I finally got the AP2 on the track this weekend and was very favorably surprised. The s2k is a great street car, canyon runner stock. But, I was reading all the upgrade posts about serious performance driving and track use and wondered about the real trackability of the car. This is at Thunderhill, wet track, cold conditions, with a loose nut behind the wheel. YMWV.

The brakes were very good. The wear is weird though, the stock pad caliper combo does not seem to put even pressure on the disk. I'm not a huge fan of the lack of initial bite of the stock pads, but all they did was dust a bit, no green pad fade at all. This is a superb pad for dual-purpose and Honda did a great job with this. Obviously upgrading the fluid is a must, but there is nothing wrong with the stock set up lap after lap. (Now this isn't meaningful for folks with R tires on a dry track for a whole weekend.)

The tires are really good. I fully expected them to tear and chunk at full tread depth or get greasy and uncontrollable. Granted it was cool out, but again they did great in the rain at track speeds and cornering, and no weird wear. Again, a great dual purpose choice. The stock tires don't compare to a dedicated track or R tire for that matter, but for something that you can drive home on, very nice. They are a bit numb, but decently communicative with noise and twitching at the limit. I don't think it really is the steering, but the tires themselves.

The suspension is very good as well, a bit too much roll in transitions (can't imagine taking the rear bar off) for my taste. But the crappy way I drive, the understeer was a benefit. If anything, the lack of rear wing makes the car more neutral at speed...lol
It was interesting, not really a turn-in and set car, more dynamic than that.

So, all in all, the s2k is one of those very rare car that can drive off the lot and perform under track conditions and still be streetable.

 

A lot of people have said that.

 

Very good write-up from a self-described crappy-driving-loose-nut.