Steve Berman

WTF. The guy sitting next to me at work today said they swapped a gsr motor into a civic and one of the people said " you can polish a turd " " but its still a turd "

Anyone else see this? Damn domestic bastards

93eg-EKhybrid

Yeah I saw it, but they were talking about the pos cx motor that was in it.

00CIVICwB18C1

i watched most of the swap and i didn't hear one of them call it a turd. but you can tell they know nothing about imports when the first thing they did to the civic was body kit, chrome rims, and stickers, and i think they even put altezzas on it. WOO HOO!!! and they call it HORSEPOWER tv. what a joke.

Steve Berman

Ahhhhhhhhhh. Damn! I knew my co-worker was twisting the story. Its ok, cause my hatch would kill his SS and he knows it.

iamdoingthat

I thought it was pretty cool that they had a few civics on their show, but it became painfully obvious that their modification choices were motivated by the show's sponsors.

Can't complain about the Bear brakes though.

sappsycho

Yea, the GSR-powered civic ended up at 171 WHP.

But it was still ugly as hell. Green with vinyl designs, bling bling rims, and Altezzas.

And the "Honda Expert" on there was a little, let's say, "off".

R you serious

its all about their "trick 2step chikara headers" bhahahaha

Mar_DC2

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hahahaha, did you see the one when they were putting an exhaust on that 95 coupe and they brought in their "import expert" and he was talking about how aggressive it sounds and stuff, then they dyno it and i think it lost hp and he says "thats okay, cause this is the sound we were looking for" then it shows him doing a weak *** burnout with the clutch slipping.

Nextelbuddy

im still tryin to figure out how they got 171 to the wheels..... i know they put xams and headers but 171 to the wheels on a stock motor?? thats how much type r motors pu to the wheels... anybody know?

Chris y0!

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I/H/E and cams. not really too hard to beleive.

Nextelbuddy

so what your saying is if you do the same to a type r motor that puts down 170-175 stock to the wheels, then if i add I/H/E and cams too i can get 200 to the wheels?? because form just those mods alone they got about 20-25 hp to the wheels. on the gsr motor..

Civic_95_Si

They had been running some NAWS on the DX motor they swaped out. So, maybe they put it on the GS-R.The car is still a turd, ugly as Chucks(the host) mullet.

MonkeyMagic

lets all have a moment of silence for the turd...

....now lets pray they sell it to some one who can do some emergency dericing!!

Lord Helmet

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I/H/E and cams. not really too hard to beleive.</TD></TR></TABLE>


I gotta agree here. those cams their running are pretty good too. I've seen their dyno sheet on the cams. it shows an extra 20 hp throughout the mid range and eventually tops out at the top end. My choice of cam would be this one or the skunk2 stage 1 cam.

prada_2o0o

im pretty sure it had plug wires... msd ignition .... centerforce clutch.. lightened flywheel ..thats what i saw on top of the chikara header...exhaust and the zex intake ...

Lord Helmet

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yeah that too!

deviant1

it was dynoed with zex nitrous

kommon_sense

You sure about the nitrous? I know that they had nitrous with the stock motor, but I don't remember if they kept it or not for the gsr motor. Also 171whp for a gsr with zex cams and nitrous would be kind of a disapopintment.

sappsycho

What cams did they use again?

dragsol

they were running the zex kit because they had it plumed into their zex intake. they neversaid what shot they were running.

sammysnakes

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there's truth to this statement.

my civic may be quick, but it's still a civic.

kommon_sense

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there's truth to this statement.

my civic may be quick, but it's still a civic.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I wouldn't hardly call a civic a turd, but I really don't think that it is a good platform for those with high HP goals.

JasonBlackEJ1

it also had one of those whale tail double-decker aluminum fins on it too

White92Hatch

Yeah I'm suprised their "Import Guru" basically riced out the car. I thought it was funny when the one guy referred to the GSR motor as a big block.

Ricey McRicerton

Yeah i saw that and started laughing... "this would be honda's big block..." what a tool...how about a H22 or something like that?? I was kinda impressed with 172 at the wheels too...I was guessing about 162 (thats what i guessed in front of my girlfriend) but 172 seemed high to me!