Civic Type R continues final tweaking on Nurburgring

[limitedslip]

No Tweaking here !! ... this is a Record run ...
- Roll Bars
- Recording gear
- Single Driver .. fully suited it seems
- lowered 'R' stance
- smoke from the tyres (brit spelling)
- serious driver expression

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[All-Knowing]

I don't think anyone would classify the suspension in the NSX Type R as budget. I'm just saying that depending on how "comfortable" the ride is on the comfort setting, there might have been a compromise by softening up the springs on this car that otherwise would not have been made absent a comfort mode.

Btw, the stock dampers are made by Bilstein? Didn't know that. Always assumed it was Showa.

ZF makes the shock dampners.

 

[SaiHayashi]

Now that's hideous

Definitely Odyssey Type R there.

 

[J35W2]

I don't think the R is slammed here. +R mode only stiffens the dampers (rebound), it doesn't lower the car, a la air bags. The Length of the springs dictates the ride height. It looks slammed because the driver is throwing it into a downhill, right hand turn at high speed causing the body to roll to the left side. Cruising over a swail into a downhill/hard turn at high speeds is a pretty common scenario where it can be easy to lose control & slide right into a guard rail. This thing looks pretty planted to me.

This would be one of those classic photos of the GTI where the rear inside wheel gets off the ground.

 

[HondaFan2017]

The guy holding the Nurburgring record with GTI Clubsport S elaborates on manual/dsg and AWD/FWD at 30:00. Interesting thing about fwd confirmed by some professional track driver.

 

[J35W2]

Yeah, seems like the driver was saying that FWD in good conditions was faster on the Green Hell than AWD. Then realized that he was talking about and standing in front of a Golf R (in that glorious German accent, no less) and kind of reeled it back in. I have a friend that is an engineer with the Hendricks Nascar team and it seems like the right thing to say is always RWD>AWD>FWD if you are a TRUE enthusiast. FWD is one of the reasons I love Honda & the CTR. It's so wrong, but SOOOOO right.

Or maybe I shoud say that if the CTR is wrong, then I don't want to be right.

 

[limitedslip]

The guy holding the Nurburgring record with GTI Clubsport S elaborates on manual/dsg and AWD/FWD at 30:00. Interesting thing about fwd confirmed by some professional track driver.

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Found the Scirocco to be the better sporting chassis

 

[Eddie]

Hurry the hell up!!

 

[shutupish]

Hurry the hell up!!

The civic si comes out next month and still no price. Im starting to believe they wont give a price for the ctr at NYIAS -_-

 

[17CivicTypeR_Brian]

The civic si comes out next month and still no price. Im starting to believe they wont give a price for the ctr at NYIAS -_-

Yeah agreed. Based on the Si reveal video...

 

[Banshee]

Yeah agreed. Based on the Si reveal video...

I tend to agree also. They probably won't reveal anything we don't already know.
If someone goes to NYIAS, get the rim specs, and see if it does have the lights in the rubber seal around the door frame...

 

[All-Knowing]

I tend to agree also. They probably won't reveal anything we don't already know.
If someone goes to NYIAS, get the rim specs, and see if it does have the lights in the rubber seal around the door frame...

5x120 20" x 8.5 with a 60 offset.... those specs??

 

[Banshee]

5x120 20" x 8.5 with a 60 offset.... those specs??

Yes, those. I haven't seen those yet. Thank you!

 

[All-Knowing]

5x120 20" x 8.5 with a 60 offset.... those specs??

@asiandeity

 

[asiandeity]

@asiandeity

Thanks. Saw that earlier. Getting pricing now.

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