And yes I owned the Blue car from a few years back now I own the silver one with the blue fuel rail covers. The car still handles like stock (torque aside)and we have road raced them at TGPR and Robeling Road with no issues. The two you see completed here both still have the stock AP1 diffs in them and are holding up good to the abuse so far. Now we know that they are going to fail we just want to see when. We (Import Muscle) are working on a rear end conversion to go along with our kit but its still in the design and testing phases. The car weighs 2760 with the swap done well at least mine did on Robeling Road scales at the track. Think about it this way if you were to add a turbo and all the piping and intercooler (all of which is in front of the motor) it would weigh the same if not more than this swap. And with this swap everything is still behind the shock towers. The shifter is just like stock. You can see the one with the GTO covers on it on the cover and inside the April issue of Modified Magazine. http://www.modified.com/features/modp-1304-2001-honda-s2000/ and the blue one here from 2011.http://www.modified.com/features/modp-1102-2002-honda-s2000/

 

Here is the post from the build of the original one. The blue one you seen above started out as a red car.

Enjoy reading if you have not seen this before.
https://www.s2ki.com/s2000/topic/658...+powered+s2000

The ones that are done now use the factory cluster unlike the blue one. We call that progress

 

apparently someone went even further and put a V10 from a viper in.

http://www.v8s2000.com/forums/showth...p?94-V10-s2000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyt7yatrrO0

 

Yes but even he says it plows like a bulldozer. I think he said that he added something like 700 lbs total between the motor and extra steal in the build.

 

A S2K that has a viper motor and weighs more than a viper! What's the point?

 

Motor plate...nice

 

I would love to drive it. I don't know if I would love maintaining it. None the less a truly beautiful car that my powerball winnings would have earned if I would have won.

 

It's easier to maintain than the F20. You can get to everything much easier.

 

It's easier to maintain than the F20. You can get to everything much easier.

 

I'm not sure what is 'more' difficult maintaining it. Seems any vette shop could probably navigate their way around the car.