Hi All,
We're a UK based Honda performance company and we also run the Honda Vtec Challenge Race series here in the UK (www.vtecchallenge.co.uk). We've currently be running a K20 EG civic which has done very well (won the class in 2011) but thought it time to up the game a bit so we picked up a 1999 NA2 (prefacelift) with some very light panel damage to turn into a race car. Be good promotion for our series
Plans are flexible but we want to strip it back to the bare minimum and replace with race parts where possible (mainly for reliability and cost reasons) - when OEM parts in the UK cost more than custom/race parts its a no brainer.
Anyway we made a start this week.
First stage was to strip the car pretty much bare. First phase of this is done - all the interior electrics & loom, interior and most of the underbonnet gubbins.
Its been fascinating job as you get to see how they put it together. What is surprising though is all the effort they went into building a lightweight chassis and body only to then fill it with very heavy stuff! But then I suppose thats what the NSX-R was about.
For example, we weighed a few items that seemed a bit excessive.
Interior/front harness inlcuding all control boxes, ECU etc 25kgs
Steering column 11kgs
Twin aircon rads with cowling and fans 8kgs
Front bumper inc lights 12kgs
Anyway some pics:
We're a UK based Honda performance company and we also run the Honda Vtec Challenge Race series here in the UK (www.vtecchallenge.co.uk). We've currently be running a K20 EG civic which has done very well (won the class in 2011) but thought it time to up the game a bit so we picked up a 1999 NA2 (prefacelift) with some very light panel damage to turn into a race car. Be good promotion for our series
Plans are flexible but we want to strip it back to the bare minimum and replace with race parts where possible (mainly for reliability and cost reasons) - when OEM parts in the UK cost more than custom/race parts its a no brainer.
Anyway we made a start this week.
First stage was to strip the car pretty much bare. First phase of this is done - all the interior electrics & loom, interior and most of the underbonnet gubbins.
Its been fascinating job as you get to see how they put it together. What is surprising though is all the effort they went into building a lightweight chassis and body only to then fill it with very heavy stuff! But then I suppose thats what the NSX-R was about.
For example, we weighed a few items that seemed a bit excessive.
Interior/front harness inlcuding all control boxes, ECU etc 25kgs
Steering column 11kgs
Twin aircon rads with cowling and fans 8kgs
Front bumper inc lights 12kgs
Anyway some pics:
