I had to leave. I had to excuse myself before I passed out and ruined something really, really expensive. I went outside for some fresh air and while I turned the corner away from the front door, I almost fell over something really, really expensive!
It was another damned Civic Type R! I tell you, Ichishima-san must own every Civic Type R that hasn’t been parted out and sent to America. He seemed to be overloaded with them compared to the rest of the shops! I peered inside to see if it was running a Spoon cluster, but obviously this guy sold his Type R cluster and if he had a Spoon cluster he must have sold that one, too. He was rocking a custom display!
But that wasn’t all that was unique about this Civic. For those of you that think it’s tough to be unique in the Civic world, especially still going JDM take note!
What you should have caught in the last picture is the crazy fender flaring. In case you didn’t here’s what I’m talking about
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Why the hell would someone do that to perfectly good fenders? Well, for grip driving you want as much tire up front as you can get away with. This one had more tire than I had ever seen up front on a Civic!
From that side shot, you should have also caught one more thing. This one may have been easier to spot but only if you know what you’re looking for. I’ll give you a big hint – it’s missing the Type R rear lip! I guess they shipped it to America and here’s what they replaced it with:
Give up yet? Welcome to the world of Hondas running carbon fiber rear diffusers! Spoon beat me to it! It was almost the same design I was planning to implement!
That’s okay. As many of you know, I’m not a hater when someone comes up with a great and original application for race technology! Still, there’s something unique about this car that even I didn’t catch until PB said something. Can you see what he saw?
There’s no header wrapping under the engine and the transmission is on the wrong side! That’s right! Spoon is putting the K20 to good use in their FF race cars! I couldn’t be happier . . . or more disgusted. I laugh about the thought of Spoon yanking one of their B16B’s and tossing it on eBay for some lucky American swapper.
I left Spoon amazed as always, but this time they had truly outdone themselves. I know what they can do with stripped down race cars with the familiar blue and yellow scheme. But what they had done with their street cars and mild race cars impressed me the most. If you want to see the most spotlessly clean (in appearance, flow, mechanics, and function) Spoon always delivers the best.
Speaking of delivering the best – Jesse scored a parting gift from our friends at Type One. Since they’re doing so many K swaps it seems they have little use for B series engines unless they land in some random SiR chassis. Of course those already have shift linkage so it was very little surprise when Jesse asked what they were doing with some gold shift linkage in the corner. A look of disgust and a stern “Scraaaap” meant Jesse was walking out of Type One with some free beefy Type R linkage. The lucky bastard walked down the street for a few blocks before noticing that there was still a Spoon Sports shifter bushing attached. How lucky can you get?