Review of
@Bowtie-muscle'S Honda S2000 '06.
S2000 '06 550pp SS:
Trial Mountain - 1:30.326
Deep Forest reverse - 1:17.169
Grand Valley speedway - 1:53.848
S2000 '06 550pp RH
Trial Mountain - 1:26.836
Deep Forest reverse - 1:15.068
Grand Valley speedway - 1:51.429
Trial Mountain:
If I'm honest this thing is a little odd and I can't quite put my finger on what it is that I'm not too keen on. It just seems a little jumpy in places
. Actually in thinking about it, it reminds me a lot of
@GhostRider65's FR-S, it has a nice enough balance but perhaps a little too soft for my liking.
It took me a little while to get use to it, but it was pretty good on SS tyres. Very predictable and easy to get sideways
....Don't worry, that gets extra points for fun factor
And I may have inadvertantly found a new drift car
đź‘Ť.
On RH I did struggle a little more at first, barely even managing to beat the SS ghost. I did eventually manage to find it's groove and pull off a decent few laps. In the end though I couldn't get all that much quicker than I could with
@Antares26's car, despite the power advantage it had with the High RPM range turbo.
I really do think the 1:30 on SS is a false figure to be fair, given a bit more time with it there's a good chunk of time still to be found. The tyres alone don't account for the difference, mostly it was the driver still learning the car :embaressed: I reckon it should have been down in the 1:28s somewhere.
Grand Valley Speedway:
The car seems to wander around a little under braking here, however it is still pretty controlable. If you ask me I think the dampers could be the cause of the jumpieness (don't know if that's a word or not
) that I mentioned before. It just feels like there's something not quite right in the weight transfer rearward, perhaps a little over damping? There are of course another couple of things that could be having some say in the matter too, driving style for one
But overall the car worked out pretty well here. No real complaints đź‘Ť.
Deep Forest (rev)
Where the H... has this thing been hiding
It's like a completely different animal here, or maybe I just get on with it bit more
. But wow, what a little rocket đź‘Ť. Whatever I asked of it, it did and it didn't feel as "on edge" and jumpy as at TM. Still not exactly how I'd want it to go, but damn, it was close, I go back to the "slightly too soft" bit from the TM notes
, if it wasn't for that I'd say the balance works really well for this track
A real solid performance here from the get-go.
I suppose I should say something about the drivetrain. Well it worked, it got the thing down the road pretty well đź‘Ť. But Arrrgh, why did you have to use that turbo
If it ain't broke and all...
. I don't know how well it works on AT, but for me on MT, I just seemed to be in the wrong part of the rev range a lot in the slower of the mid-speed corners. If I took them in 3rd it didn't pull very well back out and if I dropped it into 2nd, it was just so high in the rev-range I felt I had to tip-toe around the throttle pedal
(Still testing on DS3 BTW đź‘Ť). It is a driving style issue mostly. When I calmed my entry speed down a little it worked out a bit better
I know adjusting the FG will help out though
The LSD was pretty good, but I think just a little tighter all round would have been better for me đź‘Ť,.Comparing it again to Antares' car, I think he pretty much nailed the initial but I preferred your more "traditional" 2-way set-up
, it works really nice and is very predictable. Personally, (and I did try it out đź‘Ť) 12 or 13 initial with accel and braking between 16-18 works real nice for me on the RH tyre
. And it helped a little with the odd handling in a few places too incidentally đź‘Ť.
I have to say, although this is not my favourite ride from your shop, sadly
It is still a very competitive little thing đź‘Ť And it's one that will stay in the garage for future use based on it's performance at Deep Forest alone, there are other tracks that this thing will suit that well too
. Didn't really prefer one tyre to the other.
I was all ready to say that Antares' car was the better of the two hands down, but I think it's fairer to say it was a better all-rounder. Your little S2K on the other hand was like fire and ice. not all that good in some places and mind blowingly awesome in others. I'm really glad that I tested them both. And I'm looking forward to that NSX-R too
.
for my liking 
, did I let the cat out of the bag!? (It's up in the next post 
