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- 7/05
One of the guys that used to work here (Cary) had his car stolen last year. (94 EG hatch, stock GSR motor with a FR 2871R kit). We got the car back from the insurance company completely gutted. That hatch got even more abused here as a parts car on everyone's personal cars. I just asked whatever people take off, they put their old parts back on it. So we had a pile of useless EG civic junk and a busted/gutted/sad EG hatch that we had no idea what to do with.
- 11/05
We were approached at SEMA to build a car for the show "Pinks." I told the producer no way would I put my personal civic up. He said "then put another car up!" So I thought about it and realized the hatch would be perfect. We built a setup we were willing to lose - stock sleeve turbo D-Series.
Rich calls back, asks me if I want to do it, I talk to the guys here and ask them who wants to try to build a race car to run on the show Pinks. Everyone is down, in fact half of them put up their old parts. I made sure that every part of the car that was done, was in-house and that everyone involved learned something new. Everything from the cage that was welded by Anthony (Sales) to the manifold welded by Jason and Benson. Sean and CJ practiced making rollcages and Jackson custom fabricated a rad support/traction bar setup.
- 11/05 - 1/05
We (Full-Race) built a sheetmetal intake manifold, ProStreet exhaust manifold (didn't want a top mount to look too good on the show) 3 in. downpipe, 20x8x3 PWR core backdoor setup. 5 point cage, traction bar setup, charge pipe setup, tons of other stuff. The setup was basically an off-the-shelf stage 2 B-Series kit (60-1) with a D-Series head flange. We have seen 641 whp from this kit on a sleeved GSR motor, and expected to see about 530-540 on this stock sleeve D-Series.
- 12/05 - 1/06
We were sponsored by:
Neptune - neptune engine managment system.
Progress Group Suspension - coilovers.
HASport - motor mounts, differential, intermediate shaft.
ERL - built the motor, pistons & rods.
Headgames - insane headwork.
Ferrea - valvetrain (SOHC setup that is safe to 9500 rpm).
Evans-Tuning - tuning, tetris, commentary, recomendations, housemates, food.
Tony1 / T1RD - sick driving, saved the car, setup advice, cds exploding in the microwave.
Stickerlab.com - vinyl.
Brandon - Paint aka "LOOK AT THE PINK CAR!!!" (overheard it in traffic a lot).
TurboXS - boost controller.
Panekmechanik - video.
Jason Hunt - advice.
Cortney Green - 13.0 in. Lensos that we ran 11.2 on, crashed into the wall, bent, then made 4 more pases on, then lost. Thanks cort.
Lightning Motorsports - injectors.
Importparts.com - fuel pump.
Cary hearn - '95 hatch.
My sister - salvaged 1998 EX (engine parts, distro, trans, axles, knuckles, brakes, spindles).
LocashRacing - countless hours of dyno time, pissed off neighbors.
Aaron (aloha) Teague - wrenching (FR mechanic).
NX - nitrous kit.
Full-Race Employees - a lot of work.
- 11/05
Brandon paints the hatch "ballet slipper pink".
- 12/05
Progress shocks and coilovers arrive.
ERL built the motor for us. They built the motor for my civic (countless 700whp dyno pulls, it just made 790.1 whp and 610 tq last night) and it just wont give up, so I wanted them to build this motor too. It used Wiseco pistons on Crower rods, 100% stock sleeve, stock block casting, stock head gasket, D16A6.
Headgames ported the head and intake manifold. It was unreal, I had never imagined a single cam port looking this good. When he was done with the head, he said it flowed almost as well as a stock B-Series. Unfortunatley it took him 3 days to port it that big, but he got it done, and it was off the hook.
PWR hooked us up with an aluminum radiator and 20x8x3 intercooler core to use in our backdoor intercooler setup (same as off-the-shelf IC setup).
Competition clutch is set to release a B-Series trans conversion kit for the D-Series, but it wasn't ready in time for our race. We waited and hoped it would, but when it came down to it the race was too close and we needed a solution. Instead they put together a double diaphragm single disc 4 puck "Stage 4" clutch that worked very well. I made 511 whp on one of these (after driving it 20k miles) so i knew it was good. The hard part was if we were using a D-Series trans, what axles would hold up?
- '05 - '06
Everyone rides their bikes.
