or here though it seems they run faster

So what do you think does the 2.8 stands a chance? for that matter would a mostly stock l98 do much better?

 

troll much? 0/10
my 1988 gmc s15 4x4 w/ a 2.8 beat an escort zx2 to 60mph so i would say that the lighter fbody would beat it alll the way. much less an fbody w/ an l98


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Hahaha uh yeah, the L98 would do better....

 

my stock hondah would win so bad. when the vtak kicks in that escort would be F***ing dead.

im gonna go work out and tell myself how fast my accord is.

i raced a twin turbo viper yesterday and won. i had like 60 viper lengths on him after i flew by him.

F*** YEA.

 

Well I don't see why you would want to waste money on making something that cheap fast??? must be nice to throw money away like that.

 

Watch the vid this is just a troll thread. Oh and by the way that escort probably has over 20k into it to run that fast, theres plenty of fbodies out there that do that for much less.

 

This wasn't intended to be a troll thread. If anything it was more of something I figured people who might be car people might find interesting, amusing and maybe even cool. To have a little tin can car like can do what it does. To me I easily find it cool no matter what the make of the car it is.
Instead though this seems to be turning that way though it seems due to some studity, lack of reading skills, and what I can only guess is assumptions based upon my username.

So with that I have a couple things I want to address

That's cool I'm not sure what this has to do with anything I posted but that's cool. On the same token I beat a transam Turbo one time. Even had a v8 in it. With that I must be able to beat most thirdgens also right? Think carefully before you reply or you might miss it.


I'm sure it would do better but I doubt it would win unless it was quite worked over.


Um you sir are an idiot. I'm sure this is just sarcasm but still you have some issues and might either want to lay off the sake, or quit smoking the rice fumes.

It very well might I'm not sure. Either way how much was put into it doesn't matter to me or even that a thirdgen can do it for. To me what matters more is what the car in your current config can do. If you can't run with the car then it doesn't matter what your car can do or how cheap you can do it all that matters at that point is you can't do it. It's just the same as the ***** excuse of well if I had this or that or more displacement or what not I could of beat you.
In the end this car even if it is a brand of car that I don't care for you have a bone stock tin can looking car. A car that would beat 99% of all cars on the road and fool most 99.9999 of people into thinking the car was a worthles hunk of junk. This is a true sleeper and to me that is impressive. Part of what I figured some of you guys as fellow car guys might enjoy.

So far it seems I was mistaken here. I hope someone here can show some car love no matter the make.

 

Yes its a fast escort sleeper but you posted on a third gen forum with a misleading title so what do you expect, most of us are not fans of import stuff of any kind so you knew what you were doing too.

 

I'm no means a fan of the escort, I don't frequent escort boards and I don't go out of my way to search for escort stuff. For the most part I look at an escort as a tin can econobox.This type of escort even more in stock form. Something that wouldn't be worth mentioning at all. Though if someone went and posted something like that on a board for a car that I own and was a fan of I would still be impressed and take it for what it was. A damn fast sleeper that is quite impressive.
I don't play the loyalty game though and don't worry about oh hey this isn't my type of car. I'm a car guy who in the end can enjoy cars of all breeds even if it is something I am not a huge fan of or even dislike in most situations. Fast cars are fast cars no matter the breed.

 

Typical ***** bouncing off rev limiter...

 

where? I don't hear it

 

I think this is a little bit better sleeper, And it HAS a sleeper;

 

Now see I Find that kind of cool. Interesting how much that truck twist off the line trying to get down the track and how that "sleeper" door just opens right up.

See though I respect that even though I'm not a truck guy I find it cool thta someone makes a hunk of turd run like that and just looking at it you would think ok well that's a hunk of turd.

 

im just gonna say it. i think that escort was lame. and 90% of 4cyl "sports" cars are even worse, even the turbo awd ones can only run what the ls1 camaro was doing 14 years ago. sooo keep on with your 4banger if ya want to but this forum 'aint for them hyundai elantras or whatever you try to race me with.


