Don’t choke on someone else’s exhaust!

Make others eat your dust with 376 whp, 232 tq @ 8.5 psi

Demonstrated 510 whp @ 20 psi

It seemed like it was just last month when Julio cruised in his newly-boosted Honda Civic Si with the AJP turbo kit. In fact, it was last month.

Way back then he had a little over 400 whp. Now he has over 500 whp at 17psi.

Julio added a built motor to his car, known as the Standard Road Monster Package. After putting enough miles on the new motor, he came back to tune it for big power. And that’s exactly what he got when he took it out on a test drive.

The Standard Road Monster Package comes with pistons, rods, race bearings, valves and lots more. By building the motor, we can turn up the boost with the AEM Fuel/Ignition Controller. For now, we kept Julio conservative, but he could turn up the boost even more.

Normally accustomed to front wheel drive Hondas, AJP took on the tuning of a rear wheel drive 2004 Lexus IS 300 with a built motor and a Garrett GT35R turbo. Rishi, of Dangerous Toys Performance, built the motor and brought it in to have it tuned.

When the car rolled off the dyno, it didn’t take but a minute for Rishi to test out its power on the now deserted streets at 2:00 am. The customer was also thrilled when he took it for a spin.

Unfortunately, the police were not so thrilled.

Andre, from Norfolk, VA, is making up for lost time after being deployed by the US Navy.

In Part 1 of his video series, he gave us brute force power. In Part 2, he sits in the director’s chair and puts together a creative montage of shots from both inside and outside of his 2007 Civic Si Sedan.

It’s difficult to do a one-man production in which you are both behind and in front of the camera lens, but Andre worked it out very well.

When Julio left AJ Performance with 420 whp several weeks ago, fellow AJP Turbo owner Sean made a prediction to him in front of the entire AJP shop personnel: “You’ll be back in a few weeks.”

Sean was right.

Julio lasted only a few weeks before returning to build his motor to get at least 100 more whp, as well as more safety.

He got the Standard Road Monster package which includes pistons, rods, race bearings, valve springs and retainers and other goodies.

So he drove his car down a little over a week ago, and picked it up yesterday. He’ll break it in with at least 1,000 miles before tuning. Stay tuned for results and videos.

Now is the time to roar by Julio if you see his car, because he won’t be boosting.

During the time he had the car, he related how he would show up at a meet and offer to race the fastest car there.

No takers.

People who supposedly had the fastest cars turned away with their heads down as if they didn’t hear him. Even after he repeated his offer to race the fastest car.

One of the guys he had beaten had spread the word so they knew better than to race Julio.

It didn’t take but two days after setting the front-wheel drive record at the Redline Time Attack race for Honda of America Racing Team’s Bryan Johson to start tinkering with the AJP turbo kit boosting the team’s 2006 Honda Civic Si. Having run conservatively to make it through the race and breaking the old record for the by 7 seconds, he wanted to start improving the times for next year.

At race time, the HART car was getting 449 hp / 379 tq to the flywheel at 14 psi as measured on their Dynapack dyno. Bryan dialed it up to 17.5 psi and got 493 hp / 406 tq to the flywheel.

The car is known as the “1 Lap” car for its participation in the 2006 One Lap of America race, but with the planned modifications, Bryan reports that it will be much more difficult to run a race as long and as grueling as the One Lap Race.

GT Live - Redline Time Attack, October 5, 2008

Virginia International Raceway

In the final race of the 2008 season, the HART Time Attack Civic Si took home 1st place in the Unlimited Front-Wheel-Drive class, and an impressive 5th overall among all competitors!

The car ran flawlessly all weekend, thanks to the expert tuning of Doug Macmillan from Hondata. After some conservative runs on Friday and Saturday, driver and project leader Bryan Johnson turned up the boost on the AJP turbo kit for Sunday???s Time Attack session. The result was a best lap of 2:03.79, which shattered the FWD Time Attack record by 7 seconds!

