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Article: A SPOONFUL OF HORSEPOWER; Japanese tuner goes upscale with a racing RL.(Spoon Sports Inc.)
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- AutoWeek
- Article date:
- May 8, 2006
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Byline: DINO DALLE CARBONARE
In the world of Honda tuning, Spoon Sports has earned a reputation for making genuine improvements on the base product. Not an easy thing if you take into account Honda already builds its engines to high standards. Think of the B18 and K20 units that push out well in excess of 100 hp per liter. How can you possibly improve on this without compromising longevity and usability?
We've all heard stories of people bolting on pod filters and large bore exhausts to their Integras and S2000s in the pursuit of power gains and then achieving the exact opposite. You certainly cannot disrupt the fine-tuning and precise balance between ...