Fatherpain’s 2018 Type R

[fatherpain]

My first modification after PPF and a ceramic coat was an exhaust (Sequence), which also happened to be the only part I had a shop install. (Can't say I was impressed with the work, but didn't have a lift at the time.)

I’ve since adjusted and corrected some of the shops’ mistakes, but have always felt robbed of the experience of replacing the exhaust, haha.

As luck would have it, J's Racing USA recently asked me to install a few items to their car... one being **drumroll** an exhaust.

As this was a "job" and had to get the car back to them quickly, I didn't take a bunch of photos to do a full step by step... however, did get enough where it should be clear. Swapping exhausts turned out to be fairly simple.

With the car safely raised, removed the aluminum undertray and undid enough plastic clips and bolts to pull down enough of the plastic under body to expose where the exhaust connects to the front pipe.

There are (3) nuts to remove using a 14mm socket, extension and ratchet. Made sure to spray kroil first. The nuts come off, but the FP studs are fixed. The exhaust will have to slide off of them when ready to pull.

But first there are several exhaust hangers that need to be disengaged from rubber pieces like this. Spraying kroil or WD-40 here also helps. Be sure to wear eye protection when working under the car and looking up. There isn't enough play to move the exhaust hangers, so I used a pry bar and my fingers to pry and separate the rubber from the hanger prongs in the direction of the arrows.

There are (8) hanger prongs to disengage before the exhaust will come off the car. The muffler section required me to undo (3) plastic push clips on each side of the liner under the hatch to provide space for the exhaust to come out..

The OEM exhaust is kinda heavy and can pinch your hand when it comes loose so be careful. I was able to remove it by myself, but ideally you would have a buddy to help.

The stock exhaust is (1) long continuous piece as seen here. Most shops doing an install will cut it in half to remove because it’s easier remove and transport and probably quicker to do it that way. The dude that did mine, said he could weld it back together if I ever wanted to put it back, but the cut was so sloppy I had my doubts. Be aware and speak up if wish to save your stock exhaust for any reason.

Installing the new exhaust was a simple matter of bolting one section on at a time, starting at the front pipe connection. In this case, the J's Racing exhaust came with new flange gaskets and bolting. The stock FP nuts were re-used. Tightened each flange evenly.

My preference is an exhaust with flanged sections like this as leaks are less likely. Other manufacturers may use slip joints, like the Sequence that is on my car.

The hangers must be connected to the rubber inserts before making the final flange connection for the exhaust tip end. Can see the gasket on the cardboard below. After checking everything tight. Reinstalled the plastic undercover and all push pins and bolts.

For the Type R, I prefer a valved (3) tip exhaust (Sequence) but the J's Racing (2) tip definitely looks nice and aggressive.

J's Racing exhaust installed. The kit included a short length of hose to cut and make spacers with for the hangers. Washers and cotter pins were also included to ensure the hanger pins don't come off.

Driving the car back, the J's Racing exhaust has a good tone, but is a little louder than what I'm used to and not being valved it's always on, heh.

 

[saint365]

My first modification after PPF and a ceramic coat was an exhaust (Sequence), which also happened to be the only part I had a shop install. (Can't say I was impressed with the work, but didn't have a lift at the time.)

I’ve since adjusted and corrected some of the shops’ mistakes, but have always felt robbed of the experience of replacing the exhaust, haha.

As luck would have it, J's Racing USA recently asked me to install a few items. one being **drumroll** an exhaust.

As this was a "job" and had to get the car back to them quickly, I didn't take a bunch of photos to do a full step by step... however, did get enough where it should be clear. Swapping exhausts turned out to be fairly simple.

With the car safely raised, removed the aluminum undertray and undid enough plastic clips and bolts to pull down enough of the plastic under body to expose where the exhaust connects to the front pipe.

There are (3) nuts to remove using a 14mm socket, extension and ratchet. Made sure to spray kroil first. The nuts come off, but the FP studs are fixed. The exhaust will have to slide off of them when ready to pull.

But first there are several exhaust hangers that need to be disengaged from rubber pieces like this. Spraying kroil or WD-40 here also helps. Be sure to wear eye protection when working under the car and looking up. There isn't enough play to move the exhaust hangers, so I used a pry bar and my fingers to pry and separate the rubber from the hanger prongs in the direction of the arrows.

