The Official Honda S2000 Thread
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Yeah, that. Rio is much better.
That's the only reason why I didn't opt for one. When I was looking, they were either beat to shit for $15k or low-mileage showroom examples for $30k. Red is for Ferrari. Nothing else.
You're right, but you have no say until you own a S2000
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Finally got all my bundle offerup goodies on the car...
it's loud...but I dig it. Getting tons of thumbs up with the added exhaust volume.
I'm such a child.
it's loud...but I dig it. Getting tons of thumbs up with the added exhaust volume.
I'm such a child.
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@Muffinman
Yeah, man...
and I think it might be ceramic coated...I wire wheeled it to clean it up and no rust showed up on it in 2 weeks.
picked up that, the mishimoto weirdo fucking wtf is that intake and a skunk2 exhaust with a high flow cat on it for a hell of a price.
Yeah, man...
and I think it might be ceramic coated...I wire wheeled it to clean it up and no rust showed up on it in 2 weeks.
picked up that, the mishimoto weirdo fucking wtf is that intake and a skunk2 exhaust with a high flow cat on it for a hell of a price.
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This Honda S2000 has been built from the ground up to compete in half-mile events by T1 Racing Development of Royse City, Texas. It looks mean, and sounds even meaner.
The car uses the same F22C four-cylinder block and crankshaft it came with from the factory, but pretty much everything else under the engine bay is new. There's a massive turbocharger pushing a whole lot of boost, and a six-speed sequential transmission to get all of it to the rear wheels.
The car was able to reach a maximum speed of 198 mph in the half-mile at a recent Shift S3ctor runway event—pretty damn quick for any Honda that doesn't have the letters NSX in its name.
The car uses the same F22C four-cylinder block and crankshaft it came with from the factory, but pretty much everything else under the engine bay is new. There's a massive turbocharger pushing a whole lot of boost, and a six-speed sequential transmission to get all of it to the rear wheels.
The car was able to reach a maximum speed of 198 mph in the half-mile at a recent Shift S3ctor runway event—pretty damn quick for any Honda that doesn't have the letters NSX in its name.
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Finally got my old spoiler fixed up and put back on...I missed the look 
Got some sort of road debris that put a pinhole in the clutch line as well...weird as fuck.
Got a Techna-Fit stainless line coming...no more holes and half the price of oem...why not?!
Finally...addressing my playing card in bike spoke sound coming from my ac heater blower motor under
passenger dash...it's so annoying at low setting because it's so audible. Not paying $240 for OEM and not
putting cheap shit in my car so I opted for a new used unit off a 92k car from ebay for $24. Doesn't seem to
be a common failure so not likely to have another problem with noise.
Oh and put the skunk2 silencers in the exhaust and painted them and holy shit the car sounds perfect now.
Even my fiance was like wow, it sounds great now and she thought it sounded too loud before.
Got some sort of road debris that put a pinhole in the clutch line as well...weird as fuck.
Got a Techna-Fit stainless line coming...no more holes and half the price of oem...why not?!
Finally...addressing my playing card in bike spoke sound coming from my ac heater blower motor under
passenger dash...it's so annoying at low setting because it's so audible. Not paying $240 for OEM and not
putting cheap shit in my car so I opted for a new used unit off a 92k car from ebay for $24. Doesn't seem to
be a common failure so not likely to have another problem with noise.
Oh and put the skunk2 silencers in the exhaust and painted them and holy shit the car sounds perfect now.
Even my fiance was like wow, it sounds great now and she thought it sounded too loud before.
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It's the motor itself making the noise. Figure if I get another new used
for $25 from a car with 60k less miles it's a good chance it'll be quiet.
Drives me NUTS!
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Dude, I can't figure out getting the cage off without breaking it to get at the bearing...
I may still try and do that but figured I'd rather have a backup plan in case I do break it
so I'm not without AC in my 4th car that I use on the weekends.
I may still try and do that but figured I'd rather have a backup plan in case I do break it
so I'm not without AC in my 4th car that I use on the weekends.
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Damn, the top stopped working too? :sigh: Time to dump that POS.
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You're a cock, sir. A real prick.
Got the cage off last night, stripped it down as far as I can go but it seems like the
enclosure over the motor and subsequent lower bearing are not accessible...I spray
lubed what I could with white lithium grease and put it back together. Noise is still there...
I ended up using two 1/4" long extensions to work the cage off without breaking it.
Got the cage off last night, stripped it down as far as I can go but it seems like the
enclosure over the motor and subsequent lower bearing are not accessible...I spray
lubed what I could with white lithium grease and put it back together. Noise is still there...
I ended up using two 1/4" long extensions to work the cage off without breaking it.
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Well
I got a set of Ray's Prodrive GC-07C...ASM fitment 17x7.5 +48 and 17x8.5 +54
Had a bend fixed on one and curbing on others and had them refinished in
Prismatic snowcone white...yeah, gonna be fun keeping them clean but I always
wanted that toy look of white on yellow and I always end up playing it safe and going
silver or grey at the last minute.
Love how it looks...the 225 255 setup is awesome and the 615k+ tires gave me that
look and square sidewall I always wanted to try...sidewall is nice and stiff which makes
for fun meandering.
J.
My buddy's at Acura have a fun sense of humor
I got a set of Ray's Prodrive GC-07C...ASM fitment 17x7.5 +48 and 17x8.5 +54
Had a bend fixed on one and curbing on others and had them refinished in
Prismatic snowcone white...yeah, gonna be fun keeping them clean but I always
wanted that toy look of white on yellow and I always end up playing it safe and going
silver or grey at the last minute.
Love how it looks...the 225 255 setup is awesome and the 615k+ tires gave me that
look and square sidewall I always wanted to try...sidewall is nice and stiff which makes
for fun meandering.
J.
My buddy's at Acura have a fun sense of humor
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If anyone is interested in a set of fronts powdercoated snowcone white let me know via PM...
They are prodrive gc-07c ASM fitment 17x7.5 +48...had a bend fixed that didn't come out perfectly.
My tire guy was able to balance it out to where I didn't really feel it going down the road but by then I had
already ordered another set of fronts I found on ebay.
Make me a fair offer...
They are prodrive gc-07c ASM fitment 17x7.5 +48...had a bend fixed that didn't come out perfectly.
My tire guy was able to balance it out to where I didn't really feel it going down the road but by then I had
already ordered another set of fronts I found on ebay.
Make me a fair offer...
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your house numbers are wrong
should read 1234
Dude, what a nice looking garage and boy have you filled it with gorgeous cars.
I applaud you for having the balls to be a baller with balls.
should read 1234
Dude, what a nice looking garage and boy have you filled it with gorgeous cars.
I applaud you for having the balls to be a baller with balls.
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and you're lucky @justnspace doesn't have your new address or he'd be borrowing a lot more than a wheel these days.
