Don't be silly. 4 cylinder engines have broken into the 7s already (albeit in heavily modified form). Not only can 4 cylinder engines hang with V-10 vipers, they can beat them hands down.

Around here, it's rather common to take a $5000 4 cylinder car, put $3000 worth of *light* modifications on it, and run low 12s all day long. At the strip. I don't know anything about Hondas, but DSMs are breaking into the low 8s in streetable form. http://www.heckconsulting.com/dsm/drag.html. Buschur's car runs a 5 second 1/8th mile, 8 second quarter with a top speed of 172 mph. If he raced a viper from a standstill, the viper would be a dot in his rear view mirror for a long, long time, well after the quarter mile even.

Calvin