The Hatch is Ready to Roll: An Update from the 2K Racing Season

As we prepare to take on the 2K racing season, our attention has been focused on getting our hatch ready for competition. We've made some significant changes to the car since its last outing, and it's exciting to see how they'll pay off on the track.

One of the key upgrades was the removal of a weight plate that was holding us back. We managed to shed over 115 pounds from the car, which should make a big difference in our acceleration and overall performance. Our driver, [Name], has been working tirelessly to fine-tune the engine, and we're confident that it's going to be a game-changer.

The hatch's new engine is actually an old one that was salvaged from another vehicle – a Honda Odyssey, to be exact. While it may not have had as much mileage on it as some of the other engines in the class, it still packs a punch and has been sleeved to prevent any major issues. We're hoping that with the right tuning, it will be able to keep up with the competition.

One of the most exciting upgrades we've made is the installation of new carbon fiber doors. They look amazing and have really transformed the car's appearance. We're just missing a few interior pieces to complete the look, but overall, they're a huge improvement over the old doors.

In terms of tuning, we'll be using a modified tune from our last outing at Sick Week. This particular setup produced some impressive numbers, including a 959 pass in the 1/4 mile. However, we know that our car may not have the same level of power as some of the other competitors, so we're going to err on the side of caution and start with a slightly more conservative tune. We'll adjust it as needed based on how the car performs on the track.

Before we head out to the 2K racing season, we're planning to do one final burnout in the driveway to knock off some dirt and debris from the all-wheel drive system. This will give us an idea of how the car is handling and help us fine-tune our setup before the big event.

The hatch's performance has been impressive so far, with spins on all four wheels for a second and almost hooking up as it started to gain traction. We're hoping that this level of performance will translate into consistent mid-nines in competition – something we've been striving for to move up in our class.

One thing is certain: we won't be leaving the hatch behind at FL 2K. It's going to be a showstopper, and we can't wait to share it with all of you. We'll be setting up a booth and will be on hand to answer any questions you may have about our car or our competition strategy.

If you're planning on attending the event, come out and see us in action! It's going to be an exciting weekend, and we wouldn't want to share it with anyone else. The NSX, our other competitor, is also looking strong, so expect some fierce battles on the track.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello what's up guys as I mentioned in the last video we are bringing the NSX here to fl2k to roll race and we thought after the roll race day that was going to be it we were going to be done just hanging out for the rest of the event but that is not the case we are going to be racing another car uh Mike Vargas hit me up he was going to bring an RX-7 out to compete in the stick shift class turns out he uh just couldn't get the car together to make it out so he offered to give me his stick shift class ticket and I thought what stick cars do we have really it comes down to the hatch here so we got the hatch pulled in and we are prepping this thing to go racing at fl2k we went ahead and got the street tires off of this thing we got the Slicks on there I actually had to give the other wheels that we had on the rear back uh to Jamie and the guys for the freedom Civic because those were the wheels off of the freedom Civic but I saw the tires so we just swapped the rear slicks onto these rotors back here and then we have the 13s on the front like we've always had and we're just going over the hatch here because we're going to be running it in the stick class so I think the Hat should do pretty well they have two sections of the stick shift class depending on where you qualify a lot of the fast guys are you know running like eight seconds and up and then the slower half is somewhere in the nines and slower so I think the hatch would actually do pretty good in that lower bracket of the stick shift class considering it went a 9-3 the last day of sick week at Bradenton I think if it's running somewhere just consistently in the mid nines that it should be pretty competitive so we're gonna go ahead and throw the hatch into the stick shift class for fl2k and uh see how she does so we got a few more things to do we're taking the trailer hitch off because we don't need that anymore we're ditching some weight I had mentioned in a video back that we were looking for a carbon fiber hatch but I didn't find that but I did find some other components and those guys are right here boys so if you look right here we have ourselves a pair of carbon fiber doors for a EK Civic and these actually came off of another all-wheel drive Civic that actually ran like a low Eight Second pass I I built the car had some fun with it ran a few passes and then you ended up parting out the whole Civic and these doors came up for sale on Marketplace and I drove down to Fort Myers to pick them up I've actually had them for a couple months now and I was waiting to do a video until we got the carbon fiber uh rear hatch so I could make an episode and be like fully carbon fibering out the hatch with the doors and the rear hatch and all the other components but this is what we have laying around they've been sitting in our parts room for a while and since we're trying to prep the hatch here to go fast in the stick shift class as fast as possible on its current setup she's been needing to go on a diet so Now's the Time to do it we're gonna go