SLEEPERS! Anyone have a street sleeper here?

[Pixelpeep 135]

J4CKO said:

Being a Fiesta ST, my car isnt a sleeper, but its quick enough that the Tesla Model 3 Driver who was trolling me a bit was wondering why he hadn't pulled away We were rolling as wouldn't stand a cat in hells chance from a standstill.

Said Dual Motor on the back, so guessing its the normal one, think the Performance one would have been quite a bit quicker. Had a look and they are 346 bhp, mines reputedly just over 300 but a load lighter, but obviously no gearchanges for the Tesla and instant torque.

That'll be the LR model - inbetween the standard and the performance.

[Fastdruid]

Anyone posted this one before? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGlBwK35imI

[donkmeister]

RB Will said:

Is always a bit worrying when you see someone go big power and standard brakes on a non performance car.

I’ve got just over 500bhp in my Impreza and have upgraded to big discs and AP racing 6 pots. I saw the same model with similar power for sale the other day on the original brakes.
They couldn’t cope with the abuse as standard let alone regular stops from much higher speeds

Not saying I would go for 800bhp on 9" discs or something, but the bit in bold is surely relevant: the only time I've ever experienced brake fade was in a standard car with the "one down from the turbo nutter version" factory brakes and factory power.
The reason was that I was hoofing it from roundabout to roundabout at the time, basically max throttle followed by heavy braking, multiple times, in a car that was really intended for autobahn cruising rather than hard driving. User error.

For most use cases, standard brakes are overkill anyway as you can stop from VMax at the limit of tyre grip. Yes, uprating brakes is an indicator that someone hasn't just thrown £500 at their nearest remap outfit, but it is far from necessary if your use case for the extra power is to stop your overtake being baulked or to hoof down sliproads.

[Slow]

It’s a civic so I am always assuming it’s a bog standard engine with an exhaust and wheels done by a 18 year old. Not 700bhp!

[Wadeski]

The wheels will trigger some people on here, but that counts for me. civics are economy cars, you would not expect one to smoke a Gallardo.

[Tommo87]

Wadeski said:

The wheels will trigger some people on here, but that counts for me. civics are economy cars, you would not expect one to smoke a Gallardo.

I like it.

[SlimJim16v]

Wadeski said:

The wheels will trigger some people on here

The illegal number plates though say chav/council/boy racer.

[Gtom]

The wheels don’t say 700bhp, it’s brilliant.

Unless it’s driven by a goon who flings his arm about the car every time he changes gear.

[Matt Cup]

Gtom said:

The wheels don’t say 700bhp, it’s brilliant.

Unless it’s driven by a goon who flings his arm about the car every time he changes gear.

[Megaflow]

Slow said:

It’s a civic so I am always assuming it’s a bog standard engine with an exhaust and wheels done by a 18 year old. Not 700bhp!

Mother F**ker…

[SlimJim16v]

Gtom said:

The wheels don’t say 700bhp, it’s brilliant.

No, but they do make you look twice. Then you notice the other things, is that splitter std, the polished intercooler pipes, bigger exhaust, brakes, NACA duct, etc. As said, not 700bhp worth though.

I think it's great though and only a few tweaks away from a true sleeper. Link to YouTube video of it -

https://youtu.be/BKyeEKlj0TM

[ddom]

SlimJim16v said:

The illegal number plates though say chav/council/boy racer.

Always one.

[Gtom]

If you pull along side that in your 335d (mapped) you would be very shocked when it walked away from you. 100% sleeper.

[aka_kerrly]

SlimJim16v said:

No, but they do make you look twice. Then you notice the other things, is that splitter std, the polished intercooler pipes, bigger exhaust, brakes, NACA duct, etc. As said, not 700bhp worth though.

I think it's great though and only a few tweaks away from a true sleeper. Link to YouTube video of it -

https://youtu.be/BKyeEKlj0TM

The body is standard VTI-S accept the bonnet duct.

I very much consider it a sleeper exactly how it is, if it were mine I'd swap the wheels as I'm a tiny bit bored of seeing them on Hondas.

[Gtom]

The spec is as follows:
-Solid mounted K20
-K-tuned 4-1 into a 76mm side exit exhaust
-RBC Intake with a stock EP3 (Soon to be replaced by a Skunk2 Ultra)
-Standard EP3 box with an MFactory Metal Plated LSD
-Competition Clutch Ultra Lightweight Flywheel 5KG
-Action Clutch Stage 3 Clutch,
-Custom 1-piece Drive Shafts
-Walbro 255 Fuel Pump (with full braided lines and AN fittings attached to a 5 gallon fuel cell in the boot.)
-KPro v4
-K-Tuned Billet Shifter with Race Spec cables.

[Fermit]

That is 100% sleeper. If you saw it as a petrolhead you'd simply think cherished 'classic'. If you saw it as a none petrolhead you just think 'some old small car'

[Tankrizzo]

Gtom said:

The spec is as follows:
-Solid mounted K20
-K-tuned 4-1 into a 76mm side exit exhaust
-RBC Intake with a stock EP3 (Soon to be replaced by a Skunk2 Ultra)
-Standard EP3 box with an MFactory Metal Plated LSD
-Competition Clutch Ultra Lightweight Flywheel 5KG
-Action Clutch Stage 3 Clutch,
-Custom 1-piece Drive Shafts
-Walbro 255 Fuel Pump (with full braided lines and AN fittings attached to a 5 gallon fuel cell in the boot.)
-KPro v4
-K-Tuned Billet Shifter with Race Spec cables.

[glazbagun]

Gtom said:

The spec is as follows:
-Solid mounted K20
-K-tuned 4-1 into a 76mm side exit exhaust
-RBC Intake with a stock EP3 (Soon to be replaced by a Skunk2 Ultra)
-Standard EP3 box with an MFactory Metal Plated LSD
-Competition Clutch Ultra Lightweight Flywheel 5KG
-Action Clutch Stage 3 Clutch,
-Custom 1-piece Drive Shafts
-Walbro 255 Fuel Pump (with full braided lines and AN fittings attached to a 5 gallon fuel cell in the boot.)
-KPro v4
-K-Tuned Billet Shifter with Race Spec cables.

What an awesome thing. It must be ~210HP? What was the 5 Turbo by comparison?

[Fermit]

glazbagun said:

What an awesome thing. It must be ~210HP? What was the 5 Turbo by comparison?

The GT Turbo was 130 as standard, but they weigh nowt.

[hairykrishna]

I had a GT turbo with a stripped interior and the boost turned up a bit, probably 160ish horsepower and it was very quick. They were, IRC, about 800kg? I'm pretty sure they're made of old biscuit tins and cardboard

I want that car quite badly.