The s2000 handles beautifull as it comes from factory, no need to upgrade springs.... or do you?

 I've never really understood why people lowered their S2k.

As standard, the car is just a joy to drive and has a predictable behavior, corners fast, and is very controllable. 

So naturally I've never really understand the need to change the ride firmness and weight unless you do track and change the wheel profiles. 

That, of course, changed back in 2008, when I brought the 5Ziggens, and fitted some R888's to it. It' changed the offset of the car, widening it and dry grip increase was upped by a lot!

All the sudden, the car's limits got really high and there was an inherent pre-limit under-steer then I've never experienced before. It was easy to counteract with a steering blow, but it was a strange behavior I wasn't expecting. 

So... if those guy's altering the suspension on their S2k's had changed the offsets, that might just be the justification. 

So, evidently, I've recently fit a set of eibach Pro-kit lowering springs.These are stiffer and lower by 25mm. 

The result? Well the underlying on-limit under-steer is still there, but the limit's got all squeezed higher. 

The car corners faster, more stable, but it also brakes-off more violently. However the regaining of grip is also much faster. 

In the end, the fast responses where just tuned higher. 

It is a more frenetic car now and although I understand why Honda left this different as standard (and even so got a bunch of newbie drivers injured in phenomenal crashes), It makes more sense to have the car like this.

And I'll probably be pursuing coil-overs in the future to totally eliminate the under-steer approaching the limit. 

After all, people lowering their S2k where... absolutely right.