Team Ultraspeed is a large well respected car club, started in 1997, that is based out of Virginia Beach, Virginia. This month we are featuring three cars whose owners are all members of Ultraspeed.

First up is Ryan Kemmin’s 2005 Subaru WRX STI. At the heart of this vehicle is a 2008 STI short block with forged pistons, blouch dom 3 turbo with a 10 cm hot side, perrin big maf, 850 cc injectors, walbaro fuel pump, custco catch can, turbo xs fmic, hks bov, hks downpipe, jic spartan 2 ti exuast, open ecu tune, act stage 2 cluch, gruppe-s flyweel, and an AEM wide band

Underneath the car lies Tien flex coilovers with EDFC, and it is rolling on 17×8″ Work Emotion CR Kai wheels. Bringing Ryan’s car to a stop is accomplished with the help of front and rear dba 4000 rotors and hawk pads. The outside of the car  has also received some attention in the form of a gloss black /satan black 2 tone paint job, 35% tint all around, 50% tint windshield, apr carbon fiber rear diffuser, sti limited lip, spec-c roof vent, jdm rain guards, tinted tails, and perrin wing stiffies.

The interior of Ryan’s car has some minor modification also, including a
kenwood dnx 5150 head unit, sued headliner, defi carbon hood pod and boost/egt/oil pressure gauges.

Next up is Kirill Yuzhbabenko’s Lexus IS300. Starting at the ground, Kirill’s car is sitting on 18×8.5″F/18×9.5″R Work CR Kai wheels and is utilizing HKS Hypermax coilovers in place of the factory units. completing the subtle yet aggressive look of this car is an Amuse replica urethane front lip, Genuine UGO side skirts, JDM dark chrome housing fog lights, Lexus SportDesign grill, Lexus SportDesign headlights, and Painted tail lights.

The factory 2JZ-GE powering Kirill’s IS300 has been upgraded as well. The modifications underneath the hood include a Rod Millen Motorsports intake, Brian Crower cams, and a HKS exhaust cam gear. Increasing the air flow out of the engine is a Megan racing header, Y-pipe, Kakimoto B-pipe, and a Buddy club Spec II axle back exhaust.

Last up is Justin Frank’s 2008 Mitsubishi EVO X. Justin’s car has been built from head to toe and is a great example of a modest looking car that is sporting a lot of power under the hood. Boosting the power in it’s factory 4B11T is a Grimmspeed Ported, Polished and Coated Forced Performance turbo, Grimmspeed Ported, Polished and Coated Stock Exhaust Manifold, Grimmspeed Ported, Polished and Coated Stock Intake Manifold, Grimmspeed Ported, Polished and Coated Stock Throttle Body, Grimmspeed 3 Port Boost Control Solenoid, All Aspects MotorSports Custom downpipe with External Wastegate Setup, Atmospheric Dumped, All Aspects MotorSports EVO 9 Master cylinder Conversion, All Aspects Custom Single Exit Catback Exhaust, AMS Front Mount Intercooler, AMS Lower Inter Cooler Piping, Tial Alpha Q BOV, Tial 38mm Wastegate, Motul Catch Can, AEM Water/Meth Injection System, AMS Intake, 93/100oct mix Sunoco Fuels, ECU Flash/EVO Scan (440whp), Walrbo 255 Fuel Pump, AMS High Flow Rail, and Bosch 950cc Injectors.

Putting the power to the ground is a ACT 6 Puck clutch and Eniki RPF1 18×10.5″ wheels with a +15mm offset. In exchange for the factory and struts and springs, Justin has opted for D2 coilovers and further upgraded the suspension with a AMS Front Pitch Mount Bushing. The interior of Justin’s car is accented with a Defi Boost gauge with playback feature and an Aem Wide Band A/F Gauge.

