30 minutes in the car and the shift intervals will all come natural. Speed through the gears can be overlapping and I doubt that anyone really makes any conscieous attempt to shift at any exact point on the tach. Don't attempt to turn driving this car into a job and you'll quickly learn to enjoy it.

 

ok, thanks alot.

does anyone have any tips or hints? leik tips to relax or to drive this car better, or things i shouldnt do?

 

Sure ...be careful down shifting especially fast. Many people have mechanically overrevved their motor by accidentally going into 2nd instead of 4th. You can't over rev it using the throttle as it has an auto cutout. You can however do it mechanically on a missed downshift. Things break when that happens.

Your real power begins about 5800 rpm, that's when your vtec rolls over.
Take your car out on an autox course ad learn what it can do.
Be xtra careful i the rain.

Have fun

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lol no research before buying.

 

No, i have done tons of research, liek weeks of lookign into it, i just wanted to clear soem things up, thast all.

 

Is something wrong with your keyboard? I can't help but notice you have typos in all your posts.

Either that, or you my friend are extremely clumsy and lazy!

The shifts will come naturally, the gears in this car are very short, I often find myself in sixth going 40mph.

 

Who's Manuel? Your boyfriend?

 

He means the car's manual. All S2000's are manual transmission.

I don't mean to be rude, but is english not your native tongue?

 

start with this and modify to ur driving style, personally i sometimes shift at lower points to economize on fuel, i'll shift at 2500 rpm, so in the next gear the rpm drops to 2k and speed up until rpm reach 2500 and shift again and so on.

 

Thanks guys, and yes english is my native language. and yes i do type clumsy sometimes, i dont pay attention to what im writing and i just type fast.

But thanks for the tips, i am very excited to get my first s2000. when i get it and start driving and get used to it i will make a thread about my experience as a first time s2000 owver/driver.