Beat a D15B with a PH15?
Boy oh boy...
How much money does your bro have? And how much slower is his car than the other?
A lot of non-turbo tuning is in the proper matching of intake and exhaust components... having the right intake, header and exhaust goes a long way to making the most out of your puny PH15. A good set of well-designed headers for the D15 will do wonders... there are shops locally that can do copies of some of the better racing headers for the 1.5 - 1.6 mills, like the Bisimoto... a mandrel bent imitation, though, will cost the better part of 15k pesos.
A full mandrel bent exhaust... another 12k... buy a good muffler. A cheap one will just lose you power, and a "scav" set-up will kill your midrange power. It'll give you more top-end, but you need mid-range power for your launch.
Don't go cheap on the intake. A long intake tube with a K&N head fits your purposes well.
After that, if he can't beat the other car, it'll get crazy.
Remove all excess weight. Remove the carpet and chip away all excess sound deadening. Unbolt the passenger and rear seats, as well. Strip all non-essentials, including the AC. Switch to smaller wheels... you can get some Yokohama sports tires in 14", y'know...
Beyond that...
To comprehensively overpower a modified D15B with full IHE, he'll need good headworks, a high performance cam, maybe a high compression build... convert the engine to EFI (if it isn't) and retune the thing with a Hondata system... get it to rev to about 9000k...
Heck, do the last part alone, along with IHE, and you have a fighting chance. It'll be an obvious change, but he wants to win, right?
Of course, the one way to win, for sure....
No cost at all. Just need a saw and lots of time. 2 seconds off the quarter-mile time and two and a half seconds faster to 100 km/h...![]()







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