Anthony Go’s Honda Civic Dragster by JCT-Blanche Racing

This is what happens when you put together a bunch of gearheads, greasemonkeys, and car buffs, and have them work on a single project. When you have a combination of drag racing experience, mechanical expertise, automotive wisdom, and lots of Honda wizardry, the product is Anthony Go’s National Drag Racing Championship Pro Class winning Honda Civic.

Honda enthusiasts know that the formula for making a Honda go faster is by combining low weight with high horsepower. So to reduce weight, ERE Racing, Ednell Heshan, and Jonathan Young of Jonathan Racing built the car on a half-tube chassis custom-made specifically for drag racing.

For gobs of monstrous power, Jon Sarmiento of Blanche Racing went to work and brought Frankenstein to life to propel this lightweight car down the quarter mile. The monster engine is actually a Honda B20B Frankenstein engine. Frankenstein because it was built by putting together all the best parts from different Honda engines, such as the torquey but non-VTEC B20B block, and topped it with the magical horsepower-generating VTEC B18C5 to create this monster.

The secret to all that winning power is that this naturally-aspirated engine runs on pure methanol fuel – the sort of alchohol fuel that propels the likes of top fuel dragsters and other high-performance race car engines. With a car that weighs only 810 kilograms and equipped with and engine wielding 246 horsepower and 196 lb-ft of torque, and a driver that knows all the ins and outs of drag racing, you have a combination that’s as potent as King Arthur wielding Excalibur. Would you know of any other that’s as hard to beat as this?