So,
After one year of ownership, hundreds of Dollars and countless hours of research my car is way louder, 50lbs lighter and "possibley a tiny bit" faster.
Great....
The reason I'm saying this is that it seems almost pointless to go on, lm not sure I even like my car more now than when I got it.
In comparison, my previous car, an Audi TT 225 responded to mods like you would not believe. A simple re-flash got me 25hp and 30 ftlbs instantly, my 5zigen 17" wheels reduced unsprung weight by 44lbs. Total weight reduction was an easy 300lbs total. Coilovers and corner balancing transformed the handling in one weekend. A vag-com allowed me to fine tune/monitor pretty much every sytem outside of the engine. At the end of the day, every mod made a huge difference. It was quiet, luxurious, could almost keep up with an S2000 and it only cost $13K
Love the S but damn, its tough to effectively mod!!

 

go FI then

 

I think you're looking at it the wrong way. Consider this: you put all that money into the TT and it STILL can't beat a stock S2000.

If you want speed, stop spending your money on bolt-ons and save up for FI.

 

gonna keep it simple.. the motor in the S came pretty well built from the factory. only reason other cars responed better to bolt on, is most of them are detuned..

 

Well the TT is turbo, no? There's a big difference when you're pumping massive air through the engine.
As for the S, the F series engine is, to this day, an incredible achievement for being NA. Honda really did use their race-bred knowledge on it. That's why it doesn't respond too well to mods. Bolt-ons don't do much for this car because it's already really good.

 

 

Yes and many of those other cars are detuned because they can't reliably handle the extra juice. Honda is so good a building engines they can build something like the F series and let it rip all the way to 100k miles pretty easily.

 

Lol, if you want power from mods buy a srt8 or something, friend of mine put an intake in that thing gained 60hp to the wheels i could only wish.

 

Yes. Supercharged at you're at 300rwhp. The rest of the car is more than capable of handling this power and it becomes an all around perfect sports car.

NA bolt ons are a waste of time.

 

Yes Honda engineers would consider it a sin to leave that much "tunability" left in the car.