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Originally Posted by aerohead
Mike,I know you're a lot further east of Bonneville than me,but have you ever considered running the Honda there? USFRA has a 130-mph Club for "street" cars.They require a Snell 2,000 or better helmet,a 5-pound fire extinguisher,metal valve caps and 40-psi in the tires.Membership in USFRA is $40 and there is a tech inspection,and also each driver must perform a 100-mph handling run to test speedometer calibration.You would need H-rated tires.You can run up to 139 mph and get a time slip accurate to 1/1000-mph from SCTA.--------- I think the AEROCIVIC would blow their minds and visitors would get a strong dose of what drag reduction can achieve.-------------- I plan to run next year in the T-100 and see about running with the trailer also,something I don't think has been done before.
I don't think the general public makes the "performance" connection with aero.This is one venue where it can be taken to the extreme in as safe as an environment as is possible.Please consider it.Top speed remains as a strong engineering criteria for design efficiency.When people realize that "Salt" technology works also on the "Street" we open many doors to near term possibilities and expectations in transportation.------------- The CIVIC remains an inspiration,thanks for all you do,Phil.
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Sounds interesting, it would certainly be a long drive for me to get out there. Other questions I would need to resolve is whether my car has any max speed governor built into the ECU. According to TomO, the VX's engine cuts out at 116mph, which is presumably the speed rating for the OEM tires on the VX. The ECU in my car came from the Irish version of the Civic Vtec-e, so I would need to find out what, if any, speed governing it might have or if it could be removed from the ECU programming. The next step would be to find H-rated tires. There are only a few brands of OEM sized tires sold in this country for the 92-95 Civic hatch and don't know if any of them are H-rated.
I'd need to figure out what the total cost for this adventure would be. So, a set of H-rated tires, helmet, fire extinguisher, metal valve caps, USFRA membership, travel cost to/from the event. When do they do the racing? So what's involved at Bonneville? Is it pretty much just drive up, USFRA car inspection, do the calibration run, do the full speed run, and then head home? Its not like I would be spending days at the site fine tuning the car trying for that last additional mph of speed.