First and foremost let me preface this by saying I totally understand there are more S2000's out there than I care to think about that are faster than mine.

I finally got to participate in my first organized race event with my turbo S2000 this past weekend.





WannaGoFast hosted a 1/2 mile race about an hour from our shop and I decided I wanted to see what the little S had. Saturday I ran on my standard drag radial setup (275/40/17 Mickey Thompson drag radials) and managed to click off a run of 164.9mph on my first run. I had the boost set at 17psi max, and turned it up to my normal 20psi map for the rest of the weekend. Long story short, the car was scary f@#king unstable up top. The wide tires and 9 inch wide wheels did not like the 150mph+ area.

OMG I almost died

I swapped a set of 18x9.5 wide wheels with some 245/40/18 tires on for Sunday's races and the car was way way more stable. I managed to click off both a 171.8mph run and a 170mph run back to back! So I would like to know, do I technically have the 1/2 mile world record for our platform on this pass?

171.8 run

 

what kind of power are you making?

 

Makes about 600whp at 20psi.

 

daaaaang

 

On pump gas?

 

Nice!!!

 

That's awesome! My buddy went out there to watch from Houston and saw you. He snapped this so I figured Id share.

 

Nice trap! I need to make my way out next year. I had a customer/friend car running his '95 Taurus SHO this year to see what he would do before adding a large turbo for next year. Looked like a fun event... Fun enough that I might bring my STi out to see what it can do next year.

 

Not sure where that is coming from, but no I am on E85.

 

Nice, thanks!

Definitely fun. I need to look into a better front brake option for these speeds though.