Last year, Japanese Honda tuner Spoon Sport unveiled a demo car based on the FK7 Civic Hatchback, which produced 200 PS from its 1.5 litre turbocharged four-cylinder by way of a Hondata FlashPro ECU device.
While the power gain over stock is rather notable, the company has taken things further by updating said test bed with a larger turbocharger kit you can actually buy, so it now makes 275 PS and 414 Nm of torque. This represents a significant boost from the standard 182 PS and 240 Nm one gets from the Civic Hatchback in Japan. For further context, the Civic Sedan we get here comes with 173 PS and 220 Nm.
The Spoon turbo was developed together with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and features a turbine fan diameter of 40 mm (37 mm stock), while the compressor wheel is also larger at 49 mm (46 mm stock) and comes with 11 fins instead of the default nine.
The company says to produce those outputs, the aforementioned Hondata FlashPro unit is required, and that the setup can be fitted to the FK7 Civic Hatchback, FC1 Civic Sedan and even the FC3 Civic Coupe. As the shape of the turbo housing is identical to stock, Spoon claims the unit can simply be bolted on without needing additional parts or alterations, and is highly reliable.
However, there are some caveats, as the kit can only be fitted to cars with a six-speed manual. Even then, the stock clutch will need to be replaced with a stronger one to cope with all that extra power. Additionally, there’s the matter of entry fee, as the kit will set you back 250,000 yen (RM9,909). Interested? Check out the product page on Spoon’s official site.
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Fuuyohh Civic FC 275PS, RM9,909 jek?
Good for replacement of Honda turbocor crap OEM equipment.
I’m not sure if you realize but MHI is the manufacturer of the OEM turbo as well. This spoon turbo is bigger but likely the quality is overall the same.
Malaysian creativity will bring in d box n d turbo
I even saw a tesla style tablet to be installed in d civic on lazada
Gonna change my cvt to 6-speed manual for this
No use asking ‘interested?’ la Gerard, we only get the auto (cvt). Malaysian not interested in manual tranny.
Says who?
You need to correction the statement. (the Civic Sedan we get here comes with 141 PS and 174 Nmm) its the wrong number.
What we get stock is 173PS and 220Nm for 1.5T
Yes, apologies. Misquoted 1.8 NA instead. Story has been amended.
I think what we get here, the 1.5T comes with 173 PS and 220 Nm of torque instead of 141 PS and 174 Nm.
They had to sell this with the manual. It’s gonna be challenging for them to upgrade the autobox since all that power will strain the stock GB. Even with the current setup here with the ecu remap, straight flow downpipe and larger intercoolers are already straining the drivetrain. The only solution is to do frequent ATF changes and hope the GB doesn’t kaput when ur flying up Genting.
if 275hp and 414nm and less than RM10K for turbo, just upgrade it, together with Brake, suspension and cooling system I think less than RM50k.
Usually, turbo engines have a compression ratio that is lower than naturally aspirated engines?
How to handle that with a retrofit kit?
The kit is for the Jap-spec turbo engine and not for the NA.
Thanks!
I wonder how well the CVT copes with the power increase.
Kedai potong, here the ketam come.
Doesn’t matter anyway, the CVT Civics we get here are going to slip at those kind of output.
Gg…. Only 6speeds manual can use…. So mean none of our Sedan FC can use…
Sound like turbo-ing the engine and the transmission (Especially the auto) to scrap metal yard way faster too.
A very bad idea.
NA engine, fuel pump kaput…..
Turbo engine, gearbox kaput……
i doubt the plastic thing on the turbo will last.
Hope Spoon will do for Auto version so that i can install on my CRV.
Gee now you can blow your civic up faster.there’s nothing better than owing $3,000 in a repair or more and still having 60 payments to go