LOL, I'm making it a combination autocross and rallycross S2000, will that be a problem? More seriously, it's my daily driver and it actually seems to work pretty well although I am starting to wonder if lowering it a bit will solve some of my problems.[/quote]
I'm diggin' a rally s2000. When you run it, let me know. I'll be there to watch it in action.

Honestly, my car is slammed in the back and fairly low up front. I just didn't see that big of a change in ride quality. It won't hurt to try it out for a bit and see if you like it or not. Now my CRX's ride quality on the other hand is horrible in STS trim!!! However, Matt has told me that it is due to the choice of shocks (Koni Yellows).

 

The ride height doesn't make the ride quality bad, but the higher spring rates necessary to not hit my fenders do, and what I'm actually more concerned with is scraping the bottom of the car on stuff.

I'm trying to go with a little different approach of a little lower spring rates and subsequently a little higher ride height than other people, so that the suspension can actually do something when it hits bumps, I think it's worth a try. My front was actually hitting hard on the inside of the fender well before, enough to mess up my alignment. I had raised it 0.25"-ish from that point right before toledo and I haven't had problems with it since. Not sure if I could fix that with a spacer or something...it was with 17x9 6ULRs +63 offset and 255 hankooks. I probably could lower the rear more though, I'll look into that. I'll measure my current hub to fender distances and post up.

 

I know the ecu rules haven't gone ahead yet but I was just curious if this was on anyone else's radar. Looks like a decent alternative to the haltech s500/s1000 and its cheap too!

http://www.scienceofspeed.com/produc...S2000/AEM/FIC/

 

That is more of a forced induction thing... it can only retard timing, not advance it like we would want.

 

Tirerack just shipped my new RS3's... just in time for Nationals. Wooot!!

 

speaking of tirerack.. I noticed they are listing a set of enkei rims 17x9 +60 for just over 1000 dollars. They claim to be 17lbs too. Not the best offset sadly but still nice to see options.

and on the AEM F/IC.. thanks for pointing that out I hadn't noticed it was only retarding timing. Still its probably a better option that a VAFC.

 

Why does flashpro help with the faster courses? Less shifting into 3rd and sitting on the rev limiter? More camber will be nice, right now I'm running BS in the local street tire class and the outside edges of the front R-S3s are wearing faster then the inside.

 

I am betting he is referring to the ability to raise the rev-limiter of the 06+ AP2 from 8K to 8.5/8.6K gives them an advantage on the faster courses. But, I am thinking that flashpro helps them even more so with the slower courses that requires digging out of a hole. That was an eye opener when I saw Geoff and his CR at Toledo Day 1 digging out of a hole in 2nd gear and still having gobs of power.... where I had to do the downshift with my AP1. (whew... I got my weekly whine of my whoosie AP1 low end TQ)

-Dave

 

Yep, you got it. I've already got a decent amount more torque than you, when I codrove a (untuned) AP1 at the Dover tour I felt quite torqueless. I do hear the flashpro increases that quite a bit more, but the constantly having to shift to 3rd is more obvious and staring you in the face than some unknown amount of increased torque.

 

My whining finally validated by an AP2 owner? Yes, I can go home for the day. My job is done.


Need I say more?

Sigh...

-Dave