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| Welcome to Project 8! Our goal with this car is to get it to run an 8 second quarter mile while still being a true street car. We are also looking at the rules to see if we can take this car out to Bonneville, Utah to see how fast we can really get it to go over their 6 miles course. We have a lot of great people helping us out with this project, so please keep the companies that we mention in mind when you are building your project car! If you have any questions or want to be emailed when we launch updates, please check out and subscribe to this thread: http://forums.clubrsx.com/showthread.php?t=527987 |
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| October 18th, 2006 |
Thanks to Full Race for this incredible divided T4 manifold and 3" downpipe setup. |
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| November 22nd, 2006 |
This is the first test fit for the manifold to check out clearances. This was tested onto our other project RSX (Project Rebuild). |
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| February 10th, 2007 |
Here is a single shot of us painting the roll cage. It was the gray primer/sealer you see on the floor but we thought that black would look better. The plan is to repaint the inside the car over the off season if there is time and money. |
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| February 15th, 2007 |
A friend of mine was selling these rods and I figured they would work quite nicely for our little turbo project. These are aluminum rods made by GRP. GRP makes rods for 8000hp nitro engines so they should hold up under our little project. These are stronger, yet lighter than a normal steel rod. The only problem with these is that they have a service life of around 100 full throttle passes. As you can see in these pictures, they are quite a bit beefier than stock rods. These rods are not for the weak as they will take modifications to your rod bearings and probably some modifications to the engine block to make them work. |
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| August 5th, 2007 |
After a long break (the car was running in a different class in the NHRA) we finally started to order in some parts to get the car converted over during the off season. This is one the things that actually benefited the car while it was still racing and when we convert it over. This is a Tilton cerametallic twin disc clutch and release bearing kit. The car really improved after this moving from consistent 2.0 60ft's to 1.8 60ft's on drag radials. We had a lot of problems with other clutches slipping and this one fixed all of that. This clutch is also very streetable as long as you setup the throw-out bearing correctly. The only issue is you have to run a clutch stop so that is a bit of a pain. We removed the stock clutch switch but most people can't do that because you would need to by-pass the started wire. Honda has it wired so that the clutch switch has to be engaged to start the car. |
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| November 23rd, 2007 |
It is finally the off season and we have to start spending some real money (unfortunately). Our first big purchase was this lovely little turbo from Precision. This is the largest that we can fit given the current design of the exhaust manifold. The turbo is a ball bearing, divided, 4094R with a 1.19 A/R. This will be the starting point of our project to see how much we can make with this turbo. The plan is to step up to a 42R but it will take a lot of work to fit that large of a turbo, downpipe, etc into the engine. A smaller turbo should also help us get the car dialed in at the track. We are use to making the car work making about 1/3 of the horsepower so it will take quite a bit of learning to get it dialed in when we first get it rolling. |
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