mugen/spoon is to honda as ????? is to nissan
07-15-2007, 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by tonywenzel
Nicholas, you sound like a silly honda fanboy...
If you knew anything about spoon, you know that their philsophy is not drastically changing the stock components as you said they do earlier in a post. Their cars do no make much power over stock. Their main focus really is lightening the car as much as possible. Their brakes aren't even that much better than stock, they are only lighter. A company that aims to save ounces of weight by going as far producing lighter radiator brackets. They use FACTORY airboxes with replacement panel filters. Hell, their legendary SW388 wheel is a repainted Regamaster Evo. Spoon is a chassis tuning company as far as I am concerned. TypeOne their sister company is not much different.
Nismo on the other hand builds cars like the Z-tune GTR and 380RS Z which offer DRAMATIC improvements over their stock counter parts. I am not talking about the Nismo badged AEM intake you buy at your local dealer. I am talking about the hardcore Nismo parts offered in Japan.
So before you come on this forum making assumptions do your research.
Nismo:Nissan
Mugen:Honda (not Spoon)
TRD:Toyota
MazdaSpeed:Mazda
If you knew anything about spoon, you know that their philsophy is not drastically changing the stock components as you said they do earlier in a post. Their cars do no make much power over stock. Their main focus really is lightening the car as much as possible. Their brakes aren't even that much better than stock, they are only lighter. A company that aims to save ounces of weight by going as far producing lighter radiator brackets. They use FACTORY airboxes with replacement panel filters. Hell, their legendary SW388 wheel is a repainted Regamaster Evo. Spoon is a chassis tuning company as far as I am concerned. TypeOne their sister company is not much different.
Nismo on the other hand builds cars like the Z-tune GTR and 380RS Z which offer DRAMATIC improvements over their stock counter parts. I am not talking about the Nismo badged AEM intake you buy at your local dealer. I am talking about the hardcore Nismo parts offered in Japan.
So before you come on this forum making assumptions do your research.
Nismo:Nissan
Mugen:Honda (not Spoon)
TRD:Toyota
MazdaSpeed:Mazda
spoon uses stock airbox but also uses ducting down to the bumper to make it cold air.
07-16-2007, 07:26 AM
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yah.. spoon's own specialty engineered cold air induction... i bet i took them a long time to engineer that
I should have bought a dc2.. the factory support for performance at honda is way ahead of the game.
I should have bought a dc2.. the factory support for performance at honda is way ahead of the game.
07-16-2007, 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted by nicholasm617
as it says, what would you consider the equivalent for nissan to honda's top companies being mugen, spoon.
07-16-2007, 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by fast kiwi
nsimo/stillen..
Nismo is Nissan's own company. Both Mugen and spoon are owned independently.
07-16-2007, 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Lawy'dU
stillen works on all sorts of brands, not just nissan
Nismo is Nissan's own company. Both Mugen and spoon are owned independently.
Nismo is Nissan's own company. Both Mugen and spoon are owned independently.
07-16-2007, 11:54 AM
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Going back to the topic, I think that Jim Wolf Technologies is a pretty solid company that makes a lot of Z-parts and after talking to a few Nissan engineers, they were impressed by the R&D compared to nismo. But Nismos ia definitely Nissan's Mugen.
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Originally Posted by Z Tuned
Mugen is owned by the son of the founder of Honda. They do work with each other on the assembly lines for certain vehicles. Most of the Mugen parts are added on afterwards though.
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Originally Posted by saladito6
Going back to the topic, I think that Jim Wolf Technologies is a pretty solid company that makes a lot of Z-parts and after talking to a few Nissan engineers, they were impressed by the R&D compared to nismo. But Nismos ia definitely Nissan's Mugen.
07-16-2007, 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Bumpinjeep
How is nismo mugen again? Nissan owns nismo, honda does not own mugen.
Maybe the way I typed it was kinda confusing lol
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