One of the women at work has a 2000 Civic Si with a CAI and a coffee-can muffler. I've been after her to race me ever since I got the Ion. She kept putting me off, citing transaxle troubles. Today, she finally agreed to run me.

We were able to run at stoplights three times. From a stop, I was killing her, though this may have had more to do with the drivers than the cars. Not that she can't drive ... she races when the strip is open.

At the first light, I simply had a much, much better reaction time and was under way before she even popped her clutch. At the second and third lights, I tried to wait until I saw her start to move. According to her, I won because of "VTEC lag". In the time it took for her VTEC to activate in first gear, I was walking her like nothing and she could not pull on me subsequently.

We did not run from a roll. We drove into a gas station afterward, talked a little bit, then headed home.

 

Dude IONS are weak. they are rated at what mid 16"s , and VTEC lag? In those cars you drop the clutch at around 4500 hundred , your in VTEC all through first in shift to second drop down to 5500 still in VTEC , your never out of VTEC when you are racing. Either she wasnt dropping the clutch , which you still wouldnt of "walked" her or she wasnt racing. You give me an Si and ill Piss on your ion all day long . Race my hatch with a b16.

 

Good kill, though I would've expected it to be pretty close. I think maybe she was babying her car a bit?

 

Yeah, sure, b16hatch, I'll race your engine-swapped car with nitrous with my bone stock car. I'd be more than happy to get my Bug out of the garage and ass rape your b16 lunchbox, though.

She wasn't launching very hard. We've made an appointment to meet again at the strip when it opens and go balls-out. :thumbup:

 

good race yo, although i agree she probably wasn't driving to full potential. what are her times when she goes to the track?

 

[QUOTE=Minami Kotaro]Yeah, sure, b16hatch, I'll race your engine-swapped car with nitrous with my bone stock car. I'd be more than happy to get my Bug out of the garage and ass rape your b16 lunchbox, though.



Do you have a porsche powered bug?

 

so your 17 second car is beating a 16 second car? I will race you, I have a civic hatch and a d16...

 

... still waiting on a timeslip, ion man

 

hmm im pretty sure the ion has the 2.2 ecotec right? guys with the ecotec cavaliers are running mid 15s stock with those

 

No, it still utilizes the engine block that came in it back in '67. It is far from stock now, though.

It isn't really streetable with the close-ratio trans it has in it now, so it only gets driven on the strip when they have Import Nite.