Honda FF Battle 2009

As passionate and devoted followers to the Honda family, it has always been a dream of ours (and many others) to see an event that could bring together the very cars that we've become synonymous for featuring, along with those we've seen become famous because of the Internet, and put them to the test. Catalog cars, as we commonly refer them to, because that's what most of these cars are built from - the best parts, the rarest parts, all hand picked from catalogs that make you dream until your brain goes numb and your VTEC goes 'wah-WAHHHH!' Who hasn't dropped a ton of cash collecting rare JDM parts on Yahoo Japan or had an engine built to the max by a US tuner, only to do nothing more than park the car at home or bring them out for the occasional car meet, just so you can get those Interweb props? You mean you built that crazy-ass (insert your chassis code here) and don't even want to track it? "Ahh jeez", you don't want rock chips? Please. That's why we designed the FF Honda Battle, so you can put those projects to work and see glorious results.

Our concept for this challenge was quite simple. We wanted the best street-built/driven cars, the ones found on the daily in basically every Honda-Tech and NWP build thread. Cars you are more likely to not find in the Unlimited class for Super Lap Battle, mostly because a) this isn't Super Lap and b) it's not a true time attack by definition. What we were desperately seeking were cars that are good all-around performers that can still be legally driven from point-A to point-B without a trailer. Whether they meet the strict smog laws of California is debatable, but so long as the DMV can issue registration papers to the car, they're good. Knowing this, we had to think about what kind of Hondas would be best suited for our first go at an all-exclusive Honda event. With so many great platforms to choose from, we decided it'd be best to not go with a particular chassis, but instead go with two popular engines, mainly because the desirable cars (EF/EG/EJ/EK/FD Civics and DC2 Integras) tend to have these engines swapped (and in some cases come stock) into them anyway. Thus the decision to dub our first Honda battle: B versus K.