P.S. I haven't had the opportunity to fool around with a VSA equipped car though. I'd like to know what others think of it. From the posts I've read, most tend to think of it as a nuisance.

 

I will go with either the 02 UK or 04 JDM variant. In either, you can't go wrong. The 02 will be closer in retainment of the "core build" Honda put in from 99-01. However 02 onwards, there is severe suspension revisions to make it softer, "easier to drive for non-well skilled drivers" and more insulation work.

I threw in the 04 as I will consider these the very last of the "original S2000s" simply because it doesn't have the added VSA and DBW headaches the current models offer where modifications become an issue. Not to mention, the current models almost drive so soft, you'd wonder where all the core ingredients that make the S2000 so wonderful went.

 

Irrelevant, but what is the black box and what does it do?

 

The black box is simply a device which clamps MAP sensor voltage to a certain level so that the car's ecu doesn't 'see'the positive pressure generated by the supercharger. It comes as part of the comptech kit.

 

That's the plan, I can buy the project car and work on it through the Winter whilst still driving my 06. Come spring I'll finish the project and sell the 06.

True but most of that is down to coil over, sway bar and alignment set up. It is not that difficult to make an early car handle like a late car. I already have a really good set of coilovers and Volks to go on it. I have driven all four variants and owned three of them so I have a reasonable understanding of them. I prefer the 04 suspension set up as well as the bumpers and interior. Contemplating retrofit +04 bumpers (leave the lights - I prefer the older ones) and +04 centre console.

Comptech can't offer an 06 set up at the moment because of needing to interface to DBW and a new type of ECU

Not me! I love it I've done 7k miles in 4 months in it and it only came on a handful of times when I over cooked it!

04JDM is a problem in the UK mega

 

Fair enough . About fitting the supercharger to the '06, I remember reading a post somewhere where they managed to use the AEM ems with n '06. However it was a bit messy, i think they were trying to use in in conjunction wth the factoy ecu. Hmm even more bad news - when you think about it, when comptech (or any other company for that matter since Japan adopted the 2.2 this year) finally come up with a solution, (prolly an ecu reflash or add-in chip) it won't be compatible with European cars since we retained the 2.0 litre.

 

Hondata might be an option?

MB

 

A bit of news.

A UK JDM owner has transplanted a lower compression UK engine. We are just not sure how teh JDM ECU is giong to handle it

Apparently the JDM engine also has 2 knock sensors instead of 1 which could be good. Not sure what the effect of higher compression would be on the FPR curve of a Comptech package

 

That's a question for Comptech Mikey.

If the compression is an issue, you can just install a UK spec head gasket I would guess??

Didnt know it had 2 knock sensors?? If you ran that with a UK ECU, one of them just wouldnt be used. Not sure why it would have 2 though?? Normally only done if you have more cyliders than us!

MB

 

Wait a sec Mark, I think he said he transplanted a Uk engine (lower compression) into a JDM car. Didn't know that about the two knock sensors. If he's using the original JDM scu it might go batshit and throw a CEL trying to figure out where the other sensor's gone