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Originally Posted by basjoos

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.

What size tires do you need? From time to time I get my hands on some free rubber (almost always speed rated, normally W, or Z).
I'd send my loaner helmet to you (as would others) in a heart beat.