Tsukuba Machine Check! The Fastest NA Car at Tsukuba - ASLAN EG6 CIVIC

In the realm of Japanese time attack, you'd be hard pressed to find more exciting competition than that which the NA Class provides. The margin for error is almost non-existent and the drivers push their builds beyond what most people think they are capable of; it's truly one of the most competitive racing classes in motorsport. When I think of talented drivers in this arena, it's usually Ton that is first to come to my mind.
Ryusen 'Ton' Itou, with the support of Aslan's Yoshitaka Tani, has made a name for himself as the fastest NA car overall at Tsukuba, and the frontrunner in the sub-class of FF NA. Ryusen currently holds the NA record at Central Circuit (1’16.2), and has in the past held the FF NA Record at Tsukuba (2018-2019), and now in 2024 holds the overall NA Tsukuba record with a 54.931 - marking the first time a FF car has gone faster than 55 seconds.
We’ve been following Ton from as far back as 2016, and admittedly have seen him more often at his home track of Central rather than that of Tsukuba. He was featured in 80R Volume 1, and has several appearances on the website. Despite being based out of Osaka, Ton has campaigned his EG6 at TC2000 very successfully. The trek from Osaka to Ibaraki isn’t as intense as Hokkaido, in the case of Asai (GNR EK9 - 2023 NA Record Holder), but it’s still at least an 8 hour commitment one way. It’s definitely a factor when calculating seat time at the track and I’ve always taken it into consideration when comparing times. When I was first introduced to Ton’s EG back in 2016, the Aslan supported Civic didn’t have the widebody it’s so recognized for these days, instead had a more traditional over fender look. Aslan and Ton were among the first of the FF competitors to adopt the use of the K series engine; one of the first among Japan’s FF drivers to do so if you consider Ryo, and the Garage Work cars were still all running B series at the time (Garage Work to this day is still running B series). We can go as far back as 2014/15 and see that Ryusen’s EG had a K series in it. This could have possibly been the edge that pushed Ton into his first TC2000 records early in 2018.
Take a closer look at the 2024 spec of the Aslan EG6, and for more photos and information on the build, please refer to our NA Class History article on the main site, available here:
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[@TrackSol]

Civics continue to amaze

[@eotubas-nr8hs]

15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father "is not in them. 16 For everything in the world -the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life -comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever. 18 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 1 João chapter 2 verses 15-18

[@mhtate3626]

No oil cooler is interesting but the weight savings is understood at this level. In a similar vein, they are very likely changing the oil often enough for it to not matter. Appreciate the upload.

[@nicolascostanzo763]

like the americans who runs 1/4 mile without water to save weight

[@_TrueDesire_]

@@nicolascostanzo763 in the case of americans, the drivers themselves can drop some weight 🤣

[@nicolascostanzo763]

@@_TrueDesire_ jajajajajajajajajja

[@user-jp1hs6sl3h]

I think with the car being NA an oil cooler isn't quite as necessary. When the car has a turbo, the oil gets pumped through the turbo which is subject to much higher temperatures and is almost a requirement when you're making racecar levels of power. Since the oil also has some cooling effect on moving parts. But as I said, with it being NA it isn't crucial to have one. Still a pretty sweet car tho and I would absolutely drive it for sure 😏

[@shane3350]

Some k series (mainly some k20a variants) have a factory oil cooler built into the water pump housing that can be adapted to any other k series. Can't comment on how efficient it is but it's possible they went this route.

[@Driftmonkey]

Thanks for the awesome content, especially on my dream civic!

[@NaritaDogfight]

Thank you so much!

[@zpe1200]

Ive watched alot of laps on this track and that was insane speed around the corners.

[@gafrers]

Fantastic. Love the exposed ITB. Always Quality video, close ups and Info 👍👍

[@florian_montuzet]

I love this format so bad ❤️. Thank you so much.

[@eotubas-nr8hs]

15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father "is not in them. 16 For everything in the world -the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life -comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever. 18 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 1 João chapter 2 verses 15-18

[@blobcsgo7190]

comming in hot through those corners, oh my

[@CoolCarlos310]

That's one perfectly engineered Honda Civic hatch. Everything on that car looks functional from the throttle stacks in the front, to the areo in the rear. Just beautiful and fast. They should take it to a bigger track to stretch at her legs

[@freeofbug4761]

That is a really piece of art

[@eotubas-nr8hs]

15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father "is not in them. 16 For everything in the world -the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life -comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever. 18 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 1 João chapter 2 verses 15-18

[@freeofbug4761]

@@eotubas-nr8hs You sniff too much coke

[@Blade_of_Violet_Chaos]

Those velocity stacks look sick sticking out of the hood like that

[@AarenPho]

My absolute favorite car to watch next to Feras' Corvette

[@ronniecochran8366]

Agreed, this eg6 and the Garage works EK9 are my favorite

[@goobingtons]

​@@Quearnyissladnobody asked and this comment isn't even relevant to what he said.

