Originally Posted by Solracer
Unless you can make a street driven/leagal civic get below 12secs in the quarter it is going to have a hard time beating any street driven car out there.
^that^ is highly uncommon, too.
If you can't make ANY chassis run a sub-12 second 1/4 mile for under $5000, you have problems. Racers like civics because the parts are abundant, and the chassis is light as a feather. Power gains do more for lighter cars.
You wouldn't catch me in a 12 second civic driving around on the street. I'd prefer to be in something much heavier and safer on the track, too. I wouldn't care if it had to make twice the power to keep up with a race-built civic. But that's me. I've wrecked a race car before, and I have a lot to live for.