Sorry to repost in a different section, but no one was answering. I was looking up 1/4 mile times and saw that the 93 honda civic ex says a 1/4 mile time of 16.5, but mine was about 18.1 stock. With intake, header-back exhaust, and full msd ignition (and 17" wheels that are 18.5 lbs each), my time is mostly 17.3 (and i got a 17.2 once). My car is automatic, but should the time be that much worse?

The place I got the time was here: http://www.albeedigital.com/supercoupe/articles/0-60times.html

yikes! a 17 whoa damn dude. well maybe its cuz its an auto. you know how to do launches right?

I hold the brake and rev it to about 1700 rpms then let go of the brake. Should I be launching at higher rpms? If I try to rev it higher while holding the brake it makes a chhhhss noice. Is that ok?

Wut about reving in neutral and then dropping?

ORIGINAL: phan10m

Wut about reving in neutral and then dropping?


BWAHAHA, i HOPE that's a joke. the world infamous neutral-bomb. you might do it once, you might even do it twice, but it's like giving your tranny cigarettes. lower's its life substantially everytime you do it.


are saying it runs those times now? or back in 93? if it's doing it now you have to take into consideration that the car is 14/15 years old. not going to run as good as it used to.

and the rims. are the tires still the same overall diameter as the stock wheels? i'm gonna highly doubt it, so therefore the taller tire/wheel combo is going to be the same as raising (numerically lowering) your overall gear ratio. a high (numerically lower) gear ratio is going to kill acceleration, but give you a higher top speed.

the intake and exhaust aren't gonna do much 10~15hp tops and that's being generous. the MSD ignition is a good thing, won't give you a big power advantage, but it'll help a little. so overall i'd say your current mods might make up the difference that the aged engine is going to lose. which bringsthe issue to more than likely be your tire/wheel combo. no matter how much it weighs (or don't for that matter)the taller tire is going to kill your acceleration and braking.

^well put. and as for the whole tranny slammin theory why dont you give it a try phan10m and see what happens hope you got a deep pocket lol.

Were you embarassed? geez bud, that is pretty sad.

I was at Fontana about a year ago. There was a guy with a Geo (3 cylinder) it was gutted and his only mod was a custom made header. It was a real POS, no hood and ****, windows were broken. Atleast he was running in the 17s though.

they let him on the track with busted windows??? that's odd

ORIGINAL: matts

they let him on the track with busted windows??? that's odd


They were not busted like shattered, they were busted like they wouldnt go down. He had to open his door while waiting to go.

there is another way to launch on automatics. i think its called power braking but w-e. you press down on the brake just enough, then step on the throttle. your toruqe distrubiter should start to slip.but your not saposed to do it to long or you will over heat it.

Foot breakin, yee he said he was doing that. Take into consideration, that the ET record you read, was probly a 5 speed.

ORIGINAL: jc6711

there is another way to launch on automatics. i think its called power braking but w-e. you press down on the brake just enough, then step on the throttle. your toruqe distrubiter should start to slip.but your not saposed to do it to long or you will over heat it.


eh, that's pretty close. 1. it's a torque converter....the name"torque distributor" would fit, but anyways. actually pressing the gas until the wheels spin and then letting off the brakes will only net you more wheel spin. because while you're sitting there with your foot on the brake spinning the tires...you'vegot the brakes applied. as soon as you let off the brakes the tires aregoing to spin that much faster. and as we all know wheelspin isfun for a smoke show, but bad for a time-shaving launch.

ideally you want to hold your foot on the brake and foot on the gas right at the point of your rear tires breaking loose, but not actually starting to spin. which is why some people use a higher stall converter. it slips up until a certain point...allowing the rpm of the engine to become higher before your tires start spinning. higher you are in the rpm band the more power you put down to the ground sooner. allows you take off like a bat out of hell compared to a converter with a lower stall point

and yes, while you're sitting there "power braking" and the wheels aren't spinning, the fluid in the converter is getting hotter and hotter. which is killer on the fluid, which brings even more heat to the transmission, and heat is the major killer in automatictransmissions.

^thats why you only power brake for a short ammount of time. you dont just sit there from light to light power braking, you wait till the last stage light then do the power brake and ur off.

gentlemen this thread is solved by 4 little words... get a fu(king manual!!!

I was 15.6/15.8 with my 98 sedan before it was boosted.