Hybrid Racing Formula Cold Air Intake for 17-21 Civic Type R

Hybrid Racing Formula Cold Air Intake - 2017-2021 Honda Civic Type R (FK8)

We started with a simple question: if we could build everything we wanted into one FK8 intake, what would it look like? It'd make more power through the whole pull, wake up the turbo and induction sound when you get on it, look like it belonged in the engine bay, put the filter within easy reach, and keep up with you as you kept modifying your Civic Type R.

Three MAF housings, seven velocity stacks, several filters, flow-bench testing, 16 material and shielding samples, and 65 dyno pulls later, we had our answer: the Formula Intake. It's our formula for what we think is the best intake you can bolt to an FK8.

The first thing most people want to know about an intake is how much power it makes, so let's answer that head-on. Here are three comparisons we ran on the same 2019 FK8, from the most dramatic result to the most true-to-life.

Just Swap It: Factory ECU Untouched

We started simple. Factory airbox, untouched OEM Honda ECU. Then we bolted on the Formula 76mm Street and changed nothing else. Power jumped from 270.2 to 300.2 wheel horsepower, with no check engine light and no knock correction anywhere in the log. That 30-wheel-horsepower jump honestly shocked us, because modern turbo cars are tightly controlled and a bolt-on intake is supposed to do very little. It isn't 30 horsepower from airflow alone, since the new MAF signal also shifted the ECU's fueling and load math. Even so, it shows how hard the car responded to the swap.

Add FlashPro: Same Base Map, Both Intakes

Next we added Hondata FlashPro and ran both intakes on the same Base Map, before loading any Formula-specific MAF scaling. The curves stayed close through the middle of the pull, then the Formula pulled ahead toward redline. It's a useful real-world middle step, not the final tuned comparison.

Hybrid Racing Formula Cold Air Intake for 17-21 Civic Type R fits the following vehicle(s):

• 2017 Honda Civic
• 2018 Honda Civic
• 2019 Honda Civic
• 2020 Honda Civic
• 2021 Honda Civic