If you happen to have a set of Recaro Pole Positions for sale on the cheap, DM me. I don’t mind them on the street, but on the track there just isn’t enough bolstering to justify keeping them around. There’s also the semi-unsupportive seats, an issue I still haven’t addressed.
#HONDA S2000 CLUTCH PEDAL SWITCH INSTALL#
I want to get the car back into the air at some point and inspect things to make sure I didn’t break anything or install anything incorrectly. I’m starting to think there may be some binding in the steering, perhaps due to the new suspension height. Swapping it out is a straightforward job, so once I get the new part the car should be up and running fairly quickly. It’s annoying, but you don’t really hear it when you’re moving.Ī quick check under the dash revealed fresh brake fluid dripping from the master cylinder. I’m not about to cut open a muffler just to remove a loose piece of metal. So, unless I happen to come into ownership of a new S2000 exhaust, I’m going to leave things as-is.
As it turns out, that rattling is coming from inside the muffler, rather than from something external like a loose exhaust hanger. The only thing I discovered was a rattling sound coming from the passenger-side muffler. Nothing broke while I was lapping, and I was able to drive the car home without any issues. Ok, So How Broken Is the Car Now?Īfter fixing the brakes I took the S2000 to its first outing at Lime Rock Park, where it outperformed my expectations. But for now, I’m just going to keep an eye on things and pray that two bolts are enough. I’ll find a way to get that bolt out sometime in the near future. No, it’s not perfect, but it did form a seal strong enough to get VTEC to activate. I didn’t have the right tools to extract that broken bolt, so I simply replaced the gasket and put the solenoid back on with the other two bolts.
Don’t do this! As demonstrated by my car, this strategy can cause serious problems down the road. My theory? A previous owner saw there was an oil leaking from the solenoid area, but instead of doing the right thing and replacing the gasket, they decided to tighten the bolts in hopes that would stop the leak. Also, one of the other two bolts I extracted broke in half as I was threading it out. Or so I thought once I took the other two bolts out, I realized that whoever had last touched the third bolt had somehow snapped the head off, leaving the remainder of the fastener in the block. One of the three bolts that holds the solenoid to the block was straight-up missing. Upon closer inspection of the VTEC solenoid, the reason became fairly obvious. Yes! After months of driving this car without its second cam profile, I finally took the time to address why VTEC wasn’t working on this car.