How do you make your slow car fast without swapping the engine?
>>15136171
Install V-TEC
>>15136171
More air
More spark
More fuel
Better exhaust
Less weight
traction aids
not being a faggot
>>15136171
Drive it off a cliff, you'll go 0-100 in a matter of seconds, and you'll come to a complete stop almost instantly
>>15136182
>>15136213
Came here to post these
>>15136171
Buy a faster car.
Don't pump money into a shit car that will always be shit.
WEIGHT REDUCTION BRO
>>15136225
It won't be shit if you make it not shit
> it will always be a civic
In name alone. You autists are the most ignorant self righteous assholes on the planet. Building cars is cool. Buying cars is not worthy of aut/o/motive respect. Asshole idiots buy sports cars almost exclusively.
>>15136251
but you can't make a shit car non-shit for the same money you'd spend if you just bought a non-shit car
>>15136257
Sometimes not true. Like turbo civic/miata and e303 cam Fox bodies. Cheap fast sports cars START at 6 grand.
start at the top of a really big hill.
Put ice in the engine bay to help cool and condense the air so you can feed more oxygen into the system.
>>15136257
I'm WRX swapping my Legacy GT. Have about 3500 into it total (including the purchase price), $500 into the swap so far, looks like I'll need about $2000-$2500 more in parts at this point.
You're not getting into a clean WRX that's already had everything replaced on it for under 7k, nor will you get the grandma wagon insurance rates that I currently get (and will continue to after the swap)
I would be farther along into the swap, but I've been dumping money into my dad's old Camaro to get it roadworthy so I can drive it while my soob's under the knife.
>>15136251
Building cars is cool when you have a cool base to work with.
Making a base granny Nova into a big block, manual trans street machine is cool. Ricing up your 4 cylinder commuter car is not.
>>15136171
turbo/supercharger
NOS
chip/tune
gear ratio change
>>15136689
that honestly sounds like it should work
>>15136689
This sounds retarded but I think it might actually work.
>>15136800
I think it was popular for drag racers at one point, not sure how useful it is though
Weight reduction
Forced induction
Tuned gearbox
NOS
Cams
Engine tune
Bottom end upgrades (to take the power)
Better suspension
Better tires
Better steering
Aero
A good driver
Suicide
>>15136800
If you're an idiot.
>>15136239
>WEIGHT REDUCTION BRO
This, strip EVERYTHING but the bare essentials off of the car. Make it a rolling frame with an engine and seat and enjoy your new superlight speed machine.
>>15136832
>seat
pigfat, just stand on the frame like a real man
>>15136840
>having a body
pigfat, just straddle the ladder frame like a REAL man
>>15136875
this fucker knows what's up
get your driving goggles and hit the track!
>Turbo?
ECU tune
>>15136875
>>15136840
>>15136832
>>15136825
>>15136812
My car has plastic covers over the metal from factory. It has a bench seat, and that's it. There's no other pigfat on the car. Do you think I could benefit by taking the bed off the frame?
>>15136689
But this actually works with dry ice.
It's just not cost effective.
>>15136171
COUPLE BOTTLES OF NAWZ
>>15136806
They put a bag of ice on the intake manifold.
>>15136932
MANIFOLD MALFUNCTION
no replacement for displacement
>>15136875
Pigfat. Just walk.
>>15136945
DUDE I ALMOST HAD YOU
>>15136959
What if...... I'm pig fat? Dun dun dun
>>15136975
roll
>>15136171
Press the gas pedal
>>15136959
Pigfat, lose some weight first.
>>15136800
>>15136804
Holy shit I was joking you fartcommanders.
I mean it WOULD work but can you imagine being that guy who fills his engine bay with ice before the race?
>>15136756
Don't they both have the same 2.5 EJ moter? or do WRXs have a boxer? Either way, why? Legacy GTs are already sleepers.
>>15137044
Mine is one of the second gen Legacy GTs that has a boring 165hp NA EJ25. I'm swapping in an EJ205. Only first, fourth, and fifth gen Legacy GTs are turbo. They're all boxers.
>>15137044
> I don't know what the fuck i'm talking about: the post
Stickers bro...stickers.
>>15136791
>Implying a 400hp turbo K swapped Miata or Civic isn't cool
Also, adding power =! Ricing. Ricing is just cosmetic additions, adding power and speed therefore isn't rice. Besides, Novas were also offered in 4 cilinder commuter cars back then.
You don't. But good tires, an intake, short shifter, and sway bars can turn any car (even a slow car) into a fun car.
Rebuild the engine and add a turbo.
>>15136171
TURBO
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>>15136171
Swapping the car that connects to the engine.
>>15136983
>>15137142
With the amount of money and work you'd need to put in to make a 4 cylinder engine reach 400hp, you'd be better off buying a stock V8 with the same specs. Or turbo-ing the V8 the begin with.
>>15138115
Generally you would be correct, but not with a K-series engine.
>>15136171
vehicle swap
alternatively, a nitrous kit
>>15136199
>not being a faggot
I'll take that to mean "improve driving skill."
>>15136756
>I can't do this to my Legacy GT because I live in California and I'd have to jump through hoops like a fucking seal to get it re-registered and smogged
>>15136218
ad quite thfuckin gigle m8
>>15136251
Try getting a civic to race alongside things like RX-7s without losing things like air-conditioning to weight reduction and ride comfort to stiffer suspension.
