I just picked up this OEM hardtop. It was local and the person that had it in their garage for years. I currently have a carbon fiber hard top on my car and thought I would see which one I like better. If I use the OEM I won’t need a roll bar when I take my car road racing, which is my eventual goal. Man this thing is solid and nice.

 

What did he let it go for?

 

He has an aftermarket Mugen looking hard top he fitted and this just sat for years. He got the car in 2008, with the oem hardtop for 6500!!!! Crazy best deal I’ve ever heard of. I paid more, lol.

 

Not sure what country you are in but make sure you have your roll bar info correct.

in the USA, OEM hardtop has no impact on whether or not you need an aftermarket rollbar. For HPDE/Track day and Time Attack, some orgs and some tracks require S2000's to have aftermarket roll protection and some don't regardless of top. For actual road racing, all orgs at least require a rollbar and most require a full cage. Again, no US organization or track cares if you have a hardtop (OEM or otherwise) when deciding if you need a rollbar or not. This obviously may be different in other countries.

 

My understanding is for non competitive track day type events, most US tracks want you to either pass the broomstick test, or have a hardtop.

So a simple hardtop has been a proven way to participate in track days

 

Thanks for lookin’ out. Our local tracks governing body’s rules contain specific verbiage regarding OEM hardtops vs aftermarket. OEM is allowed, aftermarket is not. That being said, I could but 10 rolllbars for the price of this ridiculously expensive oem hardtop. It’s crazy these things cost so much, while Miata hard tops are routinely less than 1000 bucks!

 

I’ve been doing track days in S2000s across the US from NJ, to FL, to CA and many places in between for about 15 years. For convertibles, most tracks will accept either documented OEM rollover protection (which this S2000 has, only allowed with OEM 3pt seatbelt) or, aftermarket rollover protection that passes broomstick. Many east coast tracks require broomstick no matter what. I have seen one track that didn’t care (Sandia Speedway/Suika Circuit in NM) but I have not seen a single track accept an OEM or any other hardtop in lieu of a broom stick test. In fact most explicitly say in their rules that since removable hardtops are not structural components, that they cannot be counted as rollover protection.

now, I haven’t been to every track, so there may be some small outlier tracks out there that allow the hardtop in lieu of a broomstick test, but it is definitely far from the norm and not a proven way to get an S2000 on track outside of those potential outliers.

 

Thanks for all the info. Hmmm, I’m thinking this oem too may be useless. I like how the cf looks better anyways.