Justin kept the outside apprearance simple with the Factory Aero Kit, Wing Delete, 6k HID Headlights, and 3K HID Foglights.
I want to thank Ryan, Kirill, and Justin for letting us feature their cars and coming out to the shoot. I also want to thank Jared Houston with jaredhouston.com for coming out and shooting the cars for us. I look forward to working them in the future.

Picked these gems up tonight from Dale over at Beach City Customs. Cant wait to get this season underway!!

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I finally got all of my parts in the mail, got moved in, and stopped rolling people’s fenders on my time off.

A good friend of mine who is much more familiar with these motors is helping me out quite a bit with this – and I definitely couldn’t have done this with out him.

I loaded up my accord with all of the motor parts and the engine stand (I should have taken a picture, it was nearly tucking tire out back, haha) and headed over to my friends garage so it would be easier for him to work on it.

I am replacing the main and rod bearings (clevite), the main and rod bolts (with ARP janks), putting a Lutani 224/224 cam in, dual valve springs, hot trick hardened push rods, stock valves rockers and lifters, LS6 valley cover with LS6 intake manifold, 5.3L 703 heads, and an LS4 oil pump (plus basic gaskets and what not).  I am going to install the valley cover at my place after we get the motor together w/ the heads on and what not.

I laid everything out so I could get a picture of it all before it got put together, by the time I did that he had removed most of the crap on the motor – I couldn’t believe how fast he is, it took maybe 5-10 mins for him to tear the motor down and take the old bearings out.  The old bearings and the whole interior of the motor was in very good condition, my friend kept commenting on how good it all looked.  I attempted to take a photo of how good the cylinder walls looked (it took 6 shots and a flashlight to get it!).  Enjoy the photos below – we had to stop because he needed to borrow a cam bearing removal tool and I have to pick some new cam bearings up!  Luckily I should be able to get that taken care of tomorrow, so I will HOPEFULLY have another update tomorrow.

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Replaced the cam bearings, installed the cam, cleaned the heads and block, installed valve springs/retainers, reinstalled the lifters, LS4 oil pump, and timing chain.  It took a few days after work to accomplish this, hopefully it’ll be all together after this weekend.

I took a few pictures to show the difference between the stock valve springs and new ones, they’re MUCH beefier and even taller.  I also took some pictures to show the difference between the LS2 chain and LS1 one.  I scraped the heads and block down then did the rest by hand with scotch bright.  You can see how bad the block was in the picture of the cam being installed.  I can’t wait to get this thing running!

Sleeper

Definition: a car that has high performance and an unassuming exterior.

Sleeper cars have been around since the 50’s, from stock looking economy cars with large powerful engines coming straight off of the show room floor to nowadays people swapping performance engines into everyday run of the mill Honda Civics. Chad Whitmore’s 2007 Honda S2000 perfectly fits the “sleeper” title and is truly a wolf in sheep’s clothing. 

From the outside, Chad’s car looks like a mildly modified stock S2000 with nothing more then a OEM hardtop, front lip, and coilovers.  The suspension has been upgraded with Buddy Club Race Spec Coilovers and a Digrappa XBrace. Between the factory OEM wheels and the wheel hubs lie Project Kics Wheel Spacers (15mm Front / 20mm Rear). While the exterior and suspension have been tweaked, the real work that has been put into this car lies under the hood. No more than two weeks after Chad purchased this car towards the end of 2009, it was on it’s way from its new home in Virginia Beach to have a turbo kit installed by Inline Pro out of Springfield, Virginia.

Chad’s F22C1 has been built from top to bottom courtesy of Allenbuilt and includes a Micropolished crankshaft, CP Pistons, Inline Pro Rods, AEBS Sleeves, and is running 9:1 Compression. The Inline Pro Turbo Kit that Chad’s car is running is complete with a Precision 58/65 Turbo, Inline Pro Return Fuel System Kit (1st ever done, donor car for kit), Inline Pro Fuel Rail, custom fittings, 2 diff A/N fittings, Fuel Lab fuel pressure regulator, 255cc Fuel pump, braided fuel line for the return, Inline Pro 675cc injectors, and is tuned using Hondata FlashPro system (1st in hands of public, installed & tuned 2 weeks before release date). To top off the kit is the super high flowing extremely obnoxious OEM exhaust.  Helping to get the nearly 450 horsepower to the ground is a Competition 1620 Series Clutch Setup. The only modification that has been done to the interior of Chad’s S2000 is a Ricks Pistol Grip shift knob.

