How true is this?

[l80ous]

Ive heard a rumor that a Civic Type R after a certain amount of miles re-maps its own ECU and gives itself 212BHP instead of 197BHP, True or a load of bollox?

[JimboCTR]

Never heard of that one before. Mine doesn't feel any quicker after 45000 miles!

I am sure one of the techy type r guys will be along shortly to thoroughly debunk that myth.

Jim

[havoc]

Sounds like horse. Not heard of any electronics that can re-map themselves. And with an engine like those, you're more likely to lose a few horses as they get older, not gain them.

[Animal]

Agree with Havoc, without mods, the only way the engine would give up a few more gee-gees would be after a good running-in and a service cycle or so - if at all.

[D1MAC]

Sounds like a load of Northampton to me - I never noticed any difference apart from the usual things, just after a service, cold weather but warmed up engine etc.

[vladd]

My Type R is 280bhp with no modifications. I'm not sure what's wrong with yours.

[jonner]

vladd said:

My Type R is 280bhp with no modifications. I'm not sure what's wrong with yours.

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280bhp with no mods....

[benjc]

jonner said:

vladd said:

My Type R is 280bhp with no modifications. I'm not sure what's wrong with yours.

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280bhp with no mods....

Look at his profile ....Not all Type R's are Hondas....

[purdy84]

As my CTR is cosmic grey and a premier it came with 220 bhp standard.......

[insanojackson]

What a load of pap!!! especially about the cosmin hving 220bhp

[Catz]

insanojackson said:

What a load of pap!!! especially about the cosmin hving 220bhp

Not recognise the name Purdy from CTRO?

Reckon he just wants to start a "colours" war.

[purdy84]

Catz said:

insanojackson said:

What a load of pap!!! especially about the cosmin hving 220bhp

Not recognise the name Purdy from CTRO?

Reckon he just wants to start a "colours" war.

[ferrisbueller]

havoc said:

Sounds like horse. Not heard of any electronics that can re-map themselves. And with an engine like those, you're more likely to lose a few horses as they get older, not gain them.

Agree. There are algorithms that change fuelling and timing for things such as fuel octane etc. However, as you say, not sure how they would alter base maps, rather than put offsets etc in place.

WHy do you say "engines like those" will lose power?

[havoc]

ferrisbueller said:

WHy do you say "engines like those" will lose power?

High compression high performance n/asp - as it gets older it'll slowly lose a few horses here and there, due to internal wear and slight loss of compression. I'm talking years and lots of 10's of 1,000s of miles here, not just 3ys/36k.

[ferrisbueller]

havoc said:

ferrisbueller said:

WHy do you say "engines like those" will lose power?

High compression high performance n/asp - as it gets older it'll slowly lose a few horses here and there, due to internal wear and slight loss of compression. I'm talking years and lots of 10's of 1,000s of miles here, not just 3ys/36k.

Isn't that the same for most engines then?

[havoc]

ferrisbueller said:

Isn't that the same for most engines then?

I suppose so. I just figured a highly-stressed lump would be more susceptible.

[purdy84]

insanojackson said:

What a load of pap!!! especially about the cosmin hving 220bhp

Hows you getting on with the FN2??

[insanojackson]

Its going ok, No isuues apart from the minor 3trd gear issue a lot of people seem to have!

even managing 30mpg too!

[Dracoro]

Although I don't believe this, I can see how it could be implemented. Ultimately the mapping is just a computer program run in the ECU is it not?. So, computer runs map 1 and checks mileometer, once mileage at 50k (or whatever) it then starts to use map 2 rather than map 1.

[gurusan]

hehe no, the ecu definitely does NOT "remap" itself for 212bhp