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Highly Modded Civic Si vs. APR Stage 1 GTI

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2015WhiteGTI

Go Kart Champion
Location
Chester Springs, PA
I saw a black Civic Si that I could also hear. It had a fart can on it and was pretty loud. He saw a break and took off only to get stopped at the next light. I could see he had some suspension work done at least.
I was behind him and before the light changed I can hear BRAAAAAAPPPPP where he's holding the revs high to launch the car. I thought great! Here he's going to launch the car hard and walk away quickly as I don't have my summer tires on.
Not the case. He lets the clutch fly and the car falls flat on its face. I have to pedal to avoid hitting him and I basically just pulled out quickly with a little more revs than normal. Then comes the 1-2 shift - not the most skilled driver in front of me. It takes him forever to shift and I pull out along side and proceed to just walk on bye him as he's shifting into third. I could hear a BOV and turbo on his car as I'm going bye. So, he had some sort of FI on this car.
Didn't really matter, we both waved to each other as I was going past.
 
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gn4rwhals

Go Kart Champion
Location
Detroit, MI
Sounds he bogged hard on his failed launch, driver mod for sure here.
 
Mk7GTl

Mk7GTl

Go Kart Champion
Location
USA
There's a local rsx with a small bolt on turbo... looking to come across him someday. :p
 
worldacgti

worldacgti

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I beat a boosted B16 dc2 integra...that car made 302 whp and 240 lbs ft of torque...guy was a complete douche about it too lol...go take out the local rsx :). With ur setup, shouldnt be too much of a problem if it has a small bolt on turbo


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Mk7GTl

Mk7GTl

Go Kart Champion
Location
USA
Worldpacgti said:
I beat a boosted B16 dc2 integra...that car made 302 whp and 240 lbs ft of torque...guy was a complete douche about it too lol...go take out the local rsx :). With ur setup, shouldnt be too much of a problem if it has a small bolt on turbo


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Yeah it's gotta be a tiny bolt on his intercooler looks tiny like the ones that come in a complete plug and play package.
 
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m00se

Ready to race!
Location
Ottawa,CA
jb99875 said:
I usually don't bother with Civics there is no winning. you either A) Wasted gas or B) Got beat by some sleeper. I would go about 98% chance its A.
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Bingo, totally agree. Mine was the B) type ;). 475whp dc2, it definitely surprised a couple person.
 
Sandbagger1

Sandbagger1

Passed Driver's Ed
Location
Dining on smoked muscle cars
Car(s)
2017 GTI Sport DSG
As mentioned, be careful with some RSX’s because they can be pretty quick. I know because I have both a MK7 and a RSX-S. Also my son has a MK6 K04 with all of APR’s bolt-ons and the the old RSX has no problems keeping up with it.

I'm now saving to upgrade the MK7 with an IS38 turbo, APR’s intake/intercooler/downpipe, and the outcome should favor towards the GTI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4JO-BC_ro




 
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GTI Jake

GTI Jake

Autocross Champion
Location
Charlotte, NC
I haven't bothered to race any hondas for this reason. Theyre all shit boxes until you come across one of the 2% cars.

There's a local big turbo civic with slicks up front, a hood stack (two if you count his WG open dump next to it, and a big ass 4" thick IC. I don't mess with him, and he doesn't mess with me lol, I assume he's 550-600 HP judging by how nasty it looks and sounds. He's most likely hunting liter bikes and C7 ZO6/TT Lambos/etc
 
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jb99875

Ready to race!
Location
Fort Worth, TX
Gti jake said:
I haven't bothered to race any hondas for this reason. Theyre all shit boxes until you come across one of the 2% cars.

There's a local big turbo civic with slicks up front, a hood stack (two if you count his WG open dump next to it, and a big ass 4" thick IC. I don't mess with him, and he doesn't mess with me lol, I assume he's 550-600 HP judging by how nasty it looks and sounds. He's most likely hunting liter bikes and C7 ZO6/TT Lambos/etc
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Yeah out here in Texas it might be a little more than 2%, Ill always look at the tires easy giveaway
 
CiHKAl

CiHKAl

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Sandbagger said:
As mentioned, be careful with some RSX’s because they can be pretty quick. I know because I have both a MK7 and a RSX-S. Also my son has a MK6 K04 with all of APR’s bolt-ons and the the old RSX has no problems keeping up with it.

I'm now saving to upgrade the MK7 with an IS38 turbo, APR’s intake/intercooler/downpipe, and the outcome should favor towards the GTI.

https://youtu.be/Hu4JO-BC_ro



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That was an optical illusion from my GoPro's wide angle lens.. it has nothing to do with your fully built and S/C DC5 Type S running E85... That's what I tell myself at least.

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