eBay Find of the Day: World's fastest Honda Civic
Driving around the streets of Los Angeles, it is easy to spot a plethora of Honda Civics attempting to achieve the appearance of the world's fastest economy car. Huge shopping cart wings, monster tachometers and racing stripes often highlight the package. Legitimate world record speed isn't achieved on any city street, however, and not with any aerodynamic packages reminiscent of shopping. It is achieved on the Bonneville Salt Flats in northwestern Utah. The latest records indicate that there is only one car with the claim to the title of World's Fastest Honda Civic. That car happens to belong to automotive writer Richard Holdener and it is currently available for sale on eBay.
Richard's Lucas Oil sponsored 1999 Honda Civic Si ran a top speed of 227.7 mph back in August of this year. Despite the Civic's ability to produce 728 hp at 29 psi of boost, the record was achieved with only 15.2 psi. Inherently weak stock Honda CV joints were apparently the hold-up in laying down the full power band. It certainly wasn't due to any failure of the engine components, since the parts list reads like a roll call of some of the best names in the American Honda tuning game. Any small-displacement four cylinder engine tuned to output in excess of 700 ponies has to be stocked to the gills with improvements. The cost to own this piece of history, and the potential to make some of your own, starts at $21,777.77. The car's located in Las Vegas, Nevada, so those must be some lucky 7's in the price.
Thanks for the tip Srihari!
Gallery: World's Fastest Civic
[Source: eBay Motors]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Airton 9:23AM (11/08/2008)
I'll take it if I can still fit the kids, wife, and groceries. Oh, and still get 30 MPG.
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Egon 9:26AM (11/08/2008)
"Inherently weak stock Honda CV joints were apparently the hold-up in laying down the full power band."
OK, somebody help me out. I'm not a racer by any stretch (or a ricer for that matter), but why in the wide, wide world of sports would somebody do all of those engine mods and then keep the stock CV joints???
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Flashpoint 10:02AM (11/08/2008)
I can so see some Ricer taking one of these to a night race pretending its a regular civic and then beating everyone.
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tekd 4:58AM (11/09/2008)
Except you automatically cease being a ricer if your Civic can ACTUALLY go 228MPH.
I think it would actually be pretty hilarious to return this thing to stock-looking, put some cheapo steelies on it, then go to races-would be pretty funny to see the expression on everyone's faces after you pull past just about everything else.
Justin 10:04AM (11/08/2008)
Every ricer just wet themselves.
*plastic wing falls off the trunk*
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JBubba 10:29AM (11/08/2008)
If that were the case, people would be betting on the remains of the world's fastest Civic right now.
Mobius_1 10:16AM (11/08/2008)
That is faster and more powerful than a Ferrari Enzo! XD
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Chris Riccio 10:44AM (11/08/2008)
Am I reading this right? 200hp loss from the drive train?
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mike 11:19AM (11/08/2008)
I think you might be reading it wrong. The 728hp dyno was done at 29psi, while the 517hp dyno was done at 17psi.
Stumpy 10:56AM (11/08/2008)
A car you don't want to race from a roll.
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elux Troxl 11:03AM (11/08/2008)
"Inherently weak stock Honda CV joints were apparently the hold-up in laying down the full power band."
I was asked to co-drive an Integra R in an SCCA 12 hour race. The car was very quick in the rain, but we managed to go thru 2 sets of stock CVs in 3 hours and then just folded up the tent and went up when we ran out of spares.
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tankd0g 10:36PM (11/08/2008)
Honda parts don't know what torque is :)
Amien 12:04PM (11/08/2008)
This is actually quite nice. I read the topic before the image loaded and i was expecting to see some major riced out crap.
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collegekid13 12:35PM (11/08/2008)
ahahahahahahahaha
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Scott 12:43PM (11/08/2008)
Just imagine when V-Tech kicks in, yo!
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Rev 4:23PM (11/08/2008)
LOL. Thank you for making my weekend.
Mike!!ekiM 1:21PM (11/08/2008)
Those wheels should make it to at least the production hybrid. And the air dam as well.
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MajorGeek 1:04PM (11/08/2008)
Not a ricer myself, but for 21k, I doubt you could build something that fast. Seems like a good deal to me.
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JDMlover 3:53PM (11/08/2008)
Old News
This is news from 2006 in my Turbo Mag.
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(T) 4:30PM (11/08/2008)
i read this week, that turbo magazine is coming to an end.tuff times.
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