Please allow me to introduce myself and our team Ikon Racing and Development/Alt-Eco Motorsports!

We are currently in process of building an Acura TSX to campaign in NASA Performance Touring/Honda Challenge later this year and into next year.

We are working with a number of great companies on this project and look forward to the challenge of building a highly competitive competition vehicle out of a fantastic street car!

My background is road racing in rear/mid engine Porsche cars so this will be a learning experience constructing, tuning, setting up and driving a FWD Competition Vehicle.

My partner and co driver for this project comes from the Honda Drag Racing world successfully campaigning a 2000+Hp late model Accord in Pro FWD and is now making the jump to road racing.

I will post some photo's shortly (as soon as allowed) of the beginning of the build process (Dyno,Tear Down,Cage Fabrication, Etc...) and will update regularly as the project progresses, looking forward to meeting members here and sharing our build and competition with all the Acura race fans here.

 

Great, I look forward to watching the project progress.

 

Thanks thbhouse !

 

Hi All, we will be posting pictures shortly as soon as we have met our 15 day and 5 new posts minimum requirement!

 

Awesome! Can't wait for pics!

 

Where in NC are you located?

 

Thanks Princelybug! and MR. DB2 We are in Concord.

Best,
Jonathan

 

PS: You can check out pictures now at: http://www..com/forums/member-intro/...r-build-2.html

They let us post pics right away

 

Never mind they block the link....

 

Looks great. Really only 148.4HP at the wheels? How many miles are on that motor?

 

Thanks!

Yes 148 at the wheels on a Dyno Dynamics Dyno.

The motor had about 80K on it. We will see where it is after the refresh and mods and post the chart up!

 

From the team at Ikon Racing and Development/Alt-Eco Motorsports we wish everyone here a Happy Holiday Weekend!

 

bump

 

Our new valve train components (Springs, Retainers, Valves, Guides and Seals) from Supertech Performance arrived at the 42 Autosports shop yesterday, so we will pull the head later today to send off to the machine shop, should have pictures of the process and parts to post and more details by tomorrow.

 

Sweet, I want to see some pics.

 

Hey Guy's!

We will be posting next batch of pics on Monday, apologies for the delay as our head wrench just called me from the car and he is headed out to participate in the Wolf Ridge Hill Climb this weekend and did not have time to send me over the pics before leaving the shop.

You can check out some past photos and video of past hill climb events at Wolfe Ridge at: http://www.ccrscca.com/WolfRidge/Photos_Videos/Photos_Videos.html

Also I have posted a picture of our team support vehicle provided by Norm Reeves Honda Superstore Cerritos (a custom turbocharged Honda Fit Sport) we are about to get the Fit wrapped based on the proof and are doing the same scheme on the TSX.

Would love your input, Do you like it? Do you hate it? Let us know!

 

Sweet, subscribed!

 

Thank You EuRTSX!

 

Here are the first set of build pics!

 

Hi Guys!

Apologies for the delay. Here are the pics of master wrench Steven Rankins at 42 Autosports removing the TSX Head for the valve job and installation of the Supertech Performance valve train components:

 

nice !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! keep up da good works

 

Thank you samnguyen!

 

Nice job guys
keep us updated!

 

Thank You FoRMuIaz! Appreciated! Will Do.

 

How's the car going? Any more pics during the mod?

 

Amazing project and CAGE to say the least deffinetly interested in your build. Best of luck to you guys. And safe driving as always.What all is being done to the head? Interested to see the numbers the car makes after all the work. Keep up us updated.

 

wow!!!! AWESOME project! can't wait to see more pics. Good Luck on the project. Hope everything turns out perfect.

 

Looks great, love the step by step pics you got going on. keep up the great work cant wait to see it finished

 

Looking beautiful! Can't wait for the update

On another note, it's kinda cool seeing a completely stripped and caged car that's completely stock on the outside.

 

Jonathan, where is the money you owe us for the roll cage in the acura? We are still waiting....

John Helgesen
Stalwerks

 

Nice build! Any updates?

 

ouch first and only post


updates?

 

so im guessing were not going to be seeing anymore of this car.

 

Payment pending

 

We are still waiting for contact from team representatives to complete payment for services tendered.

 

 

oh damn. do my TSX engine as well. lol

 

a comment about the dyno numbers: dyno dynamics dyno's are load bearing dyno's, and they read really low just like mustand dyno's. on a dynojet the numbers would likely be anywhere from 30-40whp higher just because of the way the numbers are calculated. the base number isn't what's important when looking at dyno charts though, the improvement over the baseline is what is. the original and final numbers are nothing more than reference numbers to chart progress.

very nice build, can't wait to see the finished product with action shots.

 

No posts for 8 months? Hrmmmm. Subscribed and interested....

 

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maybe that's why?

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