Time attack events are a very popular form of motorsport nowadays and the car builds that you find there sometimes rival factory efforts, like this Honda S2000 prepped by tuning house Top Fuel. You know a build is serious when a light 1,250 kilogram car is stripped and rebuilt with a carbon fiber body to bring the weight down to 1,000 kilos. Since this was intended to be a time attack car, an aero body kit was a necessity, and the resulting widebody and radically winged S2000 doesn’t disappoint.
Underneath the swoopy body resides the original F20C powerplant, but with revised internals such as chromemoly conrods and forged pistons. Displacement was increased to 2150 cc and 1000 cc/min fuel injectors feed the engine so that the huge HKS GT3540 turbo can produce the 680 horsepower the engine is now capable of. From the triple plate clutch, a sequential HKS transmission gives 5 forward speeds.
Of course handling is just as important as power in time attack cars and the chassis was spot welded and reinforced to give a rigid base for the modified suspension arms and adjustable race dampers the reside at the corners of the car. Tires are 10.5 X 18 in size and Brembo calipers reside behind it. The best test of how a car works is to compare it with its class rivals and this S2000 certainly didn’t disappoint. When the time came to show what it was capable of, this Top Fuel S2000 promptly set the record for the fastest FR car at the Tsukuba Circuit. Performance calculations reveal that 0-60 should be over in 2.7 seconds and the quarter-mile in 10.7 seconds. For a car whose specialty is to lap a track in the fastest possible time, these acceleration figures are very quick indeed.
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