My goals with my car were always to go all out on brakes and suspension first before touching the engine, the car is going to be tracked so the brakes are an important factor. The choice of spoon specifically is for 2 reasons.

Spoon dc2r is one of my all time favourite cars and I'm basically trying to build mine pretty close to that

Secondly, I've always loved spoons work in conjunction with Honda, using oem parts manufacturers and their years above experience, research and development over most other companies (especially Honda specific). I needed new rotors and pads anyway so the only real splurge were the calipers themselves. I was initially going to get twin blocks but after some persuading from friends and more investigating the monoblocks are a better caliper for almost the same money.