if j00 have dial up, might wana get broadband

A quick discussion on why Comptech does not produce a rear shock tower brace for Civics and Integras.
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A glance at the Comptech flywheel with a little insight on why Comptech uses chromoly over aluminum in most of their applications.
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The infamous Comptech's Prototype race header
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yshi - who must thank hondalife for the vdo

 

yoshi you look much different as "neouser"

 

nice vids but I couldn't understand anything on the second vid

 

Is it possible to get some cliffs notes for those who can't dl a 9 meg file? Purty Pleeze?

 

Vid 1: Comptech doesn't make a rear strut tower bar for the integra/civic because according to their research there is no need for it

Vid 2: ?????

Vid 3: Comptech prototype 4-2-1 header will start production in about 45 days

 

Thanx... That reminds me I gotta call them...

 

Comptech = $1,000
SMSP = $725 + or -

Better off getting the SMSP header.

 

the comptech header cuts out the need for a CAT/test pipe. Looks like it has a o2 bung also.

 

the 1st link works great , but the other 2 well

 

Second link well what I got at least...

About why they use Chromo now is because there are some companies out there that build very cheap aluminum flywheels and that wrecks aluminum flywheel credibility. They still make it for the Integra. They are starting to make Chromo ones for S2000, NSX, RSX. It's almost as light as aluminum but it's a very tough material.....

How does that sound?

 

The only reason Comptech said that was because they probably made it long enough to bolt straight to a regular stock length catback exhaust. I still don't understand how they expect it to bolt straight up to a catback unless they make some strange flange for it. Does the SMSP not have an O2 bung in the header? The HyTech does, and I'm sure Dave would put one in on his SMSP header if you wanted it. It really doesn't matter anyway if you have no cat the primary O2 could go anywhere you wanted it.

Man I can see why John was pissed about that header, it looks EXACTLY like my HyTech header. If they were going to copy something I think they could have at least tried to make it look a little different. But damn that's a straight-out carbon copy.

 

maybe it does and i havent been paying attention! i thought hytech was a header without the elongated shape. either way if john has a patent im sure he could work out a deal with comptech.


[Modified by Soup ****, 5:19 PM 8/26/2002]

 

check out old post here

 

Or you could just buy a Spoon one...

 

where did you guys get the price for the comptech header??

 

I called Comptech.

 

That is what I got too. Basically, aluminum flywheels have a poor reputation because many are poorly made and have failed, leading people to conclude that aluminum is inherently unsuitable as a flywheel material.

This attitude lives on even in people who should know better - many people still insist on buying a 8-9 lb JDM flywheel when Comptech's 6.75 lb flywheel is a race-proven alternative. 2-3 lbs is a fairly significant difference in flywheel weight.

 

i was wondering about this.. if their engineering research shows that it doesn't do anything, as they seem to say, then why do all kinds of people buy and install them? I was about to order a spoon bar, but now I'm second guessing that.. are all these people imagining the effects of adding this bar?

 

the effect of the rear bar is very very minimal.

 

Then do the JDM Type R's just come with the rear bar for show or what?