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Hey everyone, new to the forums, but not new to the scene.
A little bit of an about us. CTECH Automotive was founded in 2018 after a decade of modifying and driving JDM and German vehicles. We began as strictly online parts sales for Volkswagen, Audi, Nissans, and Honda platforms. As our passion grew even deeper, connections and relationships formed over the years - on the street and on the track, we decided to open an independent shop to continue providing specially curated aftermarket automotive parts, and modifying and building cars in 2022. Over the years, we were drawn more and more to two particular brands that really focus on the pinnacle driving experiences: Porsche and Honda. This has lead us to become great friends of the leaders of one of our major sponsors and supporters over at a very popular Facebook group called Average Middle Class Garage Goals who share our deep passion for anything automotive and shop/garage related.
Feel free to head to the site (fine tuning still in progress): https://ctechautomotive.com/ and let us know if you're looking for any parts; we're happy to help the community, and would love to become a forum sponsor!
We have a few shop (and personal) cars here, namely, '97 EK9, '19 FK8, and a '25 FL5 that this thread will focus on. We also have a '14 Porsche Cayman S 981 dedicated track car that is towed by our Gen 3 Raptor. We're quite familiar with these platforms, hence the decision to expand our online sales platform.
We picked up the FL5 back in mid-February. We weren't planning on buying it this early, as we were expecting to dive into the platform late fall/early winter. We got a great deal (MSRP) through a referral especially considering the market here in North Texas that every dealer was still asking for markup so we couldn't pass it up! Obviously now with the tariffs, we're super glad we picked it up when we did.
2025 Honda Civic Type R FL5 in Championship White (#R-38506)
Our FK8, EK9, and FL5
About a week after we picked it up, we were in contact with Cobb Tuning as they were looking for a MY '25 to do their R&D to release their Accessport tuning support for '25. We headed down to Austin and with about 900 miles on the odo, Cobb went to work.
As we're super familiar with the Cobb tuning platform, everything went well. R&D validated that the MY '25 had no changes to the ECU compared to '23/'24 cars including the ECU bench unlock procedure. Got a Stage 1 93 oct OTS map on it, took a shop tour, and had a blast. I'll have to find the dyno chart, but on a low reading Mustang dyno it was IIRC 325whp/330wtq. Power band was even more smoothed out/linear and top end felt a lot more punchy all the way to redline compared to stock map.
We were also the first '25 to get a protune by our friend Alan Jackson at Edge Autosport with his e-tune service. As a "development" car, we did run into some Cobb Accesstuner issues (the tuning software) and we were able to get new revisions of the software pushed to the community after some trial and error. After a few revisions of logs back and forth, everything is looking great! This coming week we'll be getting with Alan again at a local-ish dyno to do more in depth testing for this platform and see what kind of power we can make over the OTS tune, and see how much power we can make safely and reliably. It won't be a "send it" tune, we want safety and reliably first and foremost.
Special thanks to Matt over at Cobb to host us and work with us on the R&D side of things. Happy to provide a car they were needing!
Anyways, we threw on some Eibach Sportline springs as stock heigh is quite 4x4 mode, Project Aero front lip, PLM wing risers, and along with hardwire radar detector, OEM Accord Homelink mirror, and a FitCamX dash cam.
Next up is awaiting our wheels. As a dealer for Volk Racing, we have (2) sets of CE28s coming in our next shipment in late summer/early fall. One set will be for sale: Volk Racing CE28SL 18x9.5 +35 in Pressed Graphite. Let us know if you're interested in this set!
We're going to keep the other set, which is normally referred to as "god spec": Volk Racing CE28N+ M-Spec 18x10 +40 in Dark Diamond Gunmetal. Going to go with 285/30/18 Yoko AD09s (we're super happy with A052s on our track Cayman, so we're sticking with the Yokos).
Some other things we're waiting on is:
Ohlin R&T with Sakebomb camber plates
Whiteline Lower Camber joints (on the way) - aiming for -3.5ish front camber to reduce some understeer and keep tire wear even on the track
Eibach rear camber arms
RV6 rear lower control arm buckets
Eibach rear sway bar
aFe Takeda intake
PRL Intercooler
HKS Hi-Power exhaust with Invidia front pipe
Acuity or Hybrid Racing shifter
ARP extended wheel studs
Project Kics R40 lug nuts
etc
I'll keep you guys updated on the build, and again, feel free to reach out through our site or email us [email protected] if you have any questions or are looking for parts - we don't sell or even recommend anything we wouldn't use on our own cars. Excited to really take this platform up a notch!
