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smoothshift · 6 years ago

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Honda S2000 AP1 and Corvette C6 Z06 Comparison via /r/cars

Honda S2000 AP1 and Corvette C6 Z06 Comparison

Hi all, this is more of a mind dump for me to compare the two cars that I currently own and I thought of sharing it with you all. So here we go.

Skip 5 paragraphs if you don't want to read the buildup to the comparison.

I bought my 2001 AP1 S2000 about a year and a half ago at 12,000 miles on the clock. I loved this car. I love the way it smells, how it drives and how it handles. It's black with red interior in near immaculate condition. Within that timeframe, I have only put 9,000 miles on the car.

The S2k did spook me with its lack of nannies and proneness to losing control when pushing it w/o required skills. The more I drove it the more I found out how dangerous it really is. It was my first RWD car, my second car after my 99 Accord V6. The car weighs ~2,800 lbs, and even at 240 horse, it will knock you on your butt if you dip in respect for its power. As I said, it is my first RWD car and I do not consider myself a "skilled" driver but I do like to say that I have learned to respect the danger and power of cars to a certain degree.

Well as I got more comfortable with the car, I could shift it pretty well but it started getting to the point that I needed more power. Given the fact that I babied the car and didn't want to ruin its stock form, I was always conflicted with the idea of boosting it and just ruining the stock design altogether. It came to the point where I'm trying to keep this 20K mile s2000 in perfect condition and it made me worried sick to the point that I don't enjoy its ownership anymore.

This led me to look for more power in a different car. Well, obviously by the title I started researching Corvettes. In the past, I have never liked their looks, and I didn't want to just have "another vette." Their interior from the pictures kind've looked "fisher-price" with all the plastic. This is excluding the C7s I find their interior gorgeous but exterior a little too much.

I wanted to feel what torque was like. (yes crack your jokes. The Honda has none) And what a lot of horsepower felt like. That's why I was looking at boosting the S2000. Well, when I was asking on reddit about vettes, a user told me about them in a nutshell and also threw in that he was selling his. Turns out it was a LeMans Blue C6 Z06. I have never seen a vette in that color before and I instantly liked it. Skipping the long story I again, I ended up purchasing his car. This means I will be selling the S2000 as I cannot afford to hold onto both.

Now, the comparison. The C6 Z06 is an absolutely stunning car to look at. When it's in motion it is even more beautiful. What I have found is the further you walk away from it the more pretty it looks. The interior isn't as horrible as I thought and it turned out to be really nice. The plastic dash and stuff is cheap feeling but in person, it looks pretty good. The S2000 with the red interior is more pretty imo, but the corvette has so many cool nick-nacks that you actually use on a daily basis. I enjoy the exterior the S2000 for the most part, but the rear and the side views of the car are very basic to me. I absolutely love looking at the car head-on though. It just looks so sinister. The S2000 has that "what is that?" factor about it, but the corvette has the rubbernecks oogling at it on the daily. The fact that its a LeMans Blue Z06 just makes it very unique. It doesn't feel like just another corvette. Thing is, since owning it for only three days the vette has gotten more public attention than the s2000 in an entire year. Granted it's in a different social class I guess you could say. The S2000 only gets recognized by enthusiasts. I've had good and bad attention already. Old guys look at my baby face and scowl and others ask questions or stare at its deep blue abyss in awe. Interesting dynamic.

Anyways, build quality. The Japanese are known for making both amazing and well-designed machines and between these two cars that really shines. Granted I am comparing a 21k mile car to a 60k mile car, the difference is pretty apparent. The fit and finish on the Honda are perfect in every little spot, nothing off canter and all the materials feel great. The vette has a cheap plastic dash, the fiberglass squeaks when it rubs against the passenger door opening. When you max out the steering you have that loud power steering whine. The clutch pedal on the vette is very loose feeling but it probably just needs a tune up.

Driving mechanics. As most people know, the S2000 has one of the best shifters in the world. Comparing it to the vette is night and day. It's so crisp and perfect. The vette is sloppy and when you're shifting fast it likes to catch onto the gates. Very mushy. I will probably be buying an MGW shifter. One thing I can say about the vette transmission is that it feels beefy, almost like you cannot hurt it. The s2000 requires precision and perfect rev matching with it's short travel of the clutch. That car required finesse and I loved that. It's a challenge to make it as smooth as possible. The Corvette feels very slow and lazy, it has a long clutch travel. It is incredibly easy to drive. The s2000 steering is much sharper, granted it weighs 300 pounds less and has a shorter wheel distance area I'd consider it zippier than the vette. The vette feels very loomy and less precise but it will eat corners alive without giving an inch of feeling like it's going to lose traction. You always feel like you're driving the s2000 on a knifes edge, especially on turns. You can really feel the understeer but pure confidence in the vette, it is more raw feeling. In turns, the faster you go in the s2000 the happier it is. The faster you go in the vette the more sucked to the floor it feels.

