Is the s2000 the most powerful 4cyl engine thats not p plater prohibited?
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Is the s2000 the most powerful 4cyl engine thats not p plater prohibited?
I think it is.
yeah it would be. it actually makes more power the a 2 litre gtst skyline LOL.
that actually makes me feel less bad ass driving a turbo car on p plates
Yeah i totally agree. No point doing F/I on S2K, as i could go back to a RPs13 and build a monster, for half the price. Same fun! (actually more fun!)Quote:
Originally Posted by vyets
i reckon s2k will turn out to be the next del sol..bodykits, chromies and custom interiors galore! haha
it better not be
What do you mean will? It already has. Go take a look on CarSales.....
brad u read my mind. its the worst looking on carsalesQuote:
Originally Posted by ludecrs
alot are on 19" minimum chromies with non original colours
Id say 20" minimum on carsales.. too many fully sick s2k's
Wrecks a well balanced car :(
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Originally Posted by hisoka
i thought DC2R is faster 400m :S ... correct me if im wrong
youre wrong lol
wat does a stock s2k run down the quarter mile newaiz??
Std 14.2
cr 13.8
oh thats ayt 14.2 ... my mate ran a 14.2 a few months ago in his civic with b18c2 motor with ITR LSD gearbox ... good to noe he runs like a S2K lol :D
Its true I see alot more P plater s2k's around nowadays..
Just did a quote for an 18 yr old who's parents just bought him an S2K and it was $46,000 for full comprehensive cover and I heard him sigh
His parents bought the car under the condition he paid the insurance, I laughed so hard.
Being a P Plater myself comprehensive cover for my EG is around $8k per year which is fooooked, so I mean alot of these p platers have s2k's but can't pay their insurance so they either dont insure them or ask mummy and daddy for insurance money too..
I wouldn't take third party property/theft/fire for an s2k, would have to be comprehensive but mreh, thats just me. No point buying a nice car if you can't handle the insurance repayments
WHAT 8k a year for full comp for a EG are you ****ing kidding? THat's a ridiculous price what company are you with. Also 46k a year for full comp for a S2000 is just bullshit lol. Noone pays 46k a year, shit I've never heard anyone pay even 10k a year.
really? why is the CR faster? lolQuote:
Originally Posted by STAiN MASTER
Its lighter has more areo parts and stickier tires I presume.
its only a tiny bit lighter, and the aero parts/tyres wouldn't make that much of a difference. The re070 isn't that much better then the re050 on launch. However there have been people who hit high 13's with standard s2k's non CR
Well those are the only parts that are different compared to a stock s2000, so it does make a difference and also the suspension I forgot to mention.
Best time ive read a STD s2k did was 13.9
8k a yr! shit man im 19 and i got quoted 4k a yr by justcars, and my most expensive was 7k from racv, so i dunno how your paying 8 your getting ripped off big time, anyway i am a p plater obviously and bought the whole car myself, and insurance, although i have to admit insurance is under dads name atm (2k a yr) till i pay off my lone which is only 2k which i think is pretty good for my age considering the car was almost 24k.Quote:
Originally Posted by pablos8
P.s you should of slapped that kid in the face if he only has to pay for insurance, if not for that at least slap him for actually paying 46k a yr XD
how do people under 24 afford a S2000 when they dont even have an income or full time job.
or even get approved for a loan....
I'm not paying 8k a year that's what the quote was from my work... But then again we hate insuring p platersQuote:
Originally Posted by brendan1990
umm well.....cause maybe some people under 24 do have a full time job??
And because of that the bank approves the loan
Can agree, im under 20 and have a fulll time job..Quote:
Originally Posted by brendan1990
How do people above 24 afford an S2000 without an income/full-time job?Quote:
Originally Posted by STAiN MASTER
Pearents.
part time Gigolo
haha....serious?
Well, alot of parents are buying there kids cars these days and I reckon it's pretty normal by now. How often do you see a P plater driving around with a nice car in the 20 - 30k mark I would say it's 90% of kids, times have changed.
But the difference is when it comes to modding, though their parents pay for the car they would never pay for the mods. So they buy cheap mods and what they can afford, then that's where it starts too show. When someone works hard to save the amount of money needed for a car that cost low 30's or high 20's they would know how hard it is to save that much and when they buy stuff for the car, only the best and they wouldn't cheap out.
But there are those select few who's parents yes believe it or not.. actually buy mods for them too wtf?
^Yeah I know a guy who's parents are filthy rich. Like houses in different countries-ferrari kind of rich. He bought his son's cars and paid for the mods too. It's just how it is. 80k car is cheap compared to their ferrari/bentley. Oh well some people are born into it...the rest of us just gotta work hard.
