I liked the less extreme design of the original S2000. The Mugen kit seems a little extreme, especially for the price. I'd rather have performance mods. BTW, didn't most of the population think the SS2200 looked terrible? There's not too much difference between that and the bodykit S2000...except for the obvious one-seater thing, but still...I would think that most people who didn't like the SS2200 would dislike this too.

 

God Awful.

When you look under "rice" in the dictionary you'll see a photo of this.

well, you asked...

 

Exactly. It's not for everybody.....definitely not for me

 

Jezuzz! The bumper looks like the one on TT -- enough said!
The vent opening is super-cool though...

 

I think some one should tell Mugen about the windshield tape.

 

wileecoyote-

The wing was not just designed for downforce- at least, that's my understanding of it.

It was designed to smooth out the airflow in the rear of the car- minimise turbulance, and thus, minimise drag.

The whole kit is designed to minimise turbulance, which is why there are undertrays- the front one, with the bumper extends about four feet back from the front of the lip spoiler. I haven't seen the rear one yet, but I assume it will cover most of the rear whereever it dirties the airflow.

Like I said in the other post, it was designed in a full scale rolling road wind tunnel. Chances are, the rear wing does help, and probably helps significantly at speeds above those that are lawfully allowed in most countries. It'll probably help at high speed tracks like Road America where every little bit helps, but at a small track like GingerMan it'll probably be negligiable.

I'll have a report on it when Spring ever decides to come around to the upper Midwest...

-Nick

 

I gotta love the hood though

 

Do any of you think that the new hood shown here would go with the stock bumpers? In other words, changing just the hood to Mugen. Would it look cool?

elnetti

 

Personally, I'm not for the Mugen hood at all...doesn't the opening make it not good to drive in the rain?

 

Jay-

Check the other thread on the rain issue with the carbon fiber hood. It's not a problem- in fact Mugen had already thought about it and has a solution designed into it. It's very trick.

However, I don't understand why the hood openings would not be good in the rain. As long as your electrical hot leads are properly insulated it should not be a problem. You do know that water can splash up from underneath too...

Greg-

I don't think Scott was clear enough to you on the "tunnel", as you call it.

It's actually part of the Mugen front bumper kit. It's an air scoop for the a/c core/radiator core behind it. The scoop ensures that little airflow will go around the cores, and mostly go through it- all for maximum cooling effect.