Let me explain why this write up taken so long. You see, this thing is in its element on the track and both Micah and myself agreed that this write up would be done AFTER I got some shots of it on the track. Problem was the first track day wasn't until the 14th, a week and a half after he won. So we waited, and then the day finally came around for us to roll out to the track.
Before I tell you about the track day, let me tell you about the car.
Under the hood isn't the SOHC that Honda originally placed under the hood, there isn't a B-Series like so many other have shoe-horned in the engine compartment, no there is a K20Z1 AND the accompanying 6 speed manual transmission. Hell, it's still got the spark plug cover emblazoned with the Acura emblem. Holding the motor in place are Hasport mounts, which Micah had to fix because as he said "some weren't even bolted! They were held in place with hopes and dreams." Gotta love fixing somebody else's mistakes. Air enters the K20 via a custom intake, through a 70mm P2R throttle body, and eventually into the combustion chamber. There it meets the fuel, which made its way there from the tank through a Walbro 255lph fuel pump, BDL fuel pressure regulator and fuel rail. After squishing and banging the spent fumes are sent out of the head through a DC Sports header and out through a Kteller 3 inch exhaust with a Magnaflow muffler and resonator. Making sure all of this works right is a Hondata Kpro ECU, and it does that well.
The car sits on Skunk2 coilovers and Bilstein shocks, which replaced the blown ones that came with the car. Again, previous ownership fail. Blox rear lower control arms, along with Hard Race rear toe and camber kits keep the car from chewing up the Falken Azenis RT615 too quickly. Speaking of those Flaken's, they're lovingly wrapped around 15x8 Rota RB's.
Inside there isn't much. No carpet or sound deadening, but there is an AEM Wideband on the A pillar and something much cooler. In place of your average cluster is a cluster out of an S2000. It's awesome, it's very awesome.
The minimalist motif continues on the exterior with a CTR front lip, EK side skirts, OEM mudflaps, JDM headlights (with 8k HID's) and amber corners. The only real flashy bit is the carbon fiber duck bill spoiler.
Now on to the track experience. Micah has a set of Hoosier slicks he wanted to run, but he couldn't get those on in time. He wanted to put a rear sway bar on, and he was all set to do it but a problem arose. Remember that Magnaflow muffler? Yeah, it got in the way. He was faced with a choice: run without a sway bar and face the consequences or hack the muffler off with a hacksaw, put the sway bar on and ride in ricer mode. Knowing how loud the car is made the choice easy: no sway bar. He was fairly nervous about it, but those fears were quickly quashed. He described the car as "the most predictable car I've ever driven. If my 86 was like writing a doctoral thesis, this (the civic) is like a third grade essay on Charoltte's Web."
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