This is our first venture into the ground up construction of a purpose built race car, and with the knowledge and resources I have attained over the last 3 years working for a race team we are finally ready to take the leap.

The car is being built for a client per say, my girlfriend and her father. After racing a Spec Miata in SCCA for the last 2 seasons with the team we work for they (and myself) were finally fed up with the poor design, poor reliability, and overall dissapointing experience with the Miata and the class in general. After weeks of convincing her father that we could make a FWD chassis a class dominator, he bit the bullet and purchased the 2002 RSX-S you will see in a bit.

The car will be built to compete in SCCA Improved Touring R class, and will also compete in the SCCA PRO IT series. The whole build will be done by myself, my girlfriend, and my good friend/coworker/SHG member Mike. Ill be doing the cage, fabrication, chassis setup, and most of the build while Mike will be in charge of building the transmission and engine tuning. And since it will mostly all be done in my home garage it will truly be a SoHonda Garage race car through and through!

Here is the original thread, please subscribe and check it out as we are updating it consistently! I wont be posting updates here as there is no reason for a sister thread, but I just wanted to give the road race community a heads up on the build The car is actually going to the shop today and Ill be starting work on the cage this week!

https://honda-tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2983117



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Im curious how you plan to make the car a class dominator?

Im not saying you cant but the class is dominated by e36's

 

Where are you guys located? SEDIV I hope? Will be nice too see how well a DC5 can do in ITR.

 

We actually built an s2000 at work last year that cleans up in ITR. The car has a long way to go until it's properly set up. That car has similar power and weighs 240lbs more than our car will.

Power to weight ratio along with a nice setup should be a pretty good run at a championship.

We run NER, but we are planning to do our shakedown testing at VIR as well as a race or 2 down there throughout the season. Hopefully one of which will be the 13hr in October

 

Good luck d00d! And tell your girlfriend and her dad to come back out and slum with us autocrossers again!

<- DSP ITR that was in for dyno time at FOM early this spring

Nate

 

Ah hey man! No way could I forget that cross over haha. They actually did a small event at Devens a month or so ago. Im sure T will be out every once in a while to wring out her MRS. Her father is actually living in North Carolina now but may be headed back up to Boston sooner than later. Maybe Ill catch you at an event next year between track days

 

Ah. The SARRC/MARRS in May is a good weekend to come down as well.

 

No more pinata for you? I race in NER, which car was yours?

 

Thankfully no more wreck piņata lol. Well, I still have to deal with it it a little longer while we get it ready to put up for sale. It was the number 99 sm black and orange 2-tone.