S&M News & Site Updates

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08/28/03, by Scott: Well kids, odds are pretty good that this is going to be the last update to S&M for a while, but I promise I've got a good reason. Late last May, I got a job doing what I've always dreamed of doing: working for a car magazine. That's right, I am now gainfully employed by the coolest of all car magazines, Grassroots Motorsports!!! (the hypno-toad orders you to subscribe if you don't already...) The downside to this is that the job is very much full time, I'm traveling alot to cover events, working hard on as much of the magazine as they'll let me play with, and enjoying life down in beautiful, hot, sweaty Daytona Beach. (People wait their whole lives to move to Florida, I'm just getting a jump start.) So I won't be able to keep up with this site, which was really the result of being unemployed and wanting to create a webpage like GeeSeR's old page that I found to be such a useful resource back in the day. I hated it when he got a big job and stopped updating his site, but now I'm that guy, and frankly, I know exactly where he was coming from. I fully intend to keep the page alive as a resource to current and future DC2-R drivers and enthusiasts, and I promise to sneak HypeArrs into the pages of GRM whenever I can working from the inside as an agent of the red R. both mine and Matt's emails remain the same, and I'll still answer questions whenever I can. Lemme let the world know what's going on now, and who knows when the next update will be, but at least you'll be up to speed. Matt (or D, as he's know most places) is pretty much an engine jedi now, and his R is getting angrier the more he breaks stuff on it. Recently, he installed a programmable APEXi ECU, which rocks in about seventy-million more ways than a few. And he's building an old-school mini, with some serious B-series power...i'm sure that'll be on site at some point in the quasi-distant future. Myself, I'm waiting to install the Toda flywheel I won at the ITR expo a few months back, but I'll probably get a clutch first. I've been driving a pretty good collection of cars at my new job, and I'm proud to report that the more stuff I drive, the more I'm glad I have my Type R. It's a pretty good yardstick in the fun and fast categories. Thanks to everyone for your support of the site, we recently discovered that despite the impressive number on our counter, our actual sub-pages get a great deal more traffic than we thought, on the order of 100,000 hits per month(!) That's plain nuts, (the rear wiper removal page gets the most traffic usually), but it's also very cool. Thanks to Greg for keeping this site alive and for the generous space and bandwidth, and if you're ever at an event and see the GRM booth, look for the lanky guy...
04/15/03, by Scott: Expo 3 was absolutely amazing. Pix up, more to come when i've caught up on sleep.
04/02/03, by Scott: Found a way to make some nice photo thumbnail indexes! Check out Summit Point Hyperfest Pix, nearly 200 in all! Won't kill you dialupers!
04/01/03, by Scott: Added Big Honkin Ground Strap
04/01/03, by Scott: Added DC 4-2-1 Header
04/01/03, by Scott: Added Prelude Wheels
04/01/03, by Scott: Added Carbotech Front Brake Rotors
04/01/03, by Scott: Added Axxis Rear Brake Pads
04/01/03, by Scott: Added Coilovers
04/01/03, by Scott: Holy crap, an update! And this is not an April fools joke! (I was tempted to post that I'd sold the R for April Fools, but then I wouldn't update for another few months and people would start to believe me...) Both Matt and I are still alive, he's still in Florida finishing up his badass engineering thingy, and he'd better post up all the crap he just did to his car (cough TODA cough). But I'll let you pester him about that....I'm in the Northern VA area now, moved away from Pittsburgh around thanksgiving and have been enjoying my old stomping grounds since then. A number of changes to the R in the past several months, some little, some pretty big....and some of the biggest news of all the Integra Type R Expo #3 is just a week and a half away, should be a major event.....I'll have lots of pix and hopefully some video, and so will everyone else who goes. I'm gonna look into implementing a thumbnail system for any events i choose to take mad pix of, we'll see what happens there...I also participated in a Porsche Club of America AutoX down here in the DC area a couple weeks ago, and the R performed admirably! Okay, I'm writing this first, now it's time to start doing some updates...
07/11/02, by Scott: Added ATS FD
06/21/02, by Scott: Added ROAD TRIP!
05/28/02, by Scott: Added Carbon-Fiber Battery Tiedown and Glovebox Fix to Mods section, and added IoPort mount to Camera Mount.
05/27/02, by Scott: Caught up on some AutoX updates
05/02/02, by Scott: Added some sweet new Racing Videos!
04/23/02, by Scott: Well, the Autocross season has started here in Pittsburgh, and so far it's been very moist. The first event was nice and sunny, but cold, and the other two were just wet and cold and wet. But, that means tire wear is reduced....always a bright side! Now Andy can stop bugging me about updating my page, and I can continue bugging him to inspect his car (not that I really want my main competition in CSP back in force, but whatever).
04/23/02, by Scott: Added pages for the first 3 AutoX events of the 2002 season on the Racing page.