ahead and Slot these carbon fiber doors on the hatch I'm not sure just yet how much weight we'll save hopefully it's comparable to the MR2 when we did the carbon fiber doors on it because we saved almost 100 over 110 pounds on the overall weight of the car so I don't know if it's going to be as drastic as the MR2 because we got rid of the window regulators and the mr2's doors had electronic windows and stuff like that from Factory whereas the hatch has manual windows but I'm sure we'll still save at least a solid maybe 30 40 pounds door which will be pretty significant so we're going to go ahead and get the doors off the hatch since we don't have anything else to do today and uh get these carbon fiber ones thrown on there the NSX like I said in the last video is ready to go Rob Bolton the 240 are still loose that thing's still cooked and uh we're moving on so we just got this door panel off right here for those of you that may or may not know the hatch actually used to have a top of the line security system back in the day dude look at that install with six speaker wires dude I had a it had a Viper alarm system installed in this unit and someone came in here installed the little actuators so it had automatic locks and it actually used to have a key fob and I went through so much trouble to make the key fob work back when I first got this car I bought one on eBay for like 40 bucks got it all hooked up and I did get the electric locks working at one point and then I kind of gave up on that after a while so now it's time for all that stuff to go and get our new carbon fiber doors on there definitely needs cleaned up yeah I know a lot of you guys have always said repaint the hatch make it clean I'm telling you guys one day the hash is gonna be freaking sick I mean we're gonna have to take care of these doors because they are really nice these are beautiful not so piece by piece we're gonna clean up the hatch here she's getting more and more legit she's definitely been needing to go on a diet for some time now and that starts today all right guys so we got the passenger side door off real quick and before we tear it all apart I'm gonna go ahead and weigh this guy and see how much we will save compared to the carbon one afterwards so that guy is 65 ish pounds 65 pounds I think the MR2 stores were close to 70 pounds each so that's actually pretty close considering this is all uh manual everything tell you right now that is way lighter to be expected 17 pounds carbon Door 17 pounds with nothing in it so once we get everything swapped over see how much this guy weighs and see how much we're saving all right guys we got the first carbon door all together here we do have the mirror on there so that might be like an extra pound and we got some vice grips hanging off of there right now but I'm gonna go ahead and throw around there see how much lighter we got so the factory door was 65. and this one is right at 34. so 30 pounds 31 pounds and that's not bad considering the mirror was missing and then these are probably like you know these are probably not even gonna make a difference but oh we got one pound less so 32 pounds of difference it's a door that mirror is a good two pounds it's surprisingly heavy so not bad so that 35 pounds so so it'll be close to 60 to 70 pounds total weight savings between the two doors as long as the driver door is the same yeah and that's with full glass in it too like that's heavier than the freaking door is so we put lexan in it you know it's another probably eight to ten pounds nice not bad get the passenger door back on and then we can move on to the driver's side foreign look at that the hatch got her first major carbon fiber component she's finally going on a diet it's been much needed because the all-wheel drive system added quite a bit of weight to this thing so like I said we still want to try to get a back hatch so if anyone does have a back hatch or Nova one for an EK hit me up because that is another heavy piece that I would like to do to the car but yeah we just got our passenger side carbon fiber door on there check it out it looks so good nice and straight the door I had on there was pretty beat up and dented so that is looking sweet so shiny the regulator on this door has been broke for years so are you going down that okay like skipped a whole bunch of teeth he's basically just completely broke at this point but it uh doesn't catch at all and I've always had to just kind of lift the window up into place uh it was very annoying and it sounds like crap but we've been waiting for this moment because we got a new window regulator to go into the new carbon fiber door or the driver's side so we won't have that issue anymore but we're gonna go ahead and get this guy pulled off and uh get the driver's side door done and we'll be good to go so just for curiosity I put the Civic on the scales and right now we are sitting at 23.70 basically once we throw the other door on we're working on the driver's side door right now that's going to be another 30 pounds going on right there so then that will put the car at pretty much exactly 2400 without me in it and I'm just over 160 pounds so we'll be at about 25.60 with race weight and that is with a full tank of gas I just filled this thing up yesterday so she is topped off that's pretty good just over 2500 pounds ready to go and we still have the carbon hatch to do which will take a lot of weight off there's a lot of stuff up under the dash that you know at this point I'm not sure if I'm going to keep this stuff or not for the future we still have the heater core or the heater motor all that stuff the blower motor I mean there's a lot of stuff under the dash the support bars are in there so we could gut the dash out you know do a carbon Dash they make them for the eks as well lose probably a good 40 50 pounds between all that stuff I'm just not sure how race car I want to go with the hatchet because I kind of like