If you say so...

 

lol

 

that's what the issue of Moter Trend said It might have been a stick xA vs an auto tC I can't remember, but being an xA driver, that stuck out and grabbed my attention. I remember that one of the xA's tested beat a tC in the graph at the back of every Motor Trend.

 

must of been my baby sister driving...lol im kiddin kiddo, with the right drivers probably can a hell of a race, tc is hella heavy

 

Stock to Stock...an xA would only need I think 30 or 40hp to have a better Power to Weight. And like I said, it could have been a Stick xA vs an auto tC, and it was only to 30mph...Imma look this up....I'll get it either tonight or by the end of the week

 

just get it clear to get the P/W ratio do you divide the power into the weight: 2400 / 103?

 

I can't find that damn artical anywhere...I'm gonna keep lookin though

 

yeah I think you divide.


And it must have been an Auto tC and a m/t xA. Auto xA will do like 18 sec in the 1/4th.

 

try racing an LX CIVIC haha

i already tore up a couple eclipses har har them stupid emo kids

 

Hey ive read up on this topic a bit and i'd like to contribute a little.

I own an 05 xa rs 1.0 5 speed. it now has a blitz supercharger. boost gauge k/n intake dc sports headers, and dc sports exhaust. i have beaten stock tc's a couple times. the only problem is that my governor kicks in at 117.5 mph. i know this cause i have a gps system in it. when i race on the highway usually on route 22, i can shift a 6 grand in 4th gear which puts me a 100mph at shift. i love looking at the tc drivers face when i do that. cause there usually in 5th gear and i have one more to go. then the supercharger whines up and off i go.

 

Yeah, but your going to need more than that S/C to take out a Boosted tC. At least mine anyway..

 

Only 30-40 hp? You say that like its easy to get that out of the tiny 1.5L! You'd basically have to add another half liter of displacement, or what, $4.5K in mods?

 

i probably have about that much in mods anyway, but yeah rhythemsmoke, there is no way i could beat a boosted tc. i've seen those things and Damn thats all i can say.

but i wanted to be faster than a stock tc cause im stuck making payments and now i finally am able to do that.

 

Trade in for a manual.

 

yeah, then intake, headers, and exhaust. easy upgrades, fun to put on

 

or 15-20 with lighter wieght rims, a pulley... you can cheat it out.

also I know a guy that has over 160hp (I don't know exactly) in his xA.

 

Sure, you could "cheat it out," but it would take more than rims that are 4lbs lighter per corner (which is about as light as you could get even if you went with 14" race wheels) and a pulley that adds 2.5 whp (I'm being gracious with that amount). Hell, I'll even throw in a CAI for 6 whp, but the xA will still be out 0-60'd by a stock tC.

I'd love to see the dyno chart for the 1.5L with 160+ whp. I bet jesteratc will admit that would take more money than brains.

 

I'll talk tp him about that dyno chart

and there are 15" rims that are 10lb thats 7lb lighter than the stock steel.

 

of course i would admit that, you do not want to try and dump that kind of money into a vehical like i did. i really wish that i had chosen a tc and done something better. i probably have around 150 hosrespower in the engine. and i can keep up with a tc. but only stock. i need to weight for my supercharger to get over 4 grand before i can punch it. so i would say they could beat me in the zero to sixty yeah. but not zero to 100. i got my car dynod and truthfully i had 70 horsepower at the wheels. they said that was pretty good considering most of there cars that were stock dynoed at half of what the car actually had from factory. and yes i said 70 horsepower, i know that doesnt sound good but i can definately feel it. oh and whp does not mean front wheel horsepower. it referes to the flywheel. about as close to the engine as you can get. its my power to weight ratio do the calculations it will work.

 

WHP= Wheel Horse Power, measured using a chasis dyno.
BHP= Brake Horse Power, measured on an engine dyno.