King Motorsports' Mugen prepared SS2000 project car turns 1:44.64 at SpeedtrialUSA event.

 

Can we get a baseline of the lap times of other S2000's at the event? And can you post what other cars were running similar times?

Thanks!

Hope you guys had a good trip!

 

There were three other S2000's, One quite modified (j2k on the board) and the other two basically stock. The stock cars were running in the 2:00 range, but I have heard of stock S2000's in the 1:55's. None of the other cars had lap timers, so it's all a bit of guesswork... All of our times were logged with an Intercomp lap timer. The modified one was running in the 1:47 range with 285/30/18 Hoosiers in the rear and 245's in the front!!! He also had recently installed H&R springs, and has double-adj Konis and a larger Comptech front swaybar.

We were running stock wheels with 225/50/16 Kumhos all around, and I was able to lap consistently in the 1:45's with clean track, with the best of 1:44.64. I feel the car was capable of a high 1:43 as it sits. In January we will be running 17" Hoosiers on Mugen MF10 wheels, so it will be interesting to see how much the lap times drop. We're guessing in the 1:42 range when all is said and done, but it was my first weekend at Laguna so maybe there's even more time out there... we'll find out in January.

FWIW, we were apparently the fastest car there all weekend, including Road & Track testing the new Porsche GT2, several high HP cars (Vette's, Skylines, 911's) and most notably the NASA USTCC Series cars which were racing there for the weekend. The pole winning time for their race was a 1:44.9x.

It was an awesome weekend in an amazingly prepared car. Hats off to King Motorsports for building a street S2000 that can keep up with the big-boys on the track!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Saini
[B]FWIW, we were apparently the fastest car there all weekend, including Road & Track testing the new Porsche GT2, several high HP cars (Vette's, Skylines, 911's) and most notably the NASA USTCC Series cars which were racing there for the weekend.

 

Jason, that's freaking AWESOME!

Wish I could have joined you guys...

That first picture is wallpaper material!

Can't wait until Jan 14!

 

Fantastic.

 

Jason - great report!

Sounds like the the King crew has done a great job with the car. From my experience with the car - I knew it was way faster than stock, but I didn't know it was THAT fast!

Looks like you guys had good weather - let's hope that Jan 14 is dry!

But please don't tell me you are going to run the "bling bling" wheels in January. My fingers hurt just thinking about cleaning those wheels.........

 

how did it beat all those high hp cars?
i mean if they didnt do the corners well, their acceleration advantage would of beat the s2k

 

Does that car have a full roll cage?

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by meat
[B]Jason - great report!

Sounds like the the King crew has done a great job with the car.