ok so i woke up late and my class was due to start in about 1/2 hour. it takes about an hour to get to the campus i was supposed to get to. so i get ready in a rush and haul ___ to school. on the intersate im weaving in and out of traffic. not trying to race anyone at all, doing maybe 85-90. so im looking in my rear view for police and i see this itty bitty blue car weaving behind me. i realize its a HONDA CIVIC Si... the hatchback model of course. so i decide to gun it. LOL WOW!! did i leave him in the dust. i must have pulled ahead of him about half a city block or more within a few seconds. boy those things are slow.. anyone have any encounters with them?

 

maybe he wasn't trying to race :-/

 

actually he was... once i got to my exit and pulled over to the right he shot right by me with his hazards on.. as if he won

 

were talking about the prior SI model by the way... the egg looking thing

 

^^^ makes more sense.
the previous gen Si basically sucked. i'm no honda enthusiast, but reading the SCC review of it and from the general lack of interest in it by the aftermarket, it was honestly one of honda's failures in the history of the civic Si lineup.
anyway, cool that you killed it.

 

How could you tell it was an Si from the persona on distance I am picturing in my head?

 

Because aren't all the hatchbacks of the previous body style Si's?!?

 

Don't know, I don't pay to much attention to Honda.

 

You were in traffic right? is it possible you had a better line? Saying you beat a guy by a block racing in traffic doesnt say anything about a car being faster. I could race an 18 wheeler and lose by a block if I get stuck behind grandma in her 82 pinto.

But reguardless, why would you race in admittedly think traffic.

 

^^Good point, that's why I make it a habit to make my races NON-Questionable....lol.

 

like at a track ;)

where i got beat by a stock tC! go reaction time!

 

An EP3 Si is basically equal to a scion tC.

I prove this over, and over, and over again. People hate to hear the word "equal" for some reason.

Technically, they're more "mod-able" than a tC due to hondata and a2 headswaps.

 

They're not that slow, you for damn sure wouldnt pull a city block on him in even a minute of racing. I smoked one from a roll..haha... but im s/c. But like Sensaiturtle said, stock for stock they are basically the same.

 

^^If you know how to drive your tC they aren't.....LOL

 

nah we were both on the same lane, the right lane was pretty clear. he came up on my tail after he was weaving his way thru, thats when i decided to gun it. must have been going 70 maybe at the time?? maybe 1/2 a city block was too much.. forgot "objects are closer than they appear"

 

very true, friend had one... those things get a second knocked off their quatermile times w/ hondata

 

Thats true, I pull about the same distance on both TC's and SI's in my box.

 

let me get this straight...so, he was behind you in your lane when you decided to gun it? and you were going maybe 70mph at the time on a city street, and you let off at around 90 mph on a city street?

WAY TO GO CHAMP!!!

 

he said it was on a highway

 

my bad ^. regardless, weaving in and out of traffic going 85-90 mph isn't something to be boasting about.