Do you ever get sick of the honda thing?
 

Just curious, as a non-honda owner driver, do you ever get sick of them? I respect greatly what they can be made to do - lots of power, little weight, good gas mileage, and not too expensive - but do you ever feel like moving on to something a little different?

I ask because sometimes I go to the races, and see a few mustangs, a few camaros, a few 350z's, a few supras, a few other oddballs (like my pickup truck), and then I see a sea of civics. I see them i droves, like ants when you step on an anthill.

Do you honda guys ever roll into a hangout and think "damn, this scene is getting old...?"

Not looking to pick a fight, just honestly curious.

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No

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I dont realy like civics either, I have a CRX. and I tryed to spitch to a 90 tallon with evo engine and 24psi. it cost me 13g's in the end and then I still had to go buy a CRX again. thought about it. tried it. learned my lesson

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i dabbled in other makes but always came back to the crx

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Ive seen a lotta people move on, or "grow up" to reliable cars and such. Trying to talk my friend into swapping a motor into her del sol but she always comes back to the conclusion " well that $2500 don on a new camry..." Well ---- you slut

Ive personally only owned 2 crx's, a 90 hatch and drove a beater ford ranger for a winter, but even that truck i drove open header with the flat black paint job

I cant see me ever leaving the OLD honda cars, let alone leaving Honda. Its all I know, Its all Im good at

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i'll post all my cars i've had so far

72 datsun 510 2dr with L-20B swap

84 accord hatchback

84 RX-7 Gsl-Se

89 accord Lx-i

1990 Eagle talon Tsi boosted at 22psi on stock motor and fuel system (lasted over 5 months before i sold it still running)

1971 datsun 510 4dr, turbo L-16 boosting 12psi with 12.5:1 compression, could NOT kill that mother fucker

1990 RX-7 convertable with mild street port

1974 datsun 260Z with SBC 350 swap, hauled ass and broke alot of drivetrain parts

1994 integra with GSR swap

1986 MR2 with 5S-FE swap (dont remember year)

1966 ford pickup, had horrible rod knock but wouldnt ------ die

1972 datsun 620 pickup, blew a ------ spark plug out of the god damn head doin a cookie

1993 EG hatch with H22 swap, blew the motor after haveing it for a day, swapped in a new one and sold it 6 months later, got me 47.3 MPG

and now my 89 Si EF hatch with D16Z6 swap, turbo'd, not runnin right but soon


so far, the most reliable of all the cars have been the honda's, and the datsuns... i favor the datsuns more and wish i'd never sold my turbo 510

all and all, i like hondas, i'll probably always have at least one, and i dont think i'll get tired of them

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god damn i just realized how many cars i've had... and i forgot one

1984 300ZX

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This is the reason you have more than one car. My daily car is the Hatch and I will probably die in it. Bought it new with 3 miles on it and now have over 300k on the chassis. The bank I got the loan from lost the title years ago so I can't really ever sell it. Too much trouble. My project car is a 70 Nova that has been in the works for 3 years now. You wanna talk about a money pit? That is why I love my Honda so much. Cheap, reliable, quick and fun to drive. (note I never said fast lol)

I hear what you are saying about the flocks of civics etc. My car is the oddball because I hardly ever take it to the track on a test n tune night. Nope, I go on Saturday brackets where the big boys play. Yeah, my hatch is lost in a sea of 67-69 Camaros and S-10 pickups and old school early 60's Novas.

Here's an old vid of me breaking out 4th round :( That was the season points leader and winner btw. Sorry about the ---- vid quality but you get the idea.

http://media.putfile.com/Hatch-vs-Camaro-4th-round

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Actually their aren't a lot of honda's around here. I go to th track and it's mostly dsm's and nissans in the import crowd.
Well I spent from 8 this morning until about six this afternoon working on a turbo awd talon that had been severely fucker over by about three differant owners all of them ricers. The wiring harness was hacked up everywhere from a super afc install and removal in the past. for some reason the injector clips were cut in half so they just sat on the injectors with no snap because the snap ring part of the plug was just hacked off of all 4 injectors.

If it were mine I would get a new harness and redo the whole car but the owner is already owes us my brother inlaw 600 in labor and parts and can't afford one so I did my best. It ran but not great. Dsm's are a pain in the ass.
It's not a fair comparison because I learned on hondas but If I had that much time and a honda in the same condition it would have been running perfect today and ready for the kid to come and get his car.

It's funny how a car thats factory non turbo is more reliable and easier to work with and sort out then a car that came with a factory turbo.
No I'm not tired of hondas

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only if idiots ---- with them

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dee da dee

a factory turbo car can last just as long and be just as reliable if people take care of them and dont treat them like a damn drag car

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A turbo Saab will last for at least seventy jillion miles if you ack rite O0

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yeah I gave a bad example. Anything touched by a ricer is going to be hard to work on. And that particular car had been owned by three in a row.

