This EG6 Honda Civic Is A Furious Little Hill Climb Beast

With a screaming K20A engine and mad bespoke bodywork, this Civic hill climb car is a treat for the eyes and ears

29 Mar 2018

With a giant diffuser, comedy-size vents and shelf-like side skirts, this is clearly no ordinary EG6-generation Honda Civic. The madness continues beneath the skin too: under the bonnet you’ll find a K20A engine (that’s the one from the DC5 Integra Type R), packing individual Jenvey throttle bodies.

It pushes out around 240bhp at 9000rpm, making this slick-shod, 780kg car extremely quick. We can see it here piloted by Belgian driver Fabrizio Casciaro at the Eschdorf Hillclimb last year.

Fancy checking out another diminutive but very fast hill climb machine? You might enjoy this Hayabusa-engined Toyota Starlet…

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

First looking at the picture I thought it was just another riced civic

How? Smh..

It’s clearly a racecar

Shingo is jealous

only 240bhp?

why all those vents though?
seriously

that pic :D

Only?

Only 240bhp? It’s not always all about the power. Sure, the car could have had more power, but that would result in a strenghened chassis, which would effect the weight of the car.

It’s very common, that race cars have their heaters and heat exchangers mounted in the rear. Also, you can see that nearly the whole front is covered up, therefore the vents in the rear.
The only vent in the front could be something like a ram air intake, I guess.

I personally think this thing looks and sound nuts, but tastes differ.