs.

Back to barryl: If you like light weight and rev-happy cars, any RX-7 would suit you other than being RWD. You must hate rotaries because you got dusted by one. Why else would you?

Sorry to be a prick, but hey, it's the way I see things.
 
Yay, a LS motor in a Civic. How different. :rolleyes:

Sorry, but LS swaps no longer impress me. Just about everyone now feels the need to put it in their Miata, RX-7, or 944.
 
466cid BBC+944= yesterday's 9-second dare to be different ride.

And Miatas and RXs need 20B swaps, or better yet, an R26B fake.
 
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