Steven's 01 S2000

[steve d]

The spider is what causes the vibrations and knocking etc. After a while it leaves a wear spot on the bucket. Lowering the car moves the spider (how far it moves depends on how low you go) the vibrations are caused by the spider moving between the new wear spot and the old one this is all. If you've lowered your car and there's no vibrations (yet) leave it and once the vibrations start then install the spacers.

Thanks for the kind words man
I'm looking at tein and bilstein mostly and at this stage I'll just go tein monoflex 10kg all round. Undecided on whether I'll also get edfc as well or not

No worries man!

sounds good, i think edfc will be super convenient, especially for the LHR damper as it's the biggest bitch to get to and adjust!



Small update on my build... i felt that the front end was in desperate need of a lip of some sort, i just wanted something simple like the oem ap1 lip, i spoke to Benny from BYP and he told me that he stocks fibreglass ap1 lips that is supposedly an oem rep but sits some what lower then it, in my opinion it looks a little different to the oem one but i like it and it gives the front a nice finish after being lowered

Next ill be looking for a wheel and tyre setup. stay tuned for that

[steve d]

UPDATE:

So in my last update i said my next mod would be a wheel and tyre setup, it didn't quite work that way lol...I decided to turn my focus to power mods first because the drop in torque and power going from my euro to the s2k was really bugging me!

First off i decided to get a very time consuming intake mod out of the way before i look for a tuning option, I am still keeping the stock air box because i don't feel that it's restrictive at all, but we'll see for sure when i chuck it on the dyno for the first time. Anyway this is what i bought first off...



It's an S90 70mm throttle body that i got for a bargain of $150 off a guy parting out, it was only 2000km's old so it polished up nicely

However to fit it i would have to bore out the inlet port on the intake manifold, So i had to pull the manifold off the engine and proceed to shave about 3-4mm in order to match it to the s90.





It wasn't to difficult, i've definitely removed harder manifolds in the past but this was just fiddly and time consuming, i had to drop the coolant so it didn't get messy when pulling the top hose off the manifold, this gave me an opportunity to install my defi water temp sensor and adaptor



I took the manifold to Benny at byp to get bored out while i went to JDMyard to pick up a P2R thermal gasket.



I got installing and it probably took me half the time to install then remove the manifold lol. After setting the TPS and stretching the intake hose onto throttle body with a lot of effort i took it for a drive and the results were pleasing, there was a noticeable pickup from 7000rpm onwards, so now with a cat-back, high flow cat and the throttle body i was keen to get a tune, after realising what a simple tune could do to my euro this was one of the things i wanted to do asap to slightly improve the poor mid range that the f20 has.



With that completed i began to install the Mishimoto oil cooler that i had on my euro





Made up some brackets...


Routed the lines past the condensor and radiator...


Installation 90% complete, now i just need to find a centre bolt for the oil filter sandwich plate as it didn't come with one.

[steve d]

I noticed that my radiator and battery stays were looking a bit average so i sprayed them black...





With the throttle body done i decided to look into my tuning options, they came down to Hondata kpro and Haltech platinum pro. Kpro is obviously much more expensive then the haltech and i would also have to change a number of sensors which would require me pulling the sump, timing cover and rocker cover off and i really didn't see the point in spending 2k+ plus and a lot of time and effort to install kpro when Haltech have made a plug and play unit to run specifically on the s2000. So i made my way to BYP today to pick up my new Haltech Platinum pro plug in



My next update will HOPEFULLY consist of a wheel and tyre setup lol, stay tuned .

[Perry]

If your planning on keeping the stock box try a spoon replica snorkel to me it worked.

[steve d]

Yeah i might do that and also invest in a 70mm intake arm of some sort, i've seen the APX dry carbon arm around on the net but cant find where to buy it...

[ryry668]

Very nice mods Steve! May I ask what brand that TB is?

[Shakeel]

Very nice mods Steve! May I ask what brand that TB is?

UPDATE:

It's an S90 70mm throttle body that i got for a bargain of $150 off a guy parting out, it was only 2000km's old so it polished up nicely

Ryan please...

[ryry668]

Lol sorry, I actually didnt know S90 was a brand, just looked it up!

[Flippit]

good stuff steve

[Stephen_AUS]

Great additions! I support your decision on the Haltech ... not only that you have a peace of mind with warranty since its an Australian product!

[steve d]

Thanks guys The ECU is now installed and ready to be tuned tomorrow! stay tuned for the results

[steve d]

Tune result update:

The tune was just over a week ago now, so my apologies for the lag lol. But anyways i chose BYP for the tune as they tuned my accord euro and it was faultless so i trusted Benny to deliver again and he did.

For starters my very small engine mod list consists of...
Invidia q300 70mm cat-back
Berk 70mm high flow cat
S90 70mm throttle body + 70mm bored inlet manifold....
and thats it lol.

The stock air box and headers still remain so i was quite surprised when i saw the numbers on the stock ecu.



I could have easily hit 160+ with an aftermarket intake and headers but meh I'm very happy with the result, the mid range is a lot better, there's less waiting for vtec to kick in to get the car moving and top end is awesome

quick video of the final run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cPSXnxnxWc

I'm really keen to get back to wakefield now that I have a couple of mods to better my stock standard time of 1:14.3, hopefully that will be happening in june some time

[steve d]

It's been a busy busy month for me, mod's to the S have been delayed due to doing a k-swap and b-swap for a couple of my mates cars So not much has been bought for the car but finally i have wheels!

I was in the hunt for either volk re30's in silver, gram lights in gun metal or rpf1's in SBC in sizes varying between 17/18x8.5 and 17/18x9.5 with high offsets to fit the S2K guards. The re30's were looking very unlikely due to the massive price tag they hold, I wasn't prepared to spend 4k+ on wheels.
However with a bit of patience and continuously searching everywhere on the net for wheels one of my preferences came up just not in the colour i wanted, they were bronze but i was willing to go and check them out and see if they would change my mind seeing them in person. So i made my way to Team Wild Speed in wetherill park, checked them out and bought them for a great price.

So anyway here they are...
VOLK RE30's in bronze 17x8+33 215/40 front and 17x9+40 235/40 rear with near new dunlop direzza z1 tyres.



I decided to test fit them on the car not expecting them to fit but it turns out they do because the tyres are slightly stretched, however they do scrub a fair bit on bumps, the plans now are to roll the front and rear guards, lower the rear down a little, fit front roll centre adjusters do dial in some camber and then buy some hankook rs3's or advan ad08's in 235 front and 255 rear to knock them wakefield times down to hopefully 1 minute 10's!

[Beatz]

Looks incredible! Very nice

[Toddxxx]

Omg!!! I love them!
Re30s are one of my favourite wheels ever!
If you ever want to sell. Please let me know!