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.

I watched a Del Sol blow a motor in my rear view mirror last month. I didn't feel bad for him

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.

This is usually what happens when the car gods smite the offending civic for blasphemy (pulling on a superior car) :D

Sucks for the driver, but he was the one who decided to drive a ricer rocket ;)

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.

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.

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.

:(

That's too morbid to even joke about

Nick C.

I've been studying and doing homework all week, it was necessary lol.

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.

I probably would have pulled over to make sure he at least had a phone on him to get help.

I'm definitely not an elitist but these two Hondas are the only ones worth anything.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...da_NSX_red.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...aS2000-004.jpg

I wouldn't mind a NSX as a 5th or 6th car. The S2K.. I doubt I'll ever go back there. :thumbup:

What's wrong with the S2000?