Honda S2000 Scuttle Shake

Honda S2000 Scuttle Shake

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DavieW

Original Poster:

797 posts

115 months

Saturday 24th February
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Does the S2000 suffer from scuttle shake? My Mk1 MX5 wasn't too bad but my current OG Saab 93 has a fair bit.

S366

1,090 posts

149 months

Saturday 24th February
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None that you’d notice, like the MX5, the S2000 was designed and built as a convertible. Cars like the 9-3 that weren’t initially designed as a convertible and adapted to be one are far more susceptible to scuttle shake.

s2kjock

1,752 posts

154 months

Sunday 25th February
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No. It was designed with a very rigid central spine. X-bone or something it was called from memory.

When I had an RTC in my second one I actually broke my leg and snapped my ACL when my left leg walloped the transmission tunnel as the car bounced off a couple of things.

It is very solid.

gdaybruce

757 posts

232 months

Monday 26th February
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To quote from a Honda brochure of the time:

"We’ve developed unique safety features for the Honda S2000 like a ‘High X-Bone frame’ to create a light ‘open-body’ structure with the rigidity and passenger crash protection qualities of a ‘closed-body’ structure. We also use a double walled, steel pipe reinforced tubular front pillar, highly rigid roll bars, and twin door beams to provide driver and passengers with an ultra strong survival cell."

Certainly, I don't recall scuttle shake ever being an issue in the S2000 I owned.

trails

4,361 posts

156 months

Friday 5th April
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Nope, zero; as above it's been designed as a roadster form the outset so has appropriate bracing to negate any of those issues. An entirely different proposition to a saloon thats had it's roof lopped off.

As above, its called an x brace.



Edited by trails on Friday 5th April 11:08

DavieW

Original Poster:

797 posts

115 months

Saturday 6th April
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Thanks guys for your input.

Now I just need to have the difficult conversation with SHMBO biglaugh

T5SOR

2,002 posts

232 months

Saturday 6th April
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DavieW said:
Thanks guys for your input.

Now I just need to have the difficult conversation with SHMBO biglaugh
Are you thinking of buying one?

havoc

30,833 posts

242 months

Saturday 6th April
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DavieW said:
Thanks guys for your input.

Now I just need to have the difficult conversation with SHMBO biglaugh
Shouldn't be that difficult - let her drive it.
(We had one for 3 years and Mrs H really liked it when she realised I wasn't mega-precious about her driving it. Pussy-cat to drive under 4,000rpm, for a rwd roadster)

nobby8628

93 posts

225 months

Tuesday 9th April
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Any S2K i have driven does not suffer from this. As posts above state the car is pretty well planted in that regard.

cirian75

4,348 posts

240 months

Monday 29th April
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DavieW said:
Thanks guys for your input.

Now I just need to have the difficult conversation with SHMBO biglaugh
Pssstttt! Better to ask for forgivness than permission.