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Ever wonder how much weight you can save with a knife edged crankshaft? Here are 2 images showing the weight of a stock Honda B18c1 Crankshaft to a Knife Edged B18c Crankshaft. Quite a bit of savings.  This modification isn't for every engine type. The use case for this would be a high revving, max horsepower naturally aspirated application. Particular something that lives in the higher end of the RPM range. Always interesting to see custom work.

Successful day with the CX at the track. Engine, chassis and suspension worked well. Car was quite fun to drive. The seat, harness, roll bar setup hit the nail on the head. Have a small list of things to address.  The FIRM is currently back to running their shortened configuration. Unfortunately didn’t know this going in to the day. So not much comparison data I can use or lap time info I can supply for reference.  31mpg driving to and from the track 11.3mpg on track 

Took the Integra Type R race car out to the firm back in October and was able to post a new personal best lap time. The car currently has the 84mm B18c5 engine installed in it and is running on 205/50/15 Kumho V730 tires. This was also the first day we were able to run the car at length on the MCS 2 Way Remote Dampers. Posted (2) 1:19.3 lap times and quite a few more high 1:19 lap times. The MCS dampers are incredible at how well they soak up harsh bumps (curbs) giving you great mechanical grip at...

It has been fun tinkering with the 1992 Civic CX and the destiny has always been a car to drive to the track, run all day and drive home. The final step in getting it setup for that job are the last pieces of safety. We recently added a Sparco Evo Seat and Schroth 6pt Harness. We used a PCI seat bracket and sub-harness mount for the installation. The adjustability of the PCI bracket is nice. The Sparco Evo seat fits my 33" waist well. Could work up effectively up to a 34" waist size based on the research that...

Spoon caliper pad knock is annoying. The pads rock back and forth at low speed. Obnoxious on a street car. OEM Honda pad springs fix it. If you are familiar with the Spoon Sports Twin Block Calipers the pads are never fully seated with the bridges in place. This allows them to jostle around, especially at low speeds to give you an annoying clicking sound.  Using these calipers for a track application this is easy to ignore but when they are installed on your street car your neighbors look at you like your have something broken on your jalopy when...