that it's somewhat still a streetable car and it's not too race car out like the MR2 or anything like that also we could get a nicer race seat probably lose a good 15 pounds there because the seats are 33 pounds and then one other big chunk of weight on the car is the front weight plate so when this car was front wheel drive I put this weight plate on there to help get traction on the street it also helps on the track for a front-wheel drive car but I have been talking to some all-wheel drive guys um a lot of the guys that convert their Civics from front wheel drive to all-wheel drive go through the same process they all had weight plates on their cars because they were front-wheel drive and they set them up to drag races the front wheel drive but once you go all-wheel drive a lot of guys are taking the weight plate off and they actually see improvements without the weight plate and actually you know a drop in the weight because now that all four tires are spinning the weight plate isn't as necessary and that guy is a hundred pounds for right now we have to leave it on because it supports the radiator and the intercooler and all that stuff but in the future I think we are going to be ditching that weight plate I made a while back and uh save close to 100 pounds there as well so I mean if I can get the car to like 2500 pounds with me in it I'd be very happy and with all of the stuff that's still in it I think that is very doable also I'm curious who remembers the video when I first did the weight plate on the hatch that was so long ago I went to my old uh welding school and my teacher let me in and cut that out on the plasma table that was a pretty cool video back then but unfortunately I think the weight plate will be going as well but other than that guys the hatch is just about ready here once we get the driver's side door on and we'll be good to go so this is the stuff we got off the hatch here both doors the passenger seat because we're not going to need that might as well pull it out and the hitch this guy was 23 pounds that was 33 pounds and then we saved about 32 pounds from from each door as a grand total of 115 pounds lighter than it was during sick week when it went the 9-3 and the engine that's in the hatch right now is the one out of their Odyssey and this engine might be a little healthier than the other one this one's sleeved it doesn't have nearly as much run time on it so you know if the stars aligned there is a possibility the hatch could maybe run like a 890 or like you know maybe somewhere in that 9192 range but we'll see what it does all right boys the driver's side carbon fiber door is done and installed it came out freaking sweet I'm just missing a couple interior pieces on this side but we put the door cards back on there and right now we are just uploading the tune from Gainesville when we took it on sick week that was a 959 pass we don't want it on kill because when we ran it at Bradenton it was literally all the turbo had because the line of the wastegate wasn't even on there so we're only going to do that if we need to if we like get two eliminations and we know we're against a fast car and we gotta send it and you know unplug the wastegate and turn all the way up then we'll do that but we're going to turn it slightly back down to something that will hopefully save the turbo you know give it a little more life instead of just Full Tilt the whole time and I think now that we got the hatch all together we're going to go ahead and pull this thing out and give her a little test strip in the driveway we don't change it to the tree again no we don't we don't need to burn up those nice slicks on there that's the point so we'll do one burn out to knock the the dirt off all-wheel drive and I'll back it up again do it twice see how it does but you know we don't want to drive all the way out to Gainesville over two hours away and then have an issue so we might as well test it here in the driveway sounds like a good theory to me neighbors are fine so it's not too late yet they won't mind this one's not as loud as some of the other cars yeah they never said anything about the all-wheel drive burnout so they never said nothing about Suki they were good just the jet boat that one night they were a little upset yeah the jumbo was very loud all right I'm not much runway here but I think we'll be all right don't go through the fence down there you know Nathan dude this starts to go I think she's ready I think she's ready to rip dude it's like spins all four for a second and then it almost starts to really hook up and going first decent dude we need our own drag strip yes we do that private road to Mexico isn't long enough for us yep she's ready boys carbon fiber doors and all sick so we're just hoping for like consistent mid nines out there like I said there's a chance it could run even faster if we really cranked it up but that poor eBay turbo would be hanging on for deer life at full Boost every rip so you want to just try to make some consistent passes I think that's going to be the key to moving up in the class and hopefully we do good but we're going to be out of the FL 2K with the hatch here and stick shift which will be over the weekend I believe like Friday Saturday Sunday that's the days we'll be running the hatch but tomorrow we'll be out in the NSX doing the Roll Racing so we're gonna go ahead and get loaded up here and uh see you guys out at FL 2K be there or be square foreign guys we are all loaded up the NSX and hatch are both ready to go for fl2k if you guys want to come out and see the cars in person see him race be sure to come by we'll be there all weekend starting tomorrow or by the time you're watching this it might be today so it's currently Wednesday evening right now but yeah we got some Merchant stuff we'll have the booth and everything so come hang out with the boys and uh we'll see you guys there foreignhello what's up guys as I mentioned