turntable teknik

just something I stumbled upon recently and wanted to share. that front splitter is crazy lol.

egvera89

that's bad *** lol, under the 1 minute mark.

2fast4u831

Love this car!

Charlie Moua

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pretty freaken quick ...

spencer47

that hatch is moving in that video ! She screams !

ITRbroham

Beautiful rotation mid-corner makes this Civic quick!

TheShodan

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Garage Works, and the Tilton Interiors eg6 are one of the few reasons I still do this stuff.

The best part? IT was done with a B-SERIES TYPE R ENGINE!!! Hahahahaah Suck it, K-series!!

turntable teknik

another angle!

I'm trying to find more info on this build. All I can gather is that it's built for oversteer or controlled oversteer.

Caoboy

That thing definitely starts to slide, this dude knows how to whip his car around those corners...

I love how they just riveted the body, I wonder what the reason is, versus welding?

flip_nl

Fine example of great engineering and driver capability,

Some specs I could find:

http://www.toy-ds.com/tsukuba/20130224/entry_15.html

Not so keen on not rocking a cage part though.

shane(showtime)

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The car runs no sway bars and has a little different RTA bushing setup. Compensater links are removed and toe is adjusted in the RTA bearing, car is about 1600 pounds. Last I checked its running 255s up front. Yellow Factory and some other cars are running 295s.

johnjw

power steering, hmm strange. They could lose 20lb off that front end with the p/s and headlights.

and 1/2 size radiator because time attack?

Kevin Kolasa

I wonder what temperature the oil cooler keeps things at? You don't see too many oil coolers on EGs, even on road race cars.

99SlammedCivic

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Awesome hatch !

American.Graffiti

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Amazing!

flip_nl

BiggieBert

Sexy AF!

hungrygreen_gsr

And what makes it even better....it's allll NA power

TheShodan

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A few of us Turbo Time Attackers use 1/2 sized radiator. Its what radiator you have, not just the size.

In addition, at 1600lbs, 20lbs of unsprung weight isn't even a factor at that point of the Garage Works EG6. The driver would be better off if he chooses to keep that option for better driving ability than just having "less weight".

We Americans tend to blindly take items off the car in the spirit of "weight savings" and not look at precisely what's been taken off and why. Its almost self defeating.


*EDIT* I just realized the date this quoted post was made.. my apologies

BiggieBert

You are only a couple months behind, it's cool. This car is sooo sexy, it deseirves another look and bump. lol

turntable teknik

What radiator do you use? I suppose shrouding and directing the airflow appropriately helps a lot as well.

BTW I think if he were to put a cage, that 1600 lbs. will go up a bit.

johnjw

Had no idea it was this light, wonder how? I race a 92 hatch (2100lbs) with no power steering. Did 9hours last event in the car. Had zero effect on my ability. I would assume that if they were that dilligent to get it to 1600lbs they would lose the headlights and P/s. Especially off the front. You can make the rear super light but it destroys the balance.

I'd rather have AIM date with lap times and sector times in a TT car then headlights...

I wonder how they are 500lbs lighter than our car? Seriously

after reading this ;
http://thenaritadogfight.com/2014/05...rage-work-v-1/
they're using aluminum crossmember and aluminum rta's, cool.

they also mention its very "front end heavy" weird. Did notice one of the pictures he has rear lockup. Just saying it would help. Not being a "dumb american ripping crap off of cars" plus he has the uber jdm Cusco roll bar :D just a little overrated, fast, just overrated.

ginsu2k

I guess you can reinforce a spot weld with a rivet. Damn, he spent a lot of time on all those rivets.

TheShodan

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Koyo Dual Core / Half-Sized, SPAL 1800cfm fan with 40amp fuse & relay. No shroud, but custom brackets made to sit off of the radiator and surround the heat exchanger. The core holds over 2 gallons of coolants So far, about 194F on cruise laps, and up to about 202-210F on full tilt hot-laps of 4 consecutive laps or more depending upon the track. But I stick to longer courses.

TheShodan

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Again, it would have been semantic to lose these items. His driving style may be to where he wants P/S. I kept mine as well.

But I mean, he did it a different way. Different strokes for different "driving style folks", you know?


It was open class event. Not all of them have AIM in them, and they had an official lap timer.. The whole event was prepped for lap attack, so they could either have a mounted GPS or beam device to work with tsukuba's systems, or had official time setters on the course. Talk with Tsukuba staff or see their track amenities

http://www.jasc.or.jp/ and check their translated page (which doesn't help, just shows current events)



Cusco is a little more available there than here. as most of the cost associated with their products is the cost conversion from Japan to U.S... Again, rather semantic at this point.

I'm not saying whose "right" or "wrong", just saying that because it was a different approach, doesn't mean it didn't work or couldn't work.

You obviously have experience in the area, make a better mousetrap.. who knows, you may give them a better approach for parts usability than they have. E-mail them, you never know. You might even get your 500lbs weight answer.