★☆ 2004 Spoon S2000 Coupe ☆★
12-20-2007, 11:06 AM
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Hi guys.
I'm a little late to this thread. I helped Alex a little with final setup. And I must say, when I went to the track and knew this was basically the first time the car had been tracked in its current form with lots of new parts, I was prepared to spend a lot of time just getting the thing to run somewhere close to right. Most modified cars need a lot of on track R&D time to really be effective. I've had plenty of experience in Spoon's FWD cars, but this was the first S2k I had driven with thier parts.
Alex really deserves credit for putting a full package together and for going over everything before putting someone else in the driver seat. There were no mechanical issues, not scary drivability issues, or anything. Out of the box the car was pretty darn fast. I think this also speaks volume to how comprehensive spoon's parts are and how they are designed to work as a system together. In the past, I've gotten into cars that have had coilovers, swaybars, wheel offsets and widths, alignment specs, brakes, etc all developed in a vacuum. When these parts from multiple vendors were then put together, you often end up with a car that is an oversteer monster, pushes like a b!tch, or simply has drivability issues and take some time to sort out.
It was interesting to see that the spoon catalogue car you see here wasn't like that. We made damper adjustments, played with tire pressures, and afterward made changed how tight the diff is, and the car was brilliant. With more time and tools, we'd probably play with spring rates a little, and make some fine tuning adjustments to the alignment, but after 3 track sessions the car was 95% of the way there.
Thanks Alex for asking me to come out. You've got a heck of a fun car on your hands.
Matt
I'm a little late to this thread. I helped Alex a little with final setup. And I must say, when I went to the track and knew this was basically the first time the car had been tracked in its current form with lots of new parts, I was prepared to spend a lot of time just getting the thing to run somewhere close to right. Most modified cars need a lot of on track R&D time to really be effective. I've had plenty of experience in Spoon's FWD cars, but this was the first S2k I had driven with thier parts.
Alex really deserves credit for putting a full package together and for going over everything before putting someone else in the driver seat. There were no mechanical issues, not scary drivability issues, or anything. Out of the box the car was pretty darn fast. I think this also speaks volume to how comprehensive spoon's parts are and how they are designed to work as a system together. In the past, I've gotten into cars that have had coilovers, swaybars, wheel offsets and widths, alignment specs, brakes, etc all developed in a vacuum. When these parts from multiple vendors were then put together, you often end up with a car that is an oversteer monster, pushes like a b!tch, or simply has drivability issues and take some time to sort out.
It was interesting to see that the spoon catalogue car you see here wasn't like that. We made damper adjustments, played with tire pressures, and afterward made changed how tight the diff is, and the car was brilliant. With more time and tools, we'd probably play with spring rates a little, and make some fine tuning adjustments to the alignment, but after 3 track sessions the car was 95% of the way there.
Thanks Alex for asking me to come out. You've got a heck of a fun car on your hands.
Matt
12-26-2007, 09:33 AM
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I think my next project is going to restore / FULLY Race my EG9 4 Door Civic. So if anyone has used EG / DC2 Spoon parts PM me, so I don't have to buy stuff new anymore. I'll post up that project when I get started. 