At 14 psi, the HART Civic Si was making over 450 horsepower with the help of the free-flowing Corsa exhaust and AEM fuel supply components. All of that power made it to the ground through the Exedy twin-disc racing clutch and beefy Driveshaft Shop axles.

The HART tuned suspension pulled up to 1.5 lateral G in the corners thanks to the super-sticky Hoosier tires, Forgeline wheels, and Koni dampers. The APR rear wing and custom front splitter kept the car glued to the track in the high speed Esses at 140mph!

The Civic reached top speeds of 150mph on the straights, and when it was time to slow down, the Brembo GT front brakes, Hawk Performance DTC pads, and custom carbon-fiber brake ducts made with the help of Algie Composites provided fade-free stopping power.

The team is excited to continue to develop the Civic Si???s performance over the winter and contend for the 2009 Redline Time Attack Championship. Thanks again to all of our contributing sponsors!

When Bryan Johnson of Honda of America Racing Team (HART) asked Doug Macmillan of Hondata for advice on boosting his 2006 Honda Civic Si race car, he was told “AJ Performance”. Over the last two months, Bryan and his team installed and tested the AJ Performance turbo kit.

Their target race was the Redline Time Attack, a series of races throughout the race season which pits cars against the clock, fastest lap wins the race. Points are awarded and the one with the most points at the end of the season wins.

HART made it to the last race of the season, held at the Virginia International Raceway (VIR). What happened stunned the field.

Bryan relates:

“The car was a blast to drive, and I think we really showed the potential of the Civic Si. In its first ever Time Attack event, we shattered last year’s VIR FWD record by 7 seconds. I was hitting 150mph on both the front and back straight and entering the high speed Esses at 140!”

Mike Bonanni, in announcing the Redline Time Attack winners at VIR, wrote:

“Capping off the Unlimited classes was Bryan Johnson in the Honda of America Racing [Team] Honda Civic Si running un-opposed, but setting a new class record in Unlimited FWD with a blistering fast 2:03.789.”

Bryan thanked his sponsors:

“Special thanks to all of the companies that contributed to our Civic project:
AJ Performance, Hondata, Hoosier, Forgeline, Koni, Exedy, Hawk Performance, Brembo, Driveshaft Shop, Corsa, APR, Seibon, Algie Composites, and AEM.”

HART will now retire to their shop and start working on a number of enhancements for next year’s Redline Time Attack season, with the goal of unseating the 2008 Unlimited Class FWD winner Chris Rado of WORLD Racing who drives a Toyota Scion tC.

AJ Performance congratulates Bryan on his outstanding performance and wishes him the best of luck in the 2009 racing season.?? We expect to see him drenched in champagne at the end of the season.

Less than two days after driving home to Orlando, FL, Julio made good on his promise to exercise the “real power” under the hood of his 2007 Honda Civic Si by dispatching of an Evo X and BMW M3 by three to four car lengths.

On his last day at the shop, we asked Julio to share his experience with the kit and the installation, in which he doubled the wheel horsepower of his car.

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Bryan Johnson drove the Honda of America Racing Team’s 2006 Honda Civic SI to 5th place out of 11 entrants in the Unlimited Class of the Redline Time Attack at Virginia International Raceway. Two more cars entered Day 2 after missing Day 1, both rear-wheel drive, keeping HART the only entrant in the front-wheel drive subclass.

We spoke with Bryan and he thinks that he would have been able to beat the other front wheel drives, had they shown up. He has some ideas to speed things up and dominate the front-wheel drive class next year.

The car has the following:

• Sleeved block K24
• forged pistons and rods
• unported TSX head
• 06 TSX intake cam
• RSX-S exhaust cam

Click here for final results.

Not only did the car finish with a great time, but it avoided the fate of several cars which dropped out of the race through collisions, mechanical failures, electrical failures and other nasty issues.

Bryan chats with a race fan:

Wind Splitter

Rear diffuser