Something I've been worried about in my driving technique and what not, is that I'm worried I'm hurting the car as I drive, I'm not perfect yet and go a little hard on the clutch once in a while (Bad habits from my mustang ) but I was wondering, how fragile is the S2k? Will she die on me after a few months of hard driving or is it built hard enough to handle normal road mistakes?

I know this varies from car to car and from driving style to driving style, but my paranoia is driving me insane =)

A 30k investment (yes getting women IS an investment ) isnt something I want to kill.

I think my biggest problem is burning the clutch my timing is a couple fraction of a second off in my let off gas, clutch, shift, switch clutch and gas, sequence. In 1st I'm having problems because I used to over-rev, but now I under-rev and almost stall on starts, guess under rev'ing us better than over?

I think I'm one of the few guys/if any at all, that's willing to admit he's having a rough time getting used to pushing the car to the max, and driving it perfectly on streets.

Any help is appreciated =)

 

Stop worring about it and just drive. Consider clutches like tires or brake pads, but you don't have to replace them quite as often. When the clutch wears out, you can put a new disk in and do it again. I'm sure my clutch won't last 100,000 miles and it doesn't bother me one bit.

 

yeah, the clutch is a wear item. Just get used to the car and you'll do fine. The car has less torque than your old mustang so thats why you are under revving, or rather this is why it feels like you are under revving. You do need to gas a small engined car more to get the rpms high enough to torque the car into moving. Shoudl take a fairly decent driver a week or so to get the hang of it and a bit longer to get rid of the habits created by a previous car.

Just go out and rive and enjoy. Practice when you can too jsut to get a better feel for it.

 

SuperDyu,

Don't worry about it. Your S2000 definitely won't die on you after a few months of hard driving. I learned stick (hills, upshifts, downshifts, the whole nine yards) on my '02 and have also taught a couple of other people to drive stick on it, and it's currently at 40k miles and doing fine as my daily driver. Since you already knew how to drive stick when you got the car, you were already several steps ahead of me, and should be fine.

Enjoy...

 

Ah thanks a lot all

 

Did your Mustang have a manual transmission as well? I find it much easier to drive Japanese cars as opposed to American. On the domestics I've driven, you have to lift your foot like 10 feet before the clutch engages.

 

It was stick V6 2001, thing is i learned stick on Ford Escort from 1986 that didnt have any RPM's so i got good habit of hearing the engine out, then upgraded to mustang, thing with mustang was, so much torque became addictive so I'd floor the thing and drop clutch to launch, but since mustangs are like sledge hammers didnt really care for one, but also didnt know too much about the car so didnt know it would burn clutch thought the smell was rubber (probably both) and the fact american cars can take quiet a beating i just grew bad habits.

Actually the clutch in s2k reminds me of clutch in mustang just that the point of engagement is less, but the range of motion seems similar.

But that might be just me, it does make sense for it to be bigger, I mean mustangs are made for big white men, s2k's are made for little japanese men =).

I love my S2k more overall, but I do miss the torque on the 'stang. Somethign that should be fixed once i get comptech SC =)

 

A V6 Mustang has a lot of torque?!

I don't think the supercharger will make the S2000 a torque monster. You'll definitely have more than stock, but don't expect it to change the characteristics of the car.

 

By a lot i mean i actually felt it ^_^* I know its fairly low on torque compared to others.

gonna do SC more for power than torque but hopefully torque improvement will be noticable.