War Stories Post your racing wins. CobaltSS.net does not support or encourage street racing. Be smart and take it to the track.

2007 Honda Civic SI vs 2006 Cobalt SS/SC

Thread Tools
 
Search this Thread
 
Old 09-18-2009 | 03:18 PM
  #26  
Projekt's Avatar
Senior Member
 
Joined: 06-03-07
Posts: 24,280
Likes: 1
From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
northvibe..your wrong on a few things..however im to busy at work to correct you..so carry on
Old 09-18-2009 | 03:21 PM
  #27  
northvibe's Avatar
Senior Member
iTrader: (1)
 
Joined: 06-07-06
Posts: 14,124
Likes: 11
From: Minnesota
I usually am...and its usually me being a smart ass
Old 09-18-2009 | 03:22 PM
  #28  
Projekt's Avatar
Senior Member
 
Joined: 06-03-07
Posts: 24,280
Likes: 1
From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
i assume so haha
Old 09-18-2009 | 03:32 PM
  #29  
1BADSS/SC's Avatar
Senior Member
 
Joined: 09-16-05
Posts: 13,309
Likes: 0
From: UNDER YOUR BED
civics blow *****

/end thread
Old 09-18-2009 | 03:44 PM
  #30  
JohnnySasakiMGS's Avatar
Senior Member
 
Joined: 05-30-06
Posts: 2,975
Likes: 1
From: Upstate NY
Honda needs to turbo their si from the factory for it to be worth a damn. It is a nice car and shifts very smoothly but seriously. 138 ft lbs of torque at 7900 rpms? Thats just gutless.
Old 09-18-2009 | 03:46 PM
  #31  
northvibe's Avatar
Senior Member
iTrader: (1)
 
Joined: 06-07-06
Posts: 14,124
Likes: 11
From: Minnesota
Just do some more mods to get near 300whp and see what you can do to that si.
Old 09-18-2009 | 03:47 PM
  #32  
JohnnySasakiMGS's Avatar
Senior Member
 
Joined: 05-30-06
Posts: 2,975
Likes: 1
From: Upstate NY
Originally Posted by northvibe
I guess I dont understand how an incentive at purchase of a new vehicle is correlated with resale many years down the road of that used. People dont buy a car and sell it 1 yr later to make money...even a honda depreciates. Like I said its the honda buyers that keep the price up. If they want to buy a 300k 1985 civic for $5-7k fine, I wouldnt touch that pos. you can only sell a car for $X if you have a buyer willing to pay that. There was a mugen civic si on the lot up here for almost a year, hell I bet its still for sale, for 27-28k. No one in their right mind would pay that much and they wont budge the price.

Evo's sold cheap because mitsu though they were about to pull out of the US. I only had a 1k incentive on my SS, I negotiated the price to where I wanted it. So the resale on your vehicle should be really low, actually extremely low...
Yeah almost 30k for a nice low 17 second car. The mugen exhaust doesnt help when they add a 200 pound "aero kit" that is alsot worthless on a car that will only do 130ish
Old 09-18-2009 | 04:01 PM
  #33  
Smus's Avatar
New Member
 
Joined: 07-12-09
Posts: 129
Likes: 0
From: Mankato MN
Here's what honda needs.

A V8. Done. I think they are afraid of the number 8.

I think the Si is a nice car for what it is, but like what's been said before about them when they came out and it was the big GTI vs. Si debate, the Si won a lot of the challenges, but if you gave the owners $2k to spend on their cars to make them faster in every way...the GTI would school the Si hands down. It's just physics.

Last edited by Smus; 09-18-2009 at 04:02 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
Old 09-18-2009 | 04:07 PM
  #34  
Nismothecat's Avatar
Senior Member
 
Joined: 04-21-08
Posts: 3,186
Likes: 1
From: Long Beach
Originally Posted by JohnnySasakiMGS
Yeah almost 30k for a nice low 17 second car. The mugen exhaust doesnt help when they add a 200 pound "aero kit" that is alsot worthless on a car that will only do 130ish
mid 14 sec car and most body kits are actually lighter than the factory bumpers.
Old 09-18-2009 | 04:08 PM
  #35  
JohnnySasakiMGS's Avatar
Senior Member
 
Joined: 05-30-06
Posts: 2,975
Likes: 1
From: Upstate NY
Originally Posted by Smus
Here's what honda needs.

