Going to have to take it to someone who knows there stuff with these as as i thought its down on power, i have so far checked for boost leak, checked ecu and have code 55, cleaned terminals tbs, had a mechanic put it on his diag, nothing wrong at all, it has 11 psi showing on the guage and sounds fit as a fiddle, no missfire, and runs lovely, dead smooth etc, however i got outdragged by a boy racer in a civic tonight, what a disaster

my mate had a type r, not this new shape, the one before, had thousands under the bonnet, had lauch control fitted too, used to hammer most things over a short distance, not sure on BHP figures but was massivley fast for what it was, he sold it in the end when he managed to accumalate 9 points in 9 months, he now drives a volvo estate.lol.

Edited January 16, 200916 yr by TranceManDann

As an ex owner of both - EP3 Civic Type R owner (Newish shape '03), and DC5 '05 Integra type R the power delivery is pretty different to my TT Z, The civic and especially the Integra are really light cars, the Civic if I remember weighs at around 1200 kg, and the Integra 1100kg. The six speed close ratio box are amazing and you can change gear extremely quick however with both of them you really have to wind them up into pretty high revs before the V-TEC kicks in around 5900rpm. However starting from the line they are rapid but do run out of puff around 80ish, The Zed I find a completely different beast, at the moment I am running at 14psi with an apexi, chip, and zorst and hitting full boost I sh%t my pants every time, which I never did in either of the hondas. Great cars, but for mid range grunt, and shear lunatic power the hondas cant keep up with the big boys. (Oh unless they have a charger on them! a Civic Type R with a Rotex will push out around 300bhp)

In addition the touque even in the power bands is nothing to the Zed, if I remember the Civic Type R is about 150 torques which is nothing, so wet and dry you can get the power down.

 

I have a Auto, and running fat arse toyos 265's on the back, and if I hit full boost in first or second I go no where, but I make lots of noise and smoke!