Engine rebuild or swap?
02-22-2019, 09:52 AM
#14
Electric is fast but not exciting. Which is the entire appeal of the S2K. The sounds the feel the engagement. An electric motor would be just pressing the gas and hearing nothing and doing nothing no shifting.
02-22-2019, 10:52 AM
#15
The F-series is going to get very hard to find in the future. People are already swapping them into all manner of stupid vehicles. and the supply is definitely finite. Some suppliers on ebay (don't buy from ebay) are charging over $6,000 for a motor with under 75k miles.
02-25-2019, 05:47 PM
#17
I buy vehicles partly based on the specific engine.
The F20/F22 is something special. So many of these swaps are putting generic/soulles things into the engine bay...
Also, once you swap an engine, it's not really an S2000... it's more of a kit car. Which may be perfect for you if you are looking for 1/4 mile or track times.
The F20/F22 is something special. So many of these swaps are putting generic/soulles things into the engine bay...
Also, once you swap an engine, it's not really an S2000... it's more of a kit car. Which may be perfect for you if you are looking for 1/4 mile or track times.
02-25-2019, 07:27 PM
#18
I buy vehicles partly based on the specific engine.
The F20/F22 is something special. So many of these swaps are putting generic/soulles things into the engine bay...
Also, once you swap an engine, it's not really an S2000... it's more of a kit car. Which may be perfect for you if you are looking for 1/4 mile or track times.
The F20/F22 is something special. So many of these swaps are putting generic/soulles things into the engine bay...
Also, once you swap an engine, it's not really an S2000... it's more of a kit car. Which may be perfect for you if you are looking for 1/4 mile or track times.
02-25-2019, 09:56 PM
#19
Its not even that anymore, its beyond off the charts of the purest debate. Your talking about swapping in an electric/sowing machine heart into not only one of the last, but one of the pinnacle premier gas powered analog sports cars in its day. Do the swap, but doesn't it make more sense to do it to a car that had/has little to offer and is tired,or retired? Why not do it to a 1989 z28. How about a 1983 mazda rx7, or a 1984 280zx. Hell even a 2004 350Z, as few would even find fault with that. The car is ugly, not particularly fascinating in any realm by era and has a pretty standard v6 power plant, nothing special or unique about it for the day and certainly not now. I wouldn't even feel bad to see an electric motor in any era miata based on what it came with which was a basic uneventful and anemic power plant.
Last edited by s2000Junky; 02-25-2019 at 10:02 PM.
02-26-2019, 07:33 AM
#20
Its not even that anymore, its beyond off the charts of the purest debate. Your talking about swapping in an electric/sowing machine heart into not only one of the last, but one of the pinnacle premier gas powered analog sports cars in its day. Do the swap, but doesn't it make more sense to do it to a car that had/has little to offer and is tired,or retired? Why not do it to a 1989 z28. How about a 1983 mazda rx7, or a 1984 280zx. Hell even a 2004 350Z, as few would even find fault with that. The car is ugly, not particularly fascinating in any realm by era and has a pretty standard v6 power plant, nothing special or unique about it for the day and certainly not now. I wouldn't even feel bad to see an electric motor in any era miata based on what it came with which was a basic uneventful and anemic power plant.