First race in the 3s, Acura Integra Type R Options

[Yota]

Can someone post a picture of the ITR that we're talking about? I don't think I've ever seen one.

How is the launch hard to handle on a 3s celi? Is torque steer an issue in this? What would be an idle launch rpm to obtain maximum performance in Jay's case (being that he has the LSD transmission)

[Kwanza26]

Can someone post a picture of the ITR that we're talking about?  I don't think I've ever seen one. 

How is the launch hard to handle on a 3s celi?  Is torque steer an issue in this?  What would be an idle launch rpm to obtain maximum performance in Jay's case (being that he has the LSD transmission)
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The late model DC3 (1994-2001 Integra) Type R is the one we're talking about. These came in 1997-2001 and had a model change over to the DC5 (RSX or JDM Integra) in late 2001-2002. Regardless, it was the ONLY Type R ever sold in the United States and was very limited.

As for launch and torque-steer... torque steer is only a problem for the amateurish driver. The LSD does help with the launch, but it's not something that is easily described with words. 200+ ft lbs of torque, boost/boost lag, rpm, throttle control, clutch control, there are many many things that can affect the launch of a FWD car with such low-end torque. I'm sure every person has their own technique... and I myself had problems launching a Neon SRT-4, so it's NOT easy. You can't just hold revs and dump the clutch.

[neoklis]

Its really a shame that we have this discussion/controversy about hondas. yes, they are fast but they are built differently. you can get any crappy car and make it fast but i would never even ride in a fast car that is either reliable or safe. in my country the government has just decided to triple (yes tripple) the car related fines due to the many deadly accidents. And i ask you, why should everyone pay because hondas are not safe? 80% of the deadly car accidents are with hondas, very rarely with toyotas and almost never with celis. come to think of it, i do not remember i ever heard of a deadly accident with a celi.

[95gtschick]

600000 miles
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yeah, i saw the odometer. it had 680,000km's.. so that's like, 570,000 miles, sorry rounded up . but yeah, it was crazy.

This post has been edited by 95gtschick: Dec 24, 2004 - 8:31 AM

[95gtschick]

oh and by the way, you can have a deadly accident with any vehicle. that's why it's called an accident. honda's are very very very safe vehicles, as are toyotas. but still, you can have an accident with any vehicle, there is no vehicle that keeps you safe from lets say.. a drunk driver! he'll still ram right into you no matter what you're driving

[95sweetness]

Hondas r always gonna be great and fast cars...no matter wat....they're amazin with their short gears n high end power... i have a friend with an 02 si..who just ran a 13.1 1/4 mile with a damn broken motor mount...thats insanely fast with just usin a rev hard turbo kit...he can easily be in the 12s once he fixes the motor mount n practice his launches...ooo 4got to mention thats only at 15 psi n stock internals

[hellsyphon]

Hondas are safe cars as are Toyotas. The only problem with Hondas is that it has a bad crowd. Granted there are alot of good people out there that are knowledgeable and have reason, but there is a even larger idiotic crowd. Those are the kids that think they are the **** and have no clue wtf their doing. They ask pointless questions and act and drive with complete disregard for anyone elses safety just so they can post on their forums that they owned a car. Hell, if I really wanted to "own" a car, I could do it walking. Just wait at a redlight and ask the other guy if they want to race and then i just run a couple of feet and OMG I just BURNED YOU HAHAHAHHAHA. I have nothing against Hondas and I have no idea why some of you guys are so biased against them as are Honda kids biased against Toyotas etc. I personally think they're amazing cars with great engineered engines that suit any crowd. I'd really like to see anyone else pump 300hp out of a 3.5L V6. Toyotas and Hondas both have their own qualities and if I ever owned another car that wasnt a Toyota it would be a Honda. Then again what do I know... thats just my opinion.

[junhus69]

No offense to anyone here.

