For just the price of two Civic Sis, you can buy one built specifically for the track.
you can buy is the 200-hp Civic Si sedan. With a standard six-speed manual transmission available and limited-slip front differential, tightened up suspension, and red-accented interior, the Si continues Honda's lineage of sweet-driving, lightweight compact cars wearing the iconic Si badge. It's not some hardcore track dissector, but rather a sporty everyday car—a slightly elevated, more focused Civic sedan aimed squarely at enthusiasts looking for an affordable, under-the-radar ride.
That body is sent to Honda's Marysville, Ohio, Performance Manufacturing Center to be essentially handbuilt in the same building where the Acura NSX supercar is constructed. Does proximity to the NSX make this a higher-performance car? Well, no, it's more of a cool fun fact and a location of convenience—where else would Honda hand-build something but there?—but everything else HPD has done to it does.
It should also stop harder than the Civic Si, which we've found can overwhelm its brakes' heat dissipating abilities on a track. Before we dive into the HPD's hardware upgrades, you can see Honda has tried to address the production model's apparent lack of brake cooling by drilling two large holes in the front bumper flanking the central lower intake; these cooling ducts should shovel appropriate volumes of air at the front stoppers.
Safety equipment takes up the lion's share of the Civic Si FE1's cabin equipment, period, and includes a full FIA roll cage, FIA FT3 14.5-gallon fuel cell, and OMP quick-release steering wheel; racing seat; harnesses; and fire extinguisher. The driver faces a Motec dashboard data logger, racing gauge cluster, and a row of LED shift lights. Amusingly, the stock Si shift knob sits atop the otherwise naked shift lever mechanism.
Interested in hitting up some SRO TCA races next year and have some $55,000 burning a hole in your pocket? That sum buys you the new HPD Civic Si FE1 fully turnkey, albeit with a bare Pearl White body. A $25,000 deposit is required, with the remaining $20,000 due when the car is ready. That is cheap as far as built racecars go, plus it comes having been fully developed by HPD engineers and factory built.
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