Anyone own one of these cars? Am thinking about getting one to race..
I drove one of the early ones a few years back.. wondering what any owners have to say about themm (?)
the s2000 is a fun car. one of my good friends has one and he obviously loves to abuse it(4 clutches since hes gotten it). since its still under warrantee they just keep on replacing them. they are very difficult to mod for more hp without going fi. but if you are going fi..... the sky is the limit.
i've seen people push them as far as 265 naturally aspirated (and it was pricey). I've seen 315 with an s/c kit, but that was at 7,000rpms, it killed the windy motor thing it had going. It is a great out of the box track car, tight tight stiff handling and high widning motor turning through a close ratio tranny with a positive engagence shifter.
If you were looking for the best track car for the dough, my advice.
buy yourself a decent E36 M3, they have TONS of room to tune, if you tune them for track performance, they are amazing. Truly these cars have tons of room, and i've seen them track modified running with some pretty good 911s at porsche club track events. I've wanted to make one as a track project car myself.
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I'd love to get an M3... this is a toy to beat on, however, so i'm not sure that i want to spend that kind of money. 1-2 year old S2000's are available pretty cheap if you look hard enough....
Honda replaces clutches under warranty? I thought that was a "wear item"
honda replaces clutches under warrantee to so many miles. It's like 12,000. I think after 4 they would start getting suspicious though.
You can get an E36 M3 for 15 grand if you look hard. The 3.2L engine has tons of room to tweak on it, and there are after market parts by the drum load. If you did some weight reduction (like pulling rear and possibly passenger seats out, stupid stuff, like the spare, the jack kit, pull sound insulation, stuff like that, you can get the weight down enough to make them competitive. With a supercharger kit, you can have that 3.2L making 400hp, new eibach springs, bilstein track shocks, stiffer roll bars, a racing clutch, track tires, you'd have your self one hell of a track car.
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The E36 has a ton of room for modification, thats' true, I have pointed that out once before, and it's one of the things I think it has over on the E46. That car is already maxed out, but E36 you can turn into whatever dream you want.
I have never driven an S2000 myself, but I have heard you have to rev that motor like crazy to get any torque out of it. I don't generally go for engines like that.
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oh yeah, an s2000 redlines at 9k.... but its a neat little car to throw on the track for not a lot of money... I'm not building a dream car here, just something to cruise around town in and throw on the track every once in a while. How is the power on, say a '97 M3? Is it fast? 240hp right? DOes it have a lot of torque? Anyone have any 0-60 or quarter mile numbers to throw at me?
S2000 
the sky is the limit.
was E36, before that was E30.
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