I am a dirt track race car driver with a 12 year old daughter that also wants to race. Our local track has a 12 to 15 year old class. this class is restricted to use FWD 4 cylinder non Vtec motors. The rules allow very little upgrades, but as in all dirt track racing, if your not cheating your not winning.

I have done a bit of research and after driving my $600 accord I am quite pleased with my purchase. What a fun car, I am likely to pick up some tickets over the next couple of months while I use this car as my daily driver through out the winter.

So I am open to any invisible improvements that may give us an edge. I have no experriance with Hondas and am hoping someone would share some knowledge with me.

I think I can get away with improveing air intake, I can open exhaust pipe size, and get ride of cat.

Now they would not know if I changed the cam. I question the pay back with every thing else stock?

Is there a hiden chip improvement avalible?

Better yet, what would you do?

Thank You for any Information,
BA

 

i would make sure to have the manifolds (intake and exhaust) from the f22a6 engine found in the 92-93 ex and se models, get a cam ground by colt cams (a tri flow), change the ecu to a p06 from a 92-95 1.5 liter civic lx/dx and get it chipped and tuned, if the money is there get the head ported, and either mill the head or get some higher compression pistons.

 

Thank You, That was exactly what type of stuff I was hopeing to learn, mine is a 96. So this is all good stuff I wouldn't of known.

 

with a 96 you would grab the 92-93 head and manifolds, and swap it on, get an obd2-1 jumper harness OR splice on the earlier plugs to run the earlier ecu.