The Honda Civic Type R Thread

Here's Why The Honda Civic Type R Has Three Exhaust Pipes

The 2017 Honda Civic Type R is full of funky styling and harsh angles, to the real annoyance of lots of folks out there. But the strange three-exhaust-pipe layout on the back of the car actually serves a purpose, and it could be more useful than you thought for touring your Type R around on longer trips.

The middle exhaust is meant to quiet down the car at certain times, the folks at Road & Track found out from a product planner on the new Civic recently. Before you freak out and potentially regret spending way over MSRP on the new Type R, hold up: The quieting down is meant for highway speeds, so that your engine can grunt and growl all it wants taking off from a stoplight but won’t snarl you all the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific on your cross-country road trip.

This struck our review editor as weird, since he just hopped out of a Type R the other day and said the car was obnoxiously quiet in general. Either way, Honda said “quieting” the car down in certain situations involved that smaller middle exhaust pipe. From Road & Track:

“Traditionally with these big flow exhaust systems, when you get up into highway speeds, you can get a lot of droning, booming, buzzing—not very comfortable for high speed cruising,” [10th-generation Civic product planner Rob] Keough told R&T. Honda wanted to offer a sporty, engaging sound in aggressive driving, without punishing drivers on long commutes or highway trips. And the automaker wanted to do so without resorting to stereo-enhanced engine sounds or complex (and expensive) multi-mode muffler systems.

The solution is to split the single exhaust into three pipes just behind the rear axle. The two outer pipes include large straight-flow mufflers. The center, smaller diameter pipe is a resonator, shaped and sized to perform a particular aural trick.
That sounds like a decent compromise, but maybe it’s not so great—our old pal Doug DeMuro said the Type R sounds like he’s driving his dad’s old Camry when he downshifts to fourth to punch around someone on the highway. Whether that was the goal exactly, who knows.

If you want to read more technical details about how Honda made that middle exhaust pipe so useful, maybe, Road & Track has them.

http://jalopnik.com/heres-why-the-honda-civic-type-r-has-three-exhaust-pipe-1796235215

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WHY HONDA DIDN’T GIVE NEW CIVIC TYPE R AN AUTO ‘BOX

More and more hot hatch manufacturers are either ditching the manual gearbox altogether or offering an automatic transmission as an option (Renault, for instance, has confirmed that the new Mégane RS will be available with a dual-clutch). So, why has Honda not followed suit with the new Civic Type R?

Well, powertrain project leader, Yuji Matsumochi, told motoring.com.au that the decision to stay exclusively manual stems from a need to preserve the Type R’s optimal weight distribution.

“We produced [a] six-speed manual transmission only for Type R because the engine achieves 400 N.m and 320 PS [235 kW],” Matsumochi-san told the Australian publication.

“The Type R being a lightweight front-wheel drive means there is a need for lightweight powertrain systems. So, the engine has big power and relatively heavy weight, so the transmission needed to be lightweight,” he explained, referencing the reworked 2,0-litre turbocharged VTEC unit.

“If we tried to have an automatic transmission or DCT [dual-clutch transmission] for over 400 N.m, then the powertrain would be [a] very heavy weight, which would mean additional front weight, and [that would] upset the weight balance,” he added.

Matsumochi-san went on to suggest that the manual cog-swapper – which features a 7% lower final gear ratio and a rev-matching function – in the latest iteration of Honda’s hottest five-door hatch is smooth and easy to use.

“So we decided just to have the six-speed manual transmission. And the six-speed manual transmission is very fun to drive, and easy to drive. It’s easy to control, for sporty driving, and easy to shift up and down – so easy and so smooth.”

Back in early April, the latest Type R set a new lap record for front-wheel-drive production vehicles at the Nürburgring Nordschleife in Germany, grabbing back the unofficial title from the Volkswagen Golf GTI Clubsport S.

http://www.carmag.co.za/news_post/why-honda-didnt-give-new-civic-type-r-an-auto-box/
 
2017 Honda Civic Type R launch | motoring.com.au

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Aha interesting...the FK8 CTR in Australia makes 228kw (306bhp) same like the US-spec one & not 235kw (316bhp) like the Euro models.

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Perhaps the SA-spec cars will make 228kw we well.
 
FiestaST said:
2018 Honda Civic Type R vs Ford Focus RS - Carfection

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Saw that. What he's saying is that the less capable car is the best, and that the most capable car has become a Golf R.
 
Jackass Not Paying Attention' Crashes Into Man's New Honda Civic Type R Right After He Bought It

One-hundred and fifty-one miles. That was all Greg Ellingson got with his brand new 2017 Honda Civic Type R. He flew from Philadelphia to Boston to pick up the car, and not much later on Sunday, he was sulking through a five-hour ride home in a tow truck.

Ellingson’s story, which started blowing up on Sunday afternoon after he posted about it on Facebook, is an especially painful kind of heartbreak that resonates with anyone who’s ever been excited to get a new car.

The good news is besides the Civic, hearts were the only thing broken here. Ellingson told Jalopnik he was thankfully unhurt in the crash, as was the other driver he said wasn’t paying attention and hit him from behind and then pushed him into another car.

“Amazingly I’m unscathed,” he said. “Guy hit me going 30-35 mph. Didn’t even hit the brakes.”

(By the way—for anyone who complains that the new turbocharged 306 horsepower Civic Type R is “different” from the high-revving old VTEC hatchbacks we wanted as kids, I can definitively say which one I’d rather be in an accident in.)

Ellingson said he flew from Philadelphia to Boston on Sunday, got picked up by a salesperson with the paperwork already done. All he had to do, he said, was slap on a plate and drive it home.

The car had 12 miles on it when he picked it up.

While heading south on Interstate 95 about halfway through Connecticut, the brand-new hot hatch met its fate. Traffic slowed and then went eventually to a stop. During the pause Ellingson changed the radio station, and then, in his words, “SMASH.”

“Didn’t even see him coming,” he said.

Again, he wasn’t hurt, and neither were any of the other drivers. But the Civic sustained some pretty severe front and rear-end damage, and it had to be towed home.

Ellingson did want me to say something nice about the car’s HondaLink system, which is kind of like Honda’s take on OnStar, and here asked him if he needed 911 when it detected a crash and then called a tow truck for him. Complicated as modern cars can be, that’s admittedly a useful and potentially life-saving feature. (“Oh give a shout out to MALS AUTO TRUCK for taking me the remaining five-hour drive home,” he added.)

So what’s next? Ellingson said he’s pretty confident the other driver’s insurance will pay most of the car out—he paid $39,000 out the door for it, which is part of why he flew to another state to get it—and his may have to pay the remainder. He said he hopes it’s totaled out so he can effectively start over, and then find another gray Civic Type R.

“It really is an awesome car,” he told me. “I didn’t even really get a chance to play with it.”

Hopefully, that will change soon.

In the meantime—am I the only one who suddenly feels like they could soon be in the market for a cheap salvage race car?

http://jalopnik.com/jackass-not-paying-attention-crashes-into-mans-new-hond-1797384456

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