hard top

[AP1fun]

I really like the S2000 styling but I really don't enjoy a convertable. The body lines are unreal and not to over drawn which is important and the performance is top notch. So a hard top (moon craft or not) will give you that look and feeling of a coupe. The moon craft simply extends it onto the trunk and follows up with all the body lines.

[boxcarracer0260]

get it and let us know what you think.....i know it is expensive....but save up...then give us some before and after pics.

[AP1fun]

Don't have that much money. If I did my S would be boosted.

[boxcarracer0260]

you would rather go boosted rather than na?

[AP1fun]

Originally Posted by boxcarracer0260

you would rather go boosted rather than na?

no doubt. its the only way to actually make decent power without doing the 2.4/2.5L stroker kit which longativity sucks with that big of a bore.

[boxcarracer0260]

but aren't you concerned with messing up the balance of the engine not to mention the increase in total and waste heat as well as the possibility of denotation!? I know you can do a build on the head to support the extra pressure and forge the bottom end to hold the boost, but that is alot of money for boost. I know that the honda engines can hold a certian amount of boost before it goes to far and the engine goes, but in order to make the extra insurance so your engine doesn't go you not only have to buy a kit ($3000 or so) but you should or have to build the top up ($1000+) and that just seems alot to me to get 25-35% of an increase in power and 15-30% increase in torque. Plus a boosted engine is not as reliable as an NA one and the power doesn't actually ingauge until the turbine spools up. So if you are driving in a tight technical road or race track you will not be able to use the full potential of the engine, whereas you would with an NA. I have also heard of some outrageous amounts of power being produced on a NA with the same or less cash and time spent! That is how I feel about it. OH, and i know honda engines love boost, but think of it, if they do so much then why doesn't honda make a boosted engine (Gas)?

[boxcarracer0260]

that is the most i have ever posted before...EVER.

[AP1fun]

Acura RD-X is a tubo inline 4 SUV coming out soon (07 line)

The S2000 makes 240 HP stock with adverage 200 (adverage) RwHP
HKS and any other very high quality exhaust (well over 1000 dollars) nets about 8 hp (HKS dynoed 13 hp 1 time) a Toda header is around 1500 dollars and nets around 10 HP. AEM intakes net around 3 which is the most and cost 270 were as Mugen nets around 2-3 and cost 1100 dollars. so with well over 3000 in mods you are making possibly 230 at the rear wheels (highly unlikley) Comptech supercharger cost around 4000 with EMS and adverage net is 280-300 Rwhp. The SC is spooling when the gas is fully depressed and only runs 5.5 PSI on the normal pulley. Honda MAP sensors are good for 11PSI and a stock F20C1 head will hold 5.5 pounds of boost pretty easily and is a good daily driver.


If you lower the compression on a motor you have to up the boost to make the same power. Just some FYI.

As far as detination goes...We drive Hondas. Full motor can be got for less than $5000.

[boxcarracer0260]

well you made your point on that one.

[AP1fun]

If nothing else I know how to make power in S2000


I recently got a T1R test pipe (63mm) and it's insane the power it gave me. Possibly due to the fact my current cat. was clogged from my car running rich when it was super charged (before I got it). When I looked threw it i could see a small hole only about the size of a ball point pen.