Well Steve already showed you this graph today. But here's a little background. I wanted to put together a vehicle for the Expo to showcase some of my products. George Knighton had already decided to go with my header since he was already running my cat back, so this made for a perfect fit. Due to some tooling problems with one of the shops that does custom bending for me I wasn't able to have a display cat back system for Expo, or a true bolt on system installed on George's car. So I built George's new light weight system the old way, out of individual mandrel bends.

Here are the mods

Block: Stock B18C5 with 70k miles
Cylinder Head Gasket: Stock
Cylinder Head: Valve Job and Porting performed by DFE (Not sure what "Stage" they would classify it as). Thanks Don
Cams: Stock
Cam Gears: Skunk2 (I love the 6 bolts) to the Skunk2 guys on these
Intake: DFE again but only work done in the runners
Intake Manifold Gasket: Hondata Race
Injectors: Stock ITR 240cc but with the RC Engineering touch
CAI: Custom SMSP with smooth taper to match TB ID
Air Filter: K&N
ECU: Hondata S100, thanks to Matt for the help you provided during the expo.
Tuning: SGT, thanks so much for all the help on this project Steve. We wouldn't had anything to drive if you didn't work on the car the weekend before Expo while I was at a wedding.
Header: SMSP w/ aftermarket cam "option"
Cat: Carsound/SMSP 93506
Cat Back: Custom 2-1/2" SMSP w/ (2) light weight resonators and (1) rear muffler



While it would have been nice to see the peak hp numbers a little higher we couldn't do it without hurting the mid range. So we gave up a couple up top after 8k and picked up a lot more in the mid range.

I was also going to try my new prototype secondaries that netted 2-3 whp (over my standard ITR header) on an untuned stock ITR last fall but really just didn't have the will to switch them out today since I've been battling a low grade pneumonia since I got back from the Expo.

Here's another graph of the above curve compared to a dyno of George's car with stock exhaust manifold, cat, cat back, ECU and CompTech CAI done last year.



Oh, by the way, VTEC is set at 3500. A couple of you were close.

 

***** yo... damn i should've asked george to take that bad boy around...

good stuff man.

 

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I swear if you could you'd drive two cars at once on track.

 

haha... yah i really wish i could split into multiple me sometimes. today i was helping out a F360 guy and a F550 guy. both manuals. luckily i didn't have to split into 2 but still managed to drive both out for solid 25 min session each. what joy... ferrari's are just always so memorable. the 550 really rocks. amazing performance for a GT car.

i love it when ferrari guys totally track and drive their cars. both cars have 14k miles! not too shabby. unlike other poor ferrari's that never gets even revv'ed.

 

I just watched last years Gumball 3000.
They're some beat up Ferrari's in that.

Now if you could hitch a ride in the Gumball,
you could be across the Country in a few days...

 

looks good Dave, the car was definently quicker in a straight lione thasn others at the Expo

now lets see what we can do with the bus for George

 

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So thats why he is so slow

 

Pretty damn good, I have had great luck w/ my SMSP header, Yeild 185hp w/ NO tuning

 

George and/or Dave, how much power did the porting of the head/intake yeild? And how much porting was performed?

 

Good stuff Dave. I hope George starts driving faster now.

To bad you chose Georges car and not my super stock 99 cx hatchback.

*BTW* Nice meeting you and talking with you at the Expo.

- Cliff

 

The way that #120 began its K Motor life is that this build decided to drop a valve at Summit Point. Memories. :-)

 

Still have an SMSP header on my old H2 ITR.

 

Man, I haven't heard from SMS Dave in forever. Hope he is doing well.

 

If I had half a brain back then, I'd have kept my DC2 ITR a B-Motor car.

In the end it had a K20A(*) motor out of a DC5 ITR, and was perfectly tuned, had a fancy suspension, and it was basically an H1 car that was just way too much for me.

:-)

It was more fun in its B Motor iteration, although it wasn't as fast.

 

My road race car is "B" powered... and I want to go "K" really bad... but it sure is hard to mess with a perfectly good car for the pursuit of HP.

 

The fully modified K Motor iteration was quite fast, especially in the hands of a professional driver.

By the time it was finished, it was stripped and even had an integral fire system.

No doubt it was fast, but it wasn't quite as much fun as the original configuration.

IMHO. Don't kill me. :-)

 

Strolling down memory lane, I put up some pictures of the car in its last configuration.

Pictures are in the registry thread in the ITR Forum.