Drink less/not at all, don't smoke, be less fashionable. Work 3-4-5 days a week for 2-3 years after high school whilst driving your parent's car/catching train/getting lifts.
That's how I bought mine. No way would I loan it, you pay so much interest and theres so many other consumables that come with owning a "higher" performance vehicle.
Alternatively you can get disqualified and hence stay on your P's for like 5 years hahah
Couldnt of put it better myself, and vyets your exactly right about saving for the right stuff, im back to the no drinking, hardly going out to save up for some tien coilovers XD but i believe that benefit and feeling you get out of it at the end is what makes it all worth it, and we teach ourselves that saving hard for a bit really pays off in the end.Quote:
Originally Posted by jbird
I went and saw the A-team last night with a mate, and one of his gud friends who just bought a brand new ford xr6 (31k) and i asked if he had to take a loan and he just laughed and said 'yeah of course' then i asked how much and his like 'haha 31k'
i still cant figure out now how he could afford to pay it off with interest each month + actual repayments + fuel and his only a 2nd yr apprentice with no other job =/
hate to admit it but im 20, paying back a 30k loan, its alot of money no doubt but i dont care, im happy, as long as your sensible and/or smart with your money its possible,
as far as mods go, nothing but the best for my car, genuine or don't bother, thats just my stance with this car, with my prelude its a different story.
i was the same
im 19 now
brought my car wen i was 18..4 months into my pz
sine then i have being paying out a loan of 17k..i was able to put a deposit of 5k on the car since i had already saved that up. interest boosted me up to end up paying 25k for the loan..which is redicules..but a price i must pay since i want a car that i will love and enjoy.
i dont drink or smoke so saving money isnt as hard. i go uni 4 days a week and work as much as i can doing security. i can admit that in my 1st 9 months of my Pz i resorted to cheap mods, replica wheels n stupid cheap sound systems, compressed springs n all the basic cheap p plater crap u wuld put on ur car. in the last 3 months i have matured quite a bit. this all came to me when i snapped my 1st driveshaft. i relised i was abusing the car and it opened my eyes.
1 month later i thought i was being a pussy and was just over-reacting..and then bang..second driveshaft snapped. at this point..i felt like like i got smacked in the face by god, telling me to stop being a spoiled brat and get my act together. i now am trying 2 save properly..using patience as my key to moding my car. it is now bak 2 bone dry stock and im trying to work my way up with mods. i 1st am looking at strengthening the diff with some new driveshaft spacers and internal colar, followed by coilovers and other respectable neat mods. ive got 2 points left and am really close 2 losing my licence..so speeding is a complete zero for me now. vtec is now an event on daily drive..'vtecing it' is pretty much speeding regardless of what gear so i barely push her at all now.
well thats my story of how P platers can HOPEFULLY mature through the course of time.
hope u guys dont think im a dikhead
well you where pretty game saying all that so ill say...nahh your not that bad lol, you seemed to of learnt your lesson, did the shafts literally snap or did they just degrade over time?Quote:
Originally Posted by tamay_s2k
Words of advice.
1: Find out the terms of your car loan if their is a early termination payment (if you pay the loan off early). If there isn't then great.
2: Stop modding and use that extra money to pay off said loan. Getting screwed by interest is really retarded.
Your car repayment will be $150 a week for 5 years.
Interest rate for your car loan is 15%.
Amount borrowed = $30,000.
You are roughly paying 45k for a car. That means for every dollar you pay off your loan, HALF of it is being used to pay interest.
If you can try to pay $300 per week off your car loan, it will take half the time and you will pay about 5k in interest.
I am using rough calculations so don't quote me to the dollar but you get my drift
this man speaks the truth, i pay back 280 a week, my minimum is 250, this way ur always ahead on your repayments, loan will be no longer than 3 years, theres a buffer between u and sh*t creek.
although stop modding is easier said than done, i was trying to do this then all of a suden BAM Mugen wing.......sometimes u just have to :P
im on my reds, and yes i got a loan.. but not from a bank =) but instead my grandparents.. lol i only ow them 13K or so.. it would of been 11K now but i spent it on new tyres, some stock rims of James(Jbird) and im going to buy his coilovers soon lol...
sell their bodiesQuote:
Originally Posted by jbird
If I charged every woman I had been with id be a rich man.
i love how people think its hard to get into a 30-40k car on their p plates.
if ur working full time from the age of 17, ull be on 30-40k a year.
now if ur living at home, ull save more then half, and if ur desperate, banks are throwing money out faster then that week old milk thats been sitting on the bench.
on topic, the S2000 has been the p platers car for years now. every time i see one one 19"+ rims of any style, +50 offset and that P plate on the rear number plate, i die a little.
thank sydney really, sex spec is the shit. to bad the shit stinks.
i die a little to, but i am a plater.Quote:
Originally Posted by INVSBL
im 17 on my red p's.. Working as a fridgie for a year, saved up some money, got a couple of bucks from here and there and bought myself an s2k..
there are alot of dicknob p platers out there that definantly dont know how to treat cars, there the only ones that dont deserve a spectacular car like these..
dont you have to be 18 for p's?Quote:
Originally Posted by VeYzZii
For green ps not red
what the? which state allows you to get your p's at 17? victoria doesn't.
