Bolts & Washers
Edison Jacinto's 1996 JDM Honda Integra SiR-G
Propulsion
The rare B18C3 in the SiR-G was originally a bored and stroked, blown-up Japanese Spoon Sports-built motor. It was rescued by Jacinto and rebuilt by LDL Auto & Speed Shop in Las Vegas, who resleeved the 2-liter block with Darton liners. The shop went full tilt with the rotating assembly, balancing an Integra Type-R crank and employing Eagle connecting rods secured by ARP bolts, 13:1-compression Arias pistons, and a baffled Spoon oil pan. The VTEC head received LDL's street/strip port and a new valvetrain comprised of re-ground Type-R valves, bronze guides, Toda springs, Jun retainers, and Toda Spec C camshafts mated to Toda sprockets. A stock-thickness TODA head gasket bored to 85mm sits between the top and bottom ends.
Before dropping the long block into the car, Jacinto stiffened the motor mounts with urethane inserts. The engine bay looks bare bones and it belies the effort poured into the power unit. The intake system, for example, while essentially stock, is goosed with a Spoon drop-in filter, a Spoon throttle bored to 70mm, and an OE manifold ported by DNR Performance.
Fuel is atomized for the mix via RC Engineering 440cc injectors, pushed by a Walbro 255-lph pump and monitored with a B&M pressure regulator. The catalysts for the explosive brew are Denso iridium plugs juiced by Spoon wires. A Hondata piggyback engine management system, tuned by Ryan and Kurt Lee, keeps the combustion routine in time. On the exit side of the head spent gases are sent through a DTR (Danny Tran Racing) Fabrication header, past a JDM ITR cat, and out an unspecified race exhaust.
Power is transferred from a TODA flywheel to an Exedy Cerametallic clutch spinning the main shaft of a five-speed '98-spec JDM ITR gearbox. It carries a final drive ratio of 4.78:1 and is equipped with a limited-slip differential. Jacinto even outfitted the case with stainless-steel Spoon clutch lines.
Evidence
The Integra hooks up for 220 hp, 137 lb-ft of torque, and runs the quarter mile in 13.6 seconds at 104 mph on Falken Azenis rubber.
Stance
Spoon strut tower bars front and rear and a forward lower bar brace the chassis. Further stabilization is ensured by a Ground Control 25mm adjustable rear anti-sway bar and wheel hop-killing Z10 Motorsports traction kit. Jacinto dropped the car with JIC Magic coil-overs.
Resistance
A stock Type-R master cylinder, outfitted with a Cusco brace and reservoir re-locater, pumps Motul fluid to the stainless steel Goodridge lines in each wheel well. Spoon four-piston calipers armed with Spoon pads bite on the stock rotors in the front wells.
Rims & Rubber
Torqued to each hub with Spoon lugs are 15-inch Spoon SW388 wheels shod in 205/50-15 Bridgestone Potenza S-03s. The featherweight SW388s weigh at eight pounds each.
Fashion
Outside: Adorned in its original frost white color, the body of the Integra is left unmolested save for a '98-spec HID headlight upgrade.
Inside: ITR Recaro seats, shift knob, and Type RX pedals make a JDM statement in the cabin. The aesthetic extends to the Spoon gauge cluster and Momo steering wheel with aluminum quick release.