I don't understand why both of these companies that make all types of other carb legal bolt on kits never made one for the s2000. I've emailed both companies asking why (couple years back) but to my surprise I never got a response

I could see hks making one with their ball bearing turbo's...even though they are relatively expensive when comparing other kits for civic's...I would think that they are fairly priced for the s2000 crowd. I would like to see an f/i alternative that is legal besides getting s/c. I daily drive my s2000 and live in so cal so having a non carb legal kit is just too risky for me...anyone know the reasons why it was never produced?

 

1. HKS doesn't make to many products for hondas ..... they tend to do more parts for the nissan, toyota crowd....
2. greddy turbo kits suck.... they are CARB cause of their internal wastegates... and that limits the potential power you can make..... and actually come to think of it... greddy doesn't have much for the S period... other then the oil cooler i believe and the catch can.....

 

they made an intake then took it off the market, it didn't sell well and produced no definitive gains

 

hks makes a kit for rsx's...they used to make them for integra's also...

why no love for our cars?

 

Didn't GReddy make a turbo kit for the S2000 around 2001? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I could have sworn I witnessed one being installed....

 

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you would be wrong..

 

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Not saying its true but its not out of the realm of possibilities....Greddy did make one prototype turbo kit for the mk4 1.8t before scrapping the idea, so its possible they did the same for the s2k.

-Todd

 

i think it's was just too hard to fit turbo on our chasis. there is hardy any rooms on exhaust side. imagine installing manifold, manifold shield & u have pipes going thru here & there w/o cutting any frame.... it would just too hard for average ppl to install that kit... so i believe they decided not to make 1.

on other hand, supercharger doesn't need to replace manifold... or work under tight room. so they r 2 companies makes carb legal supercharger. comptech & vortech.

if we r lucky... maybe hks may make rotex supercharger for us.

 

i have an opinion...maybe the rpm range of the s2 is to large. Using a trubo would require a small turbo to boost quickly in the lower part of the band but it would run out of steam higher up in the band and a large turbo would have big numbers up top but crazy lag. yeah u can optimize a turbo for the rpm range but it might jus be to much work given the other issues of clearance, cr, and other lil misc stuff...just a quick thought of the top of my head

 

Theres plenty of room for a turbo, and the rsx's rpm range is very similar.

Im thinking its do to just plain business. There are over 100 civics to every 1 s2000. Whats going to sell better? Civic kits or S kits? No reason to spend all the money in development and testing yet. Probably see some kits in the future.

Also if you notice the Japanese market is all about N/A on the S2000. I just got Hyper Rev magazine and there are tons of intakes and ITB's. Not one hint of FI.

 

If you take a look at the Full-Race kit there really isn't anything hard about the install now that the new manifold was done last year.


-Chris

 

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Ogura has a Roots positive displacement blower set up for the S. Sounds torquey.

 

hks wants to make it for drag use

 

Greddy turbo kits are a cheap way to gain hp with out voiding a warranty and failing inspection. Greddy used to be a good company, but anymore they suck.

HKS makes some great parts

 

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you are thinking old turbo, design is way better now, not as much of problem of turbo selection than making it carb legal in **** ca.

and it's only a 2.0-2.2 liter

 

i would never FI a non-force induction car ... just too much headache PERIOD ... i experienced it and NEVER again

if i want FI car then i would just buy a car that is FI right out the box, such as 335ci

 

Most likely not cost effective for either of them to R&D a turbo kit for the S2K.

 

the RX-8's redline is similar to the s2000 and has a kit from greddy also.

 

hmm i wonder what greddy will showup with this year at SEMA..

 

I was searching around and came across this post that I just happened to post in a long time ago.

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Word is that GReddy is previewing their S2000 Turbo Kit this week at SEMA.

I'll be there on Thursday and I'll be sure to snap some pics for you all.

Looks like I'm getting another S2000

 

courtesy of modified magazine..

http://www.modified.com/sema/sema-coverage.html

from the first video about 3/4 of the way through you see a glimpse of the greddy turbo s2k.

It better have a good bb turbo/front mount intercooler on it and cost less then 5 grand

 

The greddy prototype kit is making around 300whp... it looks pretty complete and it looks like a clean install. Definetly interested since all the other kits out there cost a fortune for this car.

 

i wonder if it's going to be carb legal though......

 

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http://www.modified.com/sema/sema-coverage.html

from the first video about 3/4 of the way through you see a glimpse of the greddy turbo s2k.

It better have a good bb turbo/front mount intercooler on it and cost less then 5 grand </TD></TR></TABLE>

3 pictures of the white ap2 on page 4 of "Hot Cars."