ITR Integra Type-R

[JIgou]

I've come across what I think is a minor glitch in the ITR rules.

How I discovered it: I'm helping out with the prep of a 1998 Integra Type R for enduro racing.

In looking at online copy of the GCR, I see it only lists the Type-R as 1998-2001 - I'm assuming the printed version is the same. But there was a Type-R made in 1997.

Before I send the ITAC/CRB a quickie note saying "Please add the 1997, as it was the same car and must have been missed in the initial class setup," can anyone shed any light about why the '97 might not have been included? Any other details I should add in my note to help expedite the process?

Thanks!

Jarrod

[lateapex911]

Hmmm. I'm not the Honda expert, but I'd be willing to bet that it was an oversight when the class was created. Lots of cars, (V8s? no V8s?) other rules to discuss and a big concept to sell to the brass kept the ITR committee's attention spread thin. Are there any other differences from 97 to 98?

[Xian]

Aside from a rear hatch window wiper and slightly different nose/headlights there weren't any changes that I know of (I used to own a 2001 Type R). The headlights/nose thing were changed across the board on all 98 Integra's and they are all on the same "spec line". I don't see any reason why the 97 can't be included and modify the spec to 97-2001 (although there were no Type R's imported during 99).

Christian, who sometimes forgets how much "old skool JDM, yo" stuff he remembers.

[Z3_GoCar]

I was only pereferally involved with ITR, and am not a Honda/Acura expert. But weren't the heads custom ported on the earlier type-R's? I seem to remember this causing a policing issue with head porting.

James

[dj10]

I was only pereferally involved with ITR, and am not a Honda/Acura expert. But weren't the heads custom ported on the earlier type-R's? I seem to remember this causing a policing issue with head porting.

James

Wow! Factory ported heads....stock. There has to be some way to comfirm this before anyone would say yea or na I would think.

[JeffYoung]

Someone brought this up during the discussion on classing the car, but it wasn't why the 97 was "left off." It was merely an oversight. I think a letter is in order; at the same time I am doing a "clean up" of some of the gaps in the ITR ITCS (with the help of Josh Sirota and Earl Richards) and can simply add it in that way and see what they ITAC says.

[Andy Bettencourt]

Wow! Factory ported heads....stock. There has to be some way to comfirm this before anyone would say yea or na I would think.

"...The ports were also improved as each Type R engine is hand ported and polished by Honda's best and most skilled engineers. This allowed the port radius to exactly match the valve seat face allowing for almost no restriction of air flow. "

http://www.team-integra.net/sections...p?ArticleID=35