[@AarenPho]

@@goobingtons Like fr? Can I not appreciate the time and effort both parties put into their cars to do the same style of racing and having fun?

[@Thechildishmandingo]

You should watch the vibrant civic also if you haven’t already. It held 5 WTAC record until Faras beat it around Road Atlanta after they retired it for phase 2 in 2019. And it’s still FWD

[@eotubas-nr8hs]

15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father "is not in them. 16 For everything in the world -the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life -comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever. 18 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 1 João chapter 2 verses 15-18

[@racingevolution7512]

Muchas felicitaciones les quedo de 10 gracias por mostrar el coche completo una inspiración para los que amamos los eg 6

[@PhamVans]

Beautiful machine!

[@user-ew5wh2fp6f]

I own a eg6 since 2000 ! Amazing car!😊

[@kennymaster900]

woa, insane !! GG Ruysen ITOU !

[@valentinovalentino77]

I love Aslan Ton's Civic, it really is a blade this Honda, very very fast car❤🔰

[@simoncoleshill431]

I still find it crazy the size of those wheel spacers 😂 Suprised by the Spoon twinblocks with those sorts of speeds/times but I guess where the car is so light it's easier to stop. Also, 70kg springs 😮 I'm guessing its such a high spring rate due to the amount of downforce the car generates?

[@POVShotgun]

Yea it must add so much unsprung mass

[@TheSpoonek9]

i mean if one have any idea how it works, let say it is a 1000kg car and it is 70/30 split? 350 kg in the front(each corner) and can u tell me how much shock movement with 70k spring(a GT3 race car only on 30+k spring)? unless it pull crazy G which i dont see it, on a low speed track(u saw the speedo?) i highly doubt it got too much suspension movement even with the aero on this car. plus car have shock pot(a shame it is on aims) but i also saw (hope i was wrong coz it would be extremely stupid) which mount the shock body and upper A arm. those 2 things move up and down together, lol. as far as the brake, if u see their data, their braking time in a lap would be very low becoz it is a light car and the speed wasnt fast. the reason it is fast is, it got the power and it is on seq box. on H pattern , every shift will be at least 0.5 sec no matter who u are, and seq box make the shift in 0.2sec and now go count how many shift per lap and time the second gain from it, then there you go.

[@eotubas-nr8hs]

15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father "is not in them. 16 For everything in the world -the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life -comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever. 18 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 1 João chapter 2 verses 15-18

[@user-ws5nw8jf8t]

ダンロップ下のアクセル開けるタイミングの速さが凄すぎる😮

[@sungodman001]

Best FF car ever

[@tobapiggery2951]

Very nice powerband, constant RPM

[@Shadowboost]

Love the car, amazing it got into 54s. 4piston make a road race engine with over 400 hp. This car would absolutely fly

[@NaritaDogfight]

The GNR EK9 has the 4piston K27

[@Shadowboost]

@@NaritaDogfight thanks for the info! Seriously you're the best

[@calhun1567]

Awesome

[@Serpentis666]

Ton!!!🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@adityautomo7405]

Them rear tire spacers tho 😮

[@dieternugel1745]

A very interesting car. Thanks for the viedeo. But the welding job looks on different parts of a bit improvised and the enormus wheelspacers are maby dangerus - is just my impression...Best greetings from a older petrolhead from switzerland.

[@dvtc8u]

beauty

[@RB26N]

amazing civic.

[@sietse-janhollander7585]

Soooo cool! All cars should be naturally aspirated by law!! 😜

[@louis-ze7ve]

That's 150kph in the last corner, absolutely legendary

[@tactownturbotime982]

This is art ❤makes me wanna take the turbo off my k swap eg6

[@lynch42o]

NA is awesome for the track, but damn it's expensive. And the ITBs need to be adjusted every x amount of miles.

[@sigmaprojects]

With 320hp? Damn that amazing.

