GARAGE WORK CIVIC & EVO: Time attack machines at Mobara Circuit
May 5, 2009 4:21 pmHere’s a couple of cars I saw a while ago out at Mobara Twin that some people might find interesting.
This Evo VII is owned by Garage Work boss Takumi Iwata. Garage Work is situated in Chiba, about 45 minutes from Mobara.
Going by those canards and air-intake headlight replacement, it’s very obviously a dedicated time attack machine.
The entire dashboard has been replaced with a carbon-fibre shell, and the rear doors are both carbon-fibre, including what would normally be the window.
The coolest thing about the car was the custom intercooler setup.
Takumi said he made it by welding together the two cores that are part of the Trust Z32 Fairlady intercooler kit, and fabricated the end-tanks and piping.
In a matching white with black carbon bonnet scheme was Tomoko’s Civic. Tomoko is a customer of Garage Work.
The interior of the Civic was similarly stripped…
…with a full spot-weld and custom cage job.
You’d probably expect some sort of extreme engine work…
…but it was a standard late-model ZC 16-valve.
The Civic still went pretty hard though…
…and Tomoko wasn’t afraid to launch it over the Mobara kerbs.
Of course, the Evo was the quicker of the two, but Takumi pulled into the pits after a dozen or so laps with a bit of smoke coming out of the engine bay. Apparently, there were quite a few “experimental” tuning parts on the car he was there to sort out.
Quite a good-looking pair.
Tags: Civic, Evolution, Garage Work, Honda, Lancer, Mitsubishi, Mobara TwinCategorised in: Profiles プロフィル, Time Attack
This post was written by Alexi
16 Comments
love the fact they’re still using whats now a kind of old civic for time attack stuff! rock on!
:DROOL: White EF Civic driven by a girl :DROOL:
N/A POWA!
I remember seeing a Garage Work ED8 with a custom dual Bosch fuel pump on a surge tank, with block off shield between the driver seat and the rear of the car, completely separating the driver and the fuel pumps. If you know what I’m talking about please post something up!
Nice interesting intercooler setup.
ive always like the way some skilled drivers push their low HP cars and end up being just as fast or faster than cars with more power.
The evo looks like the evo in last chapters of Initial D.
I like have a car to run like japanes.
more pics of Tomoko chan ^^ domo
love the look of the evo, wish my car had that much room in the engine bay too
Hey man i appreciate posting up something other than drift cars for once. I dont know if theres others interested in time attack, but i like it as much as drifting. Clean civic too! Thanks again
@E. Honda
Afraid I don’t, but I’ll keep an eye out.
Is it just me or is that filter box made of cardboard? Either way, awesome looking Evo and Civic. I really love me some EF Civic.
probably still working on it. testing the shape maybe 😀
i was expecting to see a b20 or at least a b16a in the civic
Love the civic. Very minimalistic. Relying less on a cage to reduce body roll… the stitch welding is great. Drool.
Wow, i just caught this. Quite a pleasant surprise to see a FF car on here 🙂
Hope there are more Time Attack cars in the future.
Can see Tomoko chan EF3 in ” my car challenge ” epidose of BMI hot version vol 105 ! ^^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCh7MJtWssA ( at 1:15 ) 😉