TUNER SPECIALS

Race Concepts is one of India’s leading tuning houses having made their name with turbo-charged City VTECs both for the road and race tracks. Here are five of their top builds, from a tuned 1.6-litre Zen to a resto-mod BMW E36 and of course with the obligatory City VTEC

- JOEL JOSEPH

Honda City VTEC Naturally aspirated street build

BUILDS LIKE THIS NATURALLY aspirated Honda City VTEC define our heart and soul here at Race Concepts. The objective was simple — maximise the potential of the SOHC VTEC engine, while keeping the car reliable and requiring low maintenance. Having built Honda Citys whose power output varies from 150bhp+ to a slightly crazy 600bhp+ in our turbo-dragster, we have covered it all with this engine. Also our ITC racing program running since 2011 has resulted in the baddest and maddest R&D of our naturally-aspirated B15C2 builds (in 2019 we switched to the turbo engine, till then it was the nat-asp motor).

Strut brace to aid in torsional rigidity and improve the handling.

This car started life as a bone-stock factory VTEC with the owner wanting Stage 2 updates initially. Being a great fan of our ITC NA car, he was always fascinated by the revs and the purity of the VTEC engine. He then commissioned a full-blown NA build and to deliver on his needs we had to make it fast, yet keeping it within street reliability limits. The engine was uprated to our custom competition-spec internals with the cylinder head getting our signature motorsport development. Our custom ground camshaft with a special VTEC profile was fitted into the engine, along with uprated valve train components. A full close ratio gearbox with driveline updates and brake upgrade with rear disc and braided lines completed the rest of the package.

Race Dynamics ECU to handle the fuelling.

Car looks virtually stock from outside save for the bigger wheels and tyres