I may not know as much as all of you but i do know this.
This race was 100% a drivers race. If i was going to race my cousin's husband (he has a 03 viper RT/10) i have a chance of beating him if he stalls of the line with my celica. This guy just needs to learn how to manage his power, you have a really nice car. The Integra Type R is a really nice car but its not the ****, more like a piece of **** compared to a 3s-gte powered 6gc. Practice and race him again, i garuntee you wont be able to count the car lenghts between you at the finish!!!
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I do take offense to this. Why? don't call something sh!t because its image was bastardized by the import scene. You obviously know jack about the car in question and obviously are just blowing chow to sound cool. Who the hell are you to judge something as crap when your car, shall I say, a vast majority of our cars, are nothing compared to an ITR? I don't often see Honda people talk crap about Celicas... I'm curious why some people here are so ignorant and simply say "it sucks" without any knowledge or justification... If it being a ricer car or 'common' is your reason, a slow car with fancy exterior mods is more of a ricer any day than a riced out Integra with a B18C...
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You state that i dont know anything about Hondas. I have A 2001 Acura TL as a daily driver. I have had a 02 Acura RSX from the dealer for a week when my cars tranny got reacalled and it was slow as hell. All these guys with there VETEC, well i have driven a bunch of the hondas and i have still yet to be amazed with this VETEC!. My favorite quote from one of my friends is, "Man when the VETEC kicked in i couldnt control the car man, it was so fast". This is pure bull i drive a honda everyday, get sick of it sometimes, its not as reliable as my 6gc but i go on the highway everyday and it is faster and a lot smoother.

[shid]

Way to compare your Acura TL to a 6gc for smoothness

[Kwanza26]

You state that i dont know anything about Hondas. I have A 2001 Acura TL as a daily driver. I have had a 02 Acura RSX from the dealer for a week when my cars tranny got reacalled and it was slow as hell. All these guys with there VETEC, well i have driven a bunch of the hondas and i have still yet to be amazed with this VETEC!. My favorite quote from one of my friends is, "Man when the VETEC kicked in i couldnt control the car man, it was so fast". This is pure bull i drive a honda everyday, get sick of it sometimes, its not as reliable as my 6gc but i go on the highway everyday and it is faster and a lot smoother.
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You're just making it worst for yourself man... You can't even spell VTEC right... It's pretty obvious you have little to NO knowledge about the technology so just shut it before I make you look like a dumb sh!t... There's no way you're gonna convince me short of an engine swap that a 6th gen Celica is faster, smoother, and overall better than an Acura TL or an RSX... that's just foolish.

Its really a shame that we have this discussion/controversy about hondas. yes, they are fast but they are built differently. you can get any crappy car and make it fast but i would never even ride in a fast car that is either reliable or safe. in my country the government has just decided to triple (yes tripple) the car related fines due to the many deadly accidents. And i ask you, why should everyone pay because hondas are not safe? 80% of the deadly car accidents are with hondas, very rarely with toyotas and almost never with celis. come to think of it, i do not remember i ever heard of a deadly accident with a celi.

Man... that's a terribly biased view. I don't know how life is on your island, but in the world, "accidents" are not distinguished by car make. It's a pretty pitiful argument blaming Hondas for everything. Any car can have an "accident" anytime. That's why they're called "ACCIDENTS"... That's probably the dumbest reason I've seen yet for someone to dislike Hondas. Again I say, go visit a Honda webboard and they rarely bash on Toyotas. Why is it so opposite on Toyota boards!? How can you, we, as a community, be so petty? sheesh....

This post has been edited by Kwanza26: Dec 24, 2004 - 1:47 PM

[jgreening]

These came in 1997-2001 and had a model change over to the DC5 (RSX or JDM Integra) in late 2001-2002. Regardless, it was the ONLY Type R ever sold in the United States and was very limited.

Actually, the 1999 was never released here. Only 97-98 and 00-01.

Can someone post a picture of the ITR that we're talking about? I don't think I've ever seen one.

Here is a link to a pic of a 2001 Type R (they only came in black, yellow and white):

Yellow 2001 Acura Integra Type R

[jgreening]

I wanted to add one more thing about my "race" if it wasn't already obvious. When we set out to test our cars, I didn't take it all that seriously. It was just a chance to run the cars side by side. I was careful not to spin my tires off the line or beat on the car too much. I was probably only mildly reving when we left the line and I let out my clutch slow enough that I didn't have any wheel spin. My buddy was much more agressive. Like I said he absolutely killed me off the line and it was definitely driver related.

