S2000 End Of Month Report – October 2010

Costs this month: £261/216 liters (fuel)

Mileage this month: 1374

Total Mileage: 81223

Well a month has passed and its been quite a ride. £261 in fuel and 1374 miles. That’s some driving and every miles been a joy. Its included sun, wind and rain. Day and night. Hardtop on and off along with soft-top on and off. The engine hasn’t missed a beat and the car has shown not one fault. Every button along with every other part of the car works just fine. I’m even impressed that each line on the heated electric rear windows work on both the hardtop and soft top.

My driving has been quite reserved for the most part. I’ve literally just been cruising and not really gone into vtec much, but when I have it has brought a rush of driving  joy. Maybe even a rush of fear for the first few days, but now I have adjusted to having a fast car again I have started to lean the car into corners and been more generous on the throttle. But as for the car, everything is just perfect :D

Dale’s S2000 for Sale

Already my S2000 is up for sale after just a month of owning it. There is not a thing wrong with it, his sale is only to support a up and coming project, which means someone out there can get there hands on my beautiful S2000. I spent quite a while tracking down such a good example and now you can take advantage of my hard work. Taxed till May 2011 and MOT’ed till September 2011. There is plenty of history along with the S2000 diary which you have access to right now in the menu to your right. You get the hardtop, almost new tires and a engine that runs so smooth you would not guess it has done 82’000 miles which isn’t alot for this amzing vtec engine. I am in no rush to sell since I enjoy driving and owning the car, but if the right offer does come my way then I am willing to sell. If by some change there is something you want to know that you cant find on the site then feel free to email me at daggernite@ntlworld.com

Honda S2000 Diary (25/10/2010) – Installed the hardtop

After another cold night the relisation of the soon approaching winter made me decide to fit the hardtop to my car today. I woke up and set off to get it put on. Luke the camera came along to get some shots which is why I have a video for everyone today :D

With that said (or written) the video should explain everything about installing the roof. Its simply a case of lowering the soft top and placing the hardtop on its front and rear brackets and then locking them in place so the hardtop is secure, not forgetting to plug in the heated rear window. Now I can rest in peace knowing no vandal can slash my roof, and enjoy the stylish looks which the hardtop gives the S2000.

GOOD TIMES! :D

S2000 Diary 25/10/2010 – Just a update

For the last week my site forbid me to access it. So no posts have been made but I do have a few things to mention about the S2000 now that I am able to log into my own site. Tomorrow will mark my 3 week anniversary with the S2000 and up to press I have accumulated over 1100 miles of modest (mostly wimpy) driving. One thing I find amazing is how a car such as the S2000 which loves corners is beautiful to drive regardless of any tricky road you take it on, yet if you pull onto the motorway in the wet, when passing over the slippery painted white lines, the LSD will completely spaz out making the whole car feel unstable. Much to the same fashion as when the MR2 lost control when hitting the grate in the road. Needless to say this unsettles me, and it happens way too often.

Thankfully at least now I am aware of the issue and gather it must be a trait of all rear wheel drive cars with a LSD, so I must learn to cope and then master this characteristic. Also the garage which holds my hardtop got broken into early last week but thankfully was untouched. This along with the weather which is getting increasingly colder has made me decide to put the hardtop back on, so yesterday I did my last bit of roof down driving. Chris was with me on one occasion going under a small tunnel, and even though only for a short second or two he said it sounded like the hammer of Thor. Although I’m not sure what Thor’s hammer actually sounds like, I know it was a compliment.

So after driving miles and miles around Manchester, Castleford, Huddersfield and Wakefield is was good to just take a picture of it resting in the morning sun, covered in the morning dew. dew-s2k

Oh and that reminds me, if you take the lid of your airbox and have a drive, your S2000 will sound the spitting image of a Ferrari F430, dont believe me? try it and compare it to the topgear review of the F430. There exactly the same sound.

S2000 Diary 19/10/2010 – No fuel left

No more fuel

Today the only trip I had to make was to work and back, a combined distance of 26miles. There was three light showing on the digital fuel gauge before I set off, and three lights showing when I got to work 13 miles later. I parked on a slope with the right side of my car lower than the left and when I returned to it 8 hours later I push the engine start button and hear the starter motor for a little too long. I thought I didn’t have enough fuel but the engine started eventually. Half way into my trip home and the fuel gauge showed empty, and then flicked to one light a mile before I returned home, and then to empty as I parked up. It seems the fuel gauge is as temperamental as the Type-R was.

Hope it starts tommorow….