thumbs up their ass

7/6/2009 8:32:22 PM

I have another rock chip (although tiny) in the middle of my windshield.

FML

7/22/2009 1:17:18 PM

sorry

s2000s love getting rock chips like no car i've ever driven. it's pretty amazing actually.

7/22/2009 1:20:00 PM

^I just replaced the windshield in May! :

7/22/2009 1:41:49 PM

The lexus has a rock chip in the windshield. The thing is, there wasn't a car in front of me! There was a dump truck 2 lanes over in the far right lane (I was in the far left) and quite a ways ahead (I'd guess 10 car lengths if I were directly behind him). WTF >_<

7/22/2009 3:18:50 PM

you can buy my slow2000. comes with a windshield.

7/22/2009 4:43:13 PM

just picked up one up.



[Edited on July 22, 2009 at 8:15 PM. Reason : ]

7/22/2009 8:11:27 PM

should have avoided it

7/22/2009 8:23:00 PM

You should have just bought Quinn's

[Edited on July 22, 2009 at 8:32 PM. Reason : .]

7/22/2009 8:31:16 PM

i could only be so lucky

7/22/2009 8:48:03 PM

Hey look, its the same color as your last one...

7/22/2009 9:10:55 PM

oh snap ap1!

i'm going to guess this one isn't supercharged?

how much did you get it for?

7/22/2009 9:31:08 PM

Is it a '02 or '03 Duke?

[Edited on July 22, 2009 at 10:22 PM. Reason : tweeters]

7/22/2009 10:10:53 PM

^^^^, ^^^^^^ ha, why do you hate them so much? or is this an inside joke that i missed the origin of?

^^ nope, this one's stock.

^ it's a 2000.

[Edited on July 22, 2009 at 10:15 PM. Reason : ]

7/22/2009 10:15:33 PM

So does it have '02 or '03 door panels?

7/22/2009 10:24:01 PM

hell, i don't know.

7/22/2009 10:25:12 PM

I've owned it for 2 years and just want to move on. It also feels really really slow to me. It was fun for awhile but the forced induction options are just too expensive. if i could get a good deal on a roots blower I would consider keeping it.

7/23/2009 8:03:16 AM

they're only adequate until you get them on the big lobes of the cam...then they're pretty decent, but still not what I'd call "fast" by any means. still great sports cars, though.

7/23/2009 8:20:25 AM

I'll put it this way. It's a great car for when you WANT to drive fast. Its horrible from 1st gear forward if you shift early. The moment you short shift first its pretty much unbearable from an acceleration stand point. When does vteeeeeeeeeeec engage in 2nd gear? something like 40-44mph? Up to that point it pulls worse than the van i'm currently driving.

It has been reliable and decent on gas. Mid life crisis old people are always asking me questions about it too which is getting kind of old. You would think I could get one of them to buy it!

7/23/2009 9:02:05 AM

yeah, i think that's a fair assessment. it just doesn't personally bother me that it's gutless until you thrash it.

7/23/2009 9:14:14 AM

You been spoiled by the civic Quinn

Also you should have given the s2k to your mom to drive. You might have been able to pull a dubcaps

7/23/2009 10:01:35 AM

^this!

any idea what you would get quinn?

7/23/2009 10:32:25 AM

I dont know if I would get anything to replace it. I would like to drive a CTS-V at some point (Big V8, cheap, whats not to like?). I would also consider an old 4 door m3 if it was cheap enough. I could just buy a 1000-1500$ civic and use that as a backup. I wouldn't do that until my other one blew up though. I already bought one and sold it because i had no drive to fix it and no need for it once fixed, lol.


^^ Yeah , no kidding!



[Edited on July 23, 2009 at 12:05 PM. Reason : .]

7/23/2009 12:04:02 PM

Quote :

"Mid life crisis old people are always asking me questions about it too which is getting kind of old."

i see a lot of mid life crisis old people driving AP1's these days

7/23/2009 4:44:44 PM

one of my friends kids me about it. she says its my mid-life crisis car. then i get frustrated and explain to her when people get older then they try to do what someone my age does now! I think she just likes seeing my flustered

Okay, so how do I make my car noticeably faster for around $1000?

