Torque Developments (TDi-plc) is pleased to announce the second of HKS Europe’s winter promotions – this time for the FN2 model Honda Civic Type-R.

Strictly time limited, this promotion centres around the Hipermax III suspension kit for the FN2 Civic. The HKS Hipermax III suspension utilises a mono tube design for improved strength, durability and precise control of dampening. With 30 levels of dampening adjustment available at both front and rear, HKS Hipermax III suits a wide range of driving style and conditions.

1) HKS Civic Type-R Racing Suction Package Special Offer: This package combines the Hipermax III suspension kit with the popular Racing Suction Reloaded intake kit.

Hipermax III £1,566.95+VAT Racing Suction Reloaded £308.55+VAT

Normal retail price £1875.50+VAT SPECIAL OFFER PRICE £1566.95+VAT

Making a Saving of £308.55+VAT!!! In effect you get a FREE Racing Suction Reloaded kit when buying the HKS Hipermax III suspension!

Please contact Torque Developments now to take advantage of this time limited offer, quoting order code: KIT-AH001.

2) HKS Civic Type-R Premium Suction Service Package special offer: This package combines HKS Hipermax III suspension kit with a Premium Suction kit for those who want to gain performance and add some accenting to the engine bay but are not yet ready for the Racing Suction Reloaded kit with its more pronounced engine roar. Also included in this kit are a replacement Hybrid Sports Oil Filter and a set of 4 spark plugs. To finish things off an extra replacement Super Hybrid Filter is also included for your next service.

Hipermax III £1,566.95+VAT Premium Suction £199.65+VAT 4x Spark Plug (M35-I) £68.20+VAT Hybrid Sports Oil Filter £16.78+VAT Super Hybrid Filter £28.60+VAT

Normal retail price £1880.18+VAT SPECIAL OFFER PRICE £1566.95+VAT

Making a Saving of £313.23+VAT!!! For the price of the Hipermax III suspension, get all the other items FREE! Please contact Torque Developments now to take advantage of this time limited offer, quoting order code: KIT-AH002.

3) HKS Civic Type-R Performance Package special offer: This package combines the HKS Hipermax II suspension with a Racing Suction Reloaded intake kit and also adds the HKS Sports Muffler to create a complete and cohesive tuning package.

Hipermax III £1,566.95+VAT Racing Suction Reloaded £308.55+VAT Sports Muffler £785.00+VAT

Normal retail price £2660.50+VAT SPECIAL OFFER PRICE £2225.00+VAT

Making a Saving of £435.50+VAT!!!

Please contact Torque Developments now to take advantage of this time limited offer, quoting order code: KIT-AH003. Installation is available in TDi’s workshops, as is our FRS suspension geometry alignment service for Honda Civic Type R FN2 models – helping you make the most of your suspension.

Contact Torque Developments on freephone: 0800 107 3260 email: sales@tdi-plc.com

All staff at Torque Developments International would like to extend their thanks to the members of the Civinfo forum who attended our charity dyno day on the 25th June at our Thurrock premises.

TDi’s technicians ran a dozen Civics (plus Rob’s CR-Z) on our advanced Rototest chassis dyno, raising an impressive £440.00 for charity and good day was had by all.

Check out some of the action from the day on Youtube: – TDi South Civinfo dyno day on Youtube 

Thanks to Civinfo members for the photo and video link!

TODA Europe is pleased to confirm that a high performance TODA Racing stainless steel exhaust manifold is now available for the European FN2 version of the Honda Civic Type R.

Developed specifically using extensive dyno testing to suit the characteristics of the FN2’s K20Z3 engine, the TODA Racing exhaust manifold is produced from high quality, lightweight stainless steel and uses a 4-2-1 design to boost mid-range torque.

Key technical features of the TODA Racing Civic Type R FN2 exhaust manifold include:-

• Dyno developed 4-2-1 layout to optimise mid-range torque
• Dimensions Ø 45mm – Ø 50mm – Ø 55mm – taper – Ø 60mm
• Optimised high flow pipe joints and angles to maximise gasflow
• Service adaptor included for stock Honda A/F sensor  
• CNC machined manifold / cylinder head mating flange

Designed to run without the front catalyst, the TODA Racing FN2 exhaust manifold has been back to back dyno tested by Torque Developments International, where it proved to significantly boost mid-range torque and top end power.

Available now from TODA Europe, a division of TDi-Plc, the TODA Racing Civic Type R FN2 exhaust manifold is priced at £1105.00 – excluding VAT – click on the link here to purchase now:- http://www.tdi-plc.com/catalog/toda-racing-exhaust-manifold-p-16104.html



Principal MUGEN stockist and leading Japanese tuning house Torque Developments International Plc is pleased to announce that MUGEN has released a number of a packages designed to deliver real savings for Honda Civic Type R FN2 enthusiasts.

Designed around sets of complimentary MUGEN performance and styling components, the full list of Honda Civic Type R FN2 packages is as follows:-

The MUGEN Honda Civic Type R FN2 parts packages are available  now from Torque Developments International plc. For more information, please email sales@tdi-plc.com

Do you fancy getting the ultimate in performance from your tuned FN2′s motor? Then TODA Racing has got the product for you, in the form of a new balancer shaft delete kit http://www.toda-europe.com/catalog/toda-racing-balancer-shaft-killer-p-1491.htmlwhich has just been dyno proven to generate impressive power gains throughout the rev range. But what’s the idea behind the balancer shaft delete kit? Read on…

When Honda launched the FN2 model of the Civic Type R it undertook what seems, with hindsight, to be a fairly major redesign of the K20A2 engine as found in the original EP3 version. This engine, known as the K20AZ3 not only featured revised elements such as cam profiles and a drive by wire throttle, it was also upgraded to hit new European NVH (noise, vibration, harshness) targets. How did it do this? It introduced a pair of balancer shafts into the bottom end of the K20A engine, which are not found in the awesome JDM FD2 version of the Honda Civic Type R, which also happens to make a lot more power than the European model.

