Pic Request: S2Ks of any color with Slipstreams
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13.8-lbs with better offsets than the Spoons (11.8-lbs)
$480 shipped for ALL FOUR (Spoons are what, $1800 for 4?).
Can run the stock tires on each wheel losing .2 inches of contact patch on the rears.
IOW, Whoop-de-f'ng doo.
Ran a best of 13.67 with these when I was up north.
Weighed my rear tire/wheel combo and it came in at 29-lbs TOTAL when my
Proxes T1-S (19.4-lbs) was at 50% tread.
Won't get stolen by wheel punks.
Go ahead and spend $1300 more for 2hp worth of unsprung weight if it makes you sleep better at night. For me, $1300 can buy 4.57 gears and STILL have enough money left over for a good intake which in the end, would leave an otherwise stock S2000 with Spoon wheels in my wake.
JDM has its price and in this particular case, it's speed. No thanks. I'd rather not spend four times as much to make my car SLOWER than the option available to me, $1800 in hand. As for what the S2000 deserves, I wonder how many of you (who seem to know what the car "deserves") have attended a high performance driving school? I've yet to see a thread titled, "ran my car off the road due to Rotas" but I've seen plenty of "ran my car off the road" subject lines. The car deserves better drivers long before better wheels. I thought I was a damn good driver until I attended a school in Italy (in my 20's) and following that, for years felt I was great right up until I attended yet another school a few years later.
Wheels don't make the car, drivers do.
Putting $1800 worth of Spoon wheels under the foot of an average driver (to me)
is simply an exercise in vanity, certainly not a statement of well-executed performance. Now, if I see a car with Slipstreams, I'm figuring the odds are fairly
good the money saved went into other items and I can respect that approach. Any
17-year-old kid with a rich family can have a quad of Spoons bow-tied under his
bed but does that make the car better?
When I see Spoons on cars that are heavily invested, that's different but to simply
come out and say this car "deserves" better is hysterical.
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Originally Posted by Russ,Apr 28 2004, 05:51 AM
13.8-lbs with better offsets than the Spoons (11.8-lbs)
0 shipped for ALL FOUR (Spoons are what, 00 for 4?).
Can run the stock tires on each wheel losing .2 inches of contact patch on the rears.
IOW, Whoop-de-f'ng doo.
Ran a best of 13.67 with these when I was up north.
Weighed my rear tire/wheel combo and it came in at 29-lbs TOTAL when my
Proxes T1-S (19.4-lbs) was at 50% tread.
Won't get stolen by wheel punks.
Go ahead and spend 00 more for 2hp worth of unsprung weight if it makes you sleep better at night. For me, 00 can buy 4.57 gears and STILL have enough money left over for a good intake which in the end, would leave an otherwise stock S2000 with Spoon wheels in my wake.
JDM has its price and in this particular case, it's speed. No thanks. I'd rather not spend four times as much to make my car SLOWER than the option available to me, 00 in hand. As for what the S2000 deserves, I wonder how many of you (who seem to know what the car "deserves") have attended a high performance driving school? I've yet to see a thread titled, "ran my car off the road due to Rotas" but I've seen plenty of "ran my car off the road" subject lines. The car deserves better drivers long before better wheels. I thought I was a damn good driver until I attended a school in Italy (in my 20's) and following that, for years felt I was great right up until I attended yet another school a few years later.
Wheels don't make the car, drivers do.
Putting 00 worth of Spoon wheels under the foot of an average driver (to me)
is simply an exercise in vanity, certainly not a statement of well-executed performance. Now, if I see a car with Slipstreams, I'm figuring the odds are fairly
good the money saved went into other items and I can respect that approach. Any
17-year-old kid with a rich family can have a quad of Spoons bow-tied under his
bed but does that make the car better?
When I see Spoons on cars that are heavily invested, that's different but to simply
come out and say this car "deserves" better is hysterical.
