New used CR owner...
 

So, I'm not new nor a new owner here.... However I am new to owning a CR.

Here she is: 2008 Apex Blue delete, modded. #333.

Also pictured are my 2 other s2000s. Both MY2000, AP1. One I've owned since new, the other for ten years that I built for my wife.

Already started to make the CR my own. Swapped out the RPF1s for a set of Ce28n I have. Ultimately, I'll be restoring this car back to its OE glory.
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Congrats on the purchase! Your AP1s are beautiful by the way

Congrats! Are you planning on modding your CR too?

Thank you

I'm planning on de-modding it. I will be taking it all back to stock/OE restoration and owning it like my white was supposed to be. The white one started life as a Berlina black and bought it in Feb. 2000. That car for the first 1.5 years only came out every 3rd Sunday between May 25th and Oct 13th, and only iff there was no cloud in the sky. It was supposed to be my collector....but alas, I drove it, modded it, drove it some more, a couple of engine swaps and enjoyed every moment of it.

It's dialed in just how I want it and prefer driving that while the CR will be my "every 3rd Sunday" car. Truth be told, I'm not sure how long I'll get to own the car. Bought and picked up this car while my wife was out of town. She came home to a surprise. 6 cars in the driveway, only 2 drivers,.... 3 cars are s2ks. She's not very happy. :D

Congrats and welcome! I hope you document some of the OE restoration here. :)

That ABP CR was a good deal, looks great with those CEs! What are the specs on them?

Congratulations and welcome to the group! Looks great with the CE's. Looking forward to your restoration; I do miss "build / de-mod" threads.

Nice CR! I would have loved to have bought that car. I'll keep on the lookout for the part-out thread. I may be interested in the shock setup.

Awesome, and great to see an S2ki OG in the CR family.

Congratulations! That CR is in a good home! :thumbup:

Looks perfect! I love the CE's on there!

Three (3) S2000? Yikes! ;) Three cars and two drivers here and only one is a S2000. I doubt I could live with more than one.

I applaud your decision to restore the CR to OEM spec although it looks like the suspension has been diddled with and with those wheels maybe the fenders have been buggered as well. Please keep us up to date. On all three.

-- Chuck

Congrats Urmil :thumbup: you needed some apex blue in your garage for sure :)

:D It's always better to ask forgiveness than permission. I've done similar, they get over it...eventually. lol

You're wild haha.

Three great cars though!

Thanks....and yes, Ronica has gotten over it ….a little. Once the red car comes back home, she may be bothered again seeing all three together.

Had a day to myself today, pulled the car out of the garage to just sit there and admire the car lowered like it is, with the wheels I swapped on. Figure if I start with 'only a few mods' that keep it subtle and 'OEM+', for me it could turn into another full blown project. Don't want to do that with this one. So, pulled off the CE28 Genesis wheels and put the RPF01s back on (which I'm not a fan of) until I can get new tires on the OEM CR wheels. Also swapped out the Tracy Sport high flow cat and the single exit exhaust for the OEM piece today.

I'll start tackling the restoration little by little with the final step getting it paint corrected, detailed, and ceramic coated. I'll document the resto in the Gallery Automotive Builds section shortly.

Nothing wrong with having more than one especially if you are an enthusiast like Luder94! Nice collection and I will be following your "restoration". :thumbup:

Suspension is currently OE arms with Energy Suspension bushings all around, Megan toe arms, Moton Clubsports, aftermarket sways, and a bunch of cuts to the trunk carpets to mount the coilover reservoirs....alongside of a rolling of all fenders, with the fronts pulled slightly. The bodyshop I use claim to fame is building custom bagger choppers, restoring old Porsches, restomodding Japanese classics (odd mix, but that's all they do). They are confident that they'll be able to 'un-pull' the front fenders back to straight and even think they can un-roll the inner fender lips with very minimal cutting or having to add new metal.

All the suspension work I'll tackle little by little swapping parts back to stock (of which I have on hand, luckily).

Right now, the hard part of having three... I don't have all three together. Red one is getting a suspension and subframe refresh. It's so easy to drop one off somewhere to get work done that didn't need doing because I have another one to look at and yet another to drive. But, once I do get all three together, I'll have other problems. Parking. I'll need to get a storage lift sooner than later, redo the garage door tracks, which will lead to a new jack-shaft opener and other 'mods' I wanted in/on the garage. Once parked, which one gets my attention for wash, which one do I drive, etc. I won't mind these problems though. :D

Will be cool to see a CR "restoration" in action, I don't know if we've had one before but a Delete especially is certainly deserving of it!

Congrats!!