I must be bored if I’m posting this lol. But since pretty soon I will be getting ready to work on the car again I figured I would post it up. I picked this car up for $500 bucks to replace my wrecked DX back in 2000 I think. The DX became a club racer so I took all the good parts left off it to get the Si back in shape. Raced it for several years till I hit another car at a track day at the end of 2004. Got the crazy idea to rebuild it for cheap during all of 2005, and it made a comeback for a few events before going back for some upgrades during the winter. Thats about where these pics start between 05/06.
Decided I wanted new headlights and to replace and repaint a few things on the nose. So that all came apart.
While nose was off I hit the chassis with protective paint & POR15 in some places since Hondas and rust go hand in hand. Its pretty well protected now to be honest. I at being well over 175K I decided to rebuild the tranny with just some new bearings and syncros. Since that was out, I took out a few dumb things like the battery tray, rad supports, etc. Sandblasted them and repainted those. Swapped intakes from a 2 1/2" up to a 3" since it was free. The following shot was just to show all that stuff.
Autox is really fucked up to your average person because of the mods your allowed to do within your class. The basic class I run in (STS) only allows engine bolt-ons, suspension stuff has to attach in the stock locations, and brakes can be upgraded but their size can not be increased. Another thing allowed is seats. Since I wanted to kill some weight, I invested in a set of Corbeau FX1 Pro’s. My carpet was screwed up, and I still had the old carpet from my DX which was removed when it became a race car. So getting ready for the seats I installed that, again since it was free lol.
For the 3rd time in the car’s history I was redoing the suspension. It already had poly bushings, a CRX HF front sway bar, a 22mm progress rear bar, mugen rear trailing arm bushings, and the usual front strut bar. I finally went with a set of real coilovers. These are from Progress suspension, they are their full race versions. Custom spring rates of 400f/450r (going to 450f/500r this year) and stiffer internal valving.
Getting it back together…
Finally got it home in time for the 2006 season. Did about 30+ races during the year.
Wheels are 15X7 with falken azenis. Alignment is usually 1/16th out in the front and like zero in the rear I think. Gotta corner weight the damn thing this year. Engine bolt-ons are the only really thing is had going for it, I’ve given up taking the car to PRP. All the front camber (3 degs front/around 2.5 deg rear, needs more) doesn’t make for good launches. I it ran a 16.1 a few years ago, way it setup now it might net a high 15. But can’t really say I built it for drag racing.
After blowing my wad on the car last year I just wanted to do a head rebuilt, change spring rates, and replace a few small things this year since the car is pretty much where I want it. But before we pulled the head, a leak down test revealed the #3 cyc was down 20-30 psi which blows. So now the bottom end is getting rebuilt as well. Thankfully A6 motors don’t cost a arm and a leg to get anything for them. Thanks for looking, I’m sure I’ll have some updates in a few months.
I want one so damn bad for a nice DD + mild STS car to let my girl get into AutoX (the 'vette is a little much 
). Hell, I even would use it at some of the venues around here I won’t take the 'vette to cuz they’re too small, too rough etc.
