I'm a long time 240sx owner and I'm looking to get into a new car. The S2000 is high on my list, but I've heard bad things about stability. One of the things I love about my car is that I can throw the rear out and reel it back in effortlessly. Am I going to have issues with an S2000?

 

do you throw the back end around on public roads? if so you probably wont get much help here from others. the earlier s2000s have looser back ends, the later ones have been described to be more neutral feeling.

the shop that aligned my car said "man that back end is so light, if you ever track it you better put some weight back there" i laughed.

find a dealer to test drive one or post in the regional forums and someone might give you a ride.

 

its not a drift car.
its a car made for the twistys

 

DK dosent drive an S2000

 

weld the diff and put mismatched body panels all over it, be sure to run 19s in front and 16s in back with bald tires.

 

It will take more practice and having the right tire sizes to be controllable.

 

The S2000 has no problems with stability. If you respect it for what it is, you'll be ok.

 

it is stable. is that a pro or a con for you?

 

I'm not into drifting. I've got some plans to eventually autocross with the car and I've thought about gymkhana type events as well. I think stability is probably the wrong word. Predictability, I guess, is more what I'm looking for. I don't want to end up with a car like an MR-2, which will come around on you very easily if you're not careful. I guess my biggest worry is V-Tech. I've always driven cars with pretty smooth torque curves. I hear that there's a fairly substantial shift in the torque curve when V-tech kicks in.

 

1. V-tech is a phone.

2. VTEC was designed to provide a flat torque curve... Honda tunes vtec to engage when the torque from the low cam matches the torque from the high cam. The changeover is very distinguishable by noise from the much more aggressive cam profile. It can fool you into feeling like a burst of power but you really don't feel a "boost"... it just smoothly pulls harder and harder.