Daily ability, I can drive both just fine but what I have found is I always feel the need to race the S2000. It yearns to be revved up and it always feels like a 50/50 decision once you cruise up to 5k RPM in 1st gear. It's almost impossible not to cross that line and take it through first and second at 8-9k. The s2000 was really sucky on the highway due to its gearing. At about 75MPH you are sitting at 4k RPM and that gets fatiguing. The Corvette, on the other hand, is simply a joy cruising it at or slightly below the speed limit. Knowing the insane power the car has the feeling of a slow brewing need to release it on a straight away and that I have done. As odd as it is, I think I am more likely to get a ticket in the S2k than I am in the Corvette.. or maybe I'm just smarter about where I go past 100 MPH...

Power. The corvette is a rocketship. 3-4th gets good traction and it just sucks you into your seat exponentially the faster you go. The F20C does not compare to an American V8.

All in all the S2000 had too low of miles for me to enjoy it to its full potential and I didn't want to blow it up to make more power. The vette has all the power it needs, it's a better daily driver but it does not offer the driver feedback that the S2000 gives. I will miss my S2 when I sell it, but I have found something that I love much more and that is the C6 Chevrolet Corvette Z06.

Alright, I'm going to bed.

#reddit #autonews #auto #cars

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soilrockslove · 8 years ago

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tagged by @pilferingapples

Rules: Tag 9 People you want to know better

Relationship status: At the moment have one long-term partner (12 years soon!). That could change though. :)

Favourite colour: Green <3 Every shade of green! Also Black and Purple.

Lipstick or chapstick: Chapstick! Especially the kind with good scents mixed in!

Last song you listened to: Alle Fragen sind gestellt or Heart Ahead (I forget which was actually last)

Last movie you watched: Spirited Away

I…am just gonna list SOME favorites on these:

Top 3 TV shows: Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Stranger Things, Mushi-shi

Top 3 characters: I’M GOING WITH ENSEMBLES as Pilferingapples did, because otherwise it would be too hard to chose – this puts some limits on it. The big group marriage from the Door into Sunset, The crew of Charlie's from Sunshine, Les Amis de l'ABC

Top 3 ships: The Enterprise, Night's-Beautiful-Daughter, Kayaks are great too!

Books you are currently reading: Re-reading Les Miserables, also reading The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Before Religion (which I would really recommend to people interested in history), Wizard's Holiday, and a couple of Soil books.

Top 5 Musicals: Les Miserables! Ummmmm.... also Elisabeth das Musical, Footloose, Patience, and... Las Pastorelas? I know they might not technically count because each Pastorela is different and there's no set script – they're made up new every time. But every one I've ever been to has been great.

Tagging @aflamethatneverdies, @amelancholycharm, @shoujocowboy @lizardywizard @lb-lee and anyone else that wants.

If you got tagged and don’t want to do it, you don’t have to. If you want to do it - go ahead! I must have just missed tagging you!

#Meme #Les Miserables #pilferingapples

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thevintagebluebird · 7 years ago

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Unpinned - One Pan Teriyaki Chicken Zoodles

Yup, my posts are monthly I guess. So this disaster happened a few weeks ago, but once I start spending all my nights over with the Boston Pops, cooking sort of...stops. I’m lucky if eating even happens. At least I get to have Sleigh Ride stuck in my head for the entire month of December! But I digress.

Sometime last month I was hungry, and I had zucchini. So I jumped onto my trusty old Pinterest board and looked for some zoodle-y goodness. And there waiting for me was the perfect recipe: One pan (!!) teriyaki (!) chicken (yum!) zoodles (yay!). A dish filled with things I like, no trip to the grocery store required, and ONE PAN? Certainly it’s too good to be true!

Hold on to your hats. Because it was indeed too good to be true.

Verdict:

Is the Pintrest photo complete bullshit? - Yup. Absolutely. Are those even pineapple pieces in the picture, or are they secretly just tiny carved pieces of tangerine that were hit with a blow torch until they looked juuuuuuuuust right?

Is it crazy expensive/time consuming/confusing? - It’s not expensive or super time consuming but this recipe actually sets a new record for confusing. More on that later.

Does it taste good? - No. It WANTS to taste good, it TRIES to taste good, and it only tastes...meh.

