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Hi all,
My buddy was saying that my contour would blow up if I modded it out. He thinks its gutlass, but I love it. Anyways I told him that I was going to get my exhuast done and he laughed and said i would blow my engine becuase american cars arent ment to be raced around. So my question is what makes the zetec engine just as good as his honda civic. Or not?
THANKS
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Tinted Windows(35%)
door dings removed
16" Dubs!
2.25 pipe flowin to a magnaflow
(soon to get CTA intake)
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umm ,ask him why so many mustangs race? tell him to look at the meguiar's focus, focus central's focus, turbo tom's focus. tell him you have a 2.0L engine with more HP and much more torque than he can dream of. Plenty of people here race with zetecs. Any engine raced too much will have problems, but you can mod all you want and be fine. Doing your exhaust and intake will not harm your car. Tell him he is a retard and civics were meant as cheap cars to go to point A to point B , not to the drag strip. Tell him also to remove that ugly wing on his car that I can envision he has.
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91 Escort GT (almost sold)
96 ATX Zetec (i brake to watch you swerve)
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Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
umm ,ask him why so many mustangs race? tell him to look at the meguiar's focus, focus central's focus, turbo tom's focus. tell him you have a 2.0L engine with more HP and much more torque than he can dream of. Plenty of people here race with zetecs. Any engine raced too much will have problems, but you can mod all you want and be fine. Doing your exhaust and intake will not harm your car. Tell him he is a retard and civics were meant as cheap cars to go to point A to point B , not to the drag strip. Tell him also to remove that ugly wing on his car that I can envision he has.
 
Hector
2003 Rally Red Mitsubishi Evolution VIII
257HP/259TQ
2005 Lapis Blue Mazda 6s
RET: 00 Cabernet Red Ford Contour Zetec ATX SUPERCHARGED
160HP/141TQ
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Or to make it simple, tell him you don't have an American car, you have a European car. The Contour was not, nor was it ever meant to be, an American car. It was a failed attempt at a "world car" because it was too much of a European car for American tastes.
His Civic will virtually always beat you in a 1/4 mile drag.
But in an actual race, you've got him hands-down. The Civic couldn't dream of keeping up in the turns.
And racing is where it's at. Anybody can mod any car to go real fast. Even a full-size Dodge Ram can break a 13 second 1/4 at 108MPH if you throw enough mods at it.
Racing takes knowing what to mod, involves trade-offs in speed and performance, and of course lots of driving skill.
Last time I checked, Civics didn't race professionally in Rally or Autocross events. Your car (or what is essentially a modded version of it) does.
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Originally posted by sigma:
Last time I checked, Civics didn't race professionally in Rally or Autocross events. Your car (or what is essentially a modded version of it) does.
W3rd!
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I've got mods.
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do a search on google for the cosworth zetecs. Show him some real race cars.
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Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
umm ,ask him why so many mustangs race? tell him to look at the meguiar's focus, focus central's focus, turbo tom's focus. tell him you have a 2.0L engine with more HP and much more torque than he can dream of. Plenty of people here race with zetecs. Any engine raced too much will have problems, but you can mod all you want and be fine. Doing your exhaust and intake will not harm your car. Tell him he is a retard and civics were meant as cheap cars to go to point A to point B , not to the drag strip. Tell him also to remove that ugly wing on his car that I can envision he has.
amen, well said kermit.
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I think you can summarize it to him by just saying "you're an idiot and the entire CEG agrees". 
Mine's lightly modded and hasn't blown up. In fact, I'm at 110k miles and have great power considering the small amount of mods done. SleeperZ tosses N2O into his Zetec and it hasn't blown up. In fact, I think I can count on one hand the number of Zetecs I've read about blowing up on this board - not a lot. 
Civics have great potential because of a huge aftermarket. Much of it caters to the ricer-mentality your friend has, and that's fine w/ me. He adds wings & vinyl...I dyno-tune. Which do you think really makes a difference.
Even better - have your dumb friend register on the board and post here telling us why we shouldn't be modding our Zetecs that actually have balanced TQ and HP figures. Sorry my car doesn't make all of its useful HP in the last 300 rpm. 
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Or just simply say "let me get this strait. My bottle of Pepsi has 2 liters but your honda only has 1.8?"
Last edited by blury; 04/24/03 05:13 PM.
95 Tour ATX Zetec
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Polished TB
Polishe Vavle cover
Energy suspension Greaseable sway bar bushings Front and rear
Red interior lights 1/2 done
Home made short ram intake
Custom Grills
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95 GL MTX Zetec, Carbon Fiber hood:
*neoprene seat covers
*new SVT rear bumper
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