New S2K Owner
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New S2K Owner
Hey everyone! Thought I would introduce myself. Name is Sean, I'm 24 and I'm new to the Honda/S2000 scene. Originally from the VW scene I've owned a couple golfs, an old rabbit, a corrado, and the latest was a '91 GTi. The corrado is a full-blown project car now, awaiting some well deserved attention, soon.
Quick story, I got in the accident with the GTi just about a year ago now (rear-ended and pushed into a truck ahead of me). Right after that I picked up a '96 Integra, fixed everything on it, bunch of maintenance, and added some extras. It was clean as hell, but wasn't happy with it. Ended up picking up this S2000.
Day or 2 after I bought it.
Drove it around, excited to have this awesome summer car. Just keeping it clean and going over everything, prioritizing the list of "to-dos", and a week and a half later, clutch slippage... Pulled it out, sure enough clutch was done so I replaced everything. Lightened flywheel, both bearings, and ACT Street Clutch kit. Tossed the trans back in, ran the break-in period (2 days of my normal driving. I'm commuting from Nanaimo to Victoria until we move down in September).
Clutch kit going in.
After that, drove good, loved the feel of the new clutch and plans were to do some maintenance stuff and find some suspension. Until 2 weeks later...
Drove into work and as I was backing into my spot, she locked up. Pretty choked but I dropped the diff fluid and trans fluid, both pretty dirty but no sparkles or chunks. Took the drive shaft out and spun the diff by hand, didn't lock. Spun the trans by hand... lock....
Trans out... again.
Removed everything and found a couple iffy bearings so I put together a kit to replace them all, and the seals. Upon further tear down, one of the "ears" on 2nd gear syncro broke and the "ears" on 3rd are worn pretty good. What years of red-light-racing will do...
So, 2nd and 3rd gear sets are ordered and on the way.
More inspecting found that whomever installed the shift knob not only didn't use the locking nut, not only cross-threaded the knob on (I don't know how, M10x1.5...
), they spun the knob on so tight they cracked the threads on the shifter.
Skunk2 weighted knob and Top Speed short shift kit arrived.
Gear sets will be here Monday or Tuesday but basically the transmission side of things will be fully rebuilt from shift knob right through to the fluid.
While waiting for everything to show (just waiting on gear sets now), I decided a few body mods were necessary.
Front bumper came off, shaved emblem, license holes, and tow hook hole. I also picked up an OEM style front lip for it. Repainted the whole bumper and I'm just in the final wetsand and polishing stages before its complete.
Decided I wanted the blacked out theme so the headlight got separated and signal diffusers got blacked out.
I'll try to get some real pictures up soon but here a little photoshop of what she'll look like (less the front lip).
After all this transmission stuff, (and the move back down to Vic) I'll be looking at getting some coils and wheels.
Quick story, I got in the accident with the GTi just about a year ago now (rear-ended and pushed into a truck ahead of me). Right after that I picked up a '96 Integra, fixed everything on it, bunch of maintenance, and added some extras. It was clean as hell, but wasn't happy with it. Ended up picking up this S2000.
Day or 2 after I bought it.
Drove it around, excited to have this awesome summer car. Just keeping it clean and going over everything, prioritizing the list of "to-dos", and a week and a half later, clutch slippage... Pulled it out, sure enough clutch was done so I replaced everything. Lightened flywheel, both bearings, and ACT Street Clutch kit. Tossed the trans back in, ran the break-in period (2 days of my normal driving. I'm commuting from Nanaimo to Victoria until we move down in September).
Clutch kit going in.
After that, drove good, loved the feel of the new clutch and plans were to do some maintenance stuff and find some suspension. Until 2 weeks later...
Drove into work and as I was backing into my spot, she locked up. Pretty choked but I dropped the diff fluid and trans fluid, both pretty dirty but no sparkles or chunks. Took the drive shaft out and spun the diff by hand, didn't lock. Spun the trans by hand... lock....
Trans out... again.
Removed everything and found a couple iffy bearings so I put together a kit to replace them all, and the seals. Upon further tear down, one of the "ears" on 2nd gear syncro broke and the "ears" on 3rd are worn pretty good. What years of red-light-racing will do...
So, 2nd and 3rd gear sets are ordered and on the way.
More inspecting found that whomever installed the shift knob not only didn't use the locking nut, not only cross-threaded the knob on (I don't know how, M10x1.5...
), they spun the knob on so tight they cracked the threads on the shifter.Skunk2 weighted knob and Top Speed short shift kit arrived.
Gear sets will be here Monday or Tuesday but basically the transmission side of things will be fully rebuilt from shift knob right through to the fluid.
While waiting for everything to show (just waiting on gear sets now), I decided a few body mods were necessary.
Front bumper came off, shaved emblem, license holes, and tow hook hole. I also picked up an OEM style front lip for it. Repainted the whole bumper and I'm just in the final wetsand and polishing stages before its complete.
Decided I wanted the blacked out theme so the headlight got separated and signal diffusers got blacked out.
I'll try to get some real pictures up soon but here a little photoshop of what she'll look like (less the front lip).
After all this transmission stuff, (and the move back down to Vic) I'll be looking at getting some coils and wheels.
I'll be getting my nice clutch installed in a couple of weeks.
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Finally drove it home tonight, for the first time in a month. Can't believe it's been that long already...
So fun though, totally worth the wait to have the trans all rebuilt and fresh.
Now on to finishing the bumper and cleaning up under the hood/dash.
I'll try to post some pics tomorrow.
So fun though, totally worth the wait to have the trans all rebuilt and fresh.
Now on to finishing the bumper and cleaning up under the hood/dash.
I'll try to post some pics tomorrow.
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Been driving great with the rebuilt transmission!
Got bored today so I thought I'd start building some stuff I'd seen in my browsing.
Cut some plastic to install in the seats headrests to cut down on a bit of the wind in the cabin.
Installed. Can't even tell they are there.
They work fairly well for spending $8.00 haha, but I decided I'd tackle making my own light up wind deflector. Only got started on it but I made a template for the "window" portion and then had to head out for the day.
Got bored today so I thought I'd start building some stuff I'd seen in my browsing.
Cut some plastic to install in the seats headrests to cut down on a bit of the wind in the cabin.
Installed. Can't even tell they are there.
They work fairly well for spending $8.00 haha, but I decided I'd tackle making my own light up wind deflector. Only got started on it but I made a template for the "window" portion and then had to head out for the day.
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welcome to the forums, Sean 
looks like you're off to a good start.
funny i'm thinking about getting into the VW shenanigans for a while now. but, two project cars seems a bit excessive
looks like you're off to a good start.
funny i'm thinking about getting into the VW shenanigans for a while now. but, two project cars seems a bit excessive
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