[@kaos3383]

Got plans for my hatch. Soon enough

[@jstsmslovenc92]

Crazy fast Civic, this thing is monstrous and everything on it looks so overbuilt, but I guess the time it surpass prove this thought wrong.

[@TheCohesiveGarage]

LEGENDS ALL

[@pauly1605]

That outro!

[@NaritaDogfight]

All fun!

[@faizalmohd9536]

Using pedal shifter will give the driver better control of the steering thus improving the overall time. On a short circuit like tsukuba a 0.5 sec improvement can be achieved just from installing the pedal shifter.

[@EmoDKTsuchiya]

Definitely would have helped in the final corner

[@NaritaDogfight]

It's in the plans, just not able to get it tuned in time for this season

[@muffcabbage9742]

I want more

[@quincygaming9529]

Wow. This thing is hooked up

[@jeancharlesrabaux5658]

Le record de neumbergrim et pays speak attende maintenant ❤

[@scottpolston6137]

Oh God EG hatch and EF Sedans e the sexiest civics ever I MISS my K swapped EF Sedans more than life itself

[@risingwind8943]

I wanted to get an old honda to wrench on but they are now insanely expensive. An old LS setup is now WAY cheaper.

[@lastery3.0]

Need this gear ratio for gt7 lol. This a beast

[@user-ci4tt7wt1d]

Wow driving rice is where it's at

[@RCmaniac667]

Why does it have airway under the hood if throttle bodies sticking out of the hood? Either no need for airway or install throttle bodies that fit it imo

[@satariel8652]

i can only think.. its was one of the last changes.

[@84portman]

Not the greatest welding job but looks like it got the job done

[@MrMyrakle23]

lol @ the Mexican music

[@NaritaDogfight]

It's bossa nova!

[@jeancharlesrabaux5658]

Le moteur c est un k20 ou k24 sur

[@AllTheRamenOnTheSky]

What the guy driving his clapped out Civic with the fart can special exhaust thinks his car is like.

[@Undertaker93]

Yup and I'm proud of it

[@gabrielrisso1453]

Only 320 horsepower??

[@kdarkholme]

If that car was on the street, v8s would call it rice.

[@EmoDKTsuchiya]

*GRIP*

[@POVShotgun]

I don’t fucking get it, they are so obsessed with weight savings but they stuck on the biggest goddamn spacers in the universe on it

[@mhtate3626]

I do understand what you're getting at but they probably decided to accept the trade off in favor of more aero/grip.

[@KuostA]

lmao way to be inept

[@POVShotgun]

@@jemje2007 I thought the unsprung mass would be a huge pain in the ass not worth having

[@POVShotgun]

@@jemje2007 but they just don’t seem that lazy if they did so much work to reduce weight. That’s what boggles my mind. I’ve ran spacers they are horribly heavy and ruin everything.

[@Ninesixmike]

@@jemje2007how ignorant 😅

[@eluder25rs]

The hood is just a piece of paper lol

[@satariel8652]

yeah, its just thin enough to make the air flow.

[@jeancharlesrabaux5658]

Un k24 turbo tu peux le faire monter à 1000ch facile 😂❤

[@mitchblackmore5230]

Your car is obviously stupid fast. But of course it is. About the only thing left stock on it is the windshield and roof. What kills me is this is the era of Civics that made Civic fan boys fan boys. They had a fully stock North American version with a whopping 123HP and they thought they were king of the streets. I had a crappy ass Dodge Omni with a 2.2L with a carburetor on top and a 5 speed manual and I would leave them standing.

[@las10plagas]

it says it's a honda, but has Audi on the hood 😛

[@user-ci4tt7wt1d]

Ohh great this is giving ricers ideas

[@user-ci4tt7wt1d]

This car is not a race car it's a rice car

[@TDT0188]

Where's your race car?

[@user-ci4tt7wt1d]

@@TDT0188 I don't hate it I love it I'm gonna make mine look like it

[@BondWarrior]

It’s an Audi

[@adrianmejia4997]

I know sequential transmission is good for race but I don't like means u are not a good driver🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

[@alexmurray9384]

When your racing against the time u need faster shift times. Manual gearbox has has a slow shift speed

[@satariel8652]

sure, use a manual. and losse even 3 seconds per cap. if you win there, sure you will be known as the best. but... sure you just end in last, and nobody known you, beacuse nobody think the ones in last place are good drivers.

[@adrianmejia4997]

@@satariel8652 Ok sorry 🤭😆😆🥱🥱

[@xSx-ZR1-749]