I would like to get some opinions on whether you should or shouldn't leave the VSA on when you're driving on a course? I know it may just be preference but do most think that in will help or hinder the performance of the car? I've tried searching and there have been some good reviews but nothing relating it's use on a track.

 

i'd turn it off. something like you will lose traction on the sharper and harder cornering because the engine feels like it shuts off. its not good for track aggressive, but for street aggresive.. ? maybe. especially in the rain.

 

If you're a noob, I'd leave it on. It may keep you from putting the car into the wall, which is all too common with the S2k. As you become more experienced, you can turn it off and try some things.

 

Experiment. Try it both ways to see which way is best for you. That's what I would do anyway. Good luck and don't hurt yourself.

 

off

 

thanks for the replies. But for say a experienced driver, most would prefer it off? I thought the whole concept is to help compensate for understeer and oversteer, and I commonly hear people say that if the older s2k's had some type of stability control that it would help the performance.

I know how it functions and everything I was just curious about what others do. Thanks again for the help.

 

If I was driving your car on the track, I'd turn it off.

If you're at the limit in a corner and it kills the power, you'll spin just like lifting the throttle. Many an NSX has crashed from that very thing. One of the main points of driving at the track it to learn how to handle under and oversteer yourself, not let some computer nanny do it for you.

The point's to improve your skills, not just to drive fast. That's why I say, as a noob, keep it on initially and then play with turning it off as you become more experienced.

 

Experienced drivers would be faster with it off. For newbies, leaving it on will be faster. Big ass sliding, spinning and crashing out really hurts the lap times

It not a yes or no answer with VSA type of systems. It really boils down to how much safety is built into the programming. I haven't had the chance to drive a VSA equipped S2000, but I would assume it is tuned to safety like most passenger cars, so it would leave enough performance on the table that a relatively good driver would be faster with it off. If you're talking about the "VSA" on the Ferrari F430 in race mode, it would probably require a near professional level driver to be faster with it off.

But for us mere mortals, even if I was faster with VSA, I'd turn it off. Its more fun, and you have to learn without training wheels sometime.

 

mine is always off even for regular driving. i find the VSA to be annoying, it butts in when i don't want it too...

even with it turned off the system is not 100% off.

this car does not need VSA give it to the honda Civic guys you find more of them with jacked up fenders, missing bumpers, dented or crushed doors etc...

 

All it takes is one read through the forum, a litany of crashed and spun S2K's to suggest that you're wrong. You may not need it but, 90% of the other '2k owners do. Face it, most people can't drive and the VSA's protecting them from themselves.

I'll tell you what the S2K should have had out of the box.

1) VSA that can really be turned off

2) A 2nd gear interlock that engages when the car's going over 60 MPH.

Those two things would have saved countless '2ks from the scrap heap and the need for a new motor.