in the last video we are bringing the NSX here to fl2k to roll race and we thought after the roll race day that was going to be it we were going to be done just hanging out for the rest of the event but that is not the case we are going to be racing another car uh Mike Vargas hit me up he was going to bring an RX-7 out to compete in the stick shift class turns out he uh just couldn't get the car together to make it out so he offered to give me his stick shift class ticket and I thought what stick cars do we have really it comes down to the hatch here so we got the hatch pulled in and we are prepping this thing to go racing at fl2k we went ahead and got the street tires off of this thing we got the Slicks on there I actually had to give the other wheels that we had on the rear back uh to Jamie and the guys for the freedom Civic because those were the wheels off of the freedom Civic but I saw the tires so we just swapped the rear slicks onto these rotors back here and then we have the 13s on the front like we've always had and we're just going over the hatch here because we're going to be running it in the stick class so I think the Hat should do pretty well they have two sections of the stick shift class depending on where you qualify a lot of the fast guys are you know running like eight seconds and up and then the slower half is somewhere in the nines and slower so I think the hatch would actually do pretty good in that lower bracket of the stick shift class considering it went a 9-3 the last day of sick week at Bradenton I think if it's running somewhere just consistently in the mid nines that it should be pretty competitive so we're gonna go ahead and throw the hatch into the stick shift class for fl2k and uh see how she does so we got a few more things to do we're taking the trailer hitch off because we don't need that anymore we're ditching some weight I had mentioned in a video back that we were looking for a carbon fiber hatch but I didn't find that but I did find some other components and those guys are right here boys so if you look right here we have ourselves a pair of carbon fiber doors for a EK Civic and these actually came off of another all-wheel drive Civic that actually ran like a low Eight Second pass I I built the car had some fun with it ran a few passes and then you ended up parting out the whole Civic and these doors came up for sale on Marketplace and I drove down to Fort Myers to pick them up I've actually had them for a couple months now and I was waiting to do a video until we got the carbon fiber uh rear hatch so I could make an episode and be like fully carbon fibering out the hatch with the doors and the rear hatch and all the other components but this is what we have laying around they've been sitting in our parts room for a while and since we're trying to prep the hatch here to go fast in the stick shift class as fast as possible on its current setup she's been needing to go on a diet so Now's the Time to do it we're gonna go ahead and Slot these carbon fiber doors on the hatch I'm not sure just yet how much weight we'll save hopefully it's comparable to the MR2 when we did the carbon fiber doors on it because we saved almost 100 over 110 pounds on the overall weight of the car so I don't know if it's going to be as drastic as the MR2 because we got rid of the window regulators and the mr2's doors had electronic windows and stuff like that from Factory whereas the hatch has manual windows but I'm sure we'll still save at least a solid maybe 30 40 pounds door which will be pretty significant so we're going to go ahead and get the doors off the hatch since we don't have anything else to do today and uh get these carbon fiber ones thrown on there the NSX like I said in the last video is ready to go Rob Bolton the 240 are still loose that thing's still cooked and uh we're moving on so we just got this door panel off right here for those of you that may or may not know the hatch actually used to have a top of the line security system back in the day dude look at that install with six speaker wires dude I had a it had a Viper alarm system installed in this unit and someone came in here installed the little actuators so it had automatic locks and it actually used to have a key fob and I went through so much trouble to make the key fob work back when I first got this car I bought one on eBay for like 40 bucks got it all hooked up and I did get the electric locks working at one point and then I kind of gave up on that after a while so now it's time for all that stuff to go and get our new carbon fiber doors on there definitely needs cleaned up yeah I know a lot of you guys have always said repaint the hatch make it clean I'm telling you guys one day the hash is gonna be freaking sick I mean we're gonna have to take care of these doors because they are really nice these are beautiful not so piece by piece we're gonna clean up the hatch here she's getting more and more legit she's definitely been needing to go on a diet for some time now and that starts today all right guys so we got the passenger side door off real quick and before we tear it all apart I'm gonna go ahead and weigh this guy and see how much we will save compared to the carbon one afterwards so that guy is 65 ish pounds 65 pounds I think the MR2 stores were close to 70 pounds each so that's actually pretty close considering this is all uh manual everything tell you right now that is way lighter to be expected 17 pounds carbon Door 17 pounds with nothing in it so once we get everything swapped over see how much this guy weighs and see how much we're saving all right guys we got the first carbon door all together here we do have the mirror on there so that might be like an extra pound and we got some vice grips hanging off of there right now but I'm gonna go ahead and throw around there see how much lighter we got so the factory door was 65. and this one is right at 34. so 30 pounds 31 pounds