What do you think?
What would you do different?

Vehicle type: front-engine, rear-wheel-drive, 2-passenger, 2-door roadster
Price as tested: $68,386 (base price*: $60,821)
Engine type: supercharged and intercooled DOHC 16-valve 4-in-line, aluminum block and head, Honda engine-control system with port fuel injection
MODIFICATIONS Engine and transmission: Comptech/Paxton Novi 1000 supercharger kit, $4895; intercooler kit, $1295; header, $989; Cat-Drop pipe, $229; cat-back exhaust, $1189; labor, $880; engine total, $9477; lightweight steel flywheel, $459; Centerforce pressure plate, $349; Centerforce clutch disc, $149; reinforced differential housing, $469; Kaas limited-slip differential, $895; J’s 4.44:1 rear-axle gears, $750; labor, $1120; transmission total, $4191; TOTAL $13,668
Suspension: Öhlins coil-over kit, $3580; race-adjustable front anti-roll bar, $749; rear anti-roll bar, $149; front upper strut bar, $269; mid lower brace, $249; front lower X-brace, $349; rear lower tie bar, $149; labor, $520; TOTAL $6014
Brakes: $3995
Wheels and tires: Work Meister S2R: F: 8.0 x 18-in, R: 9.0 x 18-in 2-piece composite wheels, $2868; BFGoodrich g-Force T/A KD: F: 225/40ZR-18 88Y, R: 265/35ZR-18 93Y tires, $1536; TOTAL $4404
Body and interior: stock hardtop, $2995; Recaro SDG seats, $1500; side skirts, $550; Honda Factory Performance front spoiler, $499, and rear deck spoiler, $489; Sparco Mugello steering wheel, $219; Honda titanium shift ****, $159; dead pedal, $45; paint (side skirts only, Honda parts come painted), $389; labor, $720; TOTAL $7565
Displacement 122 cu in, 1997cc
Power (mfr’s claim) 350 bhp @ 8800 rpm
Torque (mfr’s claim) 210 lb-ft @ 8000 rpm
Transmission Honda 6-speed manual
Front brakes Comptech 12.9 x 1.1-in vented, cross-drilled disc; Brembo Indy 4-piston caliper
Rear brakes Comptech 12.8 x 0.5-in cross-drilled disc; 1-piston caliper
Brake-pad material, front semimetallic
rear semimetallic
Wheelbase 94.5 in
Length 162.2 in
Curb weight 2833 lb
Weight distribution, F/R 51.1/48.9%
*Base price includes all performance-enhancing options.

All this info is from http://caranddriver.com/articl...ber=3

Feel free to comment!

 

Most of this is bling.

The Ohlins, SC, and aftercooler are the only useful mods here. The rest of the crap is simple bling-bling. The sway bars are not needed if you have an adjustable set of coilovers (which they did). I have yet to see ANY aftermarket brakes improve performance over the stock system.

They also mounted some really crappy tires for this magazine test. Simply swapping in some R-Comps on stock wheels would have improved all of their magazine stats significantly.

 

For the cost of the supercharger and wheels, you could have a 600 whp turbocharged car.

 

The only guy with a 400+ whp turbo S2000 spent more than $26,000 before he had an engine that would run for more than 24hours.

There is ZERO possiblity of making 600whp for more than 30 seconds on stock internals.

But yeah, those wheels are waste of money.

 

i agree with the statements above, but i don't know about works rims being a waste of money.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jerrypeterson &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">The only guy with a 400+ whp turbo S2000 spent more than $26,000 before he had an engine that would run for more than 24hours.

There is ZERO possiblity of making 600whp for more than 30 seconds on stock internals.

But yeah, those wheels are waste of money. </TD></TR></TABLE>

lol no way in hell would could you do it on a stock motor.

if you think about it, a complete short block rebuild isnt that much

Sleeves - 1000
pistons - 500
rods - 600
then of course you have the seals, gaskets, new water and oil pump, studs, headgasket, bearings, crank mircopolishing and balancing etc.

but that wont add up much over 3000

add another 4500-5000 in turbo parts, and you'd have a pretty sick setup

then of course you'd need to upgrade the drivetrain. but still, 600 whp could be done for under 10k-11K i say.

 

that s2k belongs to andrew monterrubio, who owns tech2motorsports with his dad.. he uses it to showcase a lot of his products.

that's his bling car.. his racecar is the old dcsports r that he now races in world challenge.

his s2k was on speed last night.. they did a short segment on it..

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by kekek-20 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">his s2k was on speed last night.. they did a short segment on it.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yup, it was on the episode of Car Crazy. That was a rerun, though.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jerrypeterson &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Most of this is bling.

The Ohlins, SC, and aftercooler are the only useful mods here. The rest of the crap is simple bling-bling. The sway bars are not needed if you have an adjustable set of coilovers (which they did). I have yet to see ANY aftermarket brakes improve performance over the stock system.

They also mounted some really crappy tires for this magazine test. Simply swapping in some R-Comps on stock wheels would have improved all of their magazine stats significantly.</TD></TR></TABLE>

yea, i was suprised when i saw/read the show and they were like an extra 30K worth of mods.

 

What kinda car? RWD or RRWD or Mid-Engine RWD?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SpoonS2000 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">What kinda car? RWD or RRWD or Mid-Engine RWD?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Are you serious, this is a S2000 forum right?