It's not all show, though. We only went street driving but the car has great steering and handling, thanks to a mildly set up Spoon suspension system. But if you need to get a little more aggressive on the corners, it has the leeway to go that way, too. It's still a S2000 with high performance Spoon parts developed for track racing. With the Spoon steering wheel in hand, you can feel each pothole and bump on the road. Without the audio, you can actually hear yourself thinking in this car. The Skills 80mm dual exhaust gives a nice tweak in volume and tone to the exhaust note. We took it to the nightlife of Tokyo but we never got any weird looks, just stares because we had a hot girl standing with little clothes in front of the car most of the time.
Whether going for race or comfort, it's always nice to have first-class brakes. Up front we've got Spoon Monocoque calipers/323mm rotors and in the rear, NSX calipers/323mm rotors. Better safe than sorry and nothing scarier than failing brakes on the tracks or on the street. It rolls with 18-inch HRE C21 American wheels with Bridgestone RE01Rs on the front and ADVAN Neovas on the back. This is utterly unheard of in the past with a typical Spoon car.
The Skills and Spoon collaborative effort kind of makes you forget you're in a car that's mostly made up by racing parts. You've got a car with an A-class audio system that's smooth going down the B roads of Tokyo. Not like there are many B roads in this country anyway. But if you ask me, Yuki's got the half-ass thing done pretty tight.
Fast Facts
'99 Honda S2000 (AP1)
Owner Yuki Imamura
Hometown Tokyo, Japan
Daily Grind Spoon Sports employee
Under The Hood blueprinted/balanced F20C engine by Spoon Sports; Spoon Sports radiator, radiator hoses, radiator cap, reservoir socks and oil cap; GReddy/Trust 517Z turbo; Skills 80mm dual exhaust, custom cooling panel/catch tank/carbon intake scoop and oil filter relocation kit
Brains Spoon Sports ECU; GReddy e-Manage Ultimate
The Power 300ps at 8,000 rpm; 28.6kgm at 7,000 rpm
Stiff Stuff Spoon Sports coilovers and front strut bar
Stoppers Spoon Sports front monoblock calipers with 323mm rotor/Honda NSX rear calipers with 323mm rotor
Rollers 18-inch HRE C21 wheels; Bridgestone RE01R 255/35R18 (front) and ADVAN Neova 255/35R18 (rear) tires
Outside Spoon Sports front and rear bumpers, hood, hard top and front and rear fenders
Inside Defi water temp, oil pressure and oil temp gauges; Spoon Sports steering wheel
Ice Carrozzeria DEX-P01 II head unit, XDV P70 CD/DVD unit, DEQ-P01II digital processor; JL Audio 500/1v2 Amps (classic D monoblock subwoofers) x 2, W7 subwoofers and ZR two-way component speakers; Gathers navi