pawel2k

Hi all,

I moving down to O.C from Canada's and bring my S2000 with me and want to see if people could recommend good shop this include body shops and what to stay away from as well where do i find track events or just normal s2000 meet ups.

Thanks,
Pawel

RussianHammer

We have a few tracks that are pretty good, and stay away from Irvine if your car is modified.

You have evasive, and Ballade near you as the top S2000 shops to take your car too.

Picturepro

http://autowaveinc.com/

in Huntington beach

BlakeNFR

Can't agree more on the Irvine part. For the most part, you'll be okay if you don't have a loud exhaust or wing.

Orange County is arguably the mecca for S2000s, plenty of friendly owners and shops that specialize and cater to the S2000.

pawel2k

I was thinking making a trip Ballade to pickup couple parts and maybe get them to do some work. Now I really would like to known why Irvine hates S2000 or just generally and modified car and what type of level they hate.

RussianHammer

Law Enforcement in Irvine.

Bullwings

http://speedventures.com/

http://www.extremespeedtrackevents.com/

Both of those should cover most of your track day needs for Southern California, and part of Northern California.

Local tracks within 200 miles (322 km) of Orange County
-Buttonwillow Raceway Park (BRP)
-Willow Springs International Raceway (WSIR)
-Streets of Willow Springs (SOWS)
-Chuckwalla Valley Raceway (CVR)
-Autoclub Speedway (ACS)
-Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch (SMMR)

With the exception of WSIR and ACS, all the other "SoCal" venues listed above run multiple configurations as well.

pawel2k

Thanks that a great list, would you known what type of safety requirements if any? I am assuming just a valid helmet that are snell SA2010+ or can you run expired helmets?

Chris_Lum

I've lived in irvine for the past 14 years and no trouble from cops. Unless you have a giant wing or stickers everywhere or very loud exhaust etc etc then you should be fine. If you drive normally, then IPD shouldn't hassle you.

There are a ton of body shops around, i'd suggest Signature Autobody in Orange/Anaheim area. There are tons of everything auto related here....utilize the S2k community and Yelp for reviews...

pawel2k

Thanks for the recommending, but i do have to ask why the hate giant wing's. Lucky I do not have once yet, but i was planing on getting one for track uses only put it one before track the remove it, but this would require me have a second trunk lid where the wing is mounted.