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Originally Posted by spa01s2k
Relax guys, everyone has their own idea of what the S2000 could be. If you like strait line/top speed running, cool- thats your thing. If you want to go out and drift, road course, or dodge cones thats fine too. Theres nothing wrong with wanting 850hp out of a car, but there comes a point of useable power on the street. Who says a 400hp S2000 can't accomplish what most people want anyways.
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That's exactly what I was trying (and obviously failing) to get at. In a car like an S2000, 400-500hp should be more than enough for anyone's needs. And you can get that with the F-series motor pretty easily and reasonably affordably.
And without any genuine research to back me up, if you took an average young person who considers themself a car enthusiast a 500hp F20C S2000, and an 850hp 2JZ-GTE S2000 and tell them to take each of them down the 1320...I'd bet that the 500hp car pulls faster times more often.
Reminds me of an old joke Toyota people tell at car meets. "What do a 600hp, 800hp, and 1000hp Supra have in common? They all run low 12's". Obviously not concrete truth, but by and large, fairly accurate in many cases.