tC vs. Riced out Accord

2364 Views 18 Replies 9 Participants Last post by basilisk4, Nov 10, 2004

whosthatrussian

Discussion Starter · Sep 20, 2004

So I'm on the way to my girl's house, on a residential street w/ a few lights. Speed limit is 30, but whatever. So as I'm cruisin around 40, I see this baby blue "custom" two door accord (early 90's I think, it was debadged, of course) bouncing around on either lowered or cut springs, and what looked like 18" white rims. Of course the car sounded like my lawn mower b/c of those exhaust systems that you can buy at a mall stand. It just so ends up that we both pull up to a red light next to each other with no cars in front of us. He gives me a look, I rev the engine just a bit, the light changes and off we go. I squeal in first for a split second, chirp in 2nd (I already had him a car's lenght behind), go in third, and I got a nice glimpse of him in my rear view mirror when I reached 60 and backed down. He didn't catch up, and turned off on a side street. Man, this was the first time in my life that I raced anyboy, and lemme tell ya, it felt friggin awesome to win. I'm not sure what he was packin under the hood, probably not much at all, so I don't know how much of an even race this was, but a race is a race and I kicked his ass. Damn, I love my car.

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zoltiz

· #2 · Sep 20, 2004

2 weeks ago you were frustrated about 5-speed and today you are chirping second

Kick ass!

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J&J FlintC

· #3 · Sep 22, 2004

ROCK ON!!! DIE RICEY ACCORDS!!!!! LOL CONGRATS ON YOUR FIRST KILL!!

whosthatrussian

Discussion Starter · #4 · Sep 22, 2004

thanks, bud. It felt great!

LoopyLady_1

· #5 · Sep 23, 2004

Grats on your win, hun! Wish I could have seen it...

We have WAY too many of those Accords around here and I love seeing 'em get shot down.

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onefunkyfreshdj

· #6 · Oct 1, 2004

I can't wait to take on a riced out Honda!!! Ohhhh I can't wait!

whosthatrussian

Discussion Starter · #7 · Oct 1, 2004

on my way to school today, I pulled up to a civic, that had two toned paint job with green and yellow, w/ yellow rims, ricey spoiler and muffler. We both pulled up to a light, I revved my engine a bit and looked over, the dude looked at me, then looked away, pretending that he didn't even notice. Once light changed, I sped away a bit quickly, he didn't even try to race.....guess he gave up before it even started.

basilisk4

· #8 · Oct 2, 2004

He didn't want none of that.

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J&J FlintC

· #9 · Oct 2, 2004

Damn you russian driving around picking on the poor little accords

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mrbrace

· #10 · Nov 9, 2004

Hey now guys, I had a 94 Accord EX and it had over 230 Horseys. It was a sleeper though so I guess you guys aren't talking to me....

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basilisk4

· #11 · Nov 9, 2004

The '04 Accord V6 has 240 HP and is still a tenth of a second slower in the quarter mile than the tC, according to C&D and Edmunds.

zoltiz

· #12 · Nov 9, 2004

Originally posted by goldenchild@Nov 9 2004, 09:25 AM
Hey now guys, I had a 94 Accord EX and it had over 230 Horseys. It was a sleeper though so I guess you guys aren't talking to me....

Did they make em in V6 back then or did you FI it?

zoltiz

· #13 · Nov 9, 2004

Originally posted by basilisk4@Nov 9 2004, 09:28 AM
The '04 Accord V6 has 240 HP and is still a tenth of a second slower in the quarter mile than the tC, according to C&D and Edmunds.

C&D and Edmunds are not the real authority. Look for Accord forums and scans of timeslips - they are posting some decent times. But still... SC'd tC will be cheaper than V6 M6 Accord Coupe, and will blow both doors off it.

mrbrace

· #14 · Nov 9, 2004

Originally posted by zoltiz+Nov 9 2004, 06:29 AM-->QUOTE (zoltiz @ Nov 9 2004, 06:29 AM)

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@Nov 9 2004, 09:28 AM
The '04 Accord V6 has 240 HP and is still a tenth of a second slower in the quarter mile than the tC, according to C&D and Edmunds.

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C&D and Edmunds are not the real authority. Look for Accord forums and scans of timeslips - they are posting some decent times. But still... SC'd tC will be cheaper than V6 M6 Accord Coupe, and will blow both doors off it. [/b]

I drove a 94 Honda Accord 4-Door EX turbo charged. It was a very quick car. Beat me quite a few cars with it, til the H22 went on me.

basilisk4

· #15 · Nov 9, 2004

And besides, I'm wrong. Now, C&D says that the 6-speed manual V6 '04 Accord Coupe does the quarter mile in 14.5 sec. I didn't see anything like that when I was looking at the Accord Coupe, though. Ah well, I still like the tC loads better.

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krzy

· #16 · Nov 9, 2004

Originally posted by whosthatrussian@Sep 20 2004, 08:44 AM
Man, this was the first time in my life that I raced anyboy, and lemme tell ya, it felt friggin awesome to win. I'm not sure what he was packin under the hood, probably not much at all, so I don't know how much of an even race this was, but a race is a race and I kicked his ass. Damn, I love my car.

Oh No! We've created a monster!

zoltiz

· #17 · Nov 9, 2004

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Loads better - as in $10K better? Learned a new slang expression today

$10K is "loads" in lawyerspeak

j/k

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phungy

· #18 · Nov 10, 2004

Originally posted by basilisk4@Nov 9 2004, 06:28 AM
The '04 Accord V6 has 240 HP and is still a tenth of a second slower in the quarter mile than the tC, according to C&D and Edmunds.

I just looked at Car and Driver:

2004 Accord Coupe EX-V6 6MT 1/4 is 14.5
2004 Accord Sedan EX-V6 5AT 1/4 is 15.5
2005 tC 5MT 1/4 is 15.7

definitely not a tenth of a second slower...

Accord
http://caranddriver.com/article.asp?sectio...1&page_number=1

tC
http://caranddriver.com/article.asp?sectio...8&page_number=2

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basilisk4

· #19 · Nov 10, 2004

See my above post.

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