A little bit Hoonigan, a little bit IndyCar, and a little bit Acura NSX: this Honda Ridgeline is like no other.
that races off-road at the Mint 400 and the Baja 1,000. While that's a racing engine, it has more in common with the production Ridgeline engine than the IndyCar twin-turbo V-6 does.
That intake is also an ITB system that is drive-by-wire but feeds boost into the top-mounted air box after passing through its intercoolers. This is all controlled by a MoTeC ECU and the engine information is passed on to the driver via a MoTeC dash display mounted to the original Ridgeline dashboard. Controls for the ignition, transmission controls, and. The keypad does have a button for what looks like an onboard starter and that would be a welcome change from the original IndyCar setup.
The other key difference between the Ridgeline Unlimited Truck engine is that the IndyCar engine with the Xtrac 1011 transmission are stressed members of the chassis. This means that they considered a part of the chassis with suspension parts attached to them. Attaching all of this in the traditional front-engine set-up was going to be difficult.
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