Pictures on car and your thoughts on the exhaust note?

 

My friend Chris (DC5RK20A) in Okinawa has the non-resonated amuse on his DC5R; here are some video clips:

http://www.highredline.com/vid...DC5R/

 

I have the resonated over axle Amuse TI exhaust, but it is on a hatchback.

 

That non-resonated version has gotta blow your ear drums out, pretty much a track-only exhaust id think.

 

Sweet moves...

 

Well as Shane pointed out, I have the non-resontated one.

Those quick snips were when I only had the exhaust. Does it blow your ears off, not really, it sounds very good and inside the cabin it is not really intrusive. I can't speak for the people that are driving around me, a few times I have had some locals at a stoplight tell me my car is URASAI (loud), I just smile and give them the . After I installed the Toda mani, well the tone kind of changed, not quite as deep, though still deep, but even still, in the cabin it is not so bad.

Some may have already seen this, but here is a quick run, this is without the GruppeM installed.

VIDEO

 

Just curious, but have you driven any of the 98 spec DC2R's there and could make any comparisons to your DC5R? As far as handling, tranny, engine power etc...

 

holy mother...that exhaust is beautiful

 

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Engine power, well that is easy, the K20 is incredible, though the B18 is no slouch. The K20 is just years ahead of it, well that is obvious, the B series has been around for quite sometime as we all know. One of the local guys here, has his B18 ITBd, ported and polished, ECU (I think Spoon) and the normal bolt-ons and when we play high speed games, I easily just walk away. Everytime he just has this look of like damn that engine. Well he is going turbo, so I guess now I will be playing try to keep up.

The tranny, even though it is using cable and not a rod, like on the old EFs, the feel is no different, Honda's trannies have always been like butter and this one just joins the family. The gearing is wonderful and having the sixth cog is nice, though it is not a cruising gear like it appears in the stateside Type S. It wants to keep accelerating hard when in sixth.

Handling, I know alot of people diss the McPherson setup, that it is a step backwards, but until those people actually drive a Type R DC5, they shouldn't say ****. The car handles wonderfully, now there are no circuits here on Okinawa so I can't go into great depth how it would perform in that arena, but in the twisties, the car is planted and planted hard. The extra rigidity in the chassis may be the definite contributing factor there, because I won't lie, a double-wishbone is the preferred sussy, especially on a FF vehicle. Though in hard running I can't seem to tell a difference and I went into with an open-mind, I know Honda and what they are about, and the car would not of been given the R status if not worthy, hence the S stateside can't compare and the Austrailian R is no longer going to be called the R, they are changing it to S. I really wish Honda would release the R version stateside so some of you DC2R owners can take it for a spin to compare.

Myself, no I haven't actually driven a DC2R extensively, a quick jaunt in a parking lot when a few of the local Honda guys and I met up one afternoon. All I can compare to with double wishbone is my old EG9 Ferio SiR, EK4 SiR, EF9 SiR and EF3 Si. Of course the DC2R has a stiffer sus stock, but none of my cars had stock sus very long.

Overall, I am very happy with the car, and if I had to purchase again, most definitely I would. Yes I could of bought a used DC2R and went wild with mods for what I paid for the 5R, but I wanted a brand new vehicle as I never had a first car for myself.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by DC5RK20A &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Though in hard running I can't seem to tell a difference and I went into with an open-mind, I know Honda and what they are about, and the car would not of been given the R status if not worthy, hence the S stateside can't compare and the Austrailian R is no longer going to be called the R, they are changing it to S. I really wish Honda would release the R version stateside so some of you DC2R owners can take it for a spin to compare.</TD></TR></TABLE>

For a stock car, the DC5 is excellent. Even if it is prepped for occasional track days it is still excellent.
However, when it needs to be prepped as a *race car*, teams run into problems with the suspensoin geometry when the car is lowered more than one inch. In order to solve that problem, the suspension pick-up points would need to be altered. It involves a lot of research and testing and if it is done right, it would be a very capable race car. HOWEVER, most Group N series do not allow the suspension to be altered so the teams are stuck, and that's where the bad reviews are coming from.

 

Nice JDM welds.

 

Thanks for the write-up... I've driven the RSX S here and while it's a nice car, many things were left to be desired for me, which i believe the R version would make up for. The closest i can get to that is just the reviews and track battles in my Best Motoring videos

 

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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Migs &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> your thoughts on the exhaust note?</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

Well the other end of the exhaust is mated to a H22a via AN-R header so the exhaust note is a little deeper thatn what that exhaust would usually give. But I love every aspect of it, yeah its deep but not raspy like a majority of the exhausts, its just a deep mellow harmony. As for looks well I will let the pic explain that.