Recent content by charleswrivers

Yeah… that’s about what my ancient iron block, HICAS-having 300zx is with a few aluminum bits to keep the weight down. I know the 370s were on the high end of 3400 with the VQ… but it’d be nice if they could come in under 3500. The 300 doesn’t feel bad on modern rubber and will certainly move…...

Car looks a bit gross on the outside. Interior is just OK. It may well have a nearly a 100 whp advantage with reflashes compared to a reflased Si. Would be a lot of fun in 10 years if they’re going for a song and you can find a car still stock. Much larger motor and a certainly larger turbo...

I’m interested in how the hot reflashes turn out. The different turbocharger and exhaust side VTEC might make some some higher numbers up top. We already saw how the late Sis with the lower gearing did a negligible change to instrumented tests. This looks to carry over the lower final ratio. A...

I mean… I jumped ship on the 9th gen forums over to CivicX and ranted and raved how much better the GenX was over Gen9. The power train, chassis, seats… substantially better. I’ve commented over on ClubRSX too… to give folks my opinion on the differences. I also thought the RSX had some...

Yeah. I really liked the Mazda 3 I test drove in ‘15 in a lot of ways… but hated the “glued-on-tablet” look they had. It was the first car I test drove like that and more and more cars are going that way. Aesthetically the 9th gen Si I ended up going with that had a integrated infotainment was a...

It is interesting that there are so many overpriced 10th gens on lots right now. At some point in the next year, I have a feeling there are going to buy a batch of them for high prices and supply will start to catch up and those 10th gens are going to collect dust. The thought of someone paying...

Yep. That’s where you essentially have to get $20k in a private party sale to equal around 18.9k for the trade… because I’ll make up that $1100 in not being taxed the $18.9 trade value when put against the value of the new car. Even if you owed the full 18.9k value…even if you had zero equity...

Yeah. I contemplated getting back in one of a couple old cars I wanted and was looking last night. The last thing I need is another 20+ year old car at the moment. Sure want one though. Things that should be $2500-5000 are generally $5k-10k so fun throw-away cars are kind of hard to come by. I...

Yeah. I thought getting 25.2k for my 4 year old, 41k mile Si was insane. I’d love to know what they’re going to try to sell it for… 28k? 30k? They’ve got to turn a profit on it.

I did like K20A3 base-RSX with its wild VTEC. And by “wild VTEC”, I mean completely-unnoticeable. The A2’s VTEC however… ?

You had me at, “Would you get manual…” Yes. You can’t really see the exterior color from the inside of the car. You would notice, and miss, the lack of a manual transmission however.

I’d expect, dollar for dollar, the Civic in a desirable trim may have a lower depreciation (thus higher resale) than a base Accord. I sat in an Accord when they were new for ‘17 or ‘18 and didn’t like it compared to the Civic… it didn’t even take a test drive. To me, they’ve blown right past...

I’ll give one a look but it wouldn’t replace the Si as the fun-slow car… and I’d probably have to liquidate the 300zx. It’d be redundant with another Z car. I’d keep the truck for truck stuff and the Odyssey and Civic as vehicles the whole family can fit in and serve similar purposes. I’ve...

I’m guessing “New Accord” Accords would be “Avalon Fighter”.

There was a bump in there somewhere. I remember driving an ‘02 with 227 I ended up passing on and eventually getting the first RSX. Years later my friend took for for a ride in his (then new) ‘14 or ‘15… maaaybe ‘16 that was 260-something. 268 sounds right. My wife has test drove a newer WRX. I...