[drdos]

wttf, how did you lose?

[hellsyphon]

wttf, how did you lose?
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lol... read the post above

[junhus69]

OK, in the end this was not a race for you in the 6gc but a race for him. It sounds like you were not trying to launch your car or trying to strain it at all. The Integra on the other hand was redline like there was no tomorrow. And for the comment made about my Acura, i was not comparring it to any 6gc, it is in a class by itself. That is comparing a 30k car to a 4k car. I like my celica because it is stick and a lot more fun to drive. The Acura is a luxury car that is smooth. The comment made about the Acura RSX is that it is slow as a mother in the lower RPM's but in the highet revs it does get speed but it does not make up for the lack of power in the lower RPM range. All Hondas are like that which i just dont like.

[Rjb23]

Honda's are nice cars and are fast. Ive driven a few of them, I drove a 2000 civic si and it far quicker than any stock 6gc. The new integra's are nice as hell and quick, the new 2k5 type s is one nice car. Stock it has 210 hp and 6 speed tranny, go test drive one sometime they are nice, you will want one after you drive it.

Of course the guy was close high reved, that is where vtec's make their power in the high revs. Also honda's gearing is just so much better than toyota's, first gear sucks but anything past that is better than toyota's gearing.

Also I don't know much about honda tuning but if its vtec I doubt you can run 15psi for any length of time and not blow your engine on stock internals. If he is boosting that much of with the right tires of course he is in the 13's that is about 310 hp on a light little car.

[95sweetness]

yea..he ran 15psi for the hell of it..c how wat he can get...n ya hes got good set of tires (falken azenis) ..i think the most boost the new si can take is 10-12 psi

[Ryu3x16]

I've drove plenty of honda's before and i'm quite please with the engineering work. the only thing that sucks about hondas to me is the quality of the car itself not including the engineering part. everything in the car feels so... Cheap compared to toyota and nissan. they're great cars blah blah.. anyways I've raced an ITR with intake and exhaust before (on a roll) going 30-35. he had no chance with me on a roll but off the line who knows.. and i've also raced a rsx type-s with a "20hp intake" and it was easier to beat than i thought..

p.s. im not bashing honda's

[jgreening]

anyways I've raced an ITR with intake and exhaust before (on a roll) going 30-35. he had no chance with me on a roll but off the line who knows..

Based on my experience, I feel the exact same way.

[Jehuty]

The ITR has a number od advantages.

First and formost is weight. An ITR comes in a 2600 soaking wet. Curb weights state as low as 2400 pounds. Besides having an effect on the power to weight ratio, that's lett inertia for the front tires to fight off the line.

Tires may be a factor in the launch. There where probably some nice tires on the Celi but the tires on a stock ITR are pretty impressive as far as the softness of the compound goes. Probably not that much difference here tho.

Suspension! Follow an ITR on the highway for awhile and marvel at it's rock hard ride! Many people have an easier time launching a car that is sprung and damped hard! I know I do!

Gears. A type r carries a direct 5th tranny that effectivly works like a six speed for racing purposes. Many have mentioned the ITR's lack of torque but with gears like this it doens't matter.

Ever heard the expression "Horsepower sells cars. Torque wins races."? Suprise. It's bullsh!t. With the proper gearing and a good driver, the ITR's NA 190 hp are every bit as good as a turbocharched 190 hp. A turbo in and of itself is not an advantage.


Anyhow, I can't help but say I'm shocked at some of the replies on here. Noone should be expected to know the ins and outs of every aspect of tuning and performance, but everyone should know this:

The outcome of a race will never be derived from hp and weight alone. The cars themselves are roughly one third of the race equation, the other two being the venue and the drivers. None of these three elements can be fully described on paper, let alone the synergy of all three. That's racing.

The race described in this post should be a close call, and it was. I don't know how anyone sees it any other way. Hell, I've used an e36 M3 to beat a supercharged Saleen Mustang, and yet I've somehow managed to lose to a Chevy S10 in the same car! Why? I dunno. That's racing.