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Not a bad idea... if it weren't for my one track mind. LOL! I'll just have to order the issues I miss from the site. It's about the same price and it's guaranteed to come to my house. If I see it on the stands before I do that, I'll get it.  
How you drive is your buisness. Remember that you're not the only one on the road!

Lol now thats the way to go...I wish I had a mailbox at my house to do that lol ours are at the end of the road, but we don't have a box anyway lol so it doesn't work.  
HONDA-High Octane Nitrous Driven Auto

Sorry to go back a couple of days but is it true that Acura axed the new NSX project?  
Datsun Man!

.........................is this thread for serious!?!?! VTEC are you realllly just finding out Acura and Honda are the same, and yeah honda make good engines but honestly, when you buy a honda in your price range, you're really only buying a good engine. the POS body and handling setup will probably be replaced. And s12rapido, you DO know there are 7 different SR20's and none of them are near 300hp stock (except for the blacktop s15 99 one which is still like 50 hp away).....I mean not to flame anyone or be disrespectful, but correct me if i'm wrong: that stuff's common knowledge. K here's my say: Extacie, you should'nt  be looking to build up your engine to match those V8 gaggers. They can enjoy their 350hp but 238 real hp engines and their 3580-pounds-not-to-mention-their-250-plus fattass-pounds-to-the-curb weight's and the Horibbly disgusting american styling. what you should be doing is making sure you get as much efficiency out of your engine to not only boost hp and torque but fuel efficiency. decade old engines can waste up to 5000kj per kg gas. so what you want to do is take that beautiful engineering marvel we call the sr20 once you have it and milk it. replace pistons dampners with smarter and more efficient parts. make sure it's not losing half its energy to useless heat. i wish I could be more specific but i cant; make you engine run cleaner and more efficient and in the process you will probably squeeze out at least 20 hp. Do the same w/ the exhaust system, replace old parts try to find newer lighter parts. After that make sure your suspension is well tuned. So many people are losing out due to poorly calibrated systems, check your springs and chassis braces cause you might be losing energy to unwanted dampening and vibration (i doubt you'd have that issue but w/e. it's solid advice.) Dont waste money on any cheap ass bodykit unless it actually influences the performance of your car. down force can be good and improves fuel efficiency but most body kits just add on to the weight of the car and look like ricer shiz. recalibrate your ecu with one of those smart chips, you might get squeeze more power and improve efficiency. Check your tires; a 160 hp car w/ well inflated good quality tires will probably beat any 230hp car with shizzy tires. in terms of looking good, if you want a bodykit make sure you research on lightweight effective ones. if you want rims make sure they're light and make of good solid material. Dont get any size less than 5 or more than 12 inches difference from your wheelbase (that's my rule...it might be bs). Paint your car nicely ( just for me... I like nice paintjobs). Don't waste yourmoney on useless power adders and ricey parts (ps AEM and HKS vinyls don't add power i hope you know). You be smart w/ your money and you'll end up with a quick nice looking daily that saves you money and gais respect. you dont and you end up maintaining decade old POS with more money than you spent to get it in that condition.

( and I realize this post is old but from what i've seen on the 1st page it seems like you're not getting quality advice ( no offense to others) and I don't feel like reading the other pages so I'll tell you what to do cuz I'm so damm genius and you should listen to me lol)  
"Mitsubishi eats Hondas like I eat rice"

TheHormone:
honda wanted to appeal to the richer,high status people. they started the acura project back in the 80's and just kept going. ohhh the RSX favourite car, favourite engine,though ive never owned one1 (well i took they engine of one though so..) lol and the NSX wow now theres a quick car! when i say quick i mean 0-100km in heartbeats!

it was a millenium gen integra... what can ya say  
"Mitsubishi eats Hondas like I eat rice"

Shane-O-Mac:
Sorry to go back a couple of days but is it true that Acura axed the new NSX project?

yup, they replaced it w/ the insight  
"Mitsubishi eats Hondas like I eat rice"

