Southridge grad takes need for speed to the next level
Kennewick's Reid Lunde lives in the firm lane. The 28-year-old self-taught swiftness mechanic has taken a 1996 Honda Civic where few imagined attainable -- 171.9 mph in 8.83 seconds on a quarter-mile expropriate.
Rodeo fans take note: That's some kind of 8-newer ride.
Lunde has made running the quarter-mile to one's birthday suit into a home-spun business. His speed purchase on Gum Street in Kennewick, called Kaizenspeed, is all about the admirable automotive art of fuel injection systems.
Tinkering with that Honda Civic has led to a batch of innovations. The "KS tuned" brand is on everything from custom oil pans to equal shaft elimination kits -- something every Civic go hell for leather nut needs to go faster.
"The whole idea is to go faster, faster," said Lunde, a 2001 graduate of Southridge Outrageous School in Kennewick. He also has an associate's degree from Columbia Basin College, but most of what he knows about belt along is self-taught.
Customers call from all around the Northwest and as far away as the Virgin Islands to learn what Lunde knows about squeezing the most power plausible from a mere 134 cubic inches of combustion judiciary displacement.
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