7/23/2009 4:50:34 PM

Steal a supercharger and pay someone $1000 to put it on.

7/23/2009 4:52:12 PM

7/23/2009 4:54:54 PM

make an s2000 faster for 1G.......hmmm.......

Put in a 4.77 rear end.

prepare for 6000RPM highway cruises.

7/23/2009 5:16:34 PM

it only cost my friend $9k to have a shop put a vortec supercharger and intercooler on his

7/23/2009 5:23:33 PM

^^and get what, 20mpg on the highway?

^

7/23/2009 6:12:33 PM

OK...... go buy a carbon fiber snorkel and a loud ass exhaust for 6hp.

You could turbo your integra for a grand and rip the s2000s doors off.

7/23/2009 7:38:17 PM

Quote :

"so how do I make my car noticeably faster for around $1000? "

you don't.

should have bought an LSx based car if you wanted cheap go fast goodies

7/23/2009 8:01:22 PM

^^while that may be true I'll met you another $1000 that the extra power will break something else on the car...immediately.

^I knew what I was getting into, the question was 1/2 joking.

Just the same though, I'm at a point in my life where I can afford a car that doesn't have to be launched at 3,000 rpm for a peppy start JUST b/c the A/C's on

7/23/2009 8:11:46 PM

Also.....its pouring rain outside b/c of a Tstorm.

checked the weather forecast (20% chance of storms) - CHECK
checked the interactive radar map (nothing hundreds of miles around) - CHECK
just finished washing car, and it started to rain.

Just not my day

7/23/2009 8:14:44 PM

Quote :

"Okay, so how do I make my car noticeably faster for around $1000?"

trade it in for something else

7/23/2009 8:14:44 PM

why would something on the car break? they dont last for 300k miles because they are under designed .

7/23/2009 8:26:40 PM

lol...280k miles and I haven't done anything resembling "regular" maintenance. More like replace when something's clearly off

However just about every part of the suspension has been replaced, lost count of how many axles I've gone through, and I've got Koni shocks. It's the suspension bushings that need replacement (they're original).

7/23/2009 8:30:54 PM

maybe you should learn how to work on and maintain a vehicle before you make one faster

7/23/2009 8:31:39 PM

^you try to do regular maintenance on your car while parallel parked in Manhattan or Queens...as well as have nowhere to put your tools.

When I got back to NC I pretty much said to hell with it and bought the new car

7/23/2009 8:33:32 PM

hahahah good point

7/23/2009 8:35:35 PM

Quote :

" power steering - overrated air conditioning - overrated spare tires - overrated radios - overrated clocks - overrated power - pirceless See you this weekend luv ya "

Yeah....im not selling her on a s2000 anymore

7/24/2009 3:50:10 PM

so when is the s3000 coming out? since 2000 sounds old and everything

[Edited on July 27, 2009 at 7:06 PM. Reason : or the s2010]

7/27/2009 7:06:07 PM

I turned off the AC to merge onto the highway today.

7/27/2009 7:13:59 PM

lol....I, too, have turned off the AC to pass someone

Ya know...S2000s are damn sexy looking. Maybe I should just put a turbo on it?

7/27/2009 7:16:16 PM

kiss 7 grand away

7/27/2009 7:18:49 PM

Quote :

"I turned off the AC to merge onto the highway today."

I do that when driving Civics/Corollas a lot.

7/27/2009 7:30:01 PM

are they seriously that slow?

7/27/2009 8:25:01 PM

no , worse

7/27/2009 8:54:40 PM

Well, not as slow as an RX8, but damn I really had fun driving one today!

7/27/2009 9:38:27 PM

jesus, they're not slow at all. you just have to keep it revved waaaay up to make it go.

i mean, they're adequate below 6k rpms. No more, but adequate. They aren't crazy fast or anything above that, but they're plenty strong to be a good sports car--they just require for you to keep the engine in the top third of the tach where the power lives.

[Edited on July 28, 2009 at 12:57 AM. Reason : my Comptech one wasn't much better...it just pulled a good bit harder when the power finally arrived]

7/28/2009 12:56:15 AM