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definately, i got sick of hondas after 2 years, when you make any sort of decent power traction becomes an issue. theyre like tins cans, light weight and can be made quick with little power. Torque also sucks, low end torque is fun, its nice not having to rev the engine high up to make power. Another thing that got me away from them is safety. They crumble so easy when theyre hit, even if the hit isnt that bad. Dont get me wrong, those hondas making 300-400 or 500hp are some kick ass cars. but its just not my cup of tea anymore. RWD is way more fun. i like being pushed, not pulled

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i have to add + fun... anyways how can you get tired of all these properties seriously? is not like all the people in here are making race cars; most of us is doing it for pure love and fun, most of us dont have thousands of dollars to throw away... and away if we were to build a super race car i would start getting a RWD not a civic. but again Hondas are just such a reliable cars for anything that it just make them unique.

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Ive yet to get tired of working on HMT'd Honda's. Part of it is you get to be very familiar w/ all the diff. engine combinations, trouble shooting them, and fixing stuff. Stick w/ what you know.....its easy.
Id love to do another project car that isnt a Honda though. A RWD mid 80's Supra would be pretty sweet, or an early 90's MR2.
Ultimately, the choice car to HMT would be this:
http://www.iroczone.com/carlisle2003/carlisle_03_16.jpg
67 Nova II. Fuel injected, w/ twin snails. Pure sex.

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I like Honda. I also like the 'Yotas and I grew up with SBC's. Honda is fun, easy to work on, parts are cheap.

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You also forgot the theft part.

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I've always had honda's since they were cheap and easy to work on but once my hondas started getting broke into and just got tired of them and wanted something different. Now I haven't owned a honda in over two years and it feels good. I don't think I'll ever go back to a honda or maybe until a S2000 comes down to my budget(3-5k). So basically I won't be seeing a honda in my driveway for quite a long time. :P I have my 280Z and my Galant VR4 and I'm happy. 280Z for the summer and the Galant for the shitty weather since it's AWD. I have to say that I pulled my first engine with a honda so it's basically what I learned to wrench on.

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---- i beat the ---- out of my STOCK d15b2, 200k and still running alright, smokes a little. :y now u know about honda reliability

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I have only been in the Honda thing for about 2 years. The die hard f-body me from before then would probably kick the me of present day in the ass. I still love all kinds of cars. I just like tinkering with the Hondas right now. It has been pretty much summed up by the poster as to why I started messing around with them.

I worked as a used car mechanic at a pretty good sized dealer for about two years. In that time period, I had the chance to drive everything from a mid 80's turbo Lebaron Convetible(------- thing was mint), to C5 Corvettes and WS6s. I got to take a new school Lightning out and rape it along with an assload of Late 90's early 2000's Caddys. I drove other cars such as BMWs, VWs, a few Mercedes, and since I worked for a GM dealer an ass load of other GM products. Out of all the cars I had to check in adn work on, the Hondas were the most problem free and were a blast to drive (very nimble).

It's not like I was stuck driving these cars in congested city traffic, we basically had our own test track called Hwy 10. God I miss driving the Caddys. Fun to drive and plush comfort, but goddamn they have alot of problems, and are expensive to fix.

The only thing that gets tiresome to me is the reputation that ricers(or if you are tired of hearing that IGNORANT ------- KIDS) earn for the rest of the crowd. The other thing I get tired of hearing is that Hondas make no torque. Guess what a 305 make over twice as much torque as a B series, yet a heavy, stock LS teg will run the smae times in a quarter as a stock 305 equipped f-bomb or truck or g-body.

I poured a lot of money into my turd gen and my relatively bone stock 92 GSR would hand it its ass in any department except acceleration off the line.

Just my experiences. :-X

Oh yeah. Hondas are the SBC of the import world. :P

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I started with RX7's years ago went to Hondas for a while in the late 90's then on to DSM and back again to Hondas for the past 4 years.I am now struggling with what to do next as i parted out my built CRX and need to start a new project in spring and have narrowed it down to a FD RX7,Toyota Soarer [1JZTT] or build a 4-500whp Civic :-\ FWD is mad gay but working on or buying parts for anything that isnt a Honda is also mad gay :-\ It sucks because for 15G i could build a nasty near ten second Civic or get a nice RWD car but it would have to be fairly stock.I just cant decide i think i need to finish the Honda thing off with a ten second pass then move on when finaces are there to go fast RWD as that is big money to do it right in a nice chassis.

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Nope, not really.

I think about getting another car to play with almost every other day though, but at the end of the day, I keep coming back.

The only things I don't like are the fight for traction, and the bad rep I get for driving the car. Other than that, parts are cheap, the cars make sense to work on, and just plain feel right to drive.

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I love all my Honda cars and Projects with them. I think we can all agree that nothings funner than a good strong running turbo Honda. But I do have to admit, as I grow up a bit more, the more I appreciate how nice it would be to have a daily driver and then my Honda race car. I wouldn't mind haveing a nice BMW or even TL to roll in for baller status as well as luxury. Must be nice to have a sick lx-i turbo accord and a TL to pick up the ladies in(DAMN U Jay!).....

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a bone stock gsr runs mid 15s.

you dumped money into a v8 camaro and didnt get any better than stock?

