Civic Unrest - Chris Boersma

You might think that ‘Civic Unrest’ is an odd title for an article about Chris Boersma’s race car but we are going to tell you the story of how Chris inherited the love of racing from his father Mike and started drag racing. The Unrest part of the title refers to Chris’s modus operandi of never standing still and always moving forward. “You stand still in this game,” he said, “and you will be swallowed up by your fellow competitors. Time Attack is very like Heads Up drag racing where you ‘Run What Ya Brung and hope you Brung enough”

“I’ve owned this car since 2000 and it’s gone through many different iterations. I took my wife to prom in this car, did deliveries for my mom’s courier business, drove myself to university and raced it on weekends at the drag strip. The car was an all motor drag car for quite some time before our move over to Time Attack, where it quickly got turbocharged in our very first season of competition. Since then it’s basically gotten a little crazier every year as we continued on our quest for more speed.” Chris elaborated, “I’ve been competing in Time Attack since 2008, the first year that CSCS introduced the concept to our local racing community. Previously I had drag raced and was

looking for a change and Time Attack looked like a promising new form of motorsport that combined road racing with less rules and more opportunity for creativity. My dad and I started together and the first couple of years we really had no idea what we were doing, but over time we started to figure things out and started to compete for podiums and eventually wins and records. Many people

As Used By

Gridlife Unlimited Champion Global Time Attack Overall Champion - - - James Houghton - - -

Ultimate Track Challenge Production AWD Winner - - - John Freund - - -

Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge ST Winners, Daytona & Watkins Glen - - - LAP Motorsport - - -

Global Time Attack Street FWD Winner - - - Chris Hofmann - - -

helped us along the way, Time Attack really is a team sport and without everyone’s help we probably still would be trying to figure things out, lol.” Thirt-nine year old Chris finds competing in Time Attack actually acts as a stress relevier from his job as a software engineer and he recalls some of the memories from travelling outside of Canada to race. “The time we decided to drive across the country to the Super Lap Battle in 2013 when I’d never even raced outside of Ontario. We got into a few the shenanigans doing that, but that is not for publication. Our first Gridlife MidWest Festival where all the cars ran perfectly, we didn’t have to turn a wrench all weekend and we had one of our most enjoyable, chill racing weekends of our career. There’s also the time we rented a Charger Hellcat in LA to drive to SLB and had the time of our life roasting tires for two hours. We also had to take that Charger to drive all the way from the track to pick up a clutch and we nearly ran out of gas in the middle of the desert. And rather than chance that again got got MotorWerk’s Ian Rae and his rental BMW X3 take us to the only parts store close to us in California that had the other bits we needed to complete the job. There are honestly just so many good memories to talk about.” When everythings running good the memories are normally great, “One of the funny racing memories was from Road America in 2019, I got on the radio to tell Eric that everything felt really good before heading back to the pits. When I got back into the pits he told me that the car sounded insane coming up the front straight and asked me if I saw the speed on the dash. I said I hadn’t but I remembered the lights coming on the dash so I must have been towards the top of 5th gear. I told him it felt like I was accelerating forever but that the car felt really stable and it was kind of boring, but I knew I was going fast into the braking zone. He pulled the log, turned to me and said “You hit 172mph on your first lap!” I still can’t believe an econobox Honda Civic did that.” Top: The Lavigne Motorsports built B18C1 motor makes 711 whp and 454 Ft/Lbs TQ.

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Above: It’s always fun when Mike Boersma and his friend Sparkie are at the track!

It’s hard to say what the future holds for the car. 2019 was one of our hardest racing years to date. We competed in a full season of GridLife, GTA and CSCS and we struggled. It was a super stressful year and everyone suffered and then I put the car in the wall at the end of the season at Speed Ring which put the icing on the cake for a terrible year. We expected to come back out hard in 2020 and COVID hit and we weren’t able to cross the border. Now we’ve just been waiting, itching for a chance to run the car we built for the 2020 season. Time Attack has moved forward in our absence and honestly I’m just happy to get back out on track with our friends in 2022. I’d like to see what our package is capable

of and then iterate on it from there. It’s hard to really predict how good or bad your car is going to be before really getting it onto the track. After 2019 I realized that one of the things I loved most about racing wasn’t the records, the wins, though those are really nice, it was the time I got to spend with my Dad and my friends at the track. A lot of the memories that I have aren’t of the records or the wins but the crazy times we’ve had as a family at the track. So I’m really just looking forward to that in 2022 and we’ll see how everything else shakes out. I’m not going to lie, I’d really like to collect a few FWD TrackMod records if we can as well.