A V8. Done. I think they are afraid of the number 8.

I think the Si is a nice car for what it is, but like what's been said before about them when they came out and it was the big GTI vs. Si debate, the Si won a lot of the challenges, but if you gave the owners $2k to spend on their cars to make them faster in every way...the GTI would school the Si hands down. It's just physics.
I think the GTI would school the Si anyway... In every category.
Old 09-18-2009 | 04:22 PM
  #36  
1BADSS/SC's Avatar
Senior Member
 
Joined: 09-16-05
Posts: 13,309
Likes: 0
From: UNDER YOUR BED
Originally Posted by Smus
Here's what honda needs.

A V8. Done. I think they are afraid of the number 8.

I think the Si is a nice car for what it is, but like what's been said before about them when they came out and it was the big GTI vs. Si debate, the Si won a lot of the challenges, but if you gave the owners $2k to spend on their cars to make them faster in every way...the GTI would school the Si hands down. It's just physics.
LOLZ!

The GTI is an even bigger hunk. An si can run full bolt ons and N20 with 2k. The GTI can get full bolt ons, and a tune for 2k.

A N20 si with full bolt ons will take a bolted tuned GTI anyway. GTI's are ******* slow as dog ****. They need engine work and a big turbo to become fast.
Old 09-18-2009 | 11:17 PM
  #37  
hymer741's Avatar
Senior Member
 
Joined: 05-02-08
Posts: 813
Likes: 0
From: Gulfport, MS
Originally Posted by northvibe
I'm not trying to knock on the si too much..but now he has a $30k car that barely beats a slightly modded SC SS. To each their own...
That car could easily smack a slightly modded SS/SC...

That si walks bolt-on c5 z06's... for fun



No doubt that car is sick... i've seen it in action lol.

Originally Posted by purplehaze03
when i looked at it to have everything done on the si it was like 5000 total to get there power wise like a year and a half ago prices could have changed now but for 5000 i would want more power...

after all said and done, his bill was a pretty ~$9k lol

Last edited by hymer741; 09-18-2009 at 11:17 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
Old 09-18-2009 | 11:42 PM
  #38  
purplehaze03's Avatar
Senior Member
 
Joined: 06-22-08
Posts: 840
Likes: 0
From: Florida
Originally Posted by northvibe
the reason they have good resale is because they are expensive?

Honda's have "good" resale because the market of buyers of honda cars think that honda cars are the best thing out there.
i worked for the dealer i bought my car from, i got my SI for invoice 19 and some change, and then when i traded it in for 17800 only a year later so if someone buys the car for 24000 and then trades it in for 17800 thats a slight depreciation
Old 09-19-2009 | 05:55 AM
  #39  
rockSTAR_SS's Avatar
Thread Starter
Senior Member
iTrader: (4)
 
Joined: 10-19-07
Posts: 2,806
Likes: 2
From: South Mississippi
There was no barely losing to that car. When the turbo finally spooled it was nearly an instant 3-5 cars. As Adam said, that car beats far beyond any slightly modded ss/sc. It would be a good race for a fully bolted and tuned ss/tc. I think the higher torque would net the ss a win, but we will probably never find out. There aren't any modded ss turbo around here.

Although he has lots put into that kit, its still an awesome car. I do agree that most Honda's suck, but this one is just sick. I don't think the shop used hondata. Some other type of tuning method. If you will go back to the youtube video and read the comments left I believe the shop says what they used to tune his car with.

All in all, I do want my re match that he agreed to. Hopefully I can give him a run for his money next go around!
Related Topics
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
WhineSSbaby
Problems/Service/Maintenance
3
09-01-2020 12:39 PM
satisfied
Problems/Service/Maintenance
3
10-19-2015 12:35 AM
CobaltSS 16
General Cobalt
8
09-12-2015 02:43 PM
ROADKONE
Parts
1
09-09-2015 02:32 PM
Bluelightning
War Stories
29
09-08-2015 05:18 PM



Quick Reply: 2007 Honda Civic SI vs 2006 Cobalt SS/SC



All times are GMT -4. The time now is 07:13 PM.