If you’re fabricating anything associated with Spoon Sports, get ready to clarify to your social media followers that everything you make won’t be actually sold. Go Tuning Unlimited found this out the hard way earlier yesterday (Nov 8, 2017) when a prototype exhaust they fabbed up for Global Time Attack got a barrage of positive and negative criticism as well as numerous inquiries if they’re actually going to make it. First, check out a sound clip of what this newfangled exhaust sounds like from their post below.
If you didn’t already know, Go Tuning will be piloting their shop car, a brand-spakin’ new Honda Civic Type R, in both the limited and unlimited classes at the season finale of the 2017 Global Time Attack event tomorrow at Buttonwillow Raceway. Behind the wheel will be none other than former Formula Drift champ and their go-to guy, Dai Yoshihara.
Being a race shop, first and foremost, they’re already doing a bit of research and development of their own as well as presumably installing a couple of parts from Spoon Sports Japan that they want to test out for the FK8 chassis.
A safe place to start is with bolt-ons, and that means intake, header, and exhaust. With the Civic Type R’s K20C1 having an integrated exhaust manifold, no gains could be made there. A quick scroll through their feed shows no intake mods…yet. But the big news has to be their new exhaust setup, it’s a straight through design!
Fabricated by the same guys that wrench on Dai’s drift FR-S, it looks like these guys are race car legit. A quick look, and it’s a relatively simple design, a straight through 3-inch exhaust that forgoes any muffler bodies, a twin exhaust or Honda’s third sound muffling exhaust, it’s pure function.
The only drawback is whatever sound it makes is what it’s going to sound like. Some commenters are comparing it to sounding like a stock SRT-4.
According to Go Tuning,
Everyone… it’s a prototype race only exhaust that will be used to test at one race. It’s not a prototype production or street system.
But this is a race car guys. Its main goal is to shoot those exhaust gases out as quickly and as efficiently as possible. A straight through design accomplishes this.
Bonus: Check out this Spoon Sports racing suit they shared on their IG stories!