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I give up with you guys. If you can't find a little car that can run a sub 10 second 1/4 mile and do 0-60 in around 2.7 seconds all while keeping the stock looks even down to the stock rims impressive I'm not sure what to say. All because it is a ford and a four cylinder? This car also is not AWD, but rather RWD.

What I find sad though is if you can find something that is a v8 and chevy running 11-12 seconds, uses 10 inch wide slicks to do it, shakes itself apart at idle and has that huge loping idle and is hardly streetable that thing would be considered "da shiz". and just so great and wonderful.

 

what i find sad is that you bring a bunch of random youtube videos to a forum that is supported by fact. find 1 car on this forum running a 10in slick and anything less then 500 whp. theres KIDS on this forum in the 13s with the stock 180hp engine, 4.10 gears and an stalled auto trans. yet a 2500lb civic with 160hp a 5spd and a 4.40 gear runs 16s gtfo with you fooltube bs because you wouldnt kno a fast car if it dragged you down a quarter mile.


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So wait are you basis this, your anger, and your dislike of anything I post based upon my username? That's the only thing I can think of because of once again you like the previous person above bring up honda. I never brought them up, never talked about them but you guys seem to insist upon bringing them up as though I'm some honda fan boy and just a typical *****.
You don't even know who I am and it seems you are willing to base this off of my username? IF we are going to play stereo types here would you like me to remind you of your's the straight family tree, wife with black beaten eyes, and a nice little trailer? I didn't think you would like it and honestly I don't believe that stereo type just as I don't fit the stereo type of my username.

If you must know the honda I used to own was a wonderfull 2000lb "Beast" put out 69 horsepower straight from the factory and wouldn't even attempt a 0-60 run with it as I didn't have enough time to wait that long. top speed I managed to hit in it was 80 with a tail wind. I by no means believe that car was fast. My honda is not the honda with stickers, a wing, and NAWS!!! you must have me confused with some other idiot out there.

I'm honestly not even much of honda fan. This username is a backup name from a time when I had some issues with mypassword which I am having again and I'm too lazy currently to fix it.

as far as not knowing fast I would have to say chances are I've worked with quite a bit of fast cars and I would say the sub 10 second car I posted above is fast. If I'm mistaken an sub 10 seconds isn't fast please correct me.

also I highly doubt any car making 180hp in a thirdgen is going 13's down the trackk. sure if using the motor that once produced 180hp sure but I don't see it happening in stock 180hp form.

 

I don't get it. Why show us the video? Of course an L98 would need work to run with that souped up weed eater. But then again, the weed eater has work done TOO. So what exactly is your point? I know there are guys on here with 2.8's that run in the TENS and yeah, they had to put a little bit of money into them. Don't even get me started on the built V8's on this board. One member just posted his success in hitting the EIGHTS. He worked on it you say? He put money into it you say? WELL SO DID THE OWNER OF THAT ESCORT. There are also members on this board that have bone stock looking exteriors that run TENS, that I know of. Maybe there is someone faster but I don't know. So again, what is your point? We are a board of mid-muscle cars, a few of us might find the Escort cool or interesting, but why did you choose THIS forum to post that on? Doesn't make any sense....

 

WOOPS!

sorry for my sarcastic comment, i thought it was pretty funny...

i had no idea you were actually serious based on your first post in this thread.

you basically asked, "which car car would do better against an escort that goes 0-60 in less then 3 sec, one of the slowest 3rd gens ever made, or one of the fastest 3rd gens ever made." basically why i thought this thread was just a joke.

and dont get me wrong i love sleepers. i drive one; an lt1 roadmaster wagon.

i dont smoke "rice fumes"

that escort is bad*** though!

