Civic Type R

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: LTC8K6

It's called equal length half-shafts. A bit more expensive to implement than the unequal kind but it eliminates torque steer.

Oh, that's the solution. I'm glad someone figured it out. It doesn't seem to work, though.

step away from the buick and you might change your mind. 😉

 

[Dudewithoutapet]

Not to threadjack, but I read the sedan type R articles one of the earlier posters wrote and it said that it will had 225 HP in a 2.0 Litre engine. Honda has pushed past the 100 HP/L barrier. Amazing.

 

[overst33r]

Originally posted by: Dudewithoutapet
Not to threadjack, but I read the sedan type R articles one of the earlier posters wrote and it said that it will had 225 HP in a 2.0 Litre engine. Honda has pushed past the 100 HP/L barrier. Amazing.

Honda broke the 120hp/L "barrier" back in 1999 with the S2000. In the Japanese market it made 125 HP/L. Japanese engines in general are peaky because the gov't has higher taxes for more displacement so manufacturers have to turn to other technologies to make more power, instead of just adding displacement.

HP/L has absolutely no performance significance in production cars.

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: Imported
320 ft-lbs of torque in a Civic and 40-50MPG? Sign me up.

ftw

 

[jdoggg12]

Originally posted by: AMCRambler
Man those things are gonna sound bad ass with that diesel engine going "blat blat blat" through a fart cannon muffler, lol. The torque will be massive, but these cars are not exactly going to leap off the line. I'd be interested to see some 0-60 times for the turbo diesel variant.

AFAIK diesels require no cat. converter and what amounts to no muffler... which is why diesels are generally so loud. Their main benefit from exhaust tweaking comes from fatter pipes only.

 

[fstime]

Exceptions can be made for newer diesels which some say can barely be heard while running.

Audi has received several comments about the R10 Le-Mans car being so quiet, the Mercedes E350 bluetec has also been credited to not showing common diesel traits.