A little bit of an about us. CTECH Automotive was founded in 2018 after a decade of modifying and driving JDM and German vehicles. We began as strictly online parts sales for Volkswagen, Audi, Nissans, and Honda platforms. As our passion grew even deeper, connections and relationships formed over the years - on the street and on the track, we decided to open an independent shop to continue providing specially curated aftermarket automotive parts, and modifying and building cars in 2022. Over the years, we were drawn more and more to two particular brands that really focus on the pinnacle driving experiences: Porsche and Honda. This has lead us to become great friends of the leaders of one of our major sponsors and supporters over at a very popular Facebook group called Average Middle Class Garage Goals who share our deep passion for anything automotive and shop/garage related.
Feel free to head to the site (fine tuning still in progress): https://ctechautomotive.com/ and let us know if you're looking for any parts; we're happy to help the community, and would love to become a forum sponsor!
We have a few shop (and personal) cars here, namely, '97 EK9, '19 FK8, and a '25 FL5 that this thread will focus on. We also have a '14 Porsche Cayman S 981 dedicated track car that is towed by our Gen 3 Raptor. We're quite familiar with these platforms, hence the decision to expand our online sales platform.
We picked up the FL5 back in mid-February. We weren't planning on buying it this early, as we were expecting to dive into the platform late fall/early winter. We got a great deal (MSRP) through a referral especially considering the market here in North Texas that every dealer was still asking for markup so we couldn't pass it up! Obviously now with the tariffs, we're super glad we picked it up when we did.
2025 Honda Civic Type R FL5 in Championship White (#R-38506)
Our FK8, EK9, and FL5
About a week after we picked it up, we were in contact with Cobb Tuning as they were looking for a MY '25 to do their R&D to release their Accessport tuning support for '25. We headed down to Austin and with about 900 miles on the odo, Cobb went to work.
As we're super familiar with the Cobb tuning platform, everything went well. R&D validated that the MY '25 had no changes to the ECU compared to '23/'24 cars including the ECU bench unlock procedure. Got a Stage 1 93 oct OTS map on it, took a shop tour, and had a blast. I'll have to find the dyno chart, but on a low reading Mustang dyno it was IIRC 325whp/330wtq. Power band was even more smoothed out/linear and top end felt a lot more punchy all the way to redline compared to stock map.
We were also the first '25 to get a protune by our friend Alan Jackson at Edge Autosport with his e-tune service. As a "development" car, we did run into some Cobb Accesstuner issues (the tuning software) and we were able to get new revisions of the software pushed to the community after some trial and error. After a few revisions of logs back and forth, everything is looking great! This coming week we'll be getting with Alan again at a local-ish dyno to do more in depth testing for this platform and see what kind of power we can make over the OTS tune, and see how much power we can make safely and reliably. It won't be a "send it" tune, we want safety and reliably first and foremost.
Special thanks to Matt over at Cobb to host us and work with us on the R&D side of things. Happy to provide a car they were needing!
Anyways, we threw on some Eibach Sportline springs as stock heigh is quite 4x4 mode, Project Aero front lip, PLM wing risers, and along with hardwire radar detector, OEM Accord Homelink mirror, and a FitCamX dash cam.
Next up is awaiting our wheels. As a dealer for Volk Racing, we have (2) sets of CE28s coming in our next shipment in late summer/early fall. One set will be for sale: Volk Racing CE28SL 18x9.5 +35 in Pressed Graphite. Let us know if you're interested in this set!
We're going to keep the other set, which is normally referred to as "god spec": Volk Racing CE28N+ M-Spec 18x10 +40 in Dark Diamond Gunmetal. Going to go with 285/30/18 Yoko AD09s (we're super happy with A052s on our track Cayman, so we're sticking with the Yokos).
Some other things we're waiting on is:
Ohlin R&T with Sakebomb camber plates
Whiteline Lower Camber joints (on the way) - aiming for -3.5ish front camber to reduce some understeer and keep tire wear even on the track
Eibach rear camber arms
RV6 rear lower control arm buckets
Eibach rear sway bar
aFe Takeda intake
PRL Intercooler
HKS Hi-Power exhaust with Invidia front pipe
Acuity or Hybrid Racing shifter
ARP extended wheel studs
Project Kics R40 lug nuts
etc
I'll keep you guys updated on the build, and again, feel free to reach out through our site or email us [email protected] if you have any questions or are looking for parts - we don't sell or even recommend anything we wouldn't use on our own cars. Excited to really take this platform up a notch!
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