Have anyone of the AP2 owner in this area take your car to a local shop to have the clutch delay valve removed? Could you share your experience with the shop? I am a bit hesitate to do this myself and would like to have shop with prior experience to take care of it.

 

I'd recommend a DIY. Removing the little valve from the existing cylinder is a PITA from what I've seen (requires a dental pick and patience). The route to go is to buy an AP1 slave cylinder for 30 bucks or so and just swap it in. I didn't have to do anything else (other than bleed the system, obviously).

 

.... so the AP1 part didn't get superseded to a part with the orifice, yet the slave cylinder assemblies are interchangeable? .... that's interesting "engineering practice"

 

I don't quite understand the question, but the delay valve is inside the slave cylinder assembly, and though the parts definitely look externally different, (AP1 is black, AP2 is silver) they function identically except the whole clutch slip on fast shift "feature."

 

From my understanding, the AP2 slave cylinder was merely a bandaid to fix the problem that Honda knew going into their AP2 upgrades. The diff is and will always be the weakest link on the S2000 and Honda knew it.

 

exactly, so why is the old black one still available? What's "good" for the new should in their minds be "good" for the old ..... lack of Engineering follow through?????

 

That is the million dollar question. Perhaps although the AP1 fits the AP2 the reverse isn't true...or perhaps only offering the AP2 replacement would be akin to saying "we messed up" and Honda doesn't want to imply any fault.

 

...... how about they supersede the cam chain tensioner with a new different colored one!!!!