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I have a 1984 Honda spree and the max speed is 25 mph, my friends can go from 30-35 and even to 40 sometimes, I've heard a tune up can speed your spree up, what can speed it up and if a tune up is the way, how does one do that?

Greetings:

The Spree never was and never can be a Powerhouse, and the 1984 is even slower than later editions. 25 is actually a pretty repectable top speed for a Spree, but it can aspire to 30 in good tune and with fair winds. Your friends on stock-engined Sprees can easily reach 35, 40 and beyond, but only in their Dreams.

Alas, go-slightly-faster parts are pretty scarce for this non-variated NQ05. I recommend you replace your air filter, buy a new spark plug, test compression and bake the exhaust pipe at 550 degrees for 3 hours. Reassemble and enjoy the dependable, fun scooter for what it is. Otherwise, a swap to one of the variated engines will be necessary - AF05 or AF16, depending on budget - if you want to keep up with the Dreamers.

You can't go wrong with doing all of the maintenance items wheelman listed, usually when you get a machine like a spree that is 30+ years old they have at least some of those things that have never ever been dealt with. I wonder if that may be an Iowa spree. They were limited to a lower speed with a washer welded in the exhaust and a smaller 62 main jet. Here is the link to the wiki on how to identify if you have an Iowa spree. http://hondaspree.net/wiki/index.php5?t ... owa_Sprees
Another maintance item I would look at is the final drive gear oil. I would go grab the shop manual here on the board and have a good read it will be invaluable. I'd measure the width of your drive belt. They van get worn out and get narrow thus changing the gear ratio making the scooter slower by a couple MPH. My 84 would do exactly 28mph on the GPS on flat ground

The majority of the 14 stock Spree's I have delt with would go about 28 mph, a few would get to 30 or 31 mph, I do have a CDI box that would take the 30 mph Spree's and boost them up to 33 mph.
As fun as the Spree's are, there comes a time to go big, my stock Honda CH250 does 76 MPH.
It is my opinion to just enjoy the low speed Spree as it is and not worry about making it faster.

I have a couple sprees one with the swapped in af18 and one for stock tuning fun I still enjoy a stock spree