'86 Chevy Astro vs '99 Honda Civic

[LumiDriver]

I know it may not be a W-body. But Just a few months ago before I bought my Lumina, I used to have an 86 Chevy Astro..4.3 TBI V6. Nothign done to the engine and it had 104k miles on it. I was on my way to a friends house about 20 minutes down the road. I was at a stop light. Thought it woudl be funny to do a brake torque. Funny as hell. The guy in the civic revved his itty bitty 4 cyl at me. And I nodded.

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Floored the van. Civic had a good jump off the line (Being FWD)

Right at about 40 MPH, I pulled ahead. This guy acted like he had somethign done to it. Some crappy exhaust made it sound like he had work done to it. I ended up winning by a good 4 or 5 car lengths. I would post how fast I was going, but the little needle stops at 85 hehe.

Just a reminder, a Stock 1986 Chevy Astro Van, 4.3L V6 with only 150 HP, (225 lb. ft. of torque) won against a "done up" 99 civic. That was humiliation on his part

[FastSE2DR]

yeah it was prolly a civic DX...like 90hp

[LumiDriver]

I still felt proud tho I didnt lose!

[FastSE2DR]

how do you know he was trying when you passed him?

[LumiDriver]

I heard him on the gas, getting the revs up before shifting..and honestly, would you want to lose to an old POS that was multicolored?

[THe_DeTAiL3R]

Wow that must have been one POS Civic! I raced a Astro van at the track (with my 88 2.8L GP) several times and it was very close. About 18 seconds flat I beat it but only by maybe a car length.

[LumiDriver]

Just recently I raced someone with Im assuming an Aurora, Couldn't remember..he shot passed me cause I guess I was going too slow..WE got up to about 90, and he didnt go any faster...i was going about 105 before i slowed for the stop sign behind me. he had to stop