How do you tell a well tuned car from one that is set up and tuned by guesswork or lack of through testing and refinement? Join us in this episode as we dive behind the scenes of the essence of Japanese tuning. Presented by Spoon Sports, a well known and top level tuning company respected by JDM and Honda fans worldwide. Fans of Spoon will surely remember past iconic cars like the Civic EG6, EK9 and FD2 in media for their performance on the track and touge for their sharp handling and performance. Building upon an already capable high performance machine could be akin to sharpening a well made samurai sword. How would it be like if a kitchen knife is turned into a weapon capable of carving ice blocks? Many tuners have worked on seemingly mundane cars like the Toyota Vitz, Nissan March, Honda Fit and various 'Kei Cars', turning them into cars that could very well give genuine sports a run for their money both on the track and the winding roads.

Spoon Sports is no stranger to working on such cars. Their Mid-Engine S660 Kei car featured in previous episodes with 100PS from a 0.6 litre turbo charged engine with body reinforcement parts, suspension and brakes to turn it into perhaps one of the most nimble cornering machines that Captbradford has ever driven.

The second generation Honda N One RS released in 2020 which comes with the awaited 6 Speed Manual transmission, improved chassis and a new S07B engine promises to deliver a unique experience in a light weight and responsive package. The Spoon demo car is an ongoing development test bed for performance parts with the same objective to wring out every last bit of potential performance while retaining their principle of reliability for street and track use without sacrificing daily drive utility and most importantly "fun to drive".

The technical analysis of the potential of the stock model enables a tuner to identify areas to improve in order to raise the level of performance without adding unnecessary weight or removing the OEM balance that auto engineers have painstakingly done. The key to modifying is sometimes "less is more". The logic of making small but incremental improvements reveals the next step to making a faster and better but well balanced product. To find out the 'secrets' of this theory, we talk to Jomoto san of Spoon to find out how it is done.

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