Anger
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Hello all,
This may be a civicx forum but I am pretty sure you know that not many people are interested in tuning the CRV! I have read and learned a lot here and I find it only fair to share whichever information and tune I do on my car. Besides, someone may find it interesting even on this forum!
My car has a manual transmission. The gearing is almost identical to the Si, slightly shorter with the exception of the final gear ratio, which is 4.7, while the civic has 4.1. In case someone is interested in tuning the civic over 350hp and wheel spin will become a major issue, having a longer final gear may come in handy.
Exterior-wise, I installed the Honda Access front splitter, side panels and rear bumper spoiler, all factory painted NH883-P Platinum White pearl. Performance-wise, I have installed custom mufflers. I have seen people completely removing the backboxes, but the sound isnt ideal and the growling disappears. That is why I chose to go for smaller than stock mufflers and increase the exhaust tips diameter. Stock exhaust outer diameter is 54mm and then spits to two 48mm pipes leading to the mufflers.
I will be installing a PRL SRI street MAF, since after a lot of part number cross-referencing, google searching and information shared with another person who went for the CAI, I came to the conclusion that the V shares the civic Si MAF housing. I know that the CAI is the proper way to go performance-wise, but it is not a bolt-on installation. Neither is the SRI, but I will need to built myself only a small custom bracket for the MAF housing.
Neither Hondata or Ktuner have jailbroken any manual ECUs yet. I have emailed them both and K-tuner seemed to be way more friendly and helpful. I will connect my ECU to a Ktuner device, harvest all sorts of DATA that is useful to Ktuner and send it to them. Most gains obviously come from the ECU tuning, so after I am done with the intake, I will move forward with this. Even after the car is flashed, I will retain the street MAF since I want the dual ECON function.
As far as ICs are concerned, noone has designed a bolt-on intercooler for the CRV. The actual intercooler has the same size as the civic's but the CRV requires longer tubes and the civic IC has narrower fitting points. I will attempt installing a PRL IC probably but the fitting will be very difficult. Maybe either them or Mishimoto will take a look at the CRV, since there are literally hundreds of thousands of units already sold and the car became available to the EU market only a few months back. I am pretty sure many other people will become interested in tuning this platform as well, as there is huge potential. All EUDM models run on 95RON minimum. I run it on Shell V-power 97RON. I use Mobil 1 0w-30 full synthetic oil and I do a full oil/filter change every 5000km. No oil dilution here. I do not warm up the car more than 1 minute (as I did with my EP3 and FN2 Type-Rs) and drive slowly before parking the car. Rev-hang is present on the V as well and is quite annoying to be honest.
Thanks to this great community, I d be happy to help any way I can!
This may be a civicx forum but I am pretty sure you know that not many people are interested in tuning the CRV! I have read and learned a lot here and I find it only fair to share whichever information and tune I do on my car. Besides, someone may find it interesting even on this forum!
My car has a manual transmission. The gearing is almost identical to the Si, slightly shorter with the exception of the final gear ratio, which is 4.7, while the civic has 4.1. In case someone is interested in tuning the civic over 350hp and wheel spin will become a major issue, having a longer final gear may come in handy.
Exterior-wise, I installed the Honda Access front splitter, side panels and rear bumper spoiler, all factory painted NH883-P Platinum White pearl. Performance-wise, I have installed custom mufflers. I have seen people completely removing the backboxes, but the sound isnt ideal and the growling disappears. That is why I chose to go for smaller than stock mufflers and increase the exhaust tips diameter. Stock exhaust outer diameter is 54mm and then spits to two 48mm pipes leading to the mufflers.
I will be installing a PRL SRI street MAF, since after a lot of part number cross-referencing, google searching and information shared with another person who went for the CAI, I came to the conclusion that the V shares the civic Si MAF housing. I know that the CAI is the proper way to go performance-wise, but it is not a bolt-on installation. Neither is the SRI, but I will need to built myself only a small custom bracket for the MAF housing.
Neither Hondata or Ktuner have jailbroken any manual ECUs yet. I have emailed them both and K-tuner seemed to be way more friendly and helpful. I will connect my ECU to a Ktuner device, harvest all sorts of DATA that is useful to Ktuner and send it to them. Most gains obviously come from the ECU tuning, so after I am done with the intake, I will move forward with this. Even after the car is flashed, I will retain the street MAF since I want the dual ECON function.
As far as ICs are concerned, noone has designed a bolt-on intercooler for the CRV. The actual intercooler has the same size as the civic's but the CRV requires longer tubes and the civic IC has narrower fitting points. I will attempt installing a PRL IC probably but the fitting will be very difficult. Maybe either them or Mishimoto will take a look at the CRV, since there are literally hundreds of thousands of units already sold and the car became available to the EU market only a few months back. I am pretty sure many other people will become interested in tuning this platform as well, as there is huge potential. All EUDM models run on 95RON minimum. I run it on Shell V-power 97RON. I use Mobil 1 0w-30 full synthetic oil and I do a full oil/filter change every 5000km. No oil dilution here. I do not warm up the car more than 1 minute (as I did with my EP3 and FN2 Type-Rs) and drive slowly before parking the car. Rev-hang is present on the V as well and is quite annoying to be honest.
Thanks to this great community, I d be happy to help any way I can!
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