and that's not bad considering the mirror was missing and then these are probably like you know these are probably not even gonna make a difference but oh we got one pound less so 32 pounds of difference it's a door that mirror is a good two pounds it's surprisingly heavy so not bad so that 35 pounds so so it'll be close to 60 to 70 pounds total weight savings between the two doors as long as the driver door is the same yeah and that's with full glass in it too like that's heavier than the freaking door is so we put lexan in it you know it's another probably eight to ten pounds nice not bad get the passenger door back on and then we can move on to the driver's side foreign look at that the hatch got her first major carbon fiber component she's finally going on a diet it's been much needed because the all-wheel drive system added quite a bit of weight to this thing so like I said we still want to try to get a back hatch so if anyone does have a back hatch or Nova one for an EK hit me up because that is another heavy piece that I would like to do to the car but yeah we just got our passenger side carbon fiber door on there check it out it looks so good nice and straight the door I had on there was pretty beat up and dented so that is looking sweet so shiny the regulator on this door has been broke for years so are you going down that okay like skipped a whole bunch of teeth he's basically just completely broke at this point but it uh doesn't catch at all and I've always had to just kind of lift the window up into place uh it was very annoying and it sounds like crap but we've been waiting for this moment because we got a new window regulator to go into the new carbon fiber door or the driver's side so we won't have that issue anymore but we're gonna go ahead and get this guy pulled off and uh get the driver's side door done and we'll be good to go so just for curiosity I put the Civic on the scales and right now we are sitting at 23.70 basically once we throw the other door on we're working on the driver's side door right now that's going to be another 30 pounds going on right there so then that will put the car at pretty much exactly 2400 without me in it and I'm just over 160 pounds so we'll be at about 25.60 with race weight and that is with a full tank of gas I just filled this thing up yesterday so she is topped off that's pretty good just over 2500 pounds ready to go and we still have the carbon hatch to do which will take a lot of weight off there's a lot of stuff up under the dash that you know at this point I'm not sure if I'm going to keep this stuff or not for the future we still have the heater core or the heater motor all that stuff the blower motor I mean there's a lot of stuff under the dash the support bars are in there so we could gut the dash out you know do a carbon Dash they make them for the eks as well lose probably a good 40 50 pounds between all that stuff I'm just not sure how race car I want to go with the hatchet because I kind of like that it's somewhat still a streetable car and it's not too race car out like the MR2 or anything like that also we could get a nicer race seat probably lose a good 15 pounds there because the seats are 33 pounds and then one other big chunk of weight on the car is the front weight plate so when this car was front wheel drive I put this weight plate on there to help get traction on the street it also helps on the track for a front-wheel drive car but I have been talking to some all-wheel drive guys um a lot of the guys that convert their Civics from front wheel drive to all-wheel drive go through the same process they all had weight plates on their cars because they were front-wheel drive and they set them up to drag races the front wheel drive but once you go all-wheel drive a lot of guys are taking the weight plate off and they actually see improvements without the weight plate and actually you know a drop in the weight because now that all four tires are spinning the weight plate isn't as necessary and that guy is a hundred pounds for right now we have to leave it on because it supports the radiator and the intercooler and all that stuff but in the future I think we are going to be ditching that weight plate I made a while back and uh save close to 100 pounds there as well so I mean if I can get the car to like 2500 pounds with me in it I'd be very happy and with all of the stuff that's still in it I think that is very doable also I'm curious who remembers the video when I first did the weight plate on the hatch that was so long ago I went to my old uh welding school and my teacher let me in and cut that out on the plasma table that was a pretty cool video back then but unfortunately I think the weight plate will be going as well but other than that guys the hatch is just about ready here once we get the driver's side door on and we'll be good to go so this is the stuff we got off the hatch here both doors the passenger seat because we're not going to need that might as well pull it out and the hitch this guy was 23 pounds that was 33 pounds and then we saved about 32 pounds from from each door as a grand total of 115 pounds lighter than it was during sick week when it went the 9-3 and the engine that's in the hatch right now is the one out of their Odyssey and this engine might be a little healthier than the other one this one's sleeved it doesn't have nearly as much run time on it so you know if the stars aligned there is a possibility the hatch could maybe run like a 890 or like you know maybe somewhere in that 9192 range but we'll see what it does all right boys the driver's side carbon fiber door is done and installed it came out freaking sweet I'm just missing a couple interior pieces on this side but we put the door cards back on there and right now we are just uploading the tune from Gainesville when we took it on sick week that was a 959 pass we don't want it on kill because when we ran it at Bradenton it was