chilled

Now my car is run in I thought I'd try some unscientific times and was surprised at how quick it was:
first run - 5.74
second run - 5.88 (not such a good start)

This was with a passenger, warmed up car and tyres and stuff in the boot. It's 0-62 because both time the speedo clicked over from 59 to 62. Is this normal? good? I know it's rated at 6.2. I was surprised how quick it was. And no burning clutch smell either

Any thoughts?

Moggy

how did you get such accuracy?

don't tell me your mates stopwatch and the speedo

59-62 = normal. Just like you wouldn't have seen all the numbers between 0 & 59

Amuse Boy

That's a good time as long as you were using some sort of speedo device connected to the pulse sensor (does that make sense)?

chilled

As I mentioned above: "unscientific": mates stopwatch and watching the speedo. It's inaccurate, but was still surprised. Need to get myself down to santa pod or somewhere.

GSi

I got 5.01 once, might have pressed the stopwatch button a bit early as I fluffed my gearchange though..

Colin Andrews

62 on the speedo is likely not 62mph really. GPS (as on camera site warning units) will give you a more accurate reading but will 'lag' real speed a bit (especially under full bore acceleration).

If you can do a "run what ya brung" 1/4 in less than 14s, and/or a terminal speed better than 100 tell us

Neil.H

Your margin of error is quite large there, they could easily be a second out when you take your mates reaction time (start and stop) and the speedo over-reading.

chilled

I figure the human error isn't too big, it's going to be similar reactions "at both ends". But it is relying on the accuracy of the speedo. But I believe it's accurate at 41mph. There's a speed sign on the A64 coming into leeds that tells you your speed and it gave 41 whilst I was doing 41 and I was the only person on the road.

What I'd like to know is what people are getting out of a stock S2000 on 0-60? ie am I way off? I know all the inaccuracies that can creep in so I'd like to compare it, but the search engine doesn't like 0-60

wadswoaj

My hack method of doing timings is to video the speedo and later edit in Windows Movie Maker...... cut the start of the video off at the point where the speedo first moves from zero and end when it hits 62mph (100kph)....... the final video clip can be timed using the timer in Movie Maker which gives two decimal place "accuracy"

This is by no means scientific either but probably better than a mate and his spotwatch (tried that plenty of times as well ) as frame by frame editing of the start and stop times allows for speedo lag.

I haven't tried it on the S2000 yet but the last test (SLK55 AMG) gave a consistant 0-62 time of 4.9 seconds (exactly what Merc quote)

Paper Lawyer

5.21 seconds, although I accidentally started in 3rd and went straight to 4th