There are (8) hanger prongs to disengage before the exhaust will come off the car. The muffler section required me to undo (3) plastic push clips on each side of the liner under the hatch to provide space for the exhaust to come out..

The OEM exhaust is kinda heavy and can pinch your hand when it comes loose so be careful. I was able to remove it by myself, but ideally you would have a buddy to help.

The stock exhaust is (1) long continuous piece as seen here. Most shops doing an install will cut it in half to remove because it’s easier remove and transport and probably quicker to do it that way. The dude that did mine, said he could weld it back together if I ever wanted to put it back, but the cut was so sloppy I had my doubts. Be aware and speak up if wish to save your stock exhaust for any reason.

Installing the new exhaust was a simple matter of bolting one section on at a time, starting at the front pipe connection. In this case, the J's Racing exhaust came with new flange gaskets and bolting. The stock FP nuts were re-used. Tightened each flange evenly.

My preference is an exhaust with flanged sections like this as leaks are less likely. Other manufacturers may use slip joints, like the Sequence that is on my car.

The hangers must be connected to the rubber inserts before making the final flange connection for the exhaust tip end. Can see the gasket on the cardboard below. After checking everything tight. Reinstalled the plastic undercover and all push pins and bolts.

For the Type R, my preferece is a valved (3) tip exhaust (Sequence) but the J's Racing (2) tip definitely looks nice and aggressive.

J's Racing exhaust installed. The kit included a short length of hose to cut and make spacers with for the hangers. Washers and cotter pins were also included to ensure the hanger pins don't come off.

Driving the car back, the J's Racing exhaust has a good tone, but is a little louder than what I'm used to and not being valved it's always on, heh.

I'm confused...I thought you had CW and now you have RR??

 

[NapalmEnema]

I'm confused...I thought you had CW and now you have RR??

Same - confused lol Start of thread it's even white? <puts down whiskey and backs away>

 

[fatherpain]

Heh yes, I still have the 2018 CW and love it. Can see it just to the left of the last pic on previous post.

This Rally Red is the J's Racing USA car. 2021 model year I believe... Treated it as if it were my car when installing. Was very interesting driving a less modded and newer type R to and from their shop...heh.

I'm confused...I thought you had CW and now you have RR??

 

[spyder57]

@fatherpain you are a treasure on this site, please don't ever sell

 

[fatherpain]

Thank you spyder57. No worries, I have no intention of selling this car ever. If anything, it will probably be left to one of my kids someday (if there still is gasoline by that time) lol.

Still have a few mods left to perform and I'd definitely like to spend more time learning to be a better driver at the track.

I've been going hard at the arcade hobby, trying to finish that out, which is why I've not posted much here lately.

@fatherpain you are a treasure on this site, please don't ever sell

 

[GavinOC]

I always loved that J’s racing wing, it really changes the look of the car and body lines from certain angles.

The FK8 would have sold better with a similar style wing. Almost reminds me what they did to the FL5

 

[BBTypeR]

@fatherpain, I wanted to thank you for this write-up. I used this to augment the poor install instructions for the Wagner intercooler and DP install.

For the latter, I lucked out with Seafoam Deep Creep penetrating spray with an overnight soak. All 4 nuts/studs came out without the need for a breaker bar. Your tip on not reusing the nuts to double-nut remove the turbo stud probably saved me a ton of heartache.

 

[fatherpain]

You’re very welcome. Always great to read these posts have been helpful to someone’s builds. Have found lots of manufacture’s instructions are abit ambiguous and require some problem solving to avoid issues, so I like to share what I’ve encountered for everyone’s benefit. Solid choice going with Wagner.

@fatherpain, I wanted to thank you for this write-up. I used this to augment the poor install instructions for the Wagner intercooler and DP install.

For the latter, I lucked out with Seafoam Deep Creep penetrating spray with an overnight soak. All 4 nuts/studs came out without the need for a breaker bar. Your tip on not reusing the nuts to double-nut remove the turbo stud probably saved me a ton of heartache.

 

[fatherpain]

Whelp it's been about a year and a half since I've posted anything significant to the car. Not necessarily because I've lost interest... rather, I have a 2nd hobby that pre-dated the Type R that languished and was neglected for years: collecting classic dedicated arcade games.

At one time I had envisioned making a game room worthy of these magical treasures I grew up playing in my youth. Somewhere along the way, I'd fallen off the path and got busy with other things and never fulfilled that dream. But my love for the games never died.