Chad’s car is a perfect example of a sleeper with its stock outer appearance and high horsepower engine. I want to thank him for letting us feature his car this month and look forward to working with him in the future. Also a huge thank you to Natchez Richburg with ProjektPhoto.com for the photos.

Thank you to Speedhunters for putting our article and thanks to everyone that has always and continues to support us! Check out the article below!

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This evening Sumospeed.com photographer Ricky and I went out to Norfolk to shoot Brent Bauer’s Acura Integra for this month’s feature. It was wet and cold but was still a great experience between discussions of plans for the car in the future and a random passerby commenting that it looked like a “Fast and the Furious” car. Quite the contrary, what you see is a  subtle and very well executed exterior sporting a JDM Integra type R front end accented by a VIS carbon fiber front lip and a USDM Integra type R spoiler

Brent has owned this car for nearly seven years and has built it from the mild mannered stock GSR it started it’s life as to the time attacking, magazine featured, show winning, K20 powered machine that it is today. This Integra’s suspension is where we will begin. Brent has replaced nearly all of the stock components with upgrades including Tien SS coilovers, Energy suspension bushings all around, a Skunk2 camber kit, and lower control arms from Function 7. Keeping this thing nice and tight through the corners are a Cusco safety21 cage, JDM Integra typeR and Carbing anti-roll bars with Function 7 anti-roll bar links, as well as a Next Miracle X brace.

The car is rolling on 16×7 Volk CE28N’s wrapped in Falken Azenis. Tucked behind the wheels are Power slot rotors, Spoon 4-pot calipers equipped with Hawk HPS brake pads, and Earl’s stainless steel braided brake lines complete with ACE brake fluid flowing through them.

Within the dark exterior of this vehicle resides a  “light show” as Brent put it, in reference to the Alpine 9856 head unit,  AP1 s2000 gauge cluster and multiple Defi gauges that illuminate as they sweep with a turn of the key. Aiding Brent in piloting this car are a Spoon sports steering wheel, JDM Integra type R DC5 shift knob, and Mugen pedals mounted above USDM Integra type R floor mats. The interior is topped off by Bride Zeta III seats and Takata harnesses.

The heart of this car is really where the magic happens. As mentioned earlier, this car has had a K20A2 installed, replacing the original B18 powerplant. The new engine has had many upgrades including Wiseco 12.5 pistons, IB Spec rods, BC stage 3 cams, TWM individual throttle bodies, 650cc injectors, Knife edge crank, Hasport engine mounts, Brian Crower valves, Brian Crower valve springs, Brian Crower retainers, Brian Crower keepers, Rcrew header, Kteller exhaust piping, Magnaflow muffler, Cometic head gasket, ARP head studs, GReddy oil filter adapter, Koyo radiator, Samco Sport radiator hoses, Walbro 255lph fuel pump, Golden Eagle fuel rail, Russell Performance fittings and lines, Aeromotive fuel filter, AEM fuel pressure regulator, Marshall fuel pressure gauge, Competition Clutch clutch, Competition Clutch flywheel, Driveshaft Shop axles, Custom carbon-fiber oil catch can, Hondata K-Pro ECU, and an Intrga type R transmission.

It was a pleasure going out and shooting Brent’s car and learning a bit about it. Thank you to Brent for letting us do this!

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Here is a photo gallery featuring shots from this past weekend’s Driftwater event. I really wish i could have made it out to this but thanks to Faiz Rahman with Fizzy Status media those of us that didn’t make it out have plenty of coverage. Thanks for the shots Faiz