- 1/10/06 - Jeff Evans flys in, gets off the plane, comes straight to the dyno. We start making dyno pulls, car runs like crap. It’s a bad FPR. Find another FPR, put it on, this one is bad too. Get another FPR, car is running on our stage 2 kit 60-1. 270 whp at 18 psi, where is all the power?!?!?! Rip engine apart, swap cams, swap head gasket, swap cams, swap cam gears, adjust cam gears, swap cams.
- 1/11/06 - Put car back on dyno. Same thing, no power. Rip engine apart, swap cams, swap head gasket, swap cams, swap cam gears, adjust cam gears, swap cams.
HASport is amazing. They hooked us up with D-Series poly motor mounts (ours were jacked with the car), and even better, some OG D-Series knowledge - ZCs use an intermediate shaft setup with a burly diff... So Brian at HASport pulled off the impossible and found us a ZC diff and a ZC intermediate shaft. He knew the inner CV was as beefy as the B-Series inner, so we had some work to do. Welded the diff up, turned it into a spool, and put it in our trans.
Get car back on dyno. Car makes no power. We did not sleep for 3 days, taking the head apart, and trying to figure out if a D16A6 block with a D16Y8 head and water pump was compatible, and if the timing belt was off, why did it lose power EVERYTIME we moved the cam gear??
We got really pissed, then put a different turbo on. Our off the shelf T3/T4E from a stage 1 kit.
Put car back on dyno with the new turbo, instant power. Jeff tunes the car to 30 psi (yes on STOCK D-SERIES SLEEVES) --> 460 whp, and a FAT powerband.
"It took 30 lbs of boost to make 460 whp on a stock sleeved D-Series. I guess the rumor that stock sleeved D-Series blocks not being able to take high horsepower is false."
- Evans Tuning
We put about 20 different axle combinations in the car, and wrecked more CVs in the shop than ever before. It turns out that a B-Series axle is too short for the D-Series trans, so if you want this setup to work, you need custom axles. It's 4:30 AM, go to sleep
- 1/12/06
Driveshaft shop saved us. They knew the perfect dimensions of the axles, next day aired them. We get them in the car by thursday, 3 AM.
- 1/13/06
Put car on dyno to set boost controller. Axles are popping out of trans!! We take axles out, check the diff, turns out an inner CV is bent. Scramble, steal a set of inners from Henry, and swap it out on a 1500 ton press.
Get to track Friday night, Tony1 hops in the car. The first pass the car runs an 11.2 @ 130, with a 1.79 60’, shifting slow and the engine was bogging in between shifts. At the end of the track, a slick blows out and the car smacks the wall. The in-car video of this is insane. We trash both slicks.
We stay up all night, put a fake nitrous system in the car, cut the fenders, cut off everything that was scraped by the wall, get our 25s mounted on the lensos (didn’t know they were bent yet). Shop is a wreck, and sean fell off his bike.
- 1/14/06
Wake up, try to get the car started. Figure out a few last minute dumbass things, throw the car on the trailer, get to the track. Pinks starts in an hour.
Superstar driver Tony1 getting ready for a blistering 11.2 second pass into a wall again.
It begins. We get on the track, and we are racing a white FC RX7. these guys think this thing is a 9 sec. car or something!!! They really thought it was FAST, I don’t think they realized it was actually a pile of crap.
First Race - Tony does a 3rd gear burnout, we give them 2 lengths, they bog, we smoke them.
Second Race - We "take the bottle out" give them 2 lengths, they bog, tony rips them out of the hole, car slows down at half-track, the RX7 pulls off the win?
Third race - Tony tries to do a 3rd gear burnout, the car can barely light up the tires. He launches, the race is over, RX7 wins.
Fourth race - We think the motor is done, I hustle as many lengths as we can, scaring them with "nitrous" we get 4 lengths off the bottle. Race starts, the car is going nowhere. We lose the car.
The white RX7 and pink Civic come back around again. The guy who wins the Civic hops in it to do a burnout/run it down the track, and stalls it. Starts the car again and the car just limps down the track.
What happened to the car?
We think we tore a $6 intercooler coupler! A simple boost leak and the car was making no power, running NA... even when you think you have your stuff together, the simplest and stupidest things go and kick your ass!!
After the weekend settled down, we got my Civic on the dyno, and made an early spooling 790.1 whp and 610 ft/lb of tq on our modified GT40R with the prototype divided top mount manifold.
Anyone who has paid attention to this season of Pinks is also, more than likely, aware of our 2nd episode, where I drive the red Hasport CRX. More info on that coming shortly. Thanks to everyone involved and the support of all our sponsors!
Videos coming soon...
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