If you truly need to sink money into your car, suspension and/or brakes would be a better investment IMO.

 

Problem with suspension is anything under $2,000 could quite possibly negatively impact handling. The suspension is awesome stock, so unless you plan on dropping several thousand dollars, I would not even bother.

 

Konis + Ground Controls are about $1K, and are widely praised as a cost-effective improvement. Besides, gears aren't esp. cheap if you do it right (CT reinforced diff, yellow box) and consider the substantial labor charges involved.

 

I think i may be waisting my money with doing anything else to my car. I talk about getting gears, and doin this, and doing that....and then it hit me. I didnt even hit redline in the past 4-5 days of driving. Once the initial cool factor of the exhaust wore off, it was back to normal driving. And then another thing hits me....the thought of a ticket being issued to me at this point in time would ruin my life. I find myself not taking on mustangs that fly by me on the highway, or even just opening up on clear stretches. I expected this to happen one day, but not this soon . I wish my s2000 wasnt my daily driver, because after driving all the time, and doing everything in the car....im losing interest in it .

 

I agree .. I installed , and UN installed buddy clubs a couple of years ago . At least I sold them for what I bought them for.

 

Could you offer any advice on the how or where? I'm very interested in learning how to make the most out of my stock s2k and I'd love to take it to a track and be taught that. Where do we start?

 

Please reference http://www.thedriversedge.net/ if you want to learn how to drive your S. I am a track junkie and have about 2yr of off and on track time with DE. Great safe org with lots of good people. Not to mention driving along side exotics. Let me know if you have any questions.


I've been running the 4.57 gears for about a year now. Purchased from Ricks for $1350 plus $200 for JC Autospec to install. Haven't had any problems.

 

[QUOTE=Chris S,Oct 25 2006, 03:33 AM] Konis + Ground Controls are about $1K, and are widely praised as a cost-effective improvement.

 

Before jumping in with both feet and going to the much more expensive DE events, try local AutoCrosses. It's not as high-speed, there's less risk of bending up your car (although it's still pretty low at a DE event), but it gives you the chance to learn the car at lower speeds WITHOUT others being on course with you. I think it's a more conservative place to start out. Once you get a season or two of AutoCross under your belt and are ready to take it up a notch, that's when I'd recommend trying some of the high speed events. I know I didn't go to any DE-style events until I had about 2 years of experience. One friend of mine went out there with a year or so less experience than I did and ended up driving a lightly wrecked car back home from Corpus Christi after he lifted off the throttle in a 115mph sweeper. There are just certain things you can't grasp/learn without seat time, and although you get more of it at DE events, something as simple as losing the tail end of a car at an AutoX and taking out a cone can turn into you losing the tail end and going off sideways into the grass and rolling the car at a high speed event.

Crawl before you walk, walk before you run.

Be proficient in AutoX before you go to a DE event, be VERY comfortable in a DE setting before you try to compete in true wheel-to-wheel racing (I.E. NASA Honda Challenge series).

Just my $.02, take it for what it's worth...

Ricky