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Quote (HippoSleek @ Dec. 04 2002,1:49)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Ryno - I can make a Civic that will beat the pants off the HKS HIPER Shit in hp/cylinder or litre. That's not the point. If the HIPER Silvia were all that, it would be winning Nurbergring, not a Viper. It would be doing LeMans, not a Viper. But it ain't, is it? a) your seat of the pants impression is much less important than that of the automotive journalistic and racing community ( <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sneaky2.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':evil:'> no harm intended); b) the test here is stock, not tuner cars. Mustang Cobra? Naw - still has the fundamental characteristics of a pony car (see also, Camaro SS).</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
There's an old saying about how you can strap a jet engine to a brick and make it haul ass. Keep that in mind for a minute, I'll be getting back to it. The HKS Silvia is an example of a purpose built car. Drift, nothing more, nothing less. That car would be as out of place at Le Mans as a Viper would be at D1. Apples and oranges. I know, I brought it up, but as a smart ass example of the shortcomings of the platform. As for the Civic hp/liter, I would be stunned if you couldn't, (jet engine/ brick) however, for drift, he who has the most hp is not always the winner. I believe that easily 150hp+ could be squeezed out of NOB's Silvia, but why? I agree that in the grand scheme of things my in the drivers seat commentary of the Viper is less than zero compared to the race/journalistic side of things, but keep in mind these are the same people who declared the Ford Focus "Sport Compact of the Year". Uh...Huh? If we're narrowing things down to stock, drive off the lot performance, are we letting special editions into the race?