Liquidsation

I finally joined the ranks of a K Pro tuned race car. Worth every penny especially when all your competitors have tuned motors. Special thanks to Jason Su at SujaOne Motoring for the perfect tune to keep my car up to pace with my closest competitor. For the last 2 years I have watched him pull me out of every corner and walk away down every straight. Well, as of my first event with the tune, I finally put him in my rear view!

Saturday's race started off with a bad rolling start. Not used to the extra power I ran up on the cars in front and with them already 3 wide I actually had to hit the brakes, then a miss shift so I went into turn one dead last. Worked my way back up but only got to 4th by the end if the race. Sunday was a different story. Great start and stayed on the tail of my closest competitor for the first 30 minutes, keeping the pressure on, showing my wheel a few times and waiting for a mistake. He over cooked his tires trying to run away but I was still right there. As he had a big drift out of turn 6, my car was planted (thanks to David Isbell's alignment and Papaya Motorsports suspension) I got the drive and passed him. He only got smaller from that point allowing me on the podium with 3rd place.

If any of you are in the southeast area and looking for some good racing come out to one of our events at Road Atlanta, CMP or Barber Motorsports. For the past few years we have been working hard to grow Honda Challenge and all the hard work if finally paying off. If you are running HPDE or Time Trial and looking for the next level of adrenaline, Honda Challenge will not disappoint.

dan_uk

nice rob I might come out and run with you guys next year

WynnS123

Good job, Rob! You guys are really building the region. HC in the SE is definitely heating up.

vanDiemen

nice one Rob. I haven't done NASA in a few years. Sounds like you have really got the hang of that car and the tune is right on the motor. I will be at BMP in oct with tracks unlimited.

Emil

Liquidsation

Good to hear from you Emil. I haven't seen Michael instructing in a while either. I thought you may have got out of it all together or moved from Atlanta but good to know you're still around.

turbo8765

IIRC correctly HC rules are rather restrictive.

I need to do a little reading, but would a TTB/C prepped car translate well to HC?

Liquidsation

Easily into TTB but most likely would need to add weight to make it in TTC. HC rules restrict any internal engine mods but really open to everything else.

bobby.is.rad

I thought that HC1 S2000's were required to have stock intake, exhaust, and all emissions equipment as well as stock internal engine components? I'd love to hear how you have your car prepped, since I'm just going off of my initial reading of the rule book and I'm sure you know a lot more about the rules than I do. Any details you'd care to share would be great.

Mahjik

Taken from the 2014 rules (under Allowed Modifications - H1, H2, H4):

m) Any air intake system in front of the throttle body (including mass air sensor) may be used (stock throttle
body must be retained).
n) Carbureted vehicles may use an alternate carburetor of the same design and configuration (for example,
a single barrel can be replaced with an alternate single barrel, but not a dual barrel).
o) Any exhaust manifold and exhaust system may be used. All emission related devices may be removed
or disabled. Catalytic converters may be removed. NOTE: Some facilities have rules governing sound
limits. Vehicles must fall within these limits to be allowed to compete.

bobby.is.rad

I thought those rules didn't apply to the S2000 as it's a "Restricted Preparation Vehicle" and was specifically not allowed the modifications in the section you quoted. I could be wrong. Honestly I hope I'm wrong.