FRFR

how many pounds of torque should u torque those wheel nuts on s2k?

Thanks

tukluc

Almost all Hondas are 80 lb/ft.

The official for the S2000 is 79.6 lb/ft (per the Helms Manual)

Hockey

Darn......too slow.

80, although some do 90 - but that isn't recommended.

mikegarrison

Being a engineer-type geek, I go to 80 on the torque wrench and then back off to about 79.6 ft-lb. (Of course it's only supposed to be accurate to +/- 4%, which works out to +/- about 3 ft-lb, but the little ritual is comforting.)

-Mike

brantshali

If you break the studs you tightened them too much...

FRFR

haha thanks.. i did 75 once.. coz on my previous civic.. it was 4 nuts.. so it requires 80

i thought 5 nuts required less... ok..t hanks.. will give each a 80 pounds torque

PWRMKR

Ya know, I have never used a torque wrench on lug nuts. I have never snaped a stud or lost a nut. I have had a wheel come off on me. The falling wheel wasn't from not torquing, it was from a brain on a '68 Bug, a long time ago.

mikegarrison

I never did either until I started tracking the car. I now seem to pull the wheels off the car about as often per month as I did per year on any other car I ever owned. And with the wheels running at track temperatures and track stresses, the consequences of over- or under-torquing the lugs are more severe.

-Mike

Xodus

Proper way of torquing is an important factor as well. I do my RSX 5 lugs with 80 lb/ft. making sure I draw star, torque lug nuts while wheel is in the air. I really don't think it makes huge difference, but that's how tire guys at Costco do.

RT

.... cause Costco tire guys are the gold standard