Acura / Honda V6

Funco has recently found a local source for Honda V6 motor with aftermarket computers, completely tuned and ready to go. You can choose to let Funco install the motor and take delivery of a turnkey car, or some customers do this themselves if they have the time, knowledge, and patience. Honda/Acura makes one of the most efficient motors in the industry, producing about 250HP in stock naturally aspirated form from their 3.5L and 3.2L motors. With the addition of a turbo charger this can be bumped up over 400 horsepower if you dare! The Honda/Acura motor is one of the newer configurations to our arsenal of sandcar options. Gaining popularity, it's one of the lightest 6 cylinder motors you can find that provides an awesome power-to-weight ratio. Since weight is so important in sandrail applications this is a serious motor for consideration if you want future options for some very nice "bolt-on" horsepower.
A special chassis configuration and refined shock tuning allowed us to optimize the handling characteristics with this Honda setup to join our exclusive club of cars. Compare for yourself to other Honda/Acura dune buggies. Drive one of these babies and you'll simply fall in love with the torque and smoothness of a finely tuned power plant, a great match to our awesome handling car, the hallmark of the Funco tradition.	(thanks to Greg Foster for pictures of his rail)
Below is the same car about 3/4 assembled by the customer. Notice the extra motor mount braces, distributing the torque this motor puts out to the upper chassis tubes also.	Here's a picture of an Acura 3.2L getting fitted in a BIG 5 chassis using a Mendeola transaxle.
	The picture below shows how the radiator, intake, and throttle linkage are set up on this naturally aspirated configuration. On top of this just behind the rear seats there will be a nice deck panel that covers all of this so it's out of sight. (thanks to Jon Robison for the pictures during assembly)

Service tip

It should be noted that any OHC motor using rubber timing belts should have the belts and cam pulleys inspected every 2yrs or 20,000 dunes, whichever comes first. This is to insure that sand isn't getting inside the belt covers and producing excessive wear. Generally this isn't a problem, but we've seen some exceptions. Better safe than sorry.