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12-11-2013, 01:27 PM | #1 |
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Watched a Civic blow a motor on the freeway
Just one of those freak things.
I was taking my wife to work at 7:00am last Saturday. We were doing about 70mph in the slow lane on I-5 and were passed by a lowered flat-black three-door Honda Civic hatch with an enormous fart cannon exhaust. Of course we both stopped talking to stare because the noise was so distracting. He was doing maybe 75-80mph in the fast lane. About a hundred yards ahead of us, he was suddenly engulfed in a cloud of dark grey smoke. We watched him coast up an offramp, completely full of smoke. It was pretty sad. Not being a Honda guy, I couldn't say what year range the car was, just that it was all flat black and lowered, with a dark tail lamp and window tint. I felt real bad for the guy, whoever he was, but I had to giggle just a little. I'm a bad man. :-( Hopefully he was OK. It was SO cold that morning, and so close to Christmas. No one deserves that. Pretty random story, I know, but it was the first time I'd ever witnessed something like that NOT at a racetrack. |
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I watched a Del Sol blow a motor in my rear view mirror last month. I didn't feel bad for him
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12-11-2013, 01:55 PM | #3 |
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I've seen 3 cars blew their motors on the highway. The scariest one was a Ford pick up that was driving next to me and I heard a loud boom. The hood was pushed up and it scared the crap out of me. Sounded like someone fired a cannon next to my car.
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Sucks for the driver, but he was the one who decided to drive a ricer rocket
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12-11-2013, 04:53 PM | #5 |
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Exactly. Most of them bring it on themselves. I've seen a few well-put-together modded civics. They're usually built for track, not street racing, running race gas, etc. Usually means the driver isn't an idiot either.
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I've seen a school bus blow a motor on the highway, fire and smoke was coming out it like a bonfire. R.I.P all those little kids. Jk there were no kids in it.
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Yep, cause no one in non-Honda's ever blow motors.
Posts like the above are what makes a forum look like it's full of elitist fools.
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That's too morbid to even joke about Nick C.
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I've been studying and doing homework all week, it was necessary lol.
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Blew a few bottom ends back in my day, the best one being a 50 shot of NOS on a turbocharged single cam. Pushing the car back to the shop wasn't very fun.
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I wouldn't mind a NSX as a 5th or 6th car. The S2K.. I doubt I'll ever go back there.
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