The 26th of February 2005 saw the CRX-UK owners club head down to Millway in Andover for a rolling road meet. For those that don't know, a rolling road is like a tread mill for a car only the car is working the tread mill and not the other way around. The rollers are used to measure the power and torque developed by the engine and estimate the loss incurred through the transmission. We had a very positive turn out with around 15 cars at Millway, of which I think 12 were CRXs (no Del Slo's either!). All of the runners were VTEC Mk2 cars apart from my 16v, and I think everyone had a pleasing result all with at least the original quota of ponies. At least that means I had the best 16v result of the day! I made 137hp at the fly wheel and 112 at the wheels, which is spot on for a standard-ish engine.
The one exception to the fairly standard selection of CRXs was Marks SiR turbo. This car is something of a legend; currently producing around 300hp at the wheels, the engine has been designed with figures in the region of 500+ horse power! All of this, from a 1.6 litre twin cam VTEC engine. Madness.
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One of the CRX owners that was there, Andy (aka CH1EF), took a selection of excellent pictures which he has kindly allowed me to use here.