I found it interesting that some Evo owners switch to s2ks because its cheaper, but when they switch from an '03 Evo 8 to a '06 s2k I figured they actually paid money on top of their trade-on. So my question is, where did the money saving come from? Is the maintenance/operating cost of an Evo that much higher than that of an s2k? I know insurance is slightly higher but that can't be THAT big of a difference.

 

maintenance/operating costs are higher for sure with the evo in my experience...especially if you track both.

 

can you be more specific? as a DD, the only thing I've done is change the fluids and tires. What more do you have to do for the Evo?

Thanks

 

Brake pads and rotors are way more expensive. Changing the drive line fluids was much more expensive. Mine goes through tires faster. If you only daily drive it, it's probably not that much different. It gets worse gas mileage too.

If you got to evom you will find most evo owners are terrible at finances. So it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't think it through and actually spent wayyy to much money getting in their evo and then spent a lot of money getting out of their evo.

 

If you track a car, a heavier car (Evo) will eat tires, brakes, etc. much more quickly than a lighter car (S2000). Not to mention AWD causing much more front tire wear.

But, as a PP said, for a daily driver, it's not that much different. Problem is that very few Evos stay stock, which decrease reliability, sometimes dramatically.

--michael

 

"operating cost"

 

Isn't that a broad assumption? You can say there are documented cases where people have broken something or another on completely stock S2000's. I think your comment was completely off. There are many documented daily driver Evo's that have been modified running without any problems. You're correct very few Evo's (for that matter STi's too) go unmodified. But that's the nature of this car...it's always been mod friendly with very high reliablity in mind. This car in stock form is just touching the surface of what it's fully capable of.

 

On the topic...one big factor comparing the two is gas mileage. Evo's 16/22 mph average is pretty horrendous. I average about 15 city and 19 hwy. In a lot of ways that's worse than driving an SUV considering you don't have to pay for premium gasoline.

 

Well for one thing, the Evo's timing belt is scheduled to be changed every 60k mi. And the transmission oil, transfercase fluid, ACD fluid, and differential fluid should all be changed every 30k Mi.

As someone else pointed out, the pads and rotors on the Evo cost at least 2x what S2000 brakes do. The Evo is heavier, so it eats up brakes and tires more quickly. But fuel cost are pretty comparable in my experience. My S2000 gets better city fuel economy, but my Evo IX gets better highway economy. My Evo easily gets 27+ MPG on the highway going 75 MPH.

Andrew

 

Thanks for the replies guys. the thought of switching crossed my mind since I have been comteplating on getting a HT and eventually a SC. All this comes down to making the S a better DD. But then I realized for the money I would spend on getting these mods I could actually just switch to an 8 or higher milleage 9.

But as everyone seems to point out, not many people tend to keep the Evo stock so I think no matter what car I'm in, the mod bug would bite me sooner or later.