Are DSMs Really Sleepers Anymore?

[CVD]

after being owned twice: "go again?!? we never went"

the third run shut him the fuck up!!

:lol:

[Kracka]

Good times those were...the best part about the whole thing was the fact that he was more likely than not talking shit about us towards his 2 friends in the car the whole time.

[john]

I think that they are sleepers to some people. Even a stock 15 sec dsm can beat most hondas. For honda performance, you pretty much have to do an engine swap or rebuild and add on NOSSS or a turbo kit to make any decent power. I went to rf once to spectate this year and saw several sport compact cars with a turbo or nitrous running high 15's. Most hondas are all dreaming about a GSR engine swap or some other vtec engine that they dont worry about non honda compeditors. I saw a turbo civic take down a SRT4 this weekend though. BTW, I am talking about hondas because that is mostly what I see race.

[Iceman]

Originally posted by 92tsiawd84@Oct 28 2003, 07:08 AM
BTW, I am talking about hondas because that is mostly what I see race.
:rolleyes: yea no kidding...

I like the idea of being able to run 10's than dressing my car up to look ricer :) God that would be funny as hell..

[Nash]

I guess it depends on the crowd.

[BuildADSM]

It really depends. Mainly how much people know about cars and such. I think 1G's are especally when they are the ones that don't look good at all the the faided/peeling paint but are really fast. If a 1G is in great shape and looks like it was just repainted then more than likely it is owned by a car guy and modded.

It all depends on the way the car looks and who is looking at it. People that know alot about cars know to give dsm's respect.

[slowbubblecar]

If I ever get a dsm, I might rather have one that looks like crap so I wouldn't have to worry about ruining a nice car.

[slowbubblecar]

BTW, the body kit, wing and decals on my car add plenty of horsepower. ;)

[BuildADSM]

Still a favorate quote of mine that a friend of my brothers heard in the stands when he was drag racing a full out drag rx-7 (tubs... slicks.. hugh hood scope etc.)

"holy shit that eclipse just smoked that rx-7!"
this is with a stock looking 97 gsx

I think it was like a 12.2 to a 12.7 and the eclipse is a DD.

[curt_gendron]

I think DSMs are still sleepers to the general population. Especially the 1g Lasers. I mean a 90 RST has no ground effects or a spoiler. Most people think its just a 140hp non-turbo. Even I have to look closly to tell the difference.

I was talking to an older guy at a birthday party a few weeks ago. He was a muscle car guy. When I told him a 1g DSM could hit 12s with the stock turbo, he didn't believe me at first. I had to get into great details of how its done, before he'd believe me.

DSMs have a small nich crowd. Once you stray too far away from that crowd, people have no idea.

later,
Curt