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Superfour Challenge!
http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?se...&page_number=18
1st Place (RWD)
2001 Comptech USA Honda S2000
Street drivability:
1/4-mile: 13.3 sec @ 108 mph
Road course: 66.3 sec
130-to-0-mph braking: 530 feet
Total course time: 124.1 sec
In order to finish first, first you must finish. The Comptech USA Honda S2000 certainly did that, burning all its gas without a single burp and creaming the competition by packing grace and haste into a car that feels as thoroughly developed as anything off a factory assembly line. The Comptech boys were all smiles because their 460-hp Acura NSX-T finished a lowly 12th last year against a battalion of big-bore sleds.
This time, Comptech took Honda's hallowed sport bike on four wheels and injected 110 extra horsepower with a Paxton supercharger kit featuring a blower the size of a volleyball. The polished compressor snail snuggles up to the otherwise stock 2.0-liter four on a lovely anodized billet bracket. A glinting aluminum Comptech air-to-liquid intercooler kit pulls out the unwanted BTUs.
The Paxton blows just 7.0 psi of peak boost in deference to the engine's amoeba-flattening 11.0:1 compression ratio. But that and Comptech's moving the VTEC crossover down to about 5200 rpm makes for a nice squirt of torque in the lower rev range where the high-singing S2000 really needs it. And no knocking was observed, even with the pedal floored at low speeds.
The Comptech's 9000-rpm Formula 1 scream and 4.7-second 0-to-60-mph time (0.7 second quicker than a stock S2000 we tested last month) didn't come without some teething pains. Compressor vibrations in early cars eventually led to cracks in the mounting bracket, so the Paxton now rides on rubber bushings and only makes itself known as a faint whine and slight shiver through the gear lever.
Flexing in the stock differential case also caused the lower 4.44:1 limited-slip ring and pinion (the stock gear is 4.10:1) to make an oily exit out the back, so Comptech developed a reinforced billet aluminum pumpkin cover.
The Comptech rides stiffly on its
http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?se...&page_number=18
1st Place (RWD)
2001 Comptech USA Honda S2000
Street drivability:
1/4-mile: 13.3 sec @ 108 mph
Road course: 66.3 sec
130-to-0-mph braking: 530 feet
Total course time: 124.1 sec
In order to finish first, first you must finish. The Comptech USA Honda S2000 certainly did that, burning all its gas without a single burp and creaming the competition by packing grace and haste into a car that feels as thoroughly developed as anything off a factory assembly line. The Comptech boys were all smiles because their 460-hp Acura NSX-T finished a lowly 12th last year against a battalion of big-bore sleds.
This time, Comptech took Honda's hallowed sport bike on four wheels and injected 110 extra horsepower with a Paxton supercharger kit featuring a blower the size of a volleyball. The polished compressor snail snuggles up to the otherwise stock 2.0-liter four on a lovely anodized billet bracket. A glinting aluminum Comptech air-to-liquid intercooler kit pulls out the unwanted BTUs.
The Paxton blows just 7.0 psi of peak boost in deference to the engine's amoeba-flattening 11.0:1 compression ratio. But that and Comptech's moving the VTEC crossover down to about 5200 rpm makes for a nice squirt of torque in the lower rev range where the high-singing S2000 really needs it. And no knocking was observed, even with the pedal floored at low speeds.
The Comptech's 9000-rpm Formula 1 scream and 4.7-second 0-to-60-mph time (0.7 second quicker than a stock S2000 we tested last month) didn't come without some teething pains. Compressor vibrations in early cars eventually led to cracks in the mounting bracket, so the Paxton now rides on rubber bushings and only makes itself known as a faint whine and slight shiver through the gear lever.
Flexing in the stock differential case also caused the lower 4.44:1 limited-slip ring and pinion (the stock gear is 4.10:1) to make an oily exit out the back, so Comptech developed a reinforced billet aluminum pumpkin cover.
The Comptech rides stiffly on its
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