Another week another picture of the week. This time an nice track prepared Honda Civic LSI, from the Japanese Performance Tuning Show at Silverstone 2009. This car might only be a 1.5 SOHC engine but weighing in at under 850kg it can certanly turn a few heads round the track.

Here is a video of a Honda Civic EK with a K20a conversion. As you can see the car is stripped and very light, i bet this gives the advantage against the Toyota Supra running 400bhp, it looks like the supra has alot of lag but starts to gain ground at higher speeds. Its also worth watching till the end as its quite funny.

Here is a video of InlinePro's Honda S2000 Turbo doing a Wheel Stand or Wheelie of the line in North Carolina. Wheelies and Honda dont normally go together on 4 wheels, but this proved the doubters wrong and best of all its still running a F20C engine.

Here is an engine shot of a very nice turbo setup on a honda S2000, From the looks of it the exterior is standard so its a total sleeper. I also like the custom exhaust manifold. The image was taken at the Civic Life Meet on the 19th April 2009

The world economy’s taking a real toll on car makers and customers alike. And autoshows are caught right in the middle of the crunch.

With sales declining and calls to cut costs increasing, Honda has decided to cancel its appearance at september’s Frankfurt auto show. “Due to the unprecedented market downturn, Honda has come to a conclusion that the company will have to skip its participation to the Frankfurt motor show this year,” the company said in a statement.

Honda has also resorted to dropping out of the F1 circuit as it tries to handle the tough economic conditions of today. I hope the cost cutting’s going to be temporary.

A major point of owning a hybrid vehicle is, of course, sheer righteousness. They're very helpful in projecting your car’s green credentials with their wind tunnel-inspired jellybean styling.

Even closer to the ideal of a cutie bunny slipper of a vehicle than the second generation Prius was the first Insight: a lithe 2-seater made of aluminum and powered by a one-liter three-cylinder engine with 70 HP. Oh, and an extra 10 HP from an electric motor. Don’t forget that. In fact, if you take a Hamilton Beach Model 1G912 professional bar blender along for the ride, you can up the horsepower figure to 82.

But what if, in the quest for even more power, you swapped all that stuff out and replaced it with something more substantial?

Say, a rev-happy 2-liter K20 Honda engine with VTEC trumpets and 200 HP. This is exactly what the mischievous gremlins of LHT Performance did to produce the Honda K-Sight.

With the Insight’s fantastic drag coefficient of 0.25 guiding all that power through the atmosphere, the K-Sight does 46 miles to the gallon—and you get to look greener than green. Well, red, but you get the idea.

MrLHT of the team had this to say:

 

We stiffened the whole car by welding extra braces, as well as building a complete sub frame, which ties the whole front together, and course the whole thing is aluminum. The mounts are Honda OEM mounts from various Honda Vehicles so the car is very smooth with no teeth chattering. In fact you can’t feel it idle in the driver seat. Now for numbers, with very little tuning the car is making over 200whp with a very quiet exhaust and tied with a JDM 6 speed transmission accelerates like a rocket. The car feels very tight and has great feel due the extra bracing and a custom alignment.

 

Nissan 350z

  The Nissan 350z is a proper sports car for the everyman. If we had just one sentence to describe the Nissan 350Z, that'd be it. While there are plenty of unobtainable sports cars out there to drool over, the 350Z's relatively compact dimensions, rear-wheel drive, two seats, muscular engine and sharp handling come at a price that real people can actually afford.

The Mugen NSX RR was featured at the Tokyo Auto Salon but NihonCar.com was recently invited by Mugen for a private photo shoot. The car might look impressive but you should be reminded it’s just a show car. And it’ll probably always be just a show car. Unlike other Mugen modifications, this one’s too over the top to be seen on a road anytime soon.

If you haven’t yet visited NihonCar.com, do yourself a favor and check it out. It’s an amazing resource for Japanese car fans.

Here is a very nice Honda S2000 with what looks like 18" rota GTR's. Enjoy