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Honda Tuning Tips and Modifications

Maximise your Honda's driving pleasure

Honda Car Tuning Tips And Advice. We Have A Wide Range Of Tuning Articles Covering All Models Of Honda From Small Engined Family Civics To Large Engine Hot Hatches And Executive Cars Like The Accord And Integra. Honda Introduced A Range Of High Perfoming And Well Balanced Engines In The Guise Of The Type R.

The Honda Engines Are Very Well Built And Can Tolerate Much Higher Speeds Than Most Other Makers. The VTEC Mechanism Has Never Failed Under Warantee And Provides 2 States Of Engine.

In Terms Of The Power Per 1000cc Ratio For NASP Engines Honda Win Hands Down Squeezing Nearly 100bhp Per 1000cc On More Engines Across Their Range Than Any Other Manufacturer. The Type-R Models Are The Perfect Hondas And Provide A Suitable Target For Your Tuning Project And Will Also Provide A Large Amount Of Compatible Performance Spares.

Following Our Tuning Tips You Will Avoid Many Of The Common Mistakes And Actually Achieve The Perfect Car Setup You Desire. Even The Well Tuned Civic Type R And Integra Type R Can Be Optimised Further And Benefit From Extra Power. We Have Frequent Discussions About Adding A Supercharger Or Turbo To The 1.8 And 2.0 Type R Engine In Our Forum As Owners Continually Strive For Even More Power (some People Are Never Happy)! Please Join The forum For Model Specific Questions And Answers And To Meet Other Friendly Honda Owners And See What Modifications They Have Done.

TorqueCars started providing Honda performance, car tuning and car styling Tips and advice back in 2003 and have grown from strength to strength with a fast growing membership of all types of cars including many, Honda owners. We are currently one of the fastest growing car tuning clubs around and certainly one of the friendliest. In 2007 we organised our first full car show in Kent.

Our Honda tuning and styling articles are continually updated so for the latest Honda performance,tuning and styling advice, tips and pointers please check back regularly. We strongly recommend that you join our modified car forum and swap performance ideas with like minded Honda owners in the performance forums. If you have a Honda project underway we would love to hear about it, the Gallery section in the forum contains some interesting projects.

  • Selected Honda Stats
  • Civic Civic Saloon LSi 4d - 1493 cc - 89 bhp - 119 Nm
  • Civic Civic Hatchback 1.4i (90bhp) 5d (97) - 1396 cc - 90 bhp - 117 Nm
  • Accord Accord Tourer 2.4i VTEC Executive 5d Auto - 2354 cc - 187 bhp - 223 Nm
  • Accord Accord Hatchback 1.8i VTEC S 5d Auto (99) - 1850 cc - 134 bhp - 175 Nm
  • Concerto Concerto Hatchback 1.6i-16 5d - 1590 cc - 121 bhp - 140 Nm
  • Accord Accord Tourer 2.4i TYPE-S 5d - 2354 cc - 187 bhp - 223 Nm
  • Civic Civic Hatchback 1.4i S 5d (00) - 1396 cc - 88 bhp - 130 Nm
  • Accord Accord Saloon 2.0i SE 4d Auto - 1997 cc - 135 bhp - -
  • Integra Integra Type-R 1.8 Type-R 2d - 1797 cc - 187 bhp - 178 Nm
  • Accord Accord Saloon 2.0 EXi 16 4d - 1958 cc - 137 bhp - -

Section:Honda

NSX Tuning

We look at NSX tuning and report on the best modifications. Honda NSX are popular cars and with a few performance modifications you can increase your driving pleasure. Read On

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