You know I’m always bringing you world exclusives at The Chronicles…okay, not really. I pretty much just bring you pictures from meets, dirty perv stuff, and shit I’m mad at. For many of you, this will be the first time you’ve had a chance to see this Civic. This is Sportcar Motion’s entry into the Castrol Syntec Top Car Challenge….
For those of you unfamiliar with the competition, it’s a challenge that pits Honda Tuning, Super Street, Import Tuner, Modified, Euro Tuner, and Lowrider magazine against eachother. The twist is that the cars competing won’t be built by the respective magazines but by someone that is chosen to represent the mag. Loi Song and Sportcar Motion will represent Honda Tuning. Who better to represent the magazine of the Honda Community than a Redline Time Attack champion and record holder right?…
The challenge is similar to the now-defunct Ultimate Street Car Challenge. Not only will it include time attack and 1/4 mile battles but also other events such as trap speed, horse power, power-to-weight ratio, endurance, braking, and even emissions testing. The key to this competition is to find a car that’s not only a beast on the track but also relatively streetable and reliable in rush-hour traffic. In fact, the cars will actually have to sit in rush hour traffic and go from one destination to another just to prove that it can actually hang with the common folk who sit angrily in L.A. traffic everyday. Definitely an interesting overall competition. Now more on the car…
The first thing you probably noticed in the pictures was the intercooler. Unlike Sportcar’s other shop vehicles in the past, this one will not be naturall aspirated. Thanks to Kraftwerks and Skunk2 Racing, not only will it be another monster K built by Sportcar, but it will also feature a prototype K-supercharger kit…
If you found yourself looking around for a turbo or s/c after you saw the first couple pics, you won’t spot it right away because the Rotrex S/C sits under the intake manifold and alternator. I was told that this is actually the biggest S/C that Rotrex has to offer. The previous K in the Redline Time Attack winner was hovering under the the 300hp range all motor so one can already imagine how much this one will make with a supercharger…
Can’t really divulge too much information on it because it’s still not complete yet but it will have alot of prototype Skunk2 stuff that hasn’t been released. Above is one of the first Skunk2 composite fuel rails to be used in well, anything…Why composite technology?…
Skunk2’s new cutting-edge composite fuel rails are made using our proprietary carbon impregnated aerospace thermo-polymer composite. This material insulates the fuel from both radiant and conductive heat transfer under the hood. Keeping the fuel cooler results in an increase in horsepower and torque. We have seen power gains of up to 3% in real world testing. Skunk2 composite fuel rails feature a large 0.625” internal bore with radius inlets to the injectors thus improving flow characteristics. This type of radius injector inlet design is not possible with extruded and drilled aluminum fuel rails (which have sharp angles internally where the main bore meets the injector bores). Skunk2 fuel rails can be used with factory fuel lines and fuel regulators.-courtesy of Skunk2
New stuff is being added everyday as the event draws closer. These are all in-progress pics and they’re not in any particular order so if you see something that’s different here and there, it’s because they’re just different pictures that Loi has been sending over to me. I’m excited to see the finished product and I might even head down there sometime this week to check it out…
These Wilwoods just arrived a day or so ago and they supposedly clear smaller wheels like 15s and what not too. Should be interesting to see if that is true or not. If it does, I imagine they would be a pretty snug fit….
Here is how the Civic sits as of now. Loi didn’t really mention he had a J’s Racing front lip so I was surprised to see him running something that wasn’t made out of plywood..Looks really aggressive with the canards and that Kraftwerks intercooler poking out of the bumper. 
I’ll try to update you guys on the progress whenever I hear anything about it. I gotta pick up some stuff from Loi as well so sometime this week I’ll be able to get a closer look at it….