I have my car setup for 'light drifting' er i mean aggressive turn in and rotation... do it often on a track, no diff issues, 100,000+ miles

 

Nice vid

 

Been drifting and clutch kicking my ap2 for 30000km on the stock diff and clutch and im slammed and no problem so far !!

 

First of all, this is not that hard to do. People always say the S2000 is a twitchy car with snap back oversteer etc. It's not. If you drive it with smooth inputs and don't get nervous behind the wheel, it is a perfect car for driving like this, very smooth handling.

And about the diff issues. It's true, the risk is definately there.

Drifting some hairpins on mountain roads occasionally won't kill your diff. I live in switzerland where we have countless roads like that. I took many many corners a little sideways with the car with zero issues.

Doing it on a track is something different. Everybody who has been to a racetrack a few times will know that compared to spirited street driving, track driving is "car abuse" in comparison.

Do this kind of driving on a track and something will break eventually. And this doesn't mean kicking the tail out a little at corner exits (power sliding), it means taking a turn sideways from entry to exit, controlling the drift with throttle input and counter steer. Do this on a track for 4-5 laps in every corner, 30 minutes cool-off break, then 5 laps of the same driving again, etc. I did this with my 2001 AP1, 50k miles. After one day the diff was done for (not broken yet, but there's diff whine and it looks like i'll have to replace/fix it).

Go to youtube and type in "diff whine". Guess what car comes up first in the search results... yep, Honda S2000.