I bought a itr spoon crate motor, it didnt come with crank pulley i wanted to know if i can safely use an anorthodox crank pulley... because there have been a lot of people that told me that it wasn´t safe to do so... help please---

 

use a gsr/itr crank pulley, normally $20-40 for a stock one on ebay.

 

I think its Unorthodox but I would stick to Honda parts...Im sure the "spoon" motor is well balanced and all but just to be safe as mentioned....GSR/ITR crank pulley

Just curious...how much did this "spoon" motor set you back?

Thanks

 

Did you order it directly from Spoon Japan? Post some pics please

 

well if you have a real spoon motor, that means it all internally balanced, and you dont want to mess that up and put on a regular crank pully that hasnt been balanced with the rotating assembly, your less expensive option whould be to buy a ati pully or a fluidamper, little more expensive is buy a new oem itr/gsr crank pully, pull your rotating assembly take it all to a machine shop and have it all balanced together and then reinstall with new bearings

 

there's no point in pictures it is not visually different then any other itr motor, its just a stock itr motor thats been disassembled and reassembled with balanced internals and rechecked tolerances and clearnances, they dont have much if any more power, there designed to compete in endurance races so they need to be able to take abuse for a long period of time and be strong

 

Pics or it didn't happen

 

no way to tell them apart

 

Spoon paints the engine code on the block and applies a serialized plaque to the block.

 

where is the spoon badge. i have a jdm itr that was orange on the b18c but other than that i figured it was just a plain jane 200hp engine

 

On the block just to the left of where the dipstick goes...

 

It has yellow tape over it...

 

i want a spoon b18c for my itr =/

 

I dont know why everyone thinks the little rubber ring in the stock pulley has something to do with engine balance. It is a noise isolator and nothing more.

All B18's are internally balanced, hence stock pulleys do not have a weight imbalance. In theory it would be nearly impossibly for the 4-5 lbs stock pulley to be even close to as balanced as the 1 lbs Unorthodox pulley.

 

correct me if im wrong but isnt this a ctr motor..the block says b16r and you have it postedc as a b18c

 

3 things:
1. No, spoon does not paint the engine code stamp.
2. No they do not apply a plaque to a B18 (R Spec Motor), as a matter of fact, spoon r motors dont even have a serial number on them.
3. The motor in your pic is a B16-B Civic Type R motor, not a DC2-R motor.

to add, Spoon motors also do not come with a yellow spoon valve cover, just an OEM JDM Red Valve cover.

they look from the outside to just be a JDM R motor.
Here, AGAIN is mine, from Spoon, through OPAK racing (NA Spoon Sports importer) shipped direct to me.



and as a final note, if someone really has 7K burning a hole in their pocket, IM me and come and get mine

 

And class is in session boys and girls lol

 

I was so on the verge of posting this exactly LOL

 

Pics are important too

 

The factory puts that paint color on the engine code.

They do put plaques on them now, its right on spoons website. That B16b looks like the real deal to me. Also, some have serial numbers and some do not.

 

are these motors any good for daily driving?, since everyone is saying "made for endurance racing."

 

there just bone stock itr motors, they dont really make any more power, maybe 3-5 from being balanced, but they wont drive or react any different then a oem motor, internals are just balanced and everything is rechecked and setup perfect so it will last for long races

 

my motor is better !

 

The equation:

yellow + valve cover = Spoon
therefore, yellow valve cover + B16B = Spoon B18C

 

cool so if i put a yellow valve cover on my 1989 b16a it makes it spoon too ? wow thats cool im gonna try it ! ^ moron