2,650lbs, full interior, full exhaust, no nitrous

Owned and Driven by Arvin

Built by Arvin and Ed (webmaster)

JG turbo header, HKS wastegate, and rough wiring of DFI

2.5" intercooler piping, more DFI spaghetti, wastegate dump tube

Stock fuel tank modified for 8AN stainless steel braided lines. Feed and return lines are routed like factory versions.

Atco Raceway, Atco NJ sometime in June. 11.6 and 11.8 runs.
Driven to and from the track on its own power, no trailer here.
Probably the last time the car is seen with those sweet 17" Racing Hart Tracers.
 

Maple Grove Raceway, PA NIRA event. Past the finish line the passenger-side slick grabs onto the fender, brakes lock up, and car does a 180-deg slide. Fortunately owner/driver Arvin was able to control it. Witnesses say the car was on two wheels for a while :-o
Fastest/quickest Honda of that event, but we get no print from the magazines. Super Street's Howard Lim was seen running to the car right after the run to see the damage but was turned away by officials. On Nitto 555s and a very babied launch the car ran 12.2@118mph. Bad luck strikes us again when the wastegate flange starts leaking after that run. Oh well, maybe next race.

OUCH! First & only run on this Bogart wheel. The slick was reused tho.

Also the first time we ran the AXZ equal-length stainless header.
JG header cracked the previous weekend, but that was our fault.

A week later at Raceway Park in Englishtown NJ the car ran an 11.42 but at a lower trap speed than the 11.44 run. Bad launch...60ft time was either a 1.9 or 2.0, I saw a lot of tirespin and heard the rev limiter hit in 1st gear (9,000 RPM). After this run we were hearing a sound similar to what a bad axle might make. We locked up the car and left the track searching for Integra axles. Came back a few hours empty handed, track was closing up. A test drive of the car on its street wheels didn't indicate any problems. Later we find out the noise was coming from the borrowed rims mounted on the slicks.
This was also around the time the engine blew up. Stock sleeves + 15psi at full throttle for 15-20 miles = cracked cylinder walls.
Put together another engine using the same rods and pistons to get it running for the Import Autorama. If you wonder why we reused the pistons, it's called money...lack of it that is.

September 5 Goodtimes Import Autorama, NJ
 

good shot of the engine compartment in show mode ;-)
Sheetmetal intake manifold built by DRT (Drag Racing
Technologies) of Woodside,NY.
Give Ralphy a call @ 718-397-8586.

The license plate isn't for show, it was driven the 90min-2hr trip each way.
 

More bad luck. Two days after dynoing the engine blew up again. Once again the cylinder walls were cracked. We have no more money to continue the rest of the '98 season.

1999-2000

2001-2002 UPDATE
updated 4/02

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