Actually, Merkur had one of our chassis – the Sierra XR4i bodyshell too – and instead of a 2.0 pot, 2.8 v6 or 2.9 v6 (all n/a) they had a 2.3i with a turbo… find it!

The Merkur XR4Ti.

But, the RS200 Evo (0-60 in 3.06 seconds stock) was for sale in the US a few yrs back I saw… an ad on the internet for $200,000… :/

Keep the humour up people, it makes the daft opinions more bearable.

A modified porsche is ALOT faster than any modified honda, so the whole “its faster than a porsche argument” does make sense considering the honda is not stock. Ill take a stock porsche vs. a stock handa anything anyday, and a modded porsche vs. a modded honda anyday too, and win both times.
-Alex

I agree street racing is dangerous, illegal and yet does that stop you from speeding 5-10mph over the limit or more? But WHO exactly draws the line and says that you’re constant 5-10 over is “safe” and his short 0-60 bursts are not? Sorry this is kind of a hard argument to make but I dont really care – the article states the following –
“Like many before him Sanchez found the drag strip more intoxicating than the street. He also saw an opportunity to go faster-a lot faster.”

This guys a stud and sorry but I hope you detractors get smoked by him in his average modified-looking Civic. If he was smart, he’d take off the exterior mods and run stock exhaust and then you’d have a real fun car – a SLEEPER that you’d laugh at in your Porsche when he pulls up to the line next to you…

Yeah, okay Alex. There’s so many dumbasses taking debadging their cars. My cousin took the badges off his Volkswagen Passat. My town is loaded with Audi A4’s and Infiniti G20’s that have been debadged. My friend bought a used 1993 Toyota Supra Twin Turbo that was debadged! I’ve even seen a damn Ferrari that was debadged. Stupid? Yes!

But this goes to show you that the guy isn’t ashamed to drive a Honda you idiot. It’s just something that’s cool right now for some stupid reason.

“10-1 record at the local street race scene”

should read:
“10-1 record at the local drag strip…”

BWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA

on a serious note though ,you would be right of it being a waste of time putting all the power thought the front wheels

Hell, last year I even ran over a group of school children while racing past an elementary school… I yelled “hey biaches, get back in school!” and kept on goin.

Street racing is sooo cool. I get all the hot 12-year olds! Yeah, those high school freshmen are just swinging like monkeys from MY jock. Anyone who says that pimpin out 1 liter four banger economy cars has never seen my Justy….

He can take it to the track, or he can take it and shove it.

There’s a 650bhp RS500 Cossie here and that’s early 90’s… running a T66 from a 2 litre YB… big BHP from small engines isn’t only a japanese car thing – british fords got that locked down too… just look at Pat Doran’s 2.1 Ford RS200 Evo… 0-60 in 1.8 seconds on his site it said. In performance ford magazine they clocked him 0-60mph in 2.4 secs with a 0-100mph time of 5.59 – not bad for a 1985 Ford – that’s a Veyron 0-100mph time! Also he did a quarter mile in 10.something seconds. VROOM.