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the more i work on other cars, the more i like hondas better; seriously. I touched a volkswagen the other day and i just felt the need to go sit in my honda afterwards

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YES! I am soooooo sick of the Honda scene right now, but OI can't get away from it either. I suppose to pick up another CRX very soon.

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Dave thats my car, you cant have it... :-*


i love all cars....i just love Honda;s the most...i hate most Honda owners, and i hate the "scene"... i dont like people that own/build Honda's cuz they are the cool thing...you are ricers and can burn in hell...

i have many friends that are true car enthusiast and build a verity of different cars. they always tell me that Honda;s are gay for a wide many of reasons, and honestly they have points with most. but at the end of a day i love my Honda. i love hatchbacks... ive got friends that build some pimp ass Toyota's, VW's, Nissan's, Mitsu's, etc... i love the looks of them, power, style, but the cars them selfs as a whole just dont appeal to me... will i ever build one? yeah maybe. i built a 91 GTI, it was pimp, i loved it...but at the end of the day it just didnt compare to my Honda... everything will be put up against a Honda i have owned and judged...

there are just too many small differences that set a Honda (the ones in there prime...EF/EG/EK/DC/DA/DB/EA) apart from the rest of the cars in the world... just the driving of them... i hated driving my GTI, just didnt feel right even though it was powerful/fast as ----. it just wasnt right... i preferred driving my 92 GSR, even though it was slow as all ----...

sick of "the honda thing"? ---- yeah, i cant chill, work, sleep, eat, ----, etc without thinking about if my car is still where i parked it... on that note i think before i do anything more to my car im gonna buy a gun... legal or not im gonna shot the fucker who steals, or tries to steal my car.....thats just the beginning...

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Honda's are and will always be, probably the best example of automotive engineering around. Although they are small economy cars, they lack alot of the problems other manufacturers are blighted with.

The engines are well designed and so are the chassis's. Thanks to Crome/Uberdata etc. the scope for engine modifications on a low budget are almost infinite. And thanks to the support of ricers, good quality performance parts are readily available.

Having previously driven peugeot's and vw's. Although the honda is probably blander to drive then my old 205GTi it is a far better all rounder. I will move away from honda's, eventually, but only once i'm rich enough to buy something turbo powered and rwd/awd.

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that is why i have a probe gt boosted. ford power baby.

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again... probe = homo :-*

shouldnt you be fixing your Civic insted of working on that thing?

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the civic is almost done, this is the winter street racing mayhem project.

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i like old crusty POS's, honda or not 80's imports>all

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Though i dont own a honda, as a matter of fact, i dont currently own a car, i have always admired and longed to own a honda. Believe it or not hondas are very scarce down here. We have more toyota corrolla ricer owners than honda civics. I am a toyota man at heart but i do have a place of hondas. In a way i wish my island was littered with hondas, that way it would be easier for me to buy one, and parts wouldnt be so god damn expensive.

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When I got here I wanted something other than a Honda. I bought a toyota and was quick to sell it.

Ive really really really been considering dumping the honda and getting a RX7. They can be money pits, but I had a guy offer me $6000 for my civic a few days ago, and ive really been considering it.

There are a few other cars I wouldnt mind having, but when it boils down to it, im a Honda guy through and through. I think id miss my Honda. :'(

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Ever driven or modded an L03 teamed up with an automatic? Its a mid 16 second car Johnny. Great until about 40 mph.

Yeah, I could have ditched the TBI setup and slapped a carb on there like any mullet haeded jerk off would do. Then what, maybee I could have gotten into the low 16s. ::)

More concerned with the twisties at the time with the Camaro and still the Teg would smoke its ass. I know it was not the prime F-body candidate, but compare the two year for year and you can see where I am coming from.

Don't try to turn this into a faggot ass import vs. domestic bench racing session.

Like I said before, just my experiences. I've owned both of these cars in stock and modified condition.

P.S. Even the TPI cars could barely break into the 14s unless modded.

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:l

My scene is not to associate with herd mentality riceboys.

Where you see a sea of Civics, you might see one fast Civic. Ignore the pretenders to the throne.

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My WRX is now at around 85k miles, 2002, boosting 18+psi daily. Still running strong. Only problem I've had was the weak tranny, which was replaced for a stronger 05 forester tranny and we are good.

It's dumbasses that don't know how to drive an blame it on the car.

With that said, I also have 2 hondas. Hondas are great, cheap, reliable and can be fast. even if it is not fast, they are fun as hell to drive.

I get tired of ignorant ricers, but they are in every segment of the car world, from classics to imports

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not to get anybody wrong here, but i love my civic and hate it at the same time. i love how they look and the possibilites are endless with them for swaps and upgrades. im to the point to where i dont want to mess with Fuel Injection. its nice and all, but when one thing goes wrong others follow right behind it. if i could pick up a carbed zc i love my car to death. but the mpfi is ------- with my head. just put on a new tb and iat and the fucker still wont run(well i had it running for a few minutes then it died). i just wish FI wasnt such a bitch.

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fuel injection is awesome once you know how to use it to your advantage, but you need to be willing to learn about it. Maybe you should try picking up some books and reading up on it to give you a better understanding.