« Reply #33 on: 05 March 2017, 13:17 »
I have a workmate who has a JDM Type R with fancy LSD and rock hard suspension.
If you're used to driving a CTR then the power delivery of the GTI will feel a bit funny as it's almost Diesel like (compared to the Honda as opposed to an actual Diesel) in that it does all its stuff low down in the rev range. In that respect the power delivery is very useable in day to day driving but you'll probably find yourself revving the engine far too high and thinking it's a bit flat rather than using the broad spread of torque to catapult you along.
Which is where the R comes in. The R does its best stuff above 4000rpm.
That's the thing with Type R. The V-Tec doesn't kick in until around 7,000 revs and by that time you're generally going well above the speed limit!!
I found much the same thing with the R, although it's an amazingly flexible engine, to get the best out of it you had to be using the full rev range and in which case the speed limits would be exceeded by quite an impressive amount very quickly.
I ended up adding a JB1 tuning box which gave the engine a lot more mid range torque and added a whole new dimension to the power delivery, but in effect I then drove the car like a Diesel riding on the torque and rarely used high revs due to the aforementioned speed limits so it kind of defeated the object of having such an engine...
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