literally all the turbo had because the line of the wastegate wasn't even on there so we're only going to do that if we need to if we like get two eliminations and we know we're against a fast car and we gotta send it and you know unplug the wastegate and turn all the way up then we'll do that but we're going to turn it slightly back down to something that will hopefully save the turbo you know give it a little more life instead of just Full Tilt the whole time and I think now that we got the hatch all together we're going to go ahead and pull this thing out and give her a little test strip in the driveway we don't change it to the tree again no we don't we don't need to burn up those nice slicks on there that's the point so we'll do one burn out to knock the the dirt off all-wheel drive and I'll back it up again do it twice see how it does but you know we don't want to drive all the way out to Gainesville over two hours away and then have an issue so we might as well test it here in the driveway sounds like a good theory to me neighbors are fine so it's not too late yet they won't mind this one's not as loud as some of the other cars yeah they never said anything about the all-wheel drive burnout so they never said nothing about Suki they were good just the jet boat that one night they were a little upset yeah the jumbo was very loud all right I'm not much runway here but I think we'll be all right don't go through the fence down there you know Nathan dude this starts to go I think she's ready I think she's ready to rip dude it's like spins all four for a second and then it almost starts to really hook up and going first decent dude we need our own drag strip yes we do that private road to Mexico isn't long enough for us yep she's ready boys carbon fiber doors and all sick so we're just hoping for like consistent mid nines out there like I said there's a chance it could run even faster if we really cranked it up but that poor eBay turbo would be hanging on for deer life at full Boost every rip so you want to just try to make some consistent passes I think that's going to be the key to moving up in the class and hopefully we do good but we're going to be out of the FL 2K with the hatch here and stick shift which will be over the weekend I believe like Friday Saturday Sunday that's the days we'll be running the hatch but tomorrow we'll be out in the NSX doing the Roll Racing so we're gonna go ahead and get loaded up here and uh see you guys out at FL 2K be there or be square foreign guys we are all loaded up the NSX and hatch are both ready to go for fl2k if you guys want to come out and see the cars in person see him race be sure to come by we'll be there all weekend starting tomorrow or by the time you're watching this it might be today so it's currently Wednesday evening right now but yeah we got some Merchant stuff we'll have the booth and everything so come hang out with the boys and uh we'll see you guys there foreignhello what's up guys as I mentioned in the last video we are bringing the NSX here to fl2k to roll race and we thought after the roll race day that was going to be it we were going to be done just hanging out for the rest of the event but that is not the case we are going to be racing another car uh Mike Vargas hit me up he was going to bring an RX-7 out to compete in the stick shift class turns out he uh just couldn't get the car together to make it out so he offered to give me his stick shift class ticket and I thought what stick cars do we have really it comes down to the hatch here so we got the hatch pulled in and we are prepping this thing to go racing at fl2k we went ahead and got the street tires off of this thing we got the Slicks on there I actually had to give the other wheels that we had on the rear back uh to Jamie and the guys for the freedom Civic because those were the wheels off of the freedom Civic but I saw the tires so we just swapped the rear slicks onto these rotors back here and then we have the 13s on the front like we've always had and we're just going over the hatch here because we're going to be running it in the stick class so I think the Hat should do pretty well they have two sections of the stick shift class depending on where you qualify a lot of the fast guys are you know running like eight seconds and up and then the slower half is somewhere in the nines and slower so I think the hatch would actually do pretty good in that lower bracket of the stick shift class considering it went a 9-3 the last day of sick week at Bradenton I think if it's running somewhere just consistently in the mid nines that it should be pretty competitive so we're gonna go ahead and throw the hatch into the stick shift class for fl2k and uh see how she does so we got a few more things to do we're taking the trailer hitch off because we don't need that anymore we're ditching some weight I had mentioned in a video back that we were looking for a carbon fiber hatch but I didn't find that but I did find some other components and those guys are right here boys so if you look right here we have ourselves a pair of carbon fiber doors for a EK Civic and these actually came off of another all-wheel drive Civic that actually ran like a low Eight Second pass I I built the car had some fun with it ran a few passes and then you ended up parting out the whole Civic and these doors came up for sale on Marketplace and I drove down to Fort Myers to pick them up I've actually had them for a couple months now and I was waiting to do a video until we got the carbon fiber uh rear hatch so I could make an episode and be like fully carbon fibering out the hatch with the doors and the rear hatch and all the other components but this is what we have laying around they've been sitting in our parts room for a while and since we're trying to prep the hatch here to go fast in the stick shift class as fast as possible on its current setup she's been needing to go on a diet so Now's