 

Ok ill bit again...Its not that we dont appreciate fast well put together cars that arent thirdgens, it is that you deliberately posted something with a ridiculous thread title then were completely offended when not everybody absolutely loved it. I am a fan of 4 cyl just like anyone else and happen to like the older dsm cars but you just stereotype everyone on this site together as rednecks when that is hardly the case. People like you just **** me off because when people express a difference of opinion you automatically get offended because they dont like your stuff. Grow up and accept that not everybody is going to agree with you especially when you decide to go trolling on the internet.

 

Title was more in jest. I don't mean any bad or ill will against the thirdgen. I am here and have been here for a reason and it isn't to bash thirdgens. It was made due to something that was obvious a stock thirdgen would lose. I know though that thirdgens can and have gone faster then this car.
I don't stereotype thirdgen owners as rednecks, just as I wish people would stereotype me as some honda nut who thinks his vtec is fast.
I don't expect people to come about and love the car and think it was the greatest thing since sliced bread either. What was making me unhappy was the one person who came about with the typical honda "Vtak" jokes (get to that more later), and then the others who didn't even see what the thread was about and instead had an opinion on something not related.
Well that and being called a troll mixed with some insult about how I wouldn't even know what fast was if it drug me down the track.
If you don't enjoy the video then that's fine but please do not call me a troll as I didn't come here to start a fight or cause problems. yes I admit the title it seems was taken wrong but by no means was that my intention. I would of thought that by comparing it first to a 2.8 it was obvious that it was meant more in playfull jest rathar then to start trouble. It stands to reason with watching the video that a 2.8 is in not even close to the same league as the escort as that escort is not even close to stock.
Again the main point in the whole thread regardless of the title or anything that happened since then was more of a "crap this little car is one hell of a sleeper and a neat little thing." It was nothing more then me trying to share something I found interesting.
Want to see me lighten up quit looking at this as though I'm trying to troll the boards and cause/stir up cra, don't think of me as a common honda owner, and instead just think of me as just one of your peers. how would you react if this was posted by a fellow thirdgen owner/lover? I'm sure the reply would be quite a bit different and that is more of what is bothering me then that you all don't agree with me.

Jayhawk I chose to post on this board as this is one of the boards I've spent most of my time and have many years put into this place. Figured some people here would be able to get past the ford thing put all that aside, put the whole four banger thing aside and what not and just enjoy someone who more or less polished a turd into a car that scoots quite well. I never said a thirdgen can't run fast or that they don't run 10's 8's or what not. Was never my intention to say that about a thirdgen. I think you are pulling off into a tangent that I'm not trying to bring this into if you believe I'm trying to put the thirdgen down.

benn if you are being sarcastic then I must say I'm sorry. You have to admit though more often then not you get a comment like that it is someone making fun of a honda owner. Being that nothing was said about honda or their cars to me at least it sounded as though you had the intention of trying to put me in the same boat as a "typical honda owner" and by no means does that fit me. If you are curious about the honda I used to own look up a CVCC accord.... yeah that was the type of honda I own. I didn't have vtec instead I had a 3bbl carb You should of heard the fury when I took the aircleaner off when I was doing some work on it and drove it around the block. When that secondary kicked in that thing sounded like a pissed off bubble bee.

 

[quote=hondastyle;5456322]I give up with you guys. If you can't find a little car that can run a sub 10 second 1/4 mile and do 0-60 in around 2.7 seconds all while keeping the stock looks even down to the stock rims impressive I'm not sure what to say. All because it is a ford and a four cylinder? This car also is not AWD, but rather RWD.

Personally I thought it was interesting , And not to argue with you but isn't the MK3 an AWD , I know it was a rare option for the escort, And he must of had a huge turbo, those 0-60 time was slow, But I would love to see it race and beat 88formulaF_bomb, I would be laughing so hard,

Now I wouldn't mind owning or even driving a MK3 escort I feel it is just like any other 4 banger or import on the road, Just like a moped Fun to ride just don't want to be seen on it, Just kidding

 

I honestly don't know much about the escorts. The dyno I saw on youtube had him only spinning the rears
Actually looks like I might eat crow on that one. Just rewatched the video and looks like I am seeing those front wheels spinning. For some reason I wasn't seeing it to start with.

