P5 versus rsx type-s

[Protegars]

you better have Turbo to even compare your P-5 to a Type-S or that guy was in 6th gea

However,

if you do not know haw to drive a Honda, you may as well not buy a Honda. A lot of people who buy a sports car expect it to have enough power to do the work for you. With most Honda products I have owned. ( 1988 prelude SI, 1999 Prelude SH, 1999 civic ex) and driven ( 2002 rsx type s) there is not much power until you hit the vtec and until you hit that, the torque is similar to the P5 . There are a lot of people I know ( non tuners) that buy this for good peppy expensive transportation and may never hit the RPM's to make this beast of an engine do it's job. Sounds like a waste to me, but a skilled driver in a p5 could keep up with a skilless Honda user. However, we all know that those who are willing to redline in every gear of the RSX will experience the sceaming pleasure that that car is designed to provide.

 

[LinuxRacr]

Re: you better have Turbo to even compare your P-5 to a Type-S or that guy was in 6th gea

However,

if you do not know haw to drive a Honda, you may as well not buy a Honda. A lot of people who buy a sports car expect it to have enough power to do the work for you. With most Honda products I have owned. ( 1988 prelude SI, 1999 Prelude SH, 1999 civic ex) and driven ( 2002 rsx type s) there is not much power until you hit the vtec and until you hit that, the torque is similar to the P5 . There are a lot of people I know ( non tuners) that buy this for good peppy expensive transportation and may never hit the RPM's to make this beast of an engine do it's job. Sounds like a waste to me, but a skilled driver in a p5 could keep up with a skilless Honda user. However, we all know that those who are willing to redline in every gear of the RSX will experience the sceaming pleasure that that car is designed to provide.

Well said!!

 

[rsxlerate]

RSX are slow, I rather have a integra gsr. Talk about sleeper cars with an exhaust and intake it can beat its brother the type R. 15.7 is the fastest rsx type S I seen this summer all stock. My 1991 escort gt stock ran 15.8. After MODS I ran 13.8 All motor in my escort. I only spent 1600 us dollars too. I am still in the process of designing racing cams for our protege 2.0 motor.

see ya

you must have been watching base rsx's run. my friend johnjay bested a 14.9 pure stock off the factory. that means no spare tire removed, tire psi' not lowered, just right off the factory specs. and anybody who's owned a rsx will tell you the factory tires are the worse tires ever. this was awhile ago so i don't have the video for it since i didn't have a camera. but my point is that a rsx with a good driver, a mp5 will have a hard chance to keep up.

however, my rsx has a aem cai, hondata intake gasket, revo short shifter, energy suspension motor mount inserts, and nitto 555 tires (no not the 555R), and the best i've ever done is a 14.2. and yes i've heard of the hondata ECU, but i don't want it due to reliability issues, and the fact that i cant put F/I later in the future which would be a big waste of $600. so you see i tried my best of my $ abilities to rid of the rsx's bad wheel hop, and bad traction. (ES mounts and tires)

proof of 14.2?

sure! i'll send anybody the video if you'd like, i have a video of me racing a 4door m3 who downshifted at least 3 seconds ahead, then i chase and pass him up. and i have the video of me doing the 14.2 breaking out my dial in of 14.3. it's just for all u non-believers. and i also have a ton of 14.3 videos for more proof.

and hey there's nothing wrong with a p5, they're nice cars, very good handling, but that's about it, don't expect much on straight line unless you wanna drop a big wad of money to hit anything decent. i have a lot of friends with mp5's so it's not like i bash on em or anything, but it's just the truth. it's sort of like you compare a superb handling s2000, vs a 280hp skyline. that s2k probably will hang with it on the corners if not catch up, but drag racing, just give up.

if any of you guys are from the bay area i'll be gladly to give you a ride in a lightly modded rsx.

quick question for cdglow, what did you do to your escort to hit 13.8 (shaving a whole two seconds! :wtf: ) for only $1600? i'd like to know that so i can do that to my car. maybe hit 10s or something!

oh but to the guy who started this thread, i don't doubt you beat him. good kill, it's just my whole point of my reply was that side by side, it's least likely. maybe you guys should stick to making them look nicer than they already are, and do stuff like auto-x, or road racing, that's where the mp5's true performance really shine.

 

[dmitrik4]

Re: you better have Turbo to even compare your P-5 to a Type-S or that guy was in 6th gea

However, we all know that those who are willing to redline in every gear of the RSX will experience the sceaming pleasure that that car is designed to provide.

*drools*

i DO miss that part.