The S2000

[speedjunkie]

I'd like to sit in your car after you get the seat and steering wheel all figured out, if that's alright. I really like those cars but I don't fit with the stock wheel and seat. It's close though so I'm hoping those mods make it possible. If so, I might just get one someday.

[Shadowden]

I'd like to sit in your car after you get the seat and steering wheel all figured out, if that's alright. I really like those cars but I don't fit with the stock wheel and seat. It's close though so I'm hoping those mods make it possible. If so, I might just get one someday.

The seat I got may be a little small for you, but you can assess the size for the most part. The Pro2000 I sat in seemed nearly as low, but it was able to push the whole way back. Right now the base of the seat interferes with the floor on mine , but it slides back most of the way. Can always pound the floor flat for you too.

[speedjunkie]

Oh ok nevermind lol. It's kinda pointless for me to try if the seat doesn't practically put you on the floor and all the way back lol. Maybe I should just not use a seat. Lol

[Shadowden]

Oh, it puts you on the floor. If you are going to be all the way back, you can just position it there and not use sliders.

[Shadowden]

I received the belt extender in the mail, so I decided to install my seat last night. Contrary to the link posted before, my factory belt receiver came nowhere near the seat opening for the Pole Position. mAybe it is the extra low seating position. Therefore, I went with the Corvette crew's method of just bolting the belt extender in place. Works perfectly that way. Driving that low in the car really changes what you can see around you. I was a little on edge this morning commuting on I-25, but, by the time I got to work, I felt pretty comfortable. I don't see any realistic way for my wife to drive the car without adding a foam cushion to the seat bottom to bring the driving position up.

I also looked at the rails again and my last plan for mounting the 5/6 points of the harness won't work. So I will either need to go through the floor pan or change how I was going to build the under seat bracket. In neither case will the mounting point move. So I am tempted to weld a bar on the bottom side of the seat bracket. These straps are intended to keep the lap belt in place on rebound, so I don't see them taking a ton of load, But because the harness will see load, I am considering mounting the lap belts through the floor pan. The existing outboard mount will be fine. The inboard side will likely be drilled through the transmission tunnel.

[RX-7 Chris]

Any luck figuring out those resistors for the wheel?

[Shadowden]

DW is going to upullandpay and grabbing the female half of the connector from another honda. He will solder the NRG supplied resistors to the pigtail of that part. I had forgotten to reconnect a plug, so my SRS light was on until this morning anyway when I finally got the reset sequence correct.

IF that doesn't work, I'll buy a female u-turn from works bell. at 28.00 from evasive, it is a bit spendy for a couple of resistors, but if it connects tightly, I'd be happy.

[Shadowden]

dw successfully created a plug and play solution to "trick" the s2000 into thinking there was an airbag in place. he obtained a female pigtail from a Honda of similar vintage (1997-2000 civic or accord) and re-pinned it using the NRG supplied resistor/fuse. s2000 forum reports say a standard 2.2 ohms 5 watt resistor will do the trick as well, but since we had the resistor from NRG, it made sense to use it.

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I built a bracket for cruise control that hides the buttons behind the bottom spoke of the steering wheel. it is good for the first attempt and gets everything functions, but I plan to build another one when I have a little more time. to keep the cruise control wire from getting hung up between the short hub and plastics I had to drill a hole through the short hub. using a step drill kept the hole nice and clean. If anyone is curious, the stock screws for the cruise control switch mounting bracket are 4mn 24 tpi.

horn works, cruise control works, and srs light does not come on. draw back is that the stalks are a little further away from the wheel.

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[speedjunkie]

So did you put the stock wheel back on after that? LOL Glad you guys were able to sort it out.

You could use that same bracket and just angle it to where the cruise control buttons are accessible. Although it might not look the best sticking that far out. Is that why you have it hidden right now?

[RX-7 Chris]

looks good.

[Shadowden]

The wings on the quick release blocked putting them where they were at. I could pull the wings off, but I only usedid cruise control on one trip when I was driving to Lincoln, NE to swap my transmission out.

I like them hidden there personally. The other bracket I want to make would close off the opening under the buttons more. Realistically, I could really simplify things by just running a couple of momentary switches and wiring them correctly. I like the stock buttons well enough though.

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[speedjunkie]

Ah gotcha. Well in that case it works pretty well lol.

When I was trying to figure out how I wanted to do mine I saw a guy on the 7club forums had extended the wires and mounted it to the center console. I like them mounted similar to stock though.

[Shadowden]

On the ap2 (2004-2009)center console there is a good spot to relocate into the center console, but not so much in the ap1(2000-2003). Like you, I prefer close to stock.

[RX-7 Chris]

Can you install it so it isn't straight down and maybe 45deg to the right so it can be seen?

[Dwduc]

Not really. It fits perfectly between the wings of the quick release at the 6 or 12 position. The buttons are a little more accessible then they appear in his pic, enough so they are easy to push. I kinda like the stealth look of it other then the cruise buttons now being the biggest obstacle to getting in and out.