Our customer Kaan’s full authentic Amuse GT1-kitted S2K was recently featured on Canibeat.  Check out the shoot; it’s that classic combo of beautiful car with gorgeous scenery!

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One exciting TAS 2012 debut was HKS’s new bolt-on supercharger kit for S2K; this month’s Option Magazine had a feature on it.  It’s nice to see development pushing forward for the S2K even after all these years!

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Our 2007 built S2000 demo car won 1st place at HIN (Honda Category) last weekend! Of 11 years owning that car, this was the first show it ever entered for competition (as part of the Bulletproof Illuminati crew). It was a huge surprise to win the category! More than anything, we are tremendously happy that four years later, without any significant new mods, the car is still relevant!  Just goes to show you that a commitment to quality and authenticity is timeless.  We’ll work hard in hopes that our current GT-R project will do as well in 2016.

The Bulletproof S2000 motor features a full Titanium header by Amuse.

Amuse Titanium Header Honda AP1 S2000

One of the most beautiful pieces of metal ever.

Summer weather has arrived out in Southern California and it has become time once again to go topless.

I took a couple of photos of the S2000 out at the canyons last weekend sans-roof. I still think the car looks better with the crazy hardtop, but it is a lot more fun to drive without it.

I’m going to ask this question out loud that I’ve been unable to answer for many years. Which is the best S2000 ever made – The Amuse GT1 or the ASM Widebody time attack car.

Before I go any further, I should admit that I’m equally biased. It was Amuse’s titanium exhaust for the S2000 that made my relationship begin with them in 2001. Around the same time it was ASM’s Tsukuba Special S2000 that was the first to break into 59 second range at Tsukuba that made me approach them and become their first US distributor. I’ve since remained involved with both companies for many years and watched them grow and evolve with the S2000 (as well as their other cars). In the case of ASM, we went as far as to buy the actual dry carbon widebody shown in the picture below and we keep it at our warehouse as it is the only one in the world produced (they switched over to the version 2 and we happily took version 1 off of their hands back then).

So the question is – which S2000 is better? Amuse went on to turbo their GT1 and ASM went on to further refine their aerodynamics and replace every bolt with titanium to squeeze every last drop of lap time reduction.

These cars are truly the best of everything. No expense spared. ASM uses Challenge for their dry carbon which is where the OEM’s shop when they build their Super GT machines. Amuse uses titanium springs for their coilovers which nobody else can mess with. There are tricks within tricks within tricks that make both of these S2000s in a league of their own.

But which one is better?

Photos courtesy of the Bulletproof vaults.