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Above I have a video clip of an EG Honda Civic running a 9.55 second quarter mile at 160 mph. The car was built by a company named Central Florida Turbo. Impressive, to say the least. Congrats and good luck figuring out the launch. Once that gets sorted, I can see low 9’s to a break into the 8’s.
Drag racing has always been a uniquely American sport. It spawned from weekend cruisers getting a little too frisky with their cars on public roads. Then, along came the Drag Strip where people from all over would congregate to find out who had the fastest car in town. These contests of acceleration and speed developed with the inception of the NHRA, which established rules developed over many years to help racers compete more fairly.
Despite all the rules of the NHRA, every once in a while somebody would come up with a new idea that does not break the rules, but causes he or she to have a significant advantage over other racers. The changes might be small, but become readily apparent in the new times and records he or she sets. Over the years, drag racing has endured the induction of Nitrous Oxide, the supercharger (single and multispeed), the turbocharger, and last and certainly most dangerous, Nitromethane. New rules are created to help racers compete, and the sport moves forward, sometimes in great leaps.
Enter Brent Leivestad, of PFI in Fort Collins, Colorado. The picture you see above is Brent’s take on how pro front wheel drive drag cars should get the power to the ground. In his setup, the output shaft of the engine points to the front of the car, which puts power into a GM Powerglide transmission. The output of the normally rear wheel drive transmission goes into a v-drive assembly, normally used in speed boats, which then drives the front wheels via a ford 9in rear end. Some may ask how he is going to steer it, and to be serious, I have no idea. Did I mention this setup uses 12 fuel injectors? Brent intends to make in the neighborhood of 1500hp with this setup, and possibly a few new pro front wheel drive records as well. If you would like to read up or see more pictures of the madness, check out the 20 page thread on the topic on Honda-Tech.com.
Brent, on behalf of the entire Import Drag Racing Scene, thanks for the hard work making this crazy idea come to life.
Check out the video of the beast running:
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I have created a mirror of the PGMFI Wiki here on mycomputerninja.com. Lately there has been a lot of issues accessing the wiki system on PGMFI.org. I use the wiki on PGMFI quite often, and find it frustrating to not be able to access the system from time to time. Because of this, I created a mirror of the contents of the wiki system here on mycomputerninja.com. If you are looking for a very thorough reference on Honda ECU programming, and the PGMFI wiki is down, then check out http://mycomputerninja.com/~jon/www.pgmfi.org/index.html
None of the pages are editable, unlike the pages in the wiki system, but the point of the mirror is to provide another source of reference for the real thing. Besides, it would be a shame if all the collective knowledge of pgmfi.org dissapeared, so this is an attempt to make sure that does not happen.