Please refrain from the F and F comments

Previous owner of my car said it has a spoon motor. Its a b18c. Did spoon issue a stamp on the engine somewhere or anything similar? thanks!

 

I think you need to post way more details/pictures and possibly post in a different forum if the motor isn't in a DC2 Type R.

 

There is a Knife in the intake manifold, and a fork in the bell housing.


But on a serious note, yes, there will be a plate on the block saying "spoon" with a serial number.

 

Easiest way would be to spot the block girdle between the oi lpan and the block.
Similar to a K20A2 engine.
Post dem pix y0!!

 

In for pics

 

He probably bought the Spoon motor just before race wars and therefore had to pay a serious premium.

Oh, wait...

 

^^^ lmao

 

um hello those were sr20's for the hondas

 

damn people are haters lol just a question people relax

 

spoon t-stat, valve cover, usually the serial number on the block starts with a zero, balanced oem pistons, balanced oem crank

 

I bet he has at least 100 grand under the hood.



And come on OP, post a pic.

 

They were primarily made for endurance racing. They made a few more HP over a stock B18c5, but they certainly weren't worth the price premium for the average guy.


But they had that yellow valve cover, though!

 

The one Spoon engine that I have seen was stamped SPOON in the engine code area.

 

nobodys being a "HATER" bro. how about the op actually posts up some pics instead of asking a dumbass simple question with no pics of any motor

 

Don't listen to any of these asses.

The Spoon Sports crate engine almost never came with a Yellow Valve cover.

What they did come with however; were a set of blueprinted and balanced P73-00 pistons, they were simply a factory piston that were ordered in mass quantities and Spoon picked the ones with the closest gram weighting. The cranks were not cut any more than the factory unit. They were really not much different at all than a stock ITR motor. They came with factory ITR cams and valve train as well. At the most it would have a Spoon thermostat.

As far as identifying marks on the block, I have seen some with a Spoon plate, I have seen others with no serial numbers at all.

Directly from Spoon's website:
[img] http://www.spoon.jp/products_images/10000-18C-901.jpg [/img]

 

if you live your life a quarter mile at a time, then you have one.


lol on a serious note, post pics. would love to see it.

 

mm

 

 

Yea mine didn't have any spoon plate or a yellow valve cover
All I could see was that it had spoon thermo and head gasket.
And no serial like yours

 

I think that is the normal stamp on jdm b18c. My JDM Itr swap looks just the same.. Bottom line is hope you didnt pay more for a "spoon" motor

 

A road car engine would have a serial number on it below the B18C stamp. I know cause I have one. I doubt this is an OEM engine assembly we are looking at. I wouldn't be surprised if that really IS a Spoon longblock. Problem is, a Spoon longblock is pretty much an OEM longblock that was assembled (blueprinted) by Spoon. Other than "matched" components (not balanced), it's really nothing more.

This is usually what the Spoon crate motors look like:

 

As stated above Spoon didnt mark any of their motors. Some came with orange paint on the engine code and some did not. The newer motors sold come with cert plates but not all do. Their is almost no way in telling if you have one or not.