E has some competition!

[Loco Honkey]

http://www.hondabeat.com/article_details.php?ID=44

 

[StealthMode]

Jesus Christ....

 

[jamesA]

in that it is still about 2 seconds quicker than what a Geo Metro can muster up...a car that gets 30 mpg LESS than the Insight.

What kind of gas mileage do those typically see? I saw constant 40mpg in my 5 speed 1.0L 3 cyl 91 Metro... thats with driving it like a teenager too.

Best I ever got was 55 City... only happened once.

 

[BodyDroppedNikes]

::snickering:: thats pretty funny

 

[Loco Honkey]

Originally posted by pheonixb16aguy@Oct 8 2004, 09:44 PM
thats sweet i didn't even know they had enough power to do burnouts.. i figured u would pull up the e brake drop the clutch and the car woulddie .. BAHAHA none the less thats a sweet lil burnout

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E did a burnout with his at the Bristol autox once. I saw it. Apparantly, he did it in the upper lot while they were handing out awards, and they weren't impressed. lol.

 

[jamesA]

Originally posted by pheonixb16aguy+Oct 8 2004, 10:43 PM-->

Originally posted by Loco Honkey@Oct 8 2004, 10:17 PM
pheonixb16aguy

@Oct 8 2004, 09:44 PM
thats sweet i didn't even know they had enough power to do burnouts.. i figured u would pull up the e brake drop the clutch and the car woulddie .. BAHAHA none the less thats a sweet lil burnout

[post=400301]Quoted post[/post]​

E did a burnout with his at the Bristol autox once. I saw it. Apparantly, he did it in the upper lot while they were handing out awards, and they weren't impressed. lol.

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anyways way off topic but can you swap anything into those or has anybody yet?? other than like a full out custom built drag motor .. like a k series or b series??

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um... WHY? It's a hybrid... it's built for economy, why would you spend the money on an economy car to swap a motor? Sure, sleeper this... but that just doesn't seem worthwhile.

If you want a light car to do a swap, go the normal route... CRX/EG, b18c1... the works.

 

[phunky.buddha]

It's been done already. There's a low 10 second K20 powered Insight (still FWD) running around somewhere.

By the way, I just read that article- I've seen it quite a few times before. I think the guy did that about 2 years ago, maybe more.

 

[jamesA]

i can understand that, but why buy a hybrid to swap it?

 

[phunky.buddha]

Originally posted by pheonixb16aguy+Oct 8 2004, 11:06 PM-->

um... WHY? It's a hybrid... it's built for economy, why would you spend the money on an economy car to swap a motor? Sure, sleeper this... but that just doesn't seem worthwhile.

If you want a light car to do a swap, go the normal route... CRX/EG, b18c1... the works.

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Because the Insight is really really really really light? Even more than the CRX or an EG hatch, especially after you pull out the batteries.

revolution8k@Oct 8 2004, 11:08 PM
i can understand that, but why buy a hybrid to swap it?

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Weight, plus it gets more attention at the strip.

 

[jamesA]

Originally posted by pheonixb16aguy@Oct 8 2004, 11:15 PM
plus if i had the money and owned a shop/race team why the fuck not.. id do it for shits and giggles

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Thats true I guess. I just don't see the point of it.

Cal, how much do those hybrids weigh??

 

[phunky.buddha]

Let's see... let me go look on Edmunds like you could have in the time it took me to type out this fragment of a sentence............

Curb Weight: 1856 lbs. (2001 model year)

Pull the batteries and everything else, drop in a K and you can still probably be under 1900 pounds without pulling out anything else. Strip the interior, get rid of a lot of the extra garbage that you need to be street and crash legal (like glass) and you can get the car down to something ridiculously light.

 

[jamesA]

I would have but I'm also talking to like 8 people on aim. If I really cared I woulda gone and looked it up, but thanks.

 

[phunky.buddha]

Then why did you ask?

 

[jamesA]

There's a point to where I'll ask and where I'm really curious enough to go look shit up.

I hate navagating through edmunds though.

 

[phunky.buddha]

Seriously, took me less than 10 seconds to get the information.

 

[jamesA]

I know, I said thanks.

 

[phunky.buddha]

 

[Cashizslick]

Originally posted by pheonixb16aguy@Oct 8 2004, 09:44 PM
thats sweet i didn't even know they had enough power to do burnouts.. i figured u would pull up the e brake drop the clutch and the car woulddie .. BAHAHA none the less thats a sweet lil burnout

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any ff car can do a burnout if the e-brake it pulled and you redline . . .

 

[Cashizslick]

Originally posted by pheonixb16aguy@Oct 8 2004, 11:06 PM
the 92-95 civics were built for the economy but yet the put a HUGE dent in the import modification world .. i dont know why people make economy cars fast.. prolly for self satisfaction !

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Thats funney, im stil a lil disatisfied lol

 

[micah]

thay also look pimp if you take off back whell covers, lower them and slap rims on em.

look like new crx's