Civic Type-R gets power hike
Honda adds end-of-life tweaks to hot hatch
According to Auto Express, Honda is tweaking its flagship hot hatch, the Civic Type-R. Not only does it get more power, it could be sold in white. Auto Express reckons that the company is testing the car around Swindon, where the factory is based.
Any power hike is likely to be small however, as extracting more from the already wrung-out engine would probably entail feeding it with higher-octane fuel than you can get here in the UK. It's already one of the few cars that manages to deliver 100hp per litre, with a quoted 200bhp from its two-litre four-pot mill.
Other tweaks are likely to involve the suspension and running gear and, according to the report, a link with Japanese tuning specialist Mugen is also possible.
It's an end-of-life kicker for the Type-R, as the new Civic is on its way. That won't arrive in the UK until 2006, but it'll be revealed for the first time at next week's Chicago Motor Show.
Therefore not haviing 100bhp per litre Runs at a very happy 220bhp and all they need to do is swap a few components to do it (gross simplification but I'm not going any deeper than that). The current Integra Type-R uses it (and Honda keep suggesting they will sell it in the UK but it hasn't happened yet).
A Mugen kitted version of the same engine should run closer to the 240bhp mark if not more without resorting to specialist fuel.
Anyway, he managed a claimed 250bhp from his with induction kit, magnex exhaust, no cat, and a chip he got from the states that cost him just $40 to do something fancy with the fuel
He also had the suspension geometry upgrade from ABP, strut braces and a tie brace under the rear (showed it me but diodn't understand what it did)
Fantastic car, he'd got more dosh than me or I'd have copied him by now. Throttle blipping produced a bang the response was that fast, awesome. When we parted I asked him to give it some so I could hear it, sounded phenominal and produced a smell of proper burnt petrol rather than that shitty egg smell you get from a cat
craploginname said:
I met a guy on the A49 towards Leominster just after christmas, is it anyone on here?
Anyway, he managed a claimed 250bhp from his with induction kit, magnex exhaust, no cat, and a chip he got from the states that cost him just $40 to do something fancy with the fuel
He also had the suspension geometry upgrade from ABP, strut braces and a tie brace under the rear (showed it me but diodn't understand what it did)
Fantastic car, he'd got more dosh than me or I'd have copied him by now. Throttle blipping produced a bang the response was that fast, awesome. When we parted I asked him to give it some so I could hear it, sounded phenominal and produced a smell of proper burnt petrol rather than that shitty egg smell you get from a cat
I once met a guy in pub who claimed he could catch the moon..........
Z
Of course you *can* get more out of the engine but I wouldn't mind betting you can't economically (car manufacturers are in it for the money remember
) whilst getting it through EU Type Approval (emissions and noise). An aftermarket exhaust/filter/chip doesn't have these constraints (thank god ). The S2000 engine is designed for a longitudinal installation....
Matt
Perhaps they are putting a bigger engine in?
Also I thought that the Integra engine was exactly the same as the CTR engine, the higher power due to higher octane fuel being available elsewhere. Bring it to the UK and the extra power disappears.
In the mean time there's alway Mugen and Jackson Racing (260 bhp from a supercharger)to take care of you.
Basically, the F20 was a low-volume test-bed for the technology now used in the i-VTECs, such as the K20.
Anyway, why do people always want to go the hard route?
Why not do as Honda are rumoured to be planning for the 06 Civic & CRX, and swap in K24 components! Simply tune that to 98.7543654 bhp litre-1 or whatever.
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