L's at 16, I thnk you have to hold it for 6 months or maybe 12 months before you can try go for reds this is for NSW.
Potentially you cuold be on your full icence by 20 yaers old if your keen and keep clean
in SA, its 16 for L's, and 6 months later and a certain amount of hours of driving experience you can get your P1'sQuote:
Originally Posted by euromandeluxe
In nsw its Ls at 16, then 120 hours of driving and a year later on to reds.. Then a year later to Greens for 2 years, then golds.
did you just say golds? i have never hurd of gold p plates
golds is form of full license.. its what you get after green p's, what most people call "fulls"Quote:
Originally Posted by brendan1990
I think you go onto your blacks like 3 or 4 years after that ... don't know if they've removed that though, correct me if I'm wrong
getting my Ps soon hopefully
looking at an s2k aswell lol
The s2k has been a big p plater car since the laws came out haha
they are a really crap car, i mean terrible, you wont like it! :PQuote:
Originally Posted by chunky
Give me urs now :)Quote:
Originally Posted by brendan1990
its ummm....broken......yeh broken.......cause they are so unreliable
thats very good, it will keep the prices up and ill get good money in the future if I wish to sell mine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wez_R
yea the engines r fuked
after 6,000rpm this weird noise comes from the engine
its to loud!! and doesnt sound normal
i think u should u just leave p platers such as myself with these cars of "failure" :P
haha, yeah i know what you mean about going higher than 6k, its like this weird roar, cant be good.....
Lol ^^
thanks for that :) i'll keep my eye out on saving up for an EP3 instead :D
EP3 > p-plater S2k
what the hell are you kids on about...
You wouldnt know coz yours didnt come with vtak. vtak was optional...Quote:
Originally Posted by STAiN MASTER
Yeah I just went outside and checked under the bonnet mine said vtec not vtak, how come vtak was an option what the difference?Quote:
Originally Posted by Si1enzio
Difference between vtec & vtak, vtak is the newer generation...Quote:
Originally Posted by STAiN MASTER
So when vtak kicks in, it goessss vvvvtakkkkkkkkk, sounds meaner than vteccccccc...
so on which models was vtak introduced because mines 01 which is an earlier version which has vtec.Quote:
Originally Posted by Si1enzio
I think above 04.Quote:
Originally Posted by STAiN MASTER
You can go onto the dealership & say i want to update my vtec to vtak yo ! then give him a high 5 straight after you say that.
mmm I wonder if I can upgrade my vtec to vtak even if mines an 01 model... is the difference only for sound or is there performance gains to be had with vtak?
would my oem ecu handle it also?
You would need to upgrade ecu to quad core vtak cpu.Quote:
Originally Posted by STAiN MASTER
this thread is so dry haha
BAHAHA i g2 get me a vtak
Brendan1990, would you be intrested in a group buy for the vtak upgrade?Quote:
Originally Posted by brendan1990
LMAO
u have got 2 b kidding me
i hope 2 god brendan 1990 that u are playing along with this vtak crap and arent actually believing him lmaoooooo
nah guys
MIVEC FOR THE WIN!!!
OR VVT
OR ZITEC
or a v8 that only gets like 185kws from a 5litre.(vp commodores...every loser reckons there tuff n uses them as hoon cars)
but anyway
dont get s2k
u can get very badly sunburnt in summer
its true..ask anyone wif a s2k
i always have sunscreen in my glovebox for those topeless days lmao
wtf is zitec,
is that like a brand under zurtec?
It's fords version of vtec
so the xr8 is a V8 vtec?Quote:
Originally Posted by pablos8
oh lol
itds what they have in the focus,
and lol the boss v8 motor does not have variable cams.
boat anchors arnt sold with that.
Yeah they have it in focus, apparently it works in a similar way to the V-TEC systemQuote:
Originally Posted by INVSBL
i thoughtit wasmore like the toyota system where it opens up valves, as apposed to the honda system which engages larger cam lobes.
haha yeh i know, otherwise i wouldnt of gone BAHAHA, i just couldnt stop laughing for about 5 minuts after he said u give the guy a high 5Quote:
Originally Posted by tamay_s2k
lmaooooooooooooo
thank god.
i wouldnt b suprised if people believed this whole vtak thing.
from ur reaction..i was almost convinced 2 the point where i was going 2 google it. then im like...wtf am i thinking haha