I went out for some 1/8th mile racing yesterday with some friends this past weekend and ended up lining up with Nicole and her 448 rwhp Honda Hatch (verified about 30 mins after we raced on a mobile dyno). It was for the the first round of eliminations in the quickest class and even though there were only 3 people in the class, it was still fun. For those that haven't been 1/8th miles racing, the hole shot is much more important than the 1/4 mile. Even if you are the quicker car, you have to get out of the hole or else you just don't have the room to make up the distance.

We line up after the burnouts, she trees me by a bit with a reaction time of .041 to my .094, I pull a personal best 60' of 1.53 to her 1.78 and stayed ahead for the rest of the race. It also ended up being my best 1/8th mile ET and MPH as well. My previous best was a 7.08 on my only 10 second pass, so if this were a full 1/4 i'm pretty sure i would have knocked a couple tenths off on the big end.

Her hatch is very strong and would pull on most cars. I know a lot of you talk **** about Honda's, but this is one that would put a hurting on most of you, even the single guys.

Here is the video (ignore the dumbass commentator on the loud speaker):
http://www.indyhp.com/media/vids/zinxvsnichole.wmv

Here is the full slip, me on the left and Nicole on the right:

 

nice run.. Any car set up right gets my respect. Espcially when it is driven well. G

 

nice

 

God damn thats nice.

I love how your car squats and the front end goes up up up.

Keep the vids coming man.

 

The announcer sucked, but damn good race man. Both cars kick ***.

I can't get good enough traction to hit 6's with the C5. Spinning through the first 2 gears.

 

Thanks for the kind words guys!

I sure will, I should have some good ones coming soon, maybe some local high HP cars on the highway as well.

 

very nice. Your car looks very strong out of the hole. What tires are you running? I have never been able to pull more than a 1.7 short time. I have run MT ET streets, Nitto DR, BFG DR. I know its me!!! Also what amount of power (HP) for a 6.9 run?

 

I posted in the drag section but i forgot to tell you your driving is making a big difference, you are getting it done!

 

ET streets. I made 512 rwhp, but i wasn't making that much at the track on sunday, probably somewhere in the high 400s.

 

Thanks man! You're posts are always encouraging!

 

Excellent run!...I like the way your FD runs.

 

Haha that announcer sucks, stfu their racing already. Also nice launch and run, good thing you won or else you'd probably have to remove your avatar.

 

Sweet run. Funny thing is I'm aiming to get about 500whp in my RX7 when I finish the build. Another thing that's funny is I have a 1994 Civic Hatch Si that's I'm going to turbo charge because it's very cheap and they make alot of power. Honda's can be screamers if the person building them up isn't a kiddie street racer.

 

Did she actually do a RWD conversion or am I just being nitpicky?

 

oops, my bad, i'm used to typing rwhp, it was fwhp. Good catch.

 

That was a really cool vid but from what it looked like. You should of had her from like a second shouldn't of you.

 

thats pretty good for a hatch to pull 1.7 60ft..

but you launch the crap out of the fd.

 

Bump.

Legally sanctioned kill, I win!

 

lol nice


looks great man, now take on a viper or something "bigger/badder"

 

Very nice run man...impressive FD!

 

I can probably arrange something like that in the coming weeks.

Thanks!

 

Anyone catch someone in the background saying 'rotaries suck'? lol

0-100 < 7 seconds. Hm, I bet their car can do that

 

I did happen to catch that...Did a nice little 0-100 in my FD tonight.

 

Good kill man! CLean race with a vid and conform to the "modzi" standards.

 

Nice driving, ZINX!@