02/27/02, by Scott: Added VIR track day
02/09/02, by Scott: Added AEM rear brake pads , added ATE Super Blue to my Brake Fluids page, added a picture of the front jacking point (to help people find it) to Tools, and added a pic of a hose on the SpeedBleeder page.
02/08/02, by Scott: Finished the Sabelt 5-Point harnesss install
01/26/02, by Scott: Added the rest of the links to Autocross pics in the Racing page. I told you I'd get to it! Also added Falken Azenis to Tires, and pics of the Azenis mounted to Slipstreams. Added Porterfield R4S and Panther Plus to my brake mods. Changed the intro pic if you hadn't noticed, now that we've got some good race shots.
01/16/02, by Scott: The rollbar is installed! And my Sabelt 5-point harnesses just arrived....I'm a happy camper. Hopefully i can get these belts in soon, along with the seat....exciting stuff.
01/16/02, by Scott: Completed Rollbar and started Sabelt 5-Point Harness page.
01/11/02, by Scott: Added a missing pic of centering rings to the Volk TE-37 Page, same pic to Slipstream page.
01/10/02, by Scott: Happy new year! Hope everyone had a merry gift giving and recieving season, here's hoping santa brought you some tasty car parts along with your socks. Santa's been good to me, as the slew of mods going up here in the next few weeks indicates. This coming sunday is the second NHSCC event at Speeds indoor go-karting emporium, so i'm looking forward to that...my rollbar is here and will be going in soon...and in late Febuary i'll be joining a slew of fellow Honda-Tech members at a two day Speedtrial event held at the gorgeous Virginia International Raceway...I'm really excited about meeting alot of people I feel I already know, and getting some serious track time with instruction for a great deal...more on that when I've got the pics to entertain Matt, who loves reading SOOO much as you all know. Matt was in town for winter break, which was very cool...his car is now sporting a JDM final drive, toda clutch and flywheel...it's uber-sweet. He's also riding on Falken Azenis, which i have on order as a track tire. Was nice to have the Rs back together again...he's gonna be learning some sweet stuff this comign semester, like welding, CNC machining, etc...that fool better make me some brake ducts, or i'm 'a be hella mad. We went skiing while he was home, he had an impressive air to inverted head landing on his board...we'll see if he can survive another semester after ringin' his bell. Here's hoping 2002 is filled with safe, fast fun for you & yours...this snow is keeping me indoors, hence the burst of coding. Thus ends 7 hours of HTML and photochop goodness....brain melting...3:20 AM, g'nite, kittlings.
01/10/02, by Scott Changed the buttons at left, made them smaller to limit the appearance of the damn scroll bar. Changed the look of the Racing page, and added a few more days there (still plodding through too many pics). Added Drag Racing, Rota Slipstreams, Autopower Rollbar, weight. Added pics from go karting at Speeds. I think that's all.
11/08/01, by Scott: Well, an even longer delay this time, i've been busy and my HTML coding comes in bursts....racing season has ended, as of last weekend. Had some more fun at Nelson Ledges, I'll put those pics up soon...(heh, suuuure Scott...no really, i will). I picked up a sweet set of steelies from a fellow Honda-Tech member, the R is back in black...and last but not least I just finished installing a Sparco Evo seat, which is the bee's knees. I still have autocross pics from long ago, those will come up eventually this winter...I got a little burned out from doing so many this summer, next year there will be more moderation i think. Matt is still kickin it race engine style in Florida, he put some goodies in his car recently that he'll be delighted to tell you about in great detail i'm sure. Thanks to those of you who yell at me for not updating the site, nice to know someone is lookin at it...i'll try not to be so lazy this winter (well, it's mods season, so there should be good content...although most of you are probably looking for pictures of yourselves racing....)
11/08/01, By Scott Added Steel Wheels and Sparco Evo Seat Install. Updated Tires and Kyokugen Lug Nuts.
09/25/01, by Scott: Been a month since the last update, our site has been down (oddly, in part as a result of the WTC attacks, which disrupted the power that our server's backbone runs on or something....hope you & yours are okay, i'm from the DC area but thankfully no one I know personally was in the pentagon on the day of the attack. I read a wonderfully written piece that dealt with the then impending new millenium, the author talked about how from many perspectives, the world has ended before, from the fall of Pompeii to the atomic attacks on Japan, and in every case, the world ended from someone's point of view; but the rest of the planet has no choice but to just keep going. Some things will undoubtedly change, but for those of us still here, many things will, and should, remain the same. On that note, Matt is becoming a Jedi in the art of race engines and automotive performance, his classes are for the most part kick ass. He and his program-mates are taking apart Jeff Gordon's Hendricks motor from last year to see how it ticks, and he's doing like math and stuff. Also, he's officially an O-town resident now that he's got some basically opaque tint on his now phat R, maybe we can get him to roll on some bling bling 20s. Pittsburgh is cold for the first time in a while today, I've been doing alot of HTML for work and so updating the site is going to be a little less frequent...i have many pics from autocrosses in the past month, they will make their way up on the site eventually. To sum up, I finally beat the little yellow hoosier-shod CRXs that always kick my ass, first at north hills by a pretty significant margin, and then again at the airport this past saturday I beat Andy's red CRX by 4/1000ths of a second (got waxed on sunday tho). Kumhos are getting pretty worn, thinking about doing another track day to kill them off but not sure yet if that's going to happen. Finally, there's a go-karting event this coming sunday at the Caddy Shak in Donnegal, i'll try to snap some pics there. It's good to be back online, hopefully it'll be less than a month before the next update!
