The car King showed at SEMA featured everything from an "Aero Bumper" and "Under Tray" to a side skirt set, carbon fiber hood, carbon fiber rear wing, 17x8-inch MF10 wheels, double adjustable strut and spring set, 26mm rear sway bar, a brake line kit, front and rear tower bars, a "Twin-Loop" silencer, S-1 seats and, most critically of all, a limited-slip differential. All these parts are from Mugen and available through King Motorsports. Just send them a check and tell them to send you one of everything. Unless you own two RSXs.
King is also working on a full R-Spec version of the RSX engine that's been bumped up to 2.4 liters (which is, no shock, the size of the Honda CR-V's powerplant from the same engine family).
Info on King's activities are available on its Web site, www.kingmotorsports.com.
Rumors & Lies
* GM has decided to petition the U.S. government to make daytime running lights mandatory on all new cars. Bad GM, bad.
* Rumor is someone is building a Toyota-bodied Funny Car for NHRA competition. However, no one at the NHRA knows of (or will admit) such a car is under consideration.
* Honda is looking at bringing in the "real" Civic Type R by 2003.
* HKS has announced it will enter a Mercedes-Benz CLK in the JGTC Series for the 2002 season.
* HKS also announced its new drag racing Supra debuted in October at Sendai Highland Japan Drag Raceway for the All-Japan 0-400m Championship. Best e.t. with Tetsuya Kawasaki aboard was 7.277 seconds at 302 km/h (188 mph). HKS is considering running the vehicle here in the United States in 2002.
* According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, the two most stolen cars in the United States during 2000 were the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord. Those also happen to be the best-selling cars in America.
* On November 29, Roymond Scott Shelly of San Clemente, Calif. and Jose Valverde of Dana Point, Calif. were killed during an alleged street race in Orange County, Calif. Shelly and Valverde were in a minivan struck by a racing Mustang which flipped and burst into flames. Neither were able to escape the inferno. Erin Gormley, 18, was allegedly the driver of the Mustang that hit the van and has been charged with vehicular manslaughter according to a report in "The Orange County Register." The Mustang against which he was allegedly racing is still being sought.
Turbo Lancer
Considering rally racer Rhys Millen is Rod Millen's son and Steve Millen's nephew, the fact he's getting into the parts business would shock only the profoundly stupid and/or utterly ignorant. That these parts are for Mitsubishis, which he races, shouldn't be too surprising either.
The Rhys Millen Racing (RMR) 2002 Lancer has an intercooled turbo system (with HKS EVC-4 and AFR controllers) lashed to its engine and dang near a whole catalog of parts to the rest of the car. That includes RMR's front lip spoiler, four-piece wing, lowering springs, front strut tower bar, roll hoop, Ralliart shocks, OZ 17x7-inch wheels, Yokohama P205/45R-17 Paradas and an interior buried under Sparco stuff, including front seats, steering wheel, shift knob and rear seat upholstery.
While information about RMR parts is available on its Web site at www.rmrproducts.com, the company will not be selling them at retail. Instead, all RMR's pieces are now available as dealer-installed options through Mitsubishi dealers. That is everything except the turbo kit, which RMR says is "under development."
By Hans G. Lehmann/ Hidden Image
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