2015 Civic Type R, how would you modify it?


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Plenty of discussion on the new R, was reading through some of the parts it has and what would you actually change about it?
I'm coming from a purely performance perspective.
I mean the engine already puts 300hp, perhaps a small gain here but your going to run into traction issues soon enough!

The suspension has had a lot of development work and sticking a set of £700 coilovers is likely to make the car worse!

Brakes are already huge 350mm 4 pots, no gain to be had here.

No weight figures that I've seen anywhere? Suggests it's abit lardy. So maybe some lightweight buckets or some carbon to bring abit of weight off.

All in its not really a car that you can better without going full racecar on it?
Perhaps I've looked at this car all wrong by looking at what our Hondas are like and wanting the same recipe?
 
Better tyres and brake pads if they're not up to scratch for sustained track use.
 
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A set of quality kevlar bucket seats, rear half cage and a good remap should make a nice fast road / weekend track car without being as hard to live with everyday as our older gen Hondas
 
I believe is too soon to decide what to do with it..
If we ever get something similar to this in the US even as a SI platform im curious as to what hondata is gonna do to get some type of tunable ecu..
 
Standard stage 1 stuff for a turbo car. Exhaust, remap, pump and maybe intake. Should see 350 bhp + easily
 
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Since it is a turbocharged engine, just with a remap tuners might get 50hp with no effort.

The exhaust has no sound, it sounds like you're driving a honda crv lol...

I'll love to see how the japanese tuners will tune this car.. mine's, seeker, spoon, mugen, top fuel.
 
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Since it is a turbocharged engine, just with a remap tuners might get 50hp with no effort.

The exhaust has no sound, it sounds like you're driving a honda crv lol...

I'll love to see how the japanese tuners will tune this car.. mine's, seeker, spoon, mugen, top fuel.
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Agreed on the exhaust note.

With it been a Honda it's only inevitable that someone is going to mod it, been turbo it shouldn't be hard to extract more power from it with basic breathing mods...
 
four inch exhaust with four tail pipes, massive bodykit, huge spoiler. Oh hold on, I forgot we're not in 2001 anymore... So probably just a nice exhaust for the noise, proper LSD, bucket seats, ditch the back seats, remap and some light forged wheels wrapped in semi slicks. That would do me nicely!
 
Do these come with an LSD fitted???

If not, one of them.
- Exhaust system
- Dump Valve/Wastegate of some kind
- FMIC/intake system
- Remap

I'd like to think that with it being a modern turbo engine, some bigger injectors, higher flow fuel pump, full turbo back system and decent intake system, you'd be around the 400hp mark.

Exterior wise I don't see how you could enhance it unless changing to carbon fibre or Kevlar parts.

Same with the new suspension system, wouldn't want to fiddle with that much and upset +R mode.

I'm seriously seriously considering selling everything I have car wise, paying off a little debt and going for one fresh out the wrapper.
 
The issue with more power will be the traction, yes a fancy LSD will help in the corners, but a damp slip road in September will just see wheel spin.

The only thing i could see to change would be to drop some weighweight, so like whats already been said, perhaps some bucket seats and a painted carbon bonnet as to not look too chav'd
 
Not sure if the turbos going to be big enough to show 400hp, it can't be that big to be getting 300ftlbs out of a 2L at 2.5k rpm.
Seems that weight is the only real thing you would need to address on one of these?
 
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Not sure if the turbos going to be big enough to show 400hp, it can't be that big to be getting 300ftlbs out of a 2L at 2.5k rpm.
Seems that weight is the only real thing you would need to address on one of these?
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Could be variable vane turbo.
if it were me, a nice exhaust for a tad more noise but that's it.
 
could be right! Pictures do show a solenoid of some type in that area
 
Spoon/Mugen steering wheel, Fixed bucket, Takata. Would help make the car 'feel' less bulky I reckon and look race (Not that it really needs any more of that), De-cat pipe.
 
Just crossed my mind that when we say 300hp, that's powerful to us because we are thinking of 300hp in our older(lighter) honda shells. Will 300hp in this feel as fast as some of us are imagining?
Depending on weight but it's likely to be around 218-230hp per ton. That's not far off stripped out b18 ek/dc sort of numbers. I know number don't mean everything but I'd consider power to weight quite important.
As a comparison evo 8 fq360 are around 248hp per ton.
 
A lump of low down torque (295lb-ft @ 2500rpm) could give you the impression it's fast.
 
Area under the curve I suppose.
 
Going by other modern turbo'd cars that are similair power I'd like to think a jump from 300 to 400 would be achievable on the standard item.

Focus RS Mk2 for example, also a little lower in factory power but an Audi S3 is a good example.

All a lot of speculation, I'm looking forward to them becoming available. We should enjoy the car rather than try hate it because it's different to the norm for a Honda.
 
I hope a user from ek9.org buys one! :nerv:
 
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