Sit Back, Hang on, and ENJOY THE RIDE!

It was Wednesday afternoon, and even now when I think about it I can't help but burst into a big childish grin.

Was chatting with one of the new guys from work the other week, and discussion turned to drag racing, he runs a 1985 Honda Civic.

Sounds a little boring, well it's a road registered drag car and he brought it into RACQ on Wednesday.

What a beauty - 85 Civic, but with a 2003 Integra Type R Engine modification, with a 6 speed Integra gear box. It's a pretty impressive engineering feat not to mention the other modifications (air boxes, custom CAMS, throttle off a HSV LS2 V8) and it's produces a unbelievably quick car.

An 85 Civic is a small light car, and Jason's done everything he can to make it lighter. With the engine producing 160KWs at the wheels that makes this one of the fastest road legal Civics in Australia, which is made even more impressive when you note this is NOT a turbo charged car.

His best down the quarter mile at Willowbank is an 11.6sec run. That's unreal!

So on Wednesday when Jas asked if I wanted a ride I jumped at the chance. A nice quiet road out the back of Eight Mile Plains allowed me to see just a small bit of what this car's capable of. With road tyres and not being on a purpose prepared drag strip there was no way we could take off like a drag run, there's no grip - but I was still pushed back in my seat and just lost all sense of the rest of the world as we took off. Certainly the fastest car I've ever ridden in


An unreal experience and a majorly impressive car.

He's competing in a couple of weekends time and I'm going to make sure the track chaplain will be on the start line to have a look :-P