tailhappy

Crazy! I remember a young ex forum member who had it all slammed and braced. Looked way to low but he had to have the look (along with a super loud ividia). Wrote it off in the wet. Take heed. It may look "good" with the wheels filling the arches but you will wreck the cars handling and feel. Sure it will all feel direct and tight in the dry but the wet requires softer damping as he found out coming onto the M56 when snap he & his (now ex) girlfirend where catapulted into the guard rail. Yet another S2k written off.

Maybe I'm getting old but I've grown out of all that filling the arches crap. Give me 16" little rims with quality feel and handling any day

Oh and always keep 3 mm or more on the rears

MB

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GanSan personally told me coilovers ROCK, and that if he had an S2000 instead of his NSX-R, he would definitely have coilovers on it, probably Ebay Racelands or D2 Racing as they are the best makes*.

(I'm the ugly one stood to his left). The guy is an absolute legend!

On a serious note:

I have Meister S on my MX5 and I am pretty happy with them. I still haven't read a bad review on the Meisters for the S2000 either. I think I am going to look for some Buddyclub N+ when I upgrade my suspension in a month or too. I had Buddyclub RS on my last S2000 and cannot rate them well enough. I loved them, I just cannot afford them now! My first S2000 had PSS9 and although I liked them, the ride didnt seem as controlled as the Buddyclub. I guess lots of it is personal preference.

Coilovers serve a purpose, to offer adjustable dampening and height. Those saying they are overkill on a road car obviously have never had coilovers. They take away the horrible arch gap, which looks better and many of them nowadays still offer OEM or better ride quality. Then if you do a track day or two, or have a B road blast, you can adjust the dampening to stiffen up the ride in a matter of minutes.
Why is anything wrong with that and how is it not an improvement on 10 year old OEM suspension? How is that making the car 'too hardcore' for road? It just gives you options.

*The Japanese to English translation could have been wrong....
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Great reply Adz

MB

I think coilovers are often very compromised on road cars.

Example. I had an Exige S once upon a time. You would think it had the best suspension in the world, until you tried a set of 2 way Ohlins on it. They improved the ride quality so mcuh my Doris even noticed it. Much less crashy - just better damping. But what amazed me was they really cut down the chassis roll too, and made the car handle waaaaaaaaaaaaay better on track. Astonishing.

Same applies to the S2000 imo.

But I do quite like the OEM stuff on the road.

Ultra_Nexus

This thread is funny! I ran my teins at full damping stiffness with R888s and bucket seats.

Of the 5000 miles I did in that configuration, I came across one road where things got a bit floaty.

Otherwise, they were bloody fantastic.

Depends what you like I suppose - I prefer a fidgety pointy car that likes to turn in and I'll sort the rest out if it happens.

Others like to waft along and take in the scenery.

Nothing wrong with either and no one is a twat

m1bjr

I have been around here for a while.
All crashes I have read about on here are in oem cars with oem geo.
thats a fact, not heresay.

zzkamikazezz

MIP

I've got KWv3's myself:




I've got them at a fairly soft setting with quick rebound, which seems pretty good for road and track. Near OEM comfort, but alot less body roll. I'd say it definatly handles better: on track. I've got the height where it'll get over most bumps ok, and it looks about right I think:

tailhappy

I guessed I must have pressed a nerve there

Love a bit of name calling

Anyway lets agree to disagree. Whilst I draw breath and have another track car, I won't be needing to fill my arches to trash the road setup of my S2000. Will just enjoy the perfectly fine geo'd handling as it is and laugh at all the chavs on here slamming their motors so they "look" good whilst compromising the car's ride quality .

loftust

That's HOW someone has setup their S, not because they have fitted aftermarket coilovers

My S was at a very sensible height. We're not all hellagash chav you know.

The board says you were posting at 0545!!! The phrase 'WTF' comes to mind!

grandmer

I had BC Racing Coilovers before but decided to sell them because of this, the car felt uncomfortable on anything less than perfect tarmac which basically is non existant where i drive ( ie north of Scotland ) and when i tried to lower the damping, the car then felt worse, it was more comfortable but it felt wierd like it was under damped for the springs, I´m not sure if that was what i was feeling tbh as i´m in no way an expert
Anyway I´ve come to the conclusion lowering springs are really all i need because as you say, i need some driver training before i can be confident enough/able to exploit the cars limits...

Wow, that must have been ridiculously uncomfortable!