What’s the highest horse power bone stock ap1 or ap2 that you’ve seen a dyno plot of?
ive got a guy in a fb group with a plot that shows 219. I just find it hard to believe.

 

There are a lot of factors when putting a car on the rollers that it's really pointless to try and compare.

 

A knowledgeable operator could get some pretty interesting numbers out of most cars on a dyno by fiddling with parameters. I would probably respond to him with "cool story bro, what's it run in the quarter?" since it's hard to fake an ETA and trap speed.

 

Car can make tons of power and be slow....there's still a person driving it....

OP.
I would probably just try getting into pointless arguments on instagram instead.

 

True, generally I am that driver.

 

Same. My launches always turn into giant burnouts with me laughing maniacally.

 

My buddy joined us for a dyno day on two separate occasions with two different s2k's on the same dynojet. He dynoed within 1hp at 224whp with both his 05 which was bone stock and current 07 with a slight afr and vtec correction via hondata tuned by himself. There were other s2k's with bolt ons and tunes making several less peak power then him for what its worth. He had some strong s2k's. They were both low mileage excellent examples. You likely wont see an f20 putting that kind of power down on a dynojet stock. Maybe a hub dyno.

 

Just need to find the "right" dyno and the right atmospheric conditions and your horsepower will increase dramatically with no effort on your part.

-- Chuck

 

The only think we can determine from lots of dynos and ECU swaps is that the S2000 seemed to get a bit more hp every ~2 years.

Might be related to the changes in the car that were made:
02-03 - ECU update seemed to give a bit more hp (leaner, more responsive)
04-05 - new engine, drive train and ECU made a bit more hp (like ~10hp over AP1s)
06+ - ECU gave a bit more hp
08 - ECU update, more hp?

 

^Interesting, I wasn't aware that people considered the '06 ECU to make more power than '04 even *without* a re-flash...and I definitely hadn't heard that the '08 ECU might make even more still! But there does appear to be a new ECU part # for '08 (though the '06 part number is also shown being as applicable for '08, including the CR).

Besides ECU, I think most people agreed that the CR exhaust was worth 2-3 peak hp... So if all of that's true, a "strong" CR could theoretically make as much as, say, 3+10+3+3+3=22 hp (!!) more than an "average" '00-'01...?!