SS Works CRX, Esprit NSX, Spoon S2K, Jun EK9, Super NA Battle @ Ebisu

Pair of hard EKs out of Seattle, tough to pick a fav but I gotta go with the Mugen’d out green one.

Various 10 year old Hondas still proudly displayed at TAS 2009

Yea, we all love the JDM tyte yO! shit, but do you have a limit? Yes, reputable manufacturers put a lot of money in R&D, engineering and design into their products and that cost must be recouped. Then a company comes along and knocks off the design, reproduces it using cheaper inferior materials and there is savings to be had by the consumer. And there’s the catch, you’ve read a million threads about it all over the intertubes. But are some of these high end brand names taking it a little too far? Case in piont; the Spoon battery tie down. I’m sure it’s a quality piece, but just how much R&D and engineering went into this? Enough to warrant the $185 price tag??? Maybe I’m a poser and a ricer but it seems to me this is $60 worth of battery tie down and $125 worth of we’re Spoon and we’ll charge whatever we think we can squeeze out of these JDM obsessed americans.

I’ll be out of town til Monday, this is such a great shot it should tide you over til then.

JDM Civic EK9 Type R

Spoon Duckbill

Mugen

Jun

Bomex

Zeal

ARC

Seeker

Seeker in white compared to stock CTR

Seeker V2

First Molding

J’s Racing

Cusco

C West

Feel’s

Alex riser/tilt brackets for CTR

This EK has everything under the sun going for it, super clean body and paint, uber sexy wheels, offset and stance, nicely tucked K swap, and ballin outta control interior. It’s straight fire but manages to remain subtle and still stand out from the EK crowd at the same time, someone had a real vision when putting this car together and it shows.

Sometimes what’s not done to a car makes as much of a statement as what is done to it.