Hard as nails: S2000

[Nafoff]

'esse'

this genuinely had me laughing out loud.... (no abbreviations)

It very may well be for the 'look he's going for' but come the first bump he'll be ripping the front fender off!

Stop talking b*llocks. You're getting worse. lol.

lol. ali as said before mate that is rarely the case for the reasons i explained, its not cool to run bulbass tyres anymore... even my massey ferg runs on stretched tyres... its the only way

 

[Gaz.]

ever heard a blown s2k?? or any honda... hardly kills the noise lol!!

This. Had a spin in an EP3 running a GT28R on Saturday. Sounded batshit crazy, and more to the point, was rapid as f**k!

 

[Munson]

I'm with Scotland on this one. Totally not a fan of all this stuff. In fact 'stance' is getting serially boring. People (red non petrol heads)are starting to favour stupid arch gaps, pathetic tyres and dumbass wheels and/or spacers in place of the driving experience.

Each to their own but personally I think the whole stance scene is a stack of old s**t. People keep bangin on about it still being perfectly practical etc. but lets be realistic, it just isn't. Impossible. Let's not go full r****d and pretend that it is.

 

[Turkish]

Admin ate all the Pizza IIRC

oh and to further stir the pot I bet these all handle like w**k.

 

[Jon.G]

Tarquini and winkelhock! they bring back memories!

 

[Darren S]

It's OEM at the front, bar the Mugen lip. Love 'em.

Are you sure, m8? Even on ph-reebone's pics - the front wings look 'chunkier' and not wafer thin above the wheel like on those first pics?

D.

 

[Gaz.]

The arches have just been rolled and pulled to within an inch of their life.

 

[Rich_172]

Total hero car. Want really badly

 

[Munson]

PMSL at using pics of race cars to justify road cars. Roll 2" in any of those an a normal road and they'd either break, or break you.

So yes, on a road, they probably do handle like w**k. I forgot though, all these scene cars spend their life on the race track. ROLF.

 

[Turkish]

It's a semi-troll Roy

While I agree most stanced cars with a static drop rather than air-ride will have seriously had their practicality, ride quality and handling massively effected Drift, BTCC, DTM and WRC cars in tarmac spec do run very low and with little clearance. Although most will be running remote reservoir dampers there's a lot to be said for correct spring and damper rates.

Have a number plate surround

 

[Munson]

Just watched the vid again. Whichever way you look at it, that front tyre has about 25-30mm before it hits the the inside of the fender. That's around the same wheel travel as an F1 car. Good luck. PMSL.

EDIT: FPMSL at those plate surrounds

 

[Gaz.]

Get the geometry right and it matters s**t. I've got a fairly compliant suspension setup to say it's on coilovers, and I'm pretty low. Now, If I were to make some adjustments to the suspension components/mounting points, I'd get a car that low, that handles better than a car twice as high as it.

 

[Munson]

Yes ok. So 30mm of wheel travel is ok on the road. I'm out.

 

[Gaz.]

My point is low low cars don't have to handle like shite, there's ways around it. So you rub your arches, big deal.

 

[Nafoff]

My point is low low cars don't have to handle like shite, there's ways around it. So you rub your arches, big deal.

you'll never convience some...

 

[Kyle.]

That does nothing for me, i dont think it looks "hard" at all. Just looks like a low S2000.

All this scene stuff its just b****cks to me if im honest.

 

[Goodj]

what happens if a car with 10/20mm travel hits a pothole then?

 

[MAT ED30]

 

[Christopher]

what happens if a car with 10/20mm travel hits a pothole then?

OMG.

Some people do it for looks, as with the OP car.

All we're saying is that low cars can handle brilliantly, as my video on P2 demonstrates. Obviously it's not going to be the best road car, but it still handles.

The faux-purists on here should spend more time making track cars for three days a year, than slating people's cars for going in another direction.

The only reason I can imagine you bought your wallowy, soft Ph2 172 is that it hit 88mph in ~2002 and went back to 1988 to be set up by Senna after out-qualifying Prost.

SRS. People like different stuff.

 

[Nafoff]

OMG.
Some people do it for looks, as with the OP car.
All we're saying is that low cars can handle brilliantly, as my video on P2 demonstrates. Obviously it's not going to be the best road car, but it still handles.
The faux-purists on here should spend more time making track cars for three days a year, than slating people's cars for going in another direction.
The only reason I can imagine you bought your wallowy, soft Ph2 172 is that it hit 88mph in ~2002 and went back to 1988 to be set up by Senna after out-qualifying Prost.
SRS. People like different stuff.

here here...

 

[Gaz.]

'Topher with post of the year.

 

[Ali]

lol! I love it when Chris and Si get all JDM protective!! It's cute!

 

[Tom 46]

OMG.

Some people do it for looks, as with the OP car.

All we're saying is that low cars can handle brilliantly, as my video on P2 demonstrates. Obviously it's not going to be the best road car, but it still handles.

The faux-purists on here should spend more time making track cars for three days a year, than slating people's cars for going in another direction.

The only reason I can imagine you bought your wallowy, soft Ph2 172 is that it hit 88mph in ~2002 and went back to 1988 to be set up by Senna after out-qualifying Prost.

SRS. People like different stuff.

This!

Where i work we set our race cars to 55mm of ground clearance which is a lot lower than most cars considering flat floors and everything, and they handle perfectly. We would get them even lower but regulations restrict ride height to 55mm.....so what im saying is we could further improve performance by lowering it even more Is that what you track day hero's wanted to hear?

 

[Tom 46]

And what i was originally going to write, id love an S2000, been in my mates a couple of times and really love it. Saving up for one now but will take me a couple of years

 

[Whiskerz16v]

those wheels are gash IMVHO!

 

[SamP]

those wheels are gash IMVHO!

Seemingly you dont know what your going on about...

 

[Tom 46]

On the black one above? Weak offsets on the front, but staggered SSR Professors, 8.5 & 9.5 are very nice wheels in the flesh and cost an arm and a leg!

 

[Christopher]

lol! I love it when Chris and Si get all JDM protective!! It's cute!

It's not even that though.

People on here love to jump on the bandwagon without knowing the first thing about the subject matter. Not everyone wants their car to be setup by Mark Fish for the one time a year it sees a track.

People like different stuff. End.

 

[Christopher]

Love them on Meisters! Looks stunning, that.

 

[HartZ]

lovely looking too low at the front IMO