09/25/01, By Scott Added two things that are on both our cars to the mods section, Rear Wiper Removal and Gauge Glare Shield
08/25/01, by Scott: Well, S&M Racing is now a fully National Operation, with branches in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Orlando, Florida. Matt had a safe trip down to O-town with a fully loaded Type R, thanks to the North Carolina contingent of Honda-Tech.com for giving him a place to crash Sunday night. He's still in the process of getting connected and set up down there, but we all know how much he loves writing anyway, so I'll be doing the majority of the updates for a while. I've been out of town for a week as well, and that combined with laziness means the site went about a month without updates. I'm working to catch up on the Racing page, and we've got a few more mods to add that should appear sometime this week. Changed oil and bled brakes this morning, time for some delicious Wendy's hamburgers. See you tomorrow at the Allegheny County Airport for the Steel Cities!
08/25/01 Added three more races to the Solo II & Track page, from Late July and early August.
07/31/01 Updated Matt's cruise control page
07/29/01, by Matt(D): finally downloaded scott's updates. I hate fucking writing.
07/28/01 Added four new video clips from Nelson Ledges to Racing Videos page
07/27/01, by Scott: At the request of several repeat viewers, I have changed this page to become a "What's New" for the site, hopefully making it easier for repeat viewers to find the new information on our constantly evolving site. We often make additions to existing pages, which are more difficult to find than the entirely new pages. Furthermore, I'd like to make this page a place where pertinent news about our lives can be found. To that end, a pretty major piece of info: Matt will be leaving Pittsburgh in mid-August to attend the University of Central Florida, where he'll be getting what basically amounts to a Masters Degree in Race Engines. I'm gonna miss the guy, but the page will live on, hopefully he'll give us updates from down south about what kind of goodies he's working on. I'll let him elaborate on this, since we all know how much he loves to write. In the meantime, I'll be continuing my life here in Pittsburgh, racing and flying the S&M banner. Speaking of which, we need to get some little decals cut for our cars...
07/27/01 Changed the About S&M Racing page to include information and updates about the site, making it (hopefully) easier for repeat viewers to find the new goodies.
07/27/01 Updated Scott's Magnetic Decals page.
07/26/01 Updates to Scott's Dyno page, Scott's Cruise page.
07/26/01 Added Scott's RS Door Bezels page.
07/25/01, by Scott: Matt and I went with some of our North Hills Sports Car Club amigos to the WildWood Highlands Go-Kart park, where we all enjoyed a couple of hours of Honda-Lawnmower-Engine fun. The course was a 6 turn bucket of thrills, and there was actually some decent racing and jockeying for position...bumping may not be allowed, but rubbin's racing, son. This may be a monthly thing, I'll try to grab some pics at the next event.

About S&M Racing
In the summer of 1999, Scott, a GS-R driver, saw a white Integra Type R pull up next to his GS-R in the paddock at a Pittsburgh autocross. Scott immediately started drooling. The owner of the ITR, Matt, was very patient with all the fawning and car questions, and Scott did what he could to get Matt set up for the AutoX. Scott and Matt became friends, and after a number of races together, they found that their AutoX times were often very close, sometimes within thousandths of a second. Scott's modified GS-R sedan and Matt's near-stock ITR each had their strenghts, and soon they were trading keys for fun-runs to learn the strenghts of the different setups (This was deciedly to Scott's advantage.) While the times were close, the racing was always in good fun, and competetion wasn't the point. In January of 2001, Scott decided that it was time to make a major modification to his GS-R...it was time to sell it and upgrade to a black 2001 Type R. Naturally, Matt agreed this was the only logical step to take.
The Type R may not be the greatest car on the planet, but you'll be hard pressed to find a more competent FWD stock car for anywhere near the money. From the more rigid chassis and perfectly matched suspension components to the screaming 195 bhp hand-built B18C5 engine, everything about the car is designed to help the driver push the envelope with confidence. At 108.33 normally-aspirated horsepower per liter, the engine has a higher specific output than the legendary Ferrari F355 (only the ITR's sister, the Honda S2000, has more.) Countless automotive publications have declared the Type R the best front-wheel drive performer ever built; Scott and Matt tend to agree. This goal of this page is to chronicle the evolution, triumphs, and inevitable setbacks we face as enthusiasts and racers. Over time, it will become a resource for other Type R owners.
We hope you enjoy the site!
Scott & Matt

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