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alan healy, All Blog Posts, Category_Feature Cars, Category_Track Day Information, ek civic, feature cars, honda, type r - September 16, 2020

A Self Built Civic

Regulars to our track days will be familiar with the sight of Alan Healy's rapid silver ek Civic. If there was an award for most laps done at a track day I think Alan would be in with a chance of winning every time and the reason for that is that he's always testing out something new - a click on the dampers here, a few psi less in the tyres there, or whatever it may be. Although track days are non-competitive, you always have yourself to compete against and tweaking and adjusting your car to get the most out...

The McBennett Motorsport Supercharged K20 Elise

The McBennett Motorsport Supercharged K20 Elise If you're at a track day with Pat Mcbennett's bright yellow 1997 Lotus Elise, it's likely to be the fastest thing there that day, and that goes for virtually any day. What I love about this car is that like Alan Healy's B18 ek Civic that we featured last week, it conforms to that fashionable statement 'built not bought' But there's nothing fashionable about this car - yes it looks bloody awesome but that's because its 10 year development program just has it looking that way. It's pure function over form. It's designed to...

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