Honda S2000 Scuttle Shake

[DavieW]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Thanks guys for your input.

Now I just need to have the difficult conversation with SHMBO

[T5SOR]

DavieW said:

Thanks guys for your input.

Now I just need to have the difficult conversation with SHMBO

Are you thinking of buying one?

[havoc]

DavieW said:

Thanks guys for your input.

Now I just need to have the difficult conversation with SHMBO

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]

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

[cirian75]

DavieW said:

Thanks guys for your input.

Now I just need to have the difficult conversation with SHMBO

Pssstttt! Better to ask for forgivness than permission.