The FD2 is the only Type R that seats four adults and still ruins their weekend, and the people importing them right now know exactly what they're sitting on. Honda didn't build this thing to be modified. They built it already angry — 225ps K20A spinning to an 8,400 redline, close-ratio six-speed, helical LSD, Brembo fronts, seam-welded shell, and a factory suspension tune so aggressive that owners in Japan complained about it. That's the part people miss when they treat it like a base FA5 with a badge.
Which is why the build is a scalpel job. Factory fitment is 18x7.5 +60 on 225/40 — the single most conservative decision on the entire car — so the move is width, not diameter. 18x8.5 to 18x9.5 in the +35 to +45 window, 5x114.3, 64.1 bore, on a 235/40 or 245/40 with real sidewall. Stay off 19s; you'd be adding unsprung mass to a chassis that was already dialed by people who drove it at Suzuka. Then a mild spring or a quality coilover set soft and left around an inch down, a Mugen or Sp...
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