My digital MPG gauge reads 35MPG consistently on the Freeway. I'll take a picture next time I'm on the freeway and post it.

 

The guy I bought it from was moving the next day so he HAD to get rid of it. It was the deal of a lifetime! And I actually payed $6,300 for the car with 93k miles, NEW B&B Exhaust, Cross Drilled and Slotted Rotors, C6 Z06 Wheels, SS Braided Brake Lines and High Quality Leather Aftermarket Seats. The car also has virtually every factory option for the 1998 model year. Since purchasing the car I have added a Vararam-B2 Cold Air Intake, 12'' Polk Audio Subwoofer and a 800 Watt CRUNCH Amp. That makes the Grand Total come to $6,800 for my 1998 C5.

<<< THAT'S MINE IN MY DISPLAY PICTURE. IT'S IN AMAZING CONDITION!

HERE'S A BIGGER PICTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

You can't go by that, I can make mine say 50 if I wanted to. The only way to get a real idea is to do the math after you filled up, Drive for a while 100 miles and fill up again. Do the math.

 

I can get mine to say 99MPG.

 

I meant to add in "I get 35 MPG cruising at 70 MPH on the freeway!" which is what I said in my original post.

 

Around a road course say GOODBYE GSR!

 

HERE'S ANOTHER PICTURE OF MY CORVETTE FOR THE HATERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT'S RIGHT I PAYED $6,300!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

What i find amusing is how many of you would in the same breath say that this is one of the most bad *** 1/4 mile cars ever built.....




3.8L 6 cylinder...... Suddenly everyone shuts up about displacement this and that...





For what my .02 are worth, i think MY biggest problems with the import crowd are these:

1) The people
2) The exhaust

No, it is not cool for your car to sound like the most pissed off weed wacker in the neighborhood, i don't care what you think..

I have seen some amazing looking and driving imports, and i have seen significantly more that are absolute garbage... The same can be said for many domestics...

Gutting the interior of your car, putting a recaro in the front seat, then a fart can on the back of your car isn't dope. You might BE A DOPE, but it isn't dope...

Trying to drift your front wheel drive car around a city street isn't dope either.

Adding Altezza lights doesn't give you more horsepower...

You don't change your injectors and add a fuel pressure regulator to add horsepower to a stock engine...

AND ON AND ON AND ON...

Honestly, i blame the fast and furious movies...

 

Great post here at the end of a long thread! I agree with all of this completely.

The true Honda/Subi/Toyota "hot-rodders" are cool guys who know their stuff about the cars they drive, how to make them faster, perform better in whatever environment they drive (drag, roadrace. auto-X, etc), and enjoy shooting the bull with their American V8 counterparts.

Its the ignorant ones who tick me off. Best ricer story I have is when I was racing my '90 5.0 Mustang (which ran high-10s at the time, and this was '97 or so... and I drove it to the track, so that was a pretty fast street car in the day) and these idiots in the staging lanes were cutting people off, etc. All I wanted was to keep my spot in line, and so we got into it a little bit. Then I hear, "why don't you cut your motor in half...." I couldn't hear the rest of his rant over my own laughter. You have got to be (*&^ joking, you moron! And it was some crapped-out, one seat in the car, 14-sec Nissan or something. Meanwhile I had full interior, A/C, slapped on the slicks and ran a 10.6 @ 135mph, babying it out of the hole b/c I was driving it home.

Granted, there are idiots in both camps, but that is one I will never forget b/c the guy was just an absolute fool.

I do agree with the thought that there will always be someone faster, driving something considered "better."

I'm the original owner of my C5... back then I had the "latest and greatest". Now, I have a used junker to most people. Who cares?

 

what was wrong with it? salvage title? needed work ? people don't often sell cars for less than they could get on an ebay auction or manheim

 

I love my C5 but I am first and foremost a car guy, not a Corvettes-only guy. Anyone that talks crap on something as broad as "Hondas" or "imports" is missing out on a large segment of cool cars and people.

I'd rather hang out with a genuine gear head that owns a Honda than someone that is only into Vettes or V8s or domestics.

 

Sir Mix-a-lot always brings his expensive European cars to the shows around here and talks about an embarrassing time with a Honda on the freeway. It cleaned his clock till about 120mph then the thing looked like it was gonna rattle apart. I think he was driving a Lambo. He has an MP412c now.

 

well said

 

http://lexusenthusiast.com/2013/02/0...the-lexus-lfa/

From a guy who is generally not a fan of Lexus

What makes a great car is not all about track performance, the comparison to Mona Lisa says it all!

 

Daily driven...

It comes down to the builder...(old cell pics on my last Honda build...2008-2009). Car was put on the street in 2006 with my custom turbo setup, then torn down in winter 2008 and fully built.

Mockup for mani with GT3082R



Fabbed everything from scratch...header, intercooler piping, catch can system, etc. Motor was built with used parts by me, of course, (rods, pistons, etc) and spent less than 1300.00 on the build. I custom mounted NSX brakes and drilled Prelude rotors to fit.







Custom brakes





11" rears



Billet suspension with one piece coilovers







Cost of the car, coilovers, wheels, custom brake setup, internals, turbo setup, tuning, every nut and bolt polished stainless....I had 8700.00 in the car. Made over 430whp dead reliable (2450lb car), 11 sec capable all day, handled like rails, stopped with anything out there...period.


Car was mildly built in 2006. I was one of the first out there to tune ethanol from the pump.





Anyone that thinks Honda's are capable, or misinformed, subjected to poor builds, or just intentionally ignorant of the facts.

 

This is a fact...many of the guys in the import, german world, etc are great guys. I'd rather speak to real builders...regardless of what they drive...than some of the Corvette guys I meet who just drive the car and put themselves on a pedestal.

The OP here paid 6300 for his Corvette, now acts high and mighty...weak...

 

To RC000E,

^^^^^ that right there is very cool. Great work and you have some impressive fabrication skills on top of mechanical/tuning know-how.

But you're a hot-rodder and a gearhead. Most "ricers" I have met are not. They slap on a fart-pipe and drive like idiots trying to _prove_ to someone that they have a fast car.

Certianly there are some like this in every camp, I understand.

 

Well, it's all in where you look. You go to an event like Import Alliance, East Coast Mega Meet, Eibach out in Cali, some of the hella flush meets...you're going to see some monster builds...believe me.

When a Honda is done properly, you likely wouldn't even know what it's potential really is. The "ricers" are the people who make their car ridiculous looking regardless of make or model. I see Corvettes on here with faux chrome pieces, lambo doors, LED's everywhere...that's ricer as it gets!

Here's my friend Bisi's wagon....700whp...AND it's a SOHC 1.6 liter! The OP would roll up next to this in his stock *** C5 and get **** raped if he challenged this old wagon...haha.

 

I have been raing a CRX in the chump car series for a few years now, as the team owner assumed it would be less expensive to build and maintain. It is sort of fun to drive, and somewhat competitive when it stays together. It beats racing nothing, but it is the truest definition of a "crapcan" racer. There are other words I would use to describe it, but you all know what I mean. I'm glad I experienced it, but would much rather auto x my c5z.

 

This entire thread is pathetic. I'm certainly glad I grew up first owning Honda's, and then graduated to the C5Z when I could finally afford one. I can safely say I have an appreciation for both.

The Corvette is an amazing machine, and I love my Z, but someone needs to flood this thread with videos of Corvettes getting tooled by a few low budget imports.

Oi...