Another VTEC Guy

[Boosted Euro]

Damn, that's a dusty engine bay..lol

Sounds like it's time to make a build thread

No aftermarket parts ? ... For a honda? Pep Boys has like 4-5 isles of stuff for Hondas ....lol

[NHAccord]

Haha I know. You'd figure Honda, tons of aftermarket bolt-on parts. But for whatever reason, the 8th gen Accords don't have many aftermarket parts. After researching for about a week when I first got the car this is about all I've found:

Cold Air or Short Ram Intake
Catback Exhaust
Down Pipe (maybe on this one)
Ported Intake Manifold
Throttlebody Spacer
Underdrive Pulleys
AEM ECU (maybe Hondata has a system thatll work but it didn't seem like it when I look on the website)
Shocks and Springs/Coilovers
Camber adjustments kits (through arms and bushings)
Honda Factory Performance body kit stuff
BMW M3 Roof Lip spoiler (somebody on the drive accord forums found out this works)
Cams (again a maybe, the one site that had them, and I forget the brand, maybe skunk2, but was real fuzzy about it)

So anything else will have to be custom fabbed for the car. There are only a couple brands for each of these parts so the choices are pretty slim. There is only one turbo-ed 8th gen car in the world that I've seen that wasn't done by a big time performance shop and it was in Thailand. Hopefully as the used ones become more affordable, people will pick them up and start demanding aftermarket support.

And yes I think its about time for a build thread. Once I figure out what I'm doing with the brakes as that is the first thing that I really need to get done, I'll start one up.

[NHAccord]

To those of you asking about the 'teg and the Porsche, here are some photos and a little info on each.

Side View of the Teg:



"Front" View:



And here is the block with bent valves that was pulled out years ago:



I was too lazy to take the cardboard and stuff off the car so you'll have to deal with these pics for now. If/when I start trying to get it running again, I'll take better photos obviously.

So my dad picked up the Integra about 6 years ago after struggling with blowing up 240sx engines left and right (turns out putting the distributor next to the headers is a terrible idea -_- wayyy to go Nissan engineers on that one). He was running it in SCCAs Improved Touring A class. For those that are unaware of the basic principle of the class, you are allowed minimal engine mods and some suspension mods along with all the neccessary safety equipment. The power range for the class is about 160 WHP with weights of the cars around 2500lbs. When he was racing it, it was on a bone stock junkyard motor. I forget what struts are on it, but they are nitrogen filled running 700lb/in springs up front and 1000lb/in springs in the rear. Makes for a very tail-happy front wheel drive car which is fast. Rims are 14" Borbets running Kumho Ecsta 700s. 6 point roll cage with door bars on the driver side. Kirkey Aluminum racing seat.

Here's a pic of the Porsche:



Again I was too lazy to clean stuff off the car for a photo.

So this is the 84 Porsche 944. My dad picked this one up almost 10 years ago now I think. He was doing COMSCC days and was convinced by an associate to pick up a cheap Porsche to run with him at Porsche Club track days. Everything is pretty much stock on this car minus the change to a Turbo front bumper which was done by the previous owner. My dad was running Kumho Victoracer 700s on the car for the PCA track days. The engine is the 2.4L 4 cylinder, 8 valve variant from Porsche. Its probably putting out about 135 WHP. The car has a harness bar put in for the track days and he was given a nice carbon fiber racing seat to use for track days from the associate of his. I can't remember if its a Recaro or a Cobra. Once I'm out of school I'm going to convince my dad to start putting a bit of money back into it (since they wont be paying anymore tuition fees for me or my older brother) to get the car running and street legal again.

In the Integra pics you can see my racing go-kart from about 5 years ago. I was racing in the NHKA at NHMS on the full road course. It ran a 2 cycle 100cc Yamaha engine with a big centrifugal axle clutch. Top speed down the end of the straight before turning in to the south chicane with foot still firmly to the floor was about 100 mph. At Daytona, the top speed for the class is about 115mph. Good times and then I got too tall and too heavy for go karts so we ended that stage of my driving career.

[Boosted Euro]

Nice, thanks for sharing . Hope you can get your dad back into it. Maybe you guys could run the car together, I'd love to do something like that with my dad.

[Sean]

Go kart

[audios]

welcome man, thats quite the story/garage you have there. def try to do a project with your dad, i think that would be just great. Is he still involved with COM?