the Time to do it we're gonna go ahead and Slot these carbon fiber doors on the hatch I'm not sure just yet how much weight we'll save hopefully it's comparable to the MR2 when we did the carbon fiber doors on it because we saved almost 100 over 110 pounds on the overall weight of the car so I don't know if it's going to be as drastic as the MR2 because we got rid of the window regulators and the mr2's doors had electronic windows and stuff like that from Factory whereas the hatch has manual windows but I'm sure we'll still save at least a solid maybe 30 40 pounds door which will be pretty significant so we're going to go ahead and get the doors off the hatch since we don't have anything else to do today and uh get these carbon fiber ones thrown on there the NSX like I said in the last video is ready to go Rob Bolton the 240 are still loose that thing's still cooked and uh we're moving on so we just got this door panel off right here for those of you that may or may not know the hatch actually used to have a top of the line security system back in the day dude look at that install with six speaker wires dude I had a it had a Viper alarm system installed in this unit and someone came in here installed the little actuators so it had automatic locks and it actually used to have a key fob and I went through so much trouble to make the key fob work back when I first got this car I bought one on eBay for like 40 bucks got it all hooked up and I did get the electric locks working at one point and then I kind of gave up on that after a while so now it's time for all that stuff to go and get our new carbon fiber doors on there definitely needs cleaned up yeah I know a lot of you guys have always said repaint the hatch make it clean I'm telling you guys one day the hash is gonna be freaking sick I mean we're gonna have to take care of these doors because they are really nice these are beautiful not so piece by piece we're gonna clean up the hatch here she's getting more and more legit she's definitely been needing to go on a diet for some time now and that starts today all right guys so we got the passenger side door off real quick and before we tear it all apart I'm gonna go ahead and weigh this guy and see how much we will save compared to the carbon one afterwards so that guy is 65 ish pounds 65 pounds I think the MR2 stores were close to 70 pounds each so that's actually pretty close considering this is all uh manual everything tell you right now that is way lighter to be expected 17 pounds carbon Door 17 pounds with nothing in it so once we get everything swapped over see how much this guy weighs and see how much we're saving all right guys we got the first carbon door all together here we do have the mirror on there so that might be like an extra pound and we got some vice grips hanging off of there right now but I'm gonna go ahead and throw around there see how much lighter we got so the factory door was 65. and this one is right at 34. so 30 pounds 31 pounds and that's not bad considering the mirror was missing and then these are probably like you know these are probably not even gonna make a difference but oh we got one pound less so 32 pounds of difference it's a door that mirror is a good two pounds it's surprisingly heavy so not bad so that 35 pounds so so it'll be close to 60 to 70 pounds total weight savings between the two doors as long as the driver door is the same yeah and that's with full glass in it too like that's heavier than the freaking door is so we put lexan in it you know it's another probably eight to ten pounds nice not bad get the passenger door back on and then we can move on to the driver's side foreign look at that the hatch got her first major carbon fiber component she's finally going on a diet it's been much needed because the all-wheel drive system added quite a bit of weight to this thing so like I said we still want to try to get a back hatch so if anyone does have a back hatch or Nova one for an EK hit me up because that is another heavy piece that I would like to do to the car but yeah we just got our passenger side carbon fiber door on there check it out it looks so good nice and straight the door I had on there was pretty beat up and dented so that is looking sweet so shiny the regulator on this door has been broke for years so are you going down that okay like skipped a whole bunch of teeth he's basically just completely broke at this point but it uh doesn't catch at all and I've always had to just kind of lift the window up into place uh it was very annoying and it sounds like crap but we've been waiting for this moment because we got a new window regulator to go into the new carbon fiber door or the driver's side so we won't have that issue anymore but we're gonna go ahead and get this guy pulled off and uh get the driver's side door done and we'll be good to go so just for curiosity I put the Civic on the scales and right now we are sitting at 23.70 basically once we throw the other door on we're working on the driver's side door right now that's going to be another 30 pounds going on right there so then that will put the car at pretty much exactly 2400 without me in it and I'm just over 160 pounds so we'll be at about 25.60 with race weight and that is with a full tank of gas I just filled this thing up yesterday so she is topped off that's pretty good just over 2500 pounds ready to go and we still have the carbon hatch to do which will take a lot of weight off there's a lot of stuff up under the dash that you know at this point I'm not sure if I'm going to keep this stuff or not for the future we still have the heater core or the heater motor all that stuff the blower motor I mean there's a lot of stuff under the dash the support bars are in there so we could gut the dash out you know do a carbon Dash they make them for the eks as well lose probably a good 40 50 pounds between all that stuff I'm just not sure how race car I want to go with