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Civic Del Sol Collage
Civic Del Sol Collage
Brad


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Camera: Sony Mavica FD-88
Date: Jul 28, 2001
Galleries: Diptych / Triptych, Transportation
Date Uploaded: May 30, 2007

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 Collage of our day at the strip. (old 1.2MP Mavica pics)

1990 Honda Civic Del Sol Turbo.
Stock LS block, 328HP at the wheels.
Healthy intercooler (lower right) we cooled by spraying rubbing alcohol while staging.

Ran a 12sec bracket that we couldn't break due to no roll cage.
Bouncing the rev-limiter (tweaked) at 8,500rpm, dump the clutch and peg-leg off the line...

We even used my license plate on it for grins.
:)

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 06/01/2007 02:26:13 PM
This was simply a project car, mostly to test a Bill Gude Camshaft. The car was a donor, the whole thing was done on a budget, "borrowing" stuff from this and that. The Del Sol is considerably heavier than Civics, making it not a real great choice for the strip. The space-saver steel wheels were done for only one reason - pizza-cutter tires - low rolling resistance kinda' thing. We had aluminums on it the first time at the track. Dumping the ACT clutch at 8,500rpm is a bit of a thrill, especially with it peg-legging. A Quaiff locking differential would have been the trick, but that's more bucks than we had in the whole engine build.
;)

Thanks for the comment Jeff.
06/01/2007 01:38:34 PM
Okay I have been waiting todo this one. Due to the nature of the photo I will have to leave comments 3 things: Car Model, The car itself, and the photo's of course.

Im not a huge fan of the Civic Del Sol, I would rather have the 90-91 or an updated 88-89 CRX. In respect to that they are about the same size Im not sure how the air flow on the back of the Del Sol is due to the lack of a rear window. I like the slide down rear glass and of course the targa top. The headlights look so girly although I saw a JDM Integra bumper and headlights grafted onto one. The tailights really dont get me either and on a street car i would graft in full civic lamps or something. Its a shame the S2000 didnt exist back then its more like my Austin Healey.

Yeah removing the spare axles might help. The rear spoiler loooks familiar wings west or something. They might also give though to changing out to a single F1 style mirror if the car isnt running in a street legal class or isnt street legal itself. Have to love the drag slicks on FWD cars, but what i noticed is the rear wheels look like steel spares. IF their steel might consider an open aluminum drag lite rim. Not sure if it needs the heavier rim for stability but since it is not a drive wheel i guess rotational weight doesnt matter. LS block is a B18C1 right? I forget dont subscribe to honda tuning anymore and except for 2 friends i wrenched for all my work was in one car and it was a Toyota.

As for the photos what can I say? Props on using the 1.2 MP Mavica I imagine the compression on those cameras was a bit much not sure how you get more then 2 photos on a floppy disc. My 1.3 MP Pen can I used a 128mb card in and still didnt get much. Nice Collage you put together.
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