Seo for a Honda??

[Notaboutme]

Wassup fellas, me again. I guess I made the ultimaye mistake as to tell my wife my plans with the Seo. She has a little trouble obviously that it is so hard to find parts for this car. And 2 that it is at 142,000+. I just put a kool blue on changed oil to full Synthetic and am getting right now about 25mpg, I put some techron in 2 weeks ago to burn all that sludge out and got 330 miles on a full tank at $285 a gallon, the following got 260 miles on a tank at $275, this week I'm not at a half yet and am pushing 200miles at $250. Anyway wit all that said she wants me to get rid of it and get a Honda V-tech. Now my boss has got great knowledge and a bunch of power toys and says that I can get up to 1200hp out of a V-tech, whatta yall think. Its gonna cost a great deal to swap motors or build this 5efe motor so should I invest the money in a vtech

[asylumxl]

someone PLEASE delete this thread...

wtf r u trying to pull? 1200hp out of a V-TECH, its VTEC ffs... just go.... *points to door*

[Paseo15psi]

Of all things unholy. I have a Civic and will probably buy another CRX once I finish my Toyota dreams. But I would never get rid of my Paseo for a Civic. I had my Paseo even when I had my old CRX. The CRX rusted away while the Paseo is still going strong. I have since learned from that and I will get another CRX because it is a great chassis with huge potential, but I will do to the CRX what Toyota did to my Paseo from the factory. Weld and fill the seams and put a good undercoat on her. I hear what you are saying about the so called "ease" of tuning a Honda, but the Toyota is still a much more reliable car in the end. Just my bit of change...

[lancekilgore]

First try some sea foam from NAPA. take off a vaccum line and suck up 1/3 of the can while the car is running, then shut off and let sit for 20 min then start up and run the crap out of it untill the white smoke clears, I mean a bunch of white smoke. that will clean all the junk on the valves and pistons. You should be getting about 35 to 40 in the paseo. If on this tank you are at 200 and not yet at half a tank that is dam good back up to 40 mpg. When was the last time you gave it a good tune up? I agree with Paseo 15psi my 93 has not even been rust prooved and there is no rust on her any where. darn good cars.

[Tercel GTS]

You're worried about fuel mileage and talking about 1200hp?

[Dolanite]

Originally Posted by Tercel GTS

You're worried about fuel mileage and talking about 1200hp?

[Notaboutme]

I agree with you all. I am going to keep the Seo for it has been a great car. I put some techron in their and blew out a bunch of black smoke for a little bit. Now If I keep my foot out of it I am now getting 350 on a full tank. I will do a tune up this weekend and put some splitfires in it and good wires and see then. I am scrapping the Honda theory. My boss is selling me his 86 Porsche 928 minus the motor which we are going to put in a 383 stroker and maybe a turbo or 2. The motor itself has 500hp w/o nos and 700 w/.THAT will be my next project. I will finally have a mustang and vette eater.

[vuedoo]

lol... actually if I remember correctly, you dont need the 383 stroker in it to beat the vette and mustang. The original 5.0L engine did quite well against all. If I remember correctly also, in 1986, it had the distiction of holding the record for being the fastest production car.

BUT, I agree with those other guys... I think it is a shame that you actually thought about trading in your 'Seo for a civic. For the price you paid to get the v-tec motor to produce 1200hp you could probably get a VVTi engine to do the same. Not every civic came with v-tec, you would still need to swap in a v-tec engine if you got one of those. Same with toyota, not all toyota came with a VVTi engine either but you can swap one hehehe

I always look at it this way, how many people own paseo and try to make them go FAST!!! Everyone, including my grandma and the all the kids next door own a civic or a varient of some type of Honda and all of them think that they are the ultimate shit with the ultimate ride until they get beat down by another car, then they whine and complain that it either a) had a bigger engine b) their engine was running bad that day c) "... yeah, he had a turbo in his car..." or they use d) "... I almost had him..."

Just so you all know... almost all civic's owner that I know (ricers) thinks that the race at the end of Too Fast, Too Furious... represented a real situation of a race between a "riced" up car and a "muscle" car. Whenever I hear someone tell me that, I usual tell then that I got a bridge I wanna sell them. Try to convince them that they can make alot of money by charging a toll to cross it.

[Donald]

Please don't waste your money on "SplitFires". They do nothing for Japanese or European car engines. They might help with an old Ford pickup but you will do better with ND, or NGK plugs.

I have tried them in several Toyota vehicles ('86 Van, '82 Corolla, & '88 Corolla) and have had friends and co-workers try them in Hondas, Nissans, BMWs, Audis but the only person who saw any improvement, had an F-250 pickup.

[lancekilgore]

Donald I agree with you on split fires on jap cars but euro cars they worked great, that is where they originaly came from now with the plugs with four arms they even work better. I worked on the euro cars for about three years in Belgium and you want to see a vast improvment put them in a mercedes, bmw, volvo, vw, ect. It's just the way they make them.

Lance

[thoughthard]

I will never use Splitfires again after hearing that the electrodes might fall off.

I had two sets of Splitfires that I bought from an auto parts store that was closing. The "seat of the pants" dyno showed power increases, while in reality, pry hardly any.

[Notaboutme]

preiciate it fellas for your input. I was never getting rid of the seo.ou know how wives can be when they want a change. SHE thought she wanted a honda my boss over heard it and thought 1200 hp (since hees a gearhead anyway) I never like splitfires either. I always used Bosche platinums on my mustang and dub plats for my ex supercharged cougar(100k mile plugs). He wants $7500-8k for the 928 w/og motor s which he built to a s4 325hp or sell the motor and sell me the car (all aluminum body) w/custom ground effects. The more I can sell his motor for the less I half to pay for the car, naymean. Anyone with some sense can build a decent stroker 350 and it'll have plenty of bottom torque in that light car. I saw one on car domain w/400hp and nothing has beat him yet. he says. I saw that GT 3 seo dude had on his post and looked sweet for track car. I am slowly building the seo until its payed off. Porsche is in the works............tobecont.....