the hatchet because I kind of like that it's somewhat still a streetable car and it's not too race car out like the MR2 or anything like that also we could get a nicer race seat probably lose a good 15 pounds there because the seats are 33 pounds and then one other big chunk of weight on the car is the front weight plate so when this car was front wheel drive I put this weight plate on there to help get traction on the street it also helps on the track for a front-wheel drive car but I have been talking to some all-wheel drive guys um a lot of the guys that convert their Civics from front wheel drive to all-wheel drive go through the same process they all had weight plates on their cars because they were front-wheel drive and they set them up to drag races the front wheel drive but once you go all-wheel drive a lot of guys are taking the weight plate off and they actually see improvements without the weight plate and actually you know a drop in the weight because now that all four tires are spinning the weight plate isn't as necessary and that guy is a hundred pounds for right now we have to leave it on because it supports the radiator and the intercooler and all that stuff but in the future I think we are going to be ditching that weight plate I made a while back and uh save close to 100 pounds there as well so I mean if I can get the car to like 2500 pounds with me in it I'd be very happy and with all of the stuff that's still in it I think that is very doable also I'm curious who remembers the video when I first did the weight plate on the hatch that was so long ago I went to my old uh welding school and my teacher let me in and cut that out on the plasma table that was a pretty cool video back then but unfortunately I think the weight plate will be going as well but other than that guys the hatch is just about ready here once we get the driver's side door on and we'll be good to go so this is the stuff we got off the hatch here both doors the passenger seat because we're not going to need that might as well pull it out and the hitch this guy was 23 pounds that was 33 pounds and then we saved about 32 pounds from from each door as a grand total of 115 pounds lighter than it was during sick week when it went the 9-3 and the engine that's in the hatch right now is the one out of their Odyssey and this engine might be a little healthier than the other one this one's sleeved it doesn't have nearly as much run time on it so you know if the stars aligned there is a possibility the hatch could maybe run like a 890 or like you know maybe somewhere in that 9192 range but we'll see what it does all right boys the driver's side carbon fiber door is done and installed it came out freaking sweet I'm just missing a couple interior pieces on this side but we put the door cards back on there and right now we are just uploading the tune from Gainesville when we took it on sick week that was a 959 pass we don't want it on kill because when we ran it at Bradenton it was literally all the turbo had because the line of the wastegate wasn't even on there so we're only going to do that if we need to if we like get two eliminations and we know we're against a fast car and we gotta send it and you know unplug the wastegate and turn all the way up then we'll do that but we're going to turn it slightly back down to something that will hopefully save the turbo you know give it a little more life instead of just Full Tilt the whole time and I think now that we got the hatch all together we're going to go ahead and pull this thing out and give her a little test strip in the driveway we don't change it to the tree again no we don't we don't need to burn up those nice slicks on there that's the point so we'll do one burn out to knock the the dirt off all-wheel drive and I'll back it up again do it twice see how it does but you know we don't want to drive all the way out to Gainesville over two hours away and then have an issue so we might as well test it here in the driveway sounds like a good theory to me neighbors are fine so it's not too late yet they won't mind this one's not as loud as some of the other cars yeah they never said anything about the all-wheel drive burnout so they never said nothing about Suki they were good just the jet boat that one night they were a little upset yeah the jumbo was very loud all right I'm not much runway here but I think we'll be all right don't go through the fence down there you know Nathan dude this starts to go I think she's ready I think she's ready to rip dude it's like spins all four for a second and then it almost starts to really hook up and going first decent dude we need our own drag strip yes we do that private road to Mexico isn't long enough for us yep she's ready boys carbon fiber doors and all sick so we're just hoping for like consistent mid nines out there like I said there's a chance it could run even faster if we really cranked it up but that poor eBay turbo would be hanging on for deer life at full Boost every rip so you want to just try to make some consistent passes I think that's going to be the key to moving up in the class and hopefully we do good but we're going to be out of the FL 2K with the hatch here and stick shift which will be over the weekend I believe like Friday Saturday Sunday that's the days we'll be running the hatch but tomorrow we'll be out in the NSX doing the Roll Racing so we're gonna go ahead and get loaded up here and uh see you guys out at FL 2K be there or be square foreign guys we are all loaded up the NSX and hatch are both ready to go for fl2k if you guys want to come out and see the cars in person see him race be sure to come by we'll be there all weekend starting tomorrow or by the time you're watching this it might be today so it's currently Wednesday evening right now but yeah we got some Merchant stuff we'll have the booth and everything so come hang out with the boys and uh we'll see you guys there foreign\n"