Do you ever feel it's a waste to build your Si?

[charleswrivers]

To me? If I spent $23-25k on an Si and turned right around and put $10k in it? Yes. To me, the wrong car was bought... especially if the goal was more power and better handling.

If I spent years and had great enjoyment doing mods and happened to eventually hit $10k? Not really... because the journey was the enjoyment as much as the destination.

This said, would I ever sink an additional $10k in a Si? Nope. Car isn’t worth it to me/special enough to dump those kinds of funds into... but that’s me... and that’s not to say the car isn’t/shouldn’t be that for someone else.

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[hobby-man]

If I spent years and had great enjoyment doing kids

Uh, Charles?

 

[charleswrivers]

Uh, Charles?

Oh wow. Edit... edit...

Something another hauling kids around got very poorly missed/left out/copy paste killed.?

 

[charleswrivers]

Uh, Charles?

Ah... note to self: a misspelled “mods” may autocorrect to “kids” when it is neither required or desired.

 

[fenix-silver]

Oh wow. Edit... edit...

Something another hauling kids around got very poorly missed/left out/copy paste killed.?

Sorry, you are on a list now!

 

[MoaRPowah]

Ah... note to self: a misspelled “mods” may autocorrect to “kids” when it is neither required or desired.

?? Noted!

 

[blinkz0rz]

The Si has things the Type R doesn’t. Also, the way the Si turbo has more grunt down low compared to the mid-high range grunt of the CTR turbo means tuning an Si will provide more scoot around town while tuning the Type R will give you a lot more power at much more illegal speeds.

Even so, if you spent 10k modding an Si it still might be more a more preferable daily driver than a CTR would be for some people.

It’s all about taste!

This. My buddy had an Si, it got hit and totaled to which he got a R after everything was done. He misses the Si's features the R does not have, but he wouldn't go back now.

I am going to keep the Si regardless, I daily more than he does and personally I feel more comfortable in the Si. Yes I have even modded it a bit, but nothing major yet.

 

[MoaRPowah]

genuinely the only things I can think of are sunroof, heated seats, and lane watch

Us with the 2017 models don't even have lane watch. I did hear that the Si seats are more comfortable than the Type R seats though.

 

[Drake]

genuinely the only things I can think of are sunroof, heated seats, and lane watch

+ 5 seats

 

[airickmatthews]

And here I am with just a base sport model hatch... but building a Si block with the gtx2860r turbo to dump into it...

 

[blinkz0rz]

genuinely the only things I can think of are sunroof, heated seats, and lane watch

Yep, and that is what he misses the most.

 

[airickmatthews]

now that is an absolute waste of money

Lol. Maybe. Or I just find it funny that I’ll pull on typeR’s.

 

[MoaRPowah]

now that is an absolute waste of money

Now remember, to each their own. I would give props to an Si that can pull on a Type R. I think it's a "waste" if the money spent on an Si to be only marginally faster than a Type R could have gotten you a Type R.

 

[airickmatthews]

A base hatch could never put the power down that it would need to have to pull on an R without an LSD not in a million years- Si yes, regular Civic no.

Mfactory lsd with si tranny is also going in.

 

[airickmatthews]

You will absolutely go faster in a straight line and absolutely will not go faster the first time you have to turn the wheel or stop. I hope you enjoy it, but straight line is absolutely not what the Type R is about.



It's not hard to build a car faster in a straight line than a Type R. It is very hard to build a car faster around a track or autocross than a Type R and his Sport will absolutely not be that.

Bbk will help, I’ll eventually get around to more suspension components.

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