It’s been a little over a year since we last did an update on Komiya’s Garage Work backed EK9, and over that time a lot has changed with the Civic. A lot more weight reduction, removal of the rear brakes, new chassis processing, an entirely new dry carbon aero package, and plenty of small setup changes have all worked together to bring his overall best time down to a 56.417 – updating his B-series record and bringing him with 4 tenths of a 55 second lap. All with the same 240ps B18 that he’s been running for the past 6 seasons.
In this Machine Check! we head to Sodegaura Seaside Park in Chiba for a change in scenery from the normal Tsukuba videos. We take a close look at the EK in it’s current season specification, and then later head to the circuit to watch as he resets his record at TC2000.
Enjoy!
Love these videos, this car in particular i’m always curious about so i have some questions and was wondering if you could find out for me.
Do we know what kind of torque the engine is putting down with the ITB setup? i noticed power is usually mentioned but torque tends to be left out ( in general, i don’t mean just you ).
I noticed they were using Trybox lightweight upper and lower power steering brackets ( gold colored ) in the video when the car is in their shop. Now i see they’re black, did they go back to stock brackets or painted them black?
Looks like they replaced the two hoses for the crankcase breathers ( valve cover and black box on back of the block) to clear blue colored hoses – these hoses go to regular bottles next to the battery secured with what looks like thin wire on the neck of the bottles, could you ask why ordinary bottles instead of say, a catch can setup?
lastly, could you ask what diameter are the tubes feeding the ITB’s? are they 3″ or 4″? i’m running Toda ITB’s myself and would like to adapt something similar.
Thank You
Thanks! yes, still try box but painted. vented to bottles because it’s lighter than an aluminum catch can. This car runs for 2-3 laps at a time only. I’ll try to get torque numbers. I don’t know what you mean by tubes feeding the itb, are you referring to the velocity stacks? if so they are most likely 63mm