The Build List

1999 Honda Civic SiR Owned and driven by Chris Boersma FWD TrackMod class or CSCS Super Street Engine: - Lavigne Motorsports Built B18C1 - JBRE Sleeved B18C1 with stock crank - 83MM Bore with 10.1:1 compression CP racing pistons and BC Racing ProH625+ Rods - B18C5 Head ported by Lavigne Motorsports - Cometic MLX Headgasket - Cometic Engine Gaskets - Skunk2 Pro1 Cams - Skunk2 Ultra Intake Manifold - Bosch 82mm DBW throttle body - Supertech Valvesprings, Valves, Retainers, Guides and Seals - Unit2 Fabrication Drysump Oiling System with Peterson Oil Pump - Unit2 Turbo Manifold - Headershield heat management system on turbo manifold, exhaust housing, downpipe - Garrett G30-900 Turbo - Garrett Intercooler core - Tial MVR 44MM wastegate - Tial Q 50mm BOV - K-Series COP - VP Racing Oil - VP Racing MS109 Fuel

Suspension/Brakes/Wheels: - K-Tuned K2 Pro Circuit Coilovers with swift springs - K-Tuned Upper Camber Arms - K-Tuned Rear Camber Arms - Eibach 25mm Front Sway bar - EG/DC2 subframe with Kingpin Spherical Bearings - K-Tuned Rear lower control arms with spherical bearings - ASR Rear Sway bar and support - Stoptech STR65 Brakes with 355MM rotors on front - Integra Type R Rear Brakes - Hawk DTC70/DTC30 Brake Pads - Hawk HP600 Brake Fluid - Konig Hypergram 18x11 and 18x9.5” wheels - Yokohama A052 315/30/18 and 255/35/18 tires

Aero: - Spage Sport Front Splitter - APR GT1000 Rear Wing - JASE Ultra Fiberglass Front End - Seibon Carbon Fiber Doors - Seibon Carbon Fiber Hood with Boersma Racing Custom Hood Duct - Profesional Awesome Hood Vents - Boersma Racing Carbon Fiber Roof - Spage Sport Carbon Fiber Fender Vents - Spage Sport End Plates - Lavigne Motorsports Splitter Support System

Safety: - Lavigne Motorsports Rollcage - Racetech HT4009HR Halo Seat - OMP Fire Suppression System - Momo Steering Wheel - Schroth 6 Point Harness

Fuel System: - ID 1700 Injectors - Radium Engineering Fuel Surge Tank - Dual Bosch 044 Fuel Pumps - K-Tuned AN Lines/Fittings - Aeromotive Fuel Pressure Regulator

Oil System: - SAENZ TT-3 model 6-speed sequential transmission w/ close ratio straight cut gears - 4Lb aluminum flywheel - Tilton 5.5-inch diameter triple disc clutch - KAAZ 1.5-way Super Q differential w/ factory Mazda 4.10 ratio final drive Drivetrain: - Exedy Twin Disk Clutch - Liberty Billet Transmission Case - Albins 1-5 Dogbox - Assembled by TeamRip Engineering - OS Giken Differential - TeamRip OS Giken Differential Cover - Drive Shaft Shop Axles

Electronics: - Link G4+ Thunder ECU - T1 Cam Trigger - Subaru STI DBW Pedal Assembly - Rywire Custom Wireharness - AIM MXG Dash - AIM Smarty Camera System - Antigravity ReStart Lithium Battery - Tons of sensors

Chris did mention in the body of the article how racing for him is basically a family affair with support from great people, he would like to thank Eric Lavigne, who really is a Crew Chief Extraordinaire, his father Mike Boersma, who really is the rock the team is founded on, Mitch Hemmen of Unit 2, fellow race James Houghton and crew Josh Bannon and Russ Bursey.

And when it comes to the race car he notes he has some amazing companies supporting his program. Huge thanks goes out to Lavigne Motorsports, Unit2 Fabrications, K-Tuned, Link ECU, Konig Wheels, Exedy USA, Stoptech, Supertech, Brian Crower, Headershield, Cometic Gaskets, Antigravity Battery, JP Powdercoating, Team Rip Engineering, TialSport, Turbo Parts Canada, AIM Sports Data, APR Performance, Spage Sport, CSM Performance, VP Racing Fuels, Hawk Performance.