i'm thinking about boosting my car in the future and was wonderin about traction on the streets and freeway. how much hp/trq is acceptable on the streets with street tires? i don't want to go all out and have a car that won't grab traction until 3rd gear.

 

most people say 300-350whp is about it...unless you don't want traction until 4th.

I wouldn't know from personal experience, yet.

 

somewhat depends on what kind of honda your talking about... as I would say a light civic would need much less than my heavy *** sedan.

 

I have like 200whp in my civic and I didn't have traction in 1st or 2nd until I got a nice new set of 195's... ever since then 2nd is pretty good, but w/ 300whp, third is going to be the first gear that has a chance, if your lucky.

It's not always a bad thing, though, it just sucks b/c we're fwd.

 

Depends on how hard you are on shifts. driving style and shifting style have a lot to do with it . i think anything over like 350whp will start to give you probs unless you have the susp dialed in real nice and some really good tires on the car. My Azeni's stick suprisingly good to higher hp. all depends on how hard i get on it though

 

this is for a ek 98 cx hatch......i don't know what ballpark to shoot for on the streets because i'd hate to get smoked buy some mildly built n/a guy cause of traction....

 

2300-2600 lb honda with 300-350 hp is plenty fast for the streets, with that much power you should be able to beat 80% of the cars you encounter on the street depending on where you live.

Im with you though man, I just want a respectfully fast car on the street while maintaining reliability, and streetability. No need for a 500 hp no traction FWD honda for me on the streets

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by quikB18B &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">2300-2600 lb honda with 300-350 hp is plenty fast for the streets, with that much power you should be able to beat 80% of the cars you encounter on the street depending on where you live.

Im with you though man, I just want a respectfully fast car on the street while maintaining reliability, and streetability. No need for a 500 hp no traction FWD honda for me on the streets

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ditto.

 

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i say 400-450 is respectable.

 

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320 is okay for me. i want more i think though.

 

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maybe for a dyno queen....i don't think all that would be put to use i'd turn up the boost just to dyno though...i'd love to say my honda made 500whp

 

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maybe for a dyno queen....i don't think all that would be put to use </TD></TR></TABLE>
espanol puts his to use on more than just a dyno .. and how would you know, you're the one who started this thread, we're the experienced ones!

 

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maybe for a dyno queen....i don't think all that would be put to use i'd turn up the boost just to dyno though...i'd love to say my honda made 500whp</TD></TR></TABLE>

oh, it's useable...and around where i live you need all the power you can put down.cars don't play around here.

 

but jeez.....500whp on a fwd honda? maybe from a roll on the freeway, still impressive to brag about though

 

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there is never to much whp for the street.. hahaha youll just spin in ever gear...lol
500+whp bragging rights

 

330-350 is what i want...@ 310whp before i was spinning all through 3rd (had **** suspension, etc) now with good tires, good suspension and traction bars im hoping it will be better, BTW this is in a ~2100lb car.

 

what bars are you using? do they interfere with anything?

 

Since squeezing the largest azenis(215/45ZR16) under the fenders the car is begging for even more power. With my old all season tires the car will spin into thrid gear. With the azenis it is so tight and goes like mad. I'd really like to get it up to 300 hp or so.

 

300-350whp would be nice just run a dual stage boost controller, I have one for my mighty 215whp car In first gear just run low boost flick the switch once I go into 2nd Works a treat

 

a guy around here put like 455 or so to the wheels kills
everyone till he fucked his motor up and now has a quick
300 stock block gsr and runs nice

 

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everyone till he fucked his motor up and now has a quick
300 stock block gsr and runs nice</TD></TR></TABLE>

what motor did he have 455 hp in?