as topic..

 

???

 

SPOON's show room in Japan are called Type ONE, so the exect question is :
is the TypeONE products eg: Ti exhaust, header etc, made by Type ONE (SPOON showroom) or another different brand?

 

Are you talking about the Type One products sold by A&J Racing? They are made by a different company than the shop affiliated with Spoon in Japan...

 

So are they still made in Japan?

 

No

 

what the hell is going on?

 

From what DisordeR told me, he was told that the exhausts were made in Japan.

 

Thats Type 1

 

yup Type 1 Racing is the exhaust with a Titanium Tip.

Type ONE is SPOON's brand.

 

No Type One is a shop in Japan not far from Spoon Sports that sells Spoon parts.

There are alot shops in Japan that make their own parts and sell Spoon parts through their dealerships.

Speed is another one those companies they've actually out did the Spoon S2K a many times using it's own headers and exhausts and bolt on's but all the engine work is done at Spoon normally.

 

Type ONE is SPOON. The shop was opened by Ichisima, Mr. SPOON, himself. That is why its just located down the street from SPOON. It was opened cuz SPOON was getting too busy, so there is another shop (Type ONE) where people can go to lighten the load on SPOON.

 

Type One is a retail shop set up by Spoon. They are a retail shop only and do not have their own product line. Also, Type One will be closed for remodelling over the next few month.

Type One Racing, or T1R is a product line developed by A&J Racing for the North American market. T1R exhaust components are sourced from Japan.


With regards to what Racer-X said, many people aren't aware of the fact that Spoon is a professional race shop, not just a product developer with its own race team. Spoon builds many race cars, S2000s, Civic Type Rs, Integra Type Rs over a season for its own use, sale, and rental. In the last few years, almost all of the S2000s competing in Japanese SuperTaikyu were built and supported by Spoon. Spoon built, maintained and supported the S2000s used by C-West, 5 Zigen, Speed and several other teams.

In Speed's case, people who complain about Spoon rebranding should have some real fun as all of Speed's products are from Spoon.

 

what he said.

 

thx

 

well many parts they carry look similar to spoon, but many are no where in spoons line-up. there is a link to speed on takakaira.com.

 

I forgot speed's website but most of their stuff looks just like spoon.

 

yeah, well they have many mufflers, where spoon only has like 2. there's a few other things... i think they're lookin for a US distributer, so someone jump on it.

 

I was always confused by this myself.

 

thankx Spikey
you just cleaned my brain

I gotta a question tho.
if T1R(A&J's) developed the T1R exhaust system for the North Americanmarket ,it wont be 2.5" pipin ?

ps.heard T1Rs weldin job was very nice

 

2.5" OD, not ID. according to SMSP, there are no true 2.5" aftermarket systems except kakimoto...


[Modified by disordeR, 3:53 AM 8/13/2002]

 

Bcuz of the bottleneks?