 

trololol ok im done feeding on the bs. all seriousness nice escort always loved my mothers 94 escort lx but you shoulda went to a ford forum not a chevy v8 forum and posted this because trolling or not. a guy named honda posting ***** vids and asknig if a stock l98 can hit 10s. screams troll and v8 hater


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Hondastyle At least you can admit when you are wrong, And I will personally thank you for putting up the video. I liked it, and I would not of seen it if you did not,

I would like to see it race some of these haters on here and beat them , But we all know they would never but it on here that they got beat by an escort, it seams they only list the wins , even when they cheat,

 

Looks to me hondastyle has more style than some others in this thread, I'm a automotive enthusiast not just a third gen enthusiast......

 

I am not just into third gens, in fact I have seen all of the YouTube videos of that truck, and if the title and op would have been different my posts would have been very different and I am still interested in the build of that car. it's all in how things are said.


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I've seen more losses on this forum than wins. I used to go to the Theoretical and Street Racing category and spend hours reading the threads. Way more losses than wins.

 

Seriously?

What would win? Stock looking Escort vs Top Fuel Dragster? Do you think the Escort stands a chance?

 

Stock looking Top Fuel Dragster because it has a V8

 

I think the op should have named the thread best sleeper of all time? still 2.67 0to60 is super fast does not matter make or model I would like to see the motor even Thu I hate Ford's still one of if not the best sleeper I have seen imagine bragging about a escort like that No one would ever believe you I bet they win slot of bets lol

 

I believe in this case I would have to give honors to the P50. (facepalm) top fuel dragster. geez. we all know they are slow compared the the warp drive engines.


Savage388 I was hoping that by comparing a car that runs between a very high 9 to a low 10 to a 2.8 that runs what 17's stock, people would see the sarcasm with it and realize the post was a little more on the light hearted side rather then a flame against thirdgens. Yes it's a bit on the "duh who do you think would win" but that was kind of the point but never was it designed to be making fun of the thirdgen. Again it was to me more on the light side of things. As far as my reactions and how I spoke to people? Read not only my replies but what I was replying to and hopefully you can see why I replied how I did. As I said before I'm sure if my name wasn't hondastyle but instead onebigl98 and I said the same things the whole thread would of been much different.

 

I will agree about the username to a point, but your whole bio just screamed troll to me when I saw the op because come on 37 posts since 2005 and a username with honda in it? However other than accusing you of trolling I didnt go on a rant or bash you or anything that **** is immature and my whole point was that the thread came off as a kind of immature callout. No harm meant though its all fine now.

 

That was the problem. You have a low post count, your handle isn't thirdgen related but infact a name thats usually ridiculed, and you asked a rather obvious troll like question.

If you had been an established member here even the handle "hondastyle" wouldn't have garnered the same response from users. It was the combination of things that got you the responses you had.

 

I'll admit some of the blame with that, but by all means I'm not accepting all of this. I'm not under my usual username which I believe I did state later on at least as I couldn't remember the password for it and I'm currently forgetting to do so or just too lazy to do so. If it helps though I have posted once in this thread under my more often used username as that is saved on my phone.

Either wy as the saying goes, don't judge a book by their cover right? Give the person a chance let them show their colors and then take it from there. Don't just assume based upon a name that the person is up to no good.
Also might have a low post count but look at the lenght of time I've been here. How many times do you see a troll just randomly show up almost 8 years later out of the blue just to troll a forum? Most trolls do their deed and either get banned or move on never to be seen again. Not often do you see a member that is a troll for years, even more so on a site like this where the admits usually don't put up with crap from outside trouble makers.