Thank you, this was also something I noticed in my resurched as was conveying to others.

I just read an article in road in track that the CR's improved coilovers don't have damping ajustment. Was supprised to hear since they could have encorperated this into the set up without much cost, and it just confirmed further for me that this car is too gimicky to be any more of a real track worthy car out of the box then the original Ap1. Obviously you can't have a do all suspension set up in a competative track worthy car. Each track requires ajustment if you want the max ability from the car.

 

Thanks. Others pointed out that they can be had inexpensively in southern California. They must be a glut on the market there. Certainly a good place to shop,

 

Here's a better view I took:

 

good pic, that brace looks heavy

 

Has there been any parts price lists for the specific CR pieces? i.e. Tonneau cover and brace etc...

i think eventually i will get rid of the soft top and do the CR configuration ala hardtop or open air...

 

^^^Is there a way to get rid of the motor but keep the top and just pull the top up by hand?

 

Hmmm ... not quite ... Both the damping and spring rates are increased on the CR:

http://corporate.honda.com/press/article.aspx?id=4099


It would be kinda ridiculous if Honda decides to jack up the spring rates by some 40% without doing anything to the dampers ...

 

The latest (November) edition of Sports Car magazine has a full-blown article on the S2000 CR. There's information in it that I haven't seen before, and is worth a look if your are interested in or just curious about the car.

Of note, it was stated in the article that of the 1,500 CR's imported into this country, 1,200 will have air condtioning and stereo. That doesn't leave many for really hard-core performance and competition freaks. But the ones without A/C and entertainment electronics may be hard to sell, and can be had for a significant discount. We'll just have to see . . . . . .

 

In other words ( no adjustability control on the new coilovers) this is what I was referring to. I realize the spring rate and damping have been increased some. They should have allowed the user to (adjust preload and damping) like every other track coilover, or coilover for the street for that matter. This is what I was talking about. It wouldn't have cost much more to include this and would have gave the user the ability to dial in his suspension to the specific track or just his overall handling prefrance on the street if chosen.

I don't see any drawbacks to this feature other then the user may need to be educated from a CR manual in order to get some princables of what these settings do. Honda still could have incorporated a recommended setting somewhere in the middle that was easily selected for an average good handling set up if the user didn't want to fuss with it, which is what i'm sure they deemed the current set up without the adjustability. I'm thinking the people who would buy this car though would appreciate the ability of such a feature. Or maybe i'm the only one?

 

Too bad I've already seen the Berlina version and Rio version in person at the IRL/IMSA race at Mid-Ohio.

I was hopeing that brought one of every color