On the K20AZ3, Honda’s engineers produced a pair of cast iron shafts, about ten inches long and about two and half inches wide, which weigh a staggering 4 kilograms. Counter-rotating against one another, they are driven from the oil pump and are located at the top of the crankcase, where they rotate within the splash lubrication at the top of the FN2’s sump oil. “The problem with this design,” says TODA Europe’s / Torque Developments Sam Borgman, “is that it also creates a significant amount of windage.” ‘Windage’ is a term that describes the drag on an engine component when oil clings to its surface during operation, which erodes the engines overall output – in other words power is lost inside the engine before it ever leaves.

Firstly, let’s talk about what you get with the TODA balancer shaft ‘killer’ kit. The major piece of the package is a new oil tray, an oil pump drive chain, a new dipstick and a TODA large capacity oil pump, which is engineered to function without the balancer shafts and features lower gearing designed to provide superior lubrication at high engine speeds. “The factory oil pump is designed is to run all qualities of oil, potentially very old thin oil, with a massive safety margin and actually at high revs there is excessive oil movement which results in cavitation,” says Torque Development’s Sam Borgman, meaning bubbles can form in the oil. “This also causes a high level of parasitic power loss on the engine, so it’s another area where the TODA balancer shaft killer kit could potentially gain,” he reckons.

Either way, we were about to find out, because Torque Development’s technicians installed on a FN2 test car, which already packs some tasty tweaks;- notably a Comptech Stage 3 supercharger kit, Hondata Flashpro ECU and a lightweight flywheel. In this specification it clocked a respectable 260bhp at the hubs at 7960rpm on Torque Development’s Rototest VPA-R9 hub dyno http://www.tdi-plc.com/index.php?pge=C_dynocam

Let me make this totally clear from the outset, fitting the TODA balancer shaft ‘killer’ kit is not a DIY job, because you have to remove the main bottom engine pulley, plus the cam chain drive system in order to access the chain drive mechanism for the oil pump.  Realistically it’s a six hour job, so the key question for every FN2 tuning fan has got to be, is it worth it?

Happily, the data emphatically suggests that yes it is. Straight off ‘our’ supercharged FN2 picked up 10 bhp at the hubs at 8060 rpm, which equates to approximately 12 bhp at the flywheel. But the peak gains are only half of the story, because, as you’d expect from a modification that reduces internal losses, the FN2 picked up power right across the rev range, from tickover to the redline.

Similarly, the engine picked up torque at all points, with a peak gain of 5 lb.ft at the hubs, equating to approximately 6 lb.ft at the flywheel. On a naturally aspirated FN2 with near stock output you’d get proportionally lower gains – TODA Racing reckons 5 bhp at the flywheel is typical in these instances.

In addition to the power gains, the engine’s response was much sharper, testimony to the reduced mass it now enjoyed. Crucially, bearing in mind that the TODA Racing kit has removed the very components designed to reduce vibration from the K20AZ3 engine the FN2’s owner reported that it still remained smooth, particularly at very high revs, happily confirming that removing the balancer shafts doesn’t degrade the driving experience.

Does this mean that the TODA balancer shaft killer kit is the new hot engine tweak for the FN2? Potentially yes, but as ever it’s a question of finances, so here’s a run down on the costs. The TODA balancer shaft killer kit itself costs £458.25 including VAT http://www.toda-europe.com/catalog/toda-racing-balancer-shaft-killer-p-1491.html, with fitting weighing in at £499.37, plus oil.

In total you’re looking at just under a grand, which, if you’ve invested four or five thousand pounds in a supercharged or turbocharged FN2 and are looking for the ultimate in no-compromise power, makes perfect sense. For mildly tuned normally aspirated cars it’s harder to make the case, but as you stroll further down the lengthy avenue of FN2 tuning, then TODA’s balancer shaft killer kit is without doubt a direction worth taking.

TODA Racing is synonymous with tuning the K20A engine, which is why it is particularly pleased to launch a Sports Injection independent throttle body kit for the Honda Civic Type R FN2.Specifically developed for the European version of the Honda Civic Type R, the TODA Racing Sports Injection kit is designed for use with stand-alone engine management and delivers significant improvements in response, power and torque throughout the rev range. When used in conjunction with high lift, long duration cams, the Sports Injection kit delivers a smoother, more controllable idle than with a single plenum set up, making it an ideal choice for high power K20A engine builds.  

• 50mm diameter throttle bodies
• Specially designed high flow cast inlet manifold for K20A applications 
• Fuel rail designed to retain standard K20A FN2 injectors 
• Choice of 33mm or 63mm length inlet trumpets
• Includes brackets for air conditioning hose, connectors and wiring loom  

 

In conjunction with the Sports Injection kits, TODA Racing has developed a ‘Hybrid Pedal’ kit which overcomes the problem of how to adapt the FN2’s drive by wire accelerator pedal for use with independent throttle bodies, which require cable operation.

Developed specifically for use on the Honda Civic Type R FN2, the Hybrid Pedal kit includes all necessary brackets and cabling to enable a neat, one stop solution.

Priced at £370.00 and carrying part number: 17800-FN2-000, the TODA Racing Hybrid Pedal kit is available now from TODA Europe, a division of Torque Developments International Plc.