My friend's wanted to run me for a while now and when he heard my motor was broke in, he showed up at my work when i got off.

My mods: Full straight exhaust, ACT streetlight flywheel, Rotary Performance Ecu, boost controller set to about 12psi.

His mods: RSX-r K20, full exhaust, intake, Hondata ecu.

We did a few runs but i'll just tell the 2 of them...

First one was a 2nd gear roll about at 4k. He honked it and i pulled through forth gear and put about 3-4 cars on him.

Second one was a first gear roll at 3500. he honked again and this time he jumped about 3/4 of a car and gained to about a car ahead through second until i hit third and forth which i passed him and put about a car and a half between us.

I also shifted to third early because my tach has problems where it jumps up unexpectedly. I also had a passenger with a full tank, and he had a low tank with no passengers.

 

Were both races with the rsx-S or was the second race with the sti? Nice kills(if the second race was the STI)

 

Huh? i could of swore he meant a 02' civic with an rsx-s motor.......correct me if i am wrong!

 

Ok guys, I see in the title a 2004 Civic SI with a K20 in it.

 

LOL my bad, reading owns me. Good kill man.

 

oh yeah, 04' civic not 02' sorry!

 

nice kill

 

 

It is a 04' Si with a Integra type r k20 motor. I just hate the whole renaming of all there cars...

 

That sounds stupidly expensive. He already had the block so why would he go and buy the full motor? All they really need is the Type S head and Type R LSD to be the exact same thing. That only makes sense for the older Civics that didn't come with a K-series already in them.

 

exactly ..why would u spend a few thousand more just for 20 hp?

 

 

its a honda thing ...we are smarter we woudint understand it

 

the head swap is harder than you think and reduces reliability

 

If both cars have identical blocks then why would their heads fit any differently? Besides, the JDM K20 costs $5k or more, and that's not including install. It still doesn't make sense. He could have just slapped on some f/i and gotten much better gains.

 

It's just that whole JDM thing. Most FD guys spend around 500 bucks for circle taillights rather than square; kinda the same thing. It's actually a popular swap too. I saw another civic like his that had the same thing down at Nopi last year.