S2000 To Turbocharge or Not?

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Originally Posted by AusS2000

You really have to work on cars yourself to understand the flexible schedules. It's amazing the stupid things that pop up and take a ridiculous amounts of time. When I did my clutch I stuffed a couple of the drive shaft bolts. I ordered them from Honda and they took two weeks!

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Contray. The automotive instrusty is dictated by dollar. I have had experience with very few people who have not given priority to someone else who is offering 'more' money. No a first come, first servied basis. It seems as though there is very little thought given to customer service and the idioligy that 'there will always be another (customer)' is flawed.

As a customer, you think your money is just as good as the other mans. Alas, just because you dropped 10k on some work, dont think you will be given any sort of priority.

There's certainly some truth in that. But in the case of Steve's car I expect Toda are as anxious to get it finished and invoiced as Steve is to drive it. I expect it would be pretty high on the priority list.

After a mild heart attack on friday when Adrian told me that my EMS was shagged, there has been some good progress over the weekend. I popped over to Ingleburn on Saturday and to my relief found that the EMS hadn't worked because my car's battery had gone flat. :)
The car is now running and was taken to the workshop down the road to have some welding done on the piping. Once that is done, it will go on the Dyno. So all being well it should be tuned tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by AusS2000

There's certainly some truth in that. But in the case of Steve's car I expect Toda are as anxious to get it finished and invoiced as Steve is to drive it. I expect it would be pretty high on the priority list.

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I think Adrian will be very happy to see the back of my car. ;)

My car will be ready for collection tomorrow. It has been on the dyno today and Adrian will be finishing it off in the morning. :) :) :)

Noice! :thumbsup:

so what happened ? did Mr Norton get round to it today...... im very interest to see how it all turns out with minimal exhaust mods.

james

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Originally Posted by superR

so what happened ? did Mr Norton get round to it today...... im very interest to see how it all turns out with minimal exhaust mods.

james

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Well... I only know what I'm told, and Celia told me that it will be out the door today. No power figures or anything yet because I haven't spoken to Adrian. So watch this space!

Waiting patiently...........HURRY UP! :mad:

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Originally Posted by AusS2000

Waiting patiently...........HURRY UP! :mad:

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After six weeks anticipation, I finally got to drive a turbocharged S2000.. My turbocharged S2000!! And it is awesome. Adrian had some issues tuning it, most of which went about 10 metres above my head. But the final consistant power @rw was 184 kw (it was 134 in stock form). So a 50kw gain with the stock exhaust system.
The best part is that it is really quiet and the only sign that it is not stock is pssst from under the bonnet when I floor it.
If anyone was on the M5 around 18:30 and saw a silverstone blurr- that was me :)

3" zorst time....oh and who predicted the power output? lol
congrats man.....vtec turbo is awesome

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Originally Posted by superR

3" zorst time....oh and who predicted the power output? lol
congrats man.....vtec turbo is awesome

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Yes I did think of you when Adrian said 184kw. Strange thing is that I don't notice the VTEC anymore, the torque is pretty constant right up to redline from around 3000 rpm. I think Adrian said that VTEC is coming in at 7000rpm now, but I can't tell because once it gets to 7000 it zips to redline in a fraction of a second.
It gets really really hot in the footwell i notice, you could have had a BBQ on the turbo after 90 minutes of driving. I've also lost the stock oil cooller/heater
because that's what the Revhard kit required (the oil filter has been repositioned). So the next job is to get that and the temperature guage sorted (AEM EMS can't drive the temperature guage for some reason). I've got the driver for the temp guage from the US, and Adrian will sort the Oil cooling issue for me in a few weeks.