miamito616:
.........................is this thread for serious!?!?! VTEC are you realllly just finding out Acura and Honda are the same, and yeah honda make good engines but honestly, when you buy a honda in your price range, you're really only buying a good engine. the POS body and handling setup will probably be replaced. And s12rapido, you DO know there are 7 different SR20's and none of them are near 300hp stock (except for the blacktop s15 99 one which is still like 50 hp away).....I mean not to flame anyone or be disrespectful, but correct me if i'm wrong: that stuff's common knowledge. K here's my say: Extacie, you should  be looking to build up your engine to match those V8 gaggers. They can enjoy their 350hp but 238 real hp engines and their 3580-pounds-not-to-mention-their-250-plus fattass-pounds-to-the-curb weight's and the Horibbly disgusting american styling. what you should be doing is making sure you get as much efficiency out of your engine to not only boost hp and torque but fuel efficiency. decade old engines can waste up to 5000kj per kg gas. so what you want to do is take that beautiful engineering marvel we call the sr20 once you have it and milk it. replace pistons dampners with smarter and more efficient parts. make sure it's not losing half its energy to useless heat. i wish I could be more specific but i cant; make you engine run cleaner and more efficient and in the process you will probably squeeze out at least 20 hp. Do the same w/ the exhaust system, replace old parts try to find newer lighter parts. After that make sure your suspension is well tuned. So many people are losing out due to poorly calibrated systems, check your springs and chassis braces cause you might be losing energy to unwanted dampening and vibration (i doubt you'd have that issue but w/e. it's solid advice.) Dont waste money on any cheap ass bodykit unless it actually influences the performance of your car. down force can be good and improves fuel efficiency but most body kits just add on to the weight of the car and look like ricer shiz. recalibrate your ecu with one of those smart chips, you might get squeeze more power and improve efficiency. Check your tires; a 160 hp car w/ well inflated good quality tires will probably beat any 230hp car with shizzy tires. in terms of looking good, if you want a bodykit make sure you research on lightweight effective ones. if you want rims make sure they're light and make of good solid material. Dont get any size less than 5 or more than 12 inches difference from your wheelbase (that's my rule...it might be bs). Paint your car nicely ( just for me... I like nice paintjobs). Don't waste yourmoney on useless power adders and ricey parts (ps AEM and HKS vinyls don't add power i hope you know). You be smart w/ your money and you'll end up with a quick nice looking daily that saves you money and gais respect. you dont and you end up maintaining decade old POS with more money than you spent to get it in that condition.

( and I realize this post is old but from what i've seen on the 1st page it seems like you're not getting quality advice ( no offense to others) and I don't feel like reading the other pages so I'll tell you what to do cuz I'm so damm genius and you should listen to me lol)

are you serious? You clearly don't know as much as you think and don't know how to read. What's the point of coming on and being an a-hole to eveyone offering good advice. If you read the thread rather than talking *** there's a big difference  

Good advice wtf... the big difference is that he asked for advice and you're all trying to sell hondas to this guy simply because of preferences, and instead of giving advice you all ended up talking about how acura and honda are the same: something everyone already should know and surprises that some don't. You talk about car companies and crap when the person's asking you about how to get their s13 (i presume) faster. He's like about to scrap such a good car and engine because of his insecurities about its power and all everyone can do is say "yeah go right ahead get a honda". that's quality advice; sure. Maybe he shouldn't be getting advice from people who didn't know honda and acura were the same thing, don't you think, or maybe you should have spent half the thread giving more advice rather than talking about how much you love hondas. Btw let's make this clear, despite my avatar, I'm not here to bash on honda. Also if you didnt read how many times i said i wasn't flaming you: I made it clear that it's just criticizing you for not giving the advice you should be. i'M Sure some of you are actually quite knowledgable, probably even more knowledgable than me (especially w/ honda's) but from this thread you sound like a bunch of mag junkies overglorifying your fave brand rather than experts w/ advice to give. If you have better advice, give it!  
"Mitsubishi eats Hondas like I eat rice"

Ok so I don't want this to sound all rude or nothing, but yes as a matter of fact I didn't know that Honda and Acura were the same thing because I am kind of new to the car world and have been getting information from just about everywhere I can to learn all I can. As for information all we are saying is yeah get a Honda because from our experience they are good cars I mean really don't you want to hear from the owners of some cars that you might get before you buy them. We arn't saying we are going to beat him down if he doesn't get a Honda it's just an opinion and everybody has a right to have one. It's his choice in the end on what he wants to do. Again I'm not trying to sound rude, but I'm sure you didn't know everything about cars when you were getting into them now did you. Sorry to come off rude if thats what it felt like to you guys.  
HONDA-High Octane Nitrous Driven Auto

well actually my favourite company is subaru. we said he should get a honda because a honda is a good car. just because stupid ricers are more common with honda than other companies doesn't mean they can't be damn fast cars. in fact, the most riced out, slow import ive seen in a long time was a 240.  

yeah, srry about that, I understand your point now, but still saying "get a honda" is a generalized statement, what if he went out and got a topless del sol for a daily...  
"Mitsubishi eats Hondas like I eat rice"

2000-Honda-civic-si:
well actually my favourite company is subaru. we said he should get a honda because a honda is a good car. just because stupid ricers are more common with honda than other companies doesn't mean they can't be damn fast cars. in fact, the most riced out, slow import ive seen in a long time was a 240.

hey, let's not get into a ricer flame argument, I've seen some pretty damm fast honda's too, but most of the time they are shop built not newb-built,  it's quite easy for someone to get a honda and mod it only with wings west parts. (I'm sure that'd be fast) get my point?  
"Mitsubishi eats Hondas like I eat rice"

agreed. in wings west's defense though, they actually have some pretty sweet, non ricer kits out now  

haha, I wouldn't have known  
"Mitsubishi eats Hondas like I eat rice"

I was quite suprised, I was flippin through a mag and they had an ad and the kits were actually pretty nice