My wife Sara reminded me of that and ever since then, my focus has turned towards the games and it has been my mission to achieve what I'd originally intended to do.

Have steadily been working on decorating the game room, adjusting the layout and fixing my broken games ever since. Have finally gotten to the point where my OCD has been assuaged and I can host gaming parties.

Still have a bit of work to do, but the game room is getting very close to full operation. There were 20+ non-working games when I dusted everything off. Use it or lose it, as the saying goes.

Have also collected many dedicated arcade posters to frame and display since then.

And am able to have buddies come over and play every couple weeks or so.

Collection currently stands at (44) dedicated machines..

Started collecting back in 2005 thinking my sons would love the games like I do. Well... they mostly don't. Darn Xbox live

But I sure do, haha.

So many games, but I'm outta space. The Type R is an obsession for sure, but this exceeds that. For me at least. Am very lucky the missus puts up with my hobbies. Thankfully it's just this and the car.

But these games are the reason I am unable to park the Type R in the garage like any normal, sane person would do.

But yes, this is what I've been up to lately, in case anyone was wondering. heh

And it's definitely a challenge having (2) expensive time-consuming hobbies.

Even though I find both equally fun on different levels.

That said, I plan to get back to tinkering with the good old Type R soon enough. No part-out or FL5 here. FK8 for life... More on that in a minute. Super excited

 

[fatherpain]

Whelp... Have a few things in the works drawing my attention back to the Type R:

• My game room has progressed to where I feel I can take a break and do other things.
• RV6 has come out with their revised compliance bushings that supposedly eliminates some odd noises from the original design, so I can finally move forward with installing various suspension mods I've had for awhile.
• Am thinking about finally installing the JRZ coilovers I've had for awhile
• My buddies @Sam3 and Steve keep pestering me to get back out there and join them at the track.
• RV6 approved me to be part of their beta team to test out their new big turbo offering.

 

[ApexEight]

But do you have Initial D

 

[fatherpain]

Received this package from RV6 today.

Inside is one of ten beta test units for the RV6 R660 Red ball bearing big turbocharger.

Here is what was contained in the package. Quoted the details RV6 shared on their post here

Our main goal of the R660 RED was to develop a robust and reliable turbocharger. First step to this was ditching the stock sized TD04 format. The TD04 design is popular amongst OE turbochargers for its small compact size and quick response. However trying to squeeze more than 400HP from such a small turbo is difficult to do reliably and comes at the cost of shortened life. In order to achieve our goals we needed to over build and upsize everything.

We built the R660 around a TD05 bearing housing. The TD05 bearing housing is about twice the size of the TD04. This allowed us to use a full sized 8mm ceramic ball bearing for quick spool and increased thrust loads. In order to keep everything cool and reliable. We oversized the coolant passages and used -10AN coolant lines ample cooling.

With a larger TD05 bearing housing we were able to implement a turbine housing with an A/R of 0.81. This significantly reduces the amount of back pressure between the turbo and engine. The solve many issues with unstable boost and overheating.

Wow. I wasn't overly tempted by previous turbo offerings... though had given some thought to the MHI. But RV6 is a brand I trust and believe in so decided to see if they'd accept me as a beta tester and they did. I was a little late to the show, but got in at the last minute as their 9th tester.

Build quality appears excellent as one would expect.

Though my engine is not built and I won't be chasing big power numbers for fear of blowing the stock engine, my tuner Ben Salasko believes this larger turbo is definitely worth upgrading to and will improve performance even on a conservative track tune.

Not 100% sure but believe my car is the only Motec tuned Type R in the initial beta test group, so hopefully will be able to provide RV6 some useful albeit different test feedback.

One thing I hadn't considered before committing to beta test, is thought I have an XDI HPFP with drilled fuel line, the safety factor will increase with larger fuel injectors, so plan to upgrade those at the same time. Abit of work lies ahead, once my schedule eases abit and I'm able to tear into the car again. Anticipating some fun times and impressive results.

 

[fatherpain]

No way, I'm too old for that. I do have Pole Position, however and the Type R of course.

But do you have Initial D

 

[ToofHurts]

Def upgrade injectors. I went with XDI 1350s. MHI, XDI 1350s, XDI pump, drilled line, Motec. Not even close to > 80% pump duty cycle. Also consider ethanol.

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