The New Honda Civic Type R Somehow Makes 295bhp At The Wheels

Despite a claimed power output of only a little over 300bhp, a tuning company's dyno test suggests that the Civic might be a bit more powerful than that...

Matt Kimberley

19 Jun 2017

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The Honda Civic Type R is putting out 295bhp at the wheels, according to a Puerto Rican dyno test that suggests that either the car is putting out even more than its claimed power, or that its drivetrain losses are pretty damn small.

With 316bhp the advertised flywheel power figure, a loss of just 21bhp through the engine, gearbox and drive shafts would be way lower than expected.

The real truth, which the tuning company’s Facebook post doesn’t help us with, is that the Civic might simply be putting out a fair bit more than 316bhp; perhaps more like 335bhp. Or maybe the dyno is over-reading. DynoCenter’s video above is too short to give us any extra information to help us judge. Either way, that’s one feisty Civic.

Comments

i know what happend….VTEC KICKED IN YO!!!

Guess some of that extra power didn’t fit in my Honda :(

Nissan: “276 horsepower”

Not only Nissan… Every Japanese sports car.

Me: 276 Horsepower
Nissan: 276 hOrSePoWeR

Doesn’t it make 316 at the flywheel?

I think id does but people still think it has 306hp not 316hp for example Doug Demuro said in his review that the car has 306hp. The new Type R has 10 more HP im 100% sure

What is the flywheel? (Stupid Question probably)

340 at the crank

They also dyno’d a blue ctr that made 301. My guess is it was hot and the air was thin. They also raced a white ctr against a k20 stripped eg and it held up pretty well.

Quite a few cars over read. For instance the pd130 TDI engine made anyway from 135-140bhp in ASZ for and the BLT code has made over 150bhp standard in a few instances.

I also read that the new focus RS makes less than its stated power.