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Just a few pics of the latest RSX project for your viewing pleasure.
This customer has been with me from the start of 2NR Werks. He originally came to me one night as I was closing up the shop wanting me to look at his car. I told him to come back next week, I was tired and going home. After listening to his car sound like it was gasping for air, he talked me into opening up the shop and getting his car on the lift. He proceded to tell me he accidentally just backed over a curb and heard a loud noise coming out of his exhaust system. Once on the lift, I noticed a huge gapeing hole in the Greddy Evo II cat-back. I told him, yep there it is. Since I could not fix it we both decided to get the car on the ground and I let him decide on what to do. Well He handed me a $100 bill for my troubles. I told him I did not want his money, but I wanted to perform his next upgrade.
He left the shop and I honestly did not expect to see him again. 2 weeks later he comes in with the new exhaust to install along with an ACT clutch and lightened flywheel. 4 months go by and he is back again with IPS K2 cams, springs and ti-retainers and we sent out his ECU to Hondata to have Kpro installed for us to tune the new cams. We get all the components in and get the car tunes and this thing ROCKS! 1st gear useless, shift into 2nd gear and the tires are still spinning as you fight the torque steer.
He pays the bill, leaves the shop and 5 minutes later gets slammed into by a kid stealing a car and destroys the front end of the RSX. The car comes back on a flatbed tow truck 1 hour later and our jaws were on the ground. We send it to our body shop and they pull the motor out of the car, straighten the frame, re-paint the engine bay. We order a carbon-fiber hood and have it painted with a cool scheme and the cars back out 1 month later. We install the Wilwood 4-pot big brakes and Stage 2 Driveshaft Shop axles.
So for Christmas in 2006 he gets the ITBs. As he is putting money aside for the install, he gets injured on the job and has to go on disability pay. As the bills pile up, the car gets put aside for mods. So in August 2007 he is ready once again and we install the purple Exedy Hyper Single clutch as he prepares the car for the ITBs which came to us in late November 2007.
With the ITBs we had to elimanate the power steering pump and relocate the resivour towards the firewall. We also had to purchase an idler pulley off of an '07 Civic Si to take the place of the power steering pump. We also had to install a fuel return line since the RSX does not come with one from the factory. We did the fuel lines in staineless steel braided -AN6. Also the ITBs have vacuum ports on each runner. These needed to be run into a vacuum block which we choose to do out of 6mm air pnuematic fittings and transparent red hose to add a custom 2NR Werks look. To add to the mods this car sports Tein RA coilovers with EDFC controlls, DC Sports Race header and beautiful 18" wheels with a 3" lip. Dyno was not complete, but we estimate to be somewhere north of 250hp.
All this was a custom setup on this race version of the TWM ITBs not intended for street use. I have to say it tested our skills, but never got the best of us. Andy was responsible for most of the custom work on the ITB setup. Sometimes I heard him inventing curse words that I nerver heard before, but understood the meaning of. Can you say VTEC (in a yelling voice) Well that is what this beast sounds like. I will post video for you to see and hear soon.
1 year and 50,000 miles on my 2nrwerks installed ITB's and it still fires right up and purrs like a kitten...till I mash the gas and it screams like a banshee that got punched in the tit
Todd, I need a chromoly flywheel... preferably a comptech if you can find one.
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