My 2012 Nautical Blue tC 2 project officially started.
As you may recall I bought the car back in August 29th.
Since I did quite a few projects in the past, I knew that the tC will not be an exception.
Leading Import Performance magazine DSport it's in charge of the festivities.
First round of mods where focused on oil, intake and exhaust improvements.
For that purpose Eneos Sustina 0-20W synthetic oil was selected alongside TRD cold air intake and Greddy RS catback exhaust system.
An independent dyno shop was selected for the parts install and the before and after dyno runs.
The entire task on hand was done on October 21st.
Baseline dyno runs with 3880 miles on the odo and factory oil, delivered 180.8 FWHP and 179.7 FWHP.
After oil and filter been replaced by the aforementioned oil, increases between 1-2 FWHP and 2+FWTQ been obtained at the subsequent dyno run, netting 181.9 FWHP and 181.9FWTQ.
Next the TRD cold air intake was installed and after dyno tested the increase was a net 2.7FWHP and 2.6 FWTQ netting184.6 FWHP and 184.3 FWTQ with some areas in the midrange showing a larger increase.
Finally the Greddy RS stainless steel cat back exhaust system was installed ( note that this particular system is ideal for high output normal aspirated mods or forced induction, due to a large pipe diameter).
Upon install, dyno shows a 5.3 FWHP and 3.4 FWTQ increase for a net of 189.9 FWHP and 187.7 FWTQ.
Overall, modest but solid gains been obtained considering that factory intake and exhaust are quite efficient.
The fun just began!
The full report is featured in the current issue of DSport Magazine.
Here are some pics, and before and after dyno graph.

 

i recognize that factory...ur driving on PCH!

 

Wth? Why are my dyno papers saying I only get 145whp and all other ones I see doing 180whp?! Is it because it's an auto or maybe the Eco light was on? Or maybe it because it was 90 degrees outside .. Or Is my Car just f'd up?

 

Vista Del Mar **

 

No 2 dynos are the same

Use each one as a basemark, that's

 

The blue looks good!

 

it is on PCH... lolz

 

I saw this in the magazine I just bought. I had never heard of ENOES oil before. I sit better then Royal Purple?

 

^^ YES

 

please tell us the story of how u got on DSport. That should be interesting!

 

Do u by chance have pics of the bottom half of the intake? I'm curious about how it pulls in the air since the factory snorkle is terrible.

 

Yep, that's PCH( city of Huntington Beach).
PS : I'm not driving the car (it's Jeren from DSport).

Hard to answer that question.
It could well be the reasons that you stated plus probably something going on with the dyno set up.

 

Here is one pic, but it's hard to see the end of the intake that low in the engine bay, its about 10 inches longer that what the pic shows.

 

I'd been in the mag industry back in the 90's.
I met Mike ( DSport Publisher) back then.

 

Ah, like a factory version of my idea to install the hose for a velocity stack replacin the snorkel down the side of the engine bay, nice, how did the intake sound? Or did u just hear the intake/exhaust together?

 

Quite honestly the noticeable factory intake roar is gone.
Now the exhaust rules, even with the silencer (DB killer) bolted in.

 

That happened with my skunk2 on my civic lol.

Does the Rs replace the secondary cat?

 

I have to check that
Yes it does, because it's part of the midsection with the resonator that goes all the way back to the rear axle.

 

Ok lol, after my civic I don't feel like swappig parts out come emissions time every year again, but I do want a better sound performance and I prefer N1 styling. That Rs seems perfect lol.

 

I see that's cool. My cuz was in the mag industry back in the day too. N I know a few ppl that have been featured in the mag.

Though at the time i didn have my tC yet n not into the scene yet