One Pan Teriyaki Chicken Zoodles

Ingredients

2 medium pieces boneless, skinless, chicken breasts (about 2/3 lb) cut into strips or chunks

salt and black pepper to taste

2 tablespoons cooking oil (olive or coconut oil for paleo)

5-6 medium zucchini, cut into noodles using a spiralizer or a vegetable peeler

1 cup chopped pineapple chunks (fresh, frozen or canned - I used fresh - can leave out for low calorie and swap in broccoli instead)

Sauce

1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce ( gluten free tamari or coconut aminos for a paleo version)

2-3 tablespoons honey, coconut sugar or low calorie sweetener of your choice (depending on how sweet your preference is)

3 tablespoons rice vinegar

2 garlic cloves, minced

1/2 teaspoon grated ginger

1 tablespoon corn starch (or use arrowroot powder or tapioca starch for a paleo version)

2 tablespoons water, plus more as needed to thin out sauce

Salt, black pepper and red pepper flakes to taste, optional

Optional:

Green onions, sliced thinly

Broccoli florets

Sesame Seeds

Lunch containers, for meal prep

Instructions

In a small bowl, whisk together all the ingredients for the sauce.

In a large bowl, season chicken with salt and pepper and drizzle 1-2 tablespoons of sauce over the chicken. Allow to marinate for 30 minutes.

Heat cooking oil in a large skillet on medium high heat. Add chicken and cook until lightly brown, about 1-2 minutes. Add in the pineapple chunks and cook for another 1 minute, until slightly softened. Pour in the remainder of the sauce and turn the heat to high. Allow sauce to bubble and thicken while stirring - about 1-2 minutes - add more water a little at a time (only as needed if sauce is too thick). Season to taste with salt, black pepper and/or red chili flakes.

*If cooking the zucchini noodles, add into pan and use tongs to toss and coat with sauce. Cook for 1-2 minutes until zucchini is just tender but still firm. Be careful not to overcook.

Remove from heat and drizzle extra sauce in pan over chicken and serve immediately. Garnish with green onions and sesame seeds if desired.

For meal prep: Divide evenly into lunch containers. Store in fridge for up to four days.

Notes

*do not overcook for longer than 2 minutes or else noodles will get too soft and mushy. You can also serve the chicken over raw zucchini noodles if desired.

I was very tired and not really in the mood to cook but also kind of broke and fairly hungry, so this picture is me feeling all of those things at once. Pardon my...face.

Our recipe today comes from Life Made Sweeter, which I’ve maybe used before? It has a whole bunch of ads on it and this lovely little note on every single page: THIS POST MAY CONTAIN AFFILIATE LINKS. PLEASE SEE MY FULL DISCLOSURE POLICY FOR DETAILS. That’s cool! You go get that ad revenue, girl! The writer and mom-of-two Kelly is in charge. She seems super nice and I might scroll through her site again and try one of her desert ideas ‘cause there’s a ton and they look bomb.

Here’s what you need. Ah, yes. We meet again, my arch-nemesis cornstarch. This was the moment I should have known we were doomed. But no, surely the recipe will calm my fears?

WHAT!? Add more water if it’s too watery?! THAT’S NOT HOW WATER WORKS. THAT’S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS. I’m realizing now that the text on the site and the text I’d printed off a few weeks ago no longer match. Did someone tip her off? Am I going crazy?

Yeah well it’s too late, we’ve taken the picture of the stuff on the counter so now we’re committed. So go ahead and pour our a nice 1/4 cup of soy...sauce...dammit. Out of soy sauce. GOD DAMN IT I’M NOT GOING OUT TO THE GROCERY STORE AGAIN.

But wait! You’re a grown woman living in her own place! That means you have TAKEOUT SOY SAUCE growing in the deep recesses of your fridge/junk drawers! Huzzah! The day is saved! (Spoiler alert: it wasn’t.)

Now you shame yourself by not only using ‘the bear’ honey (is it even really honey?), it’s STORE BRAND bear honey. Please forgive me, Melanie. This is what happens when you peace out of the country and leave me to my own devices.

My bff garlic. Love garlic. Chop it up and get it everywhere, even some in your bowl.

My not-so-bff ginger. I’m only just starting to come around to ginger, and I prefer it minced tiny and hidden in dishes with lots of other flavors. So chop it up , get it everywhere, even some in your bowl. That’s how we roll.

CORNSTARCH. It promises you a world of gravy-like consistency, and delivers NOTHING. Screw cornstarch, I’m so fed up with getting my hopes crushed.

Chop da chicken, whisk da sauce. So far, looking surprisingly like an in-progress meal. At this point my hopes were high, tempered by my distrust of cornstarch.

Realize you’ve left a load of laundry finished in a dryer in the basement. Run down and rescue it, then woefully fold it so it’s not a wrinkled waste of effort. Sit for a moment and despair about how tired and hungry you are.

Cheer yourself up my turning some vegetables into strings! I ended up only using four of the zuchinni and then only 2/3rds of my zoodles because this was just too damn many zoodles. I’ve ruined so many recipes by not taking the extra time to let my zoodles sit out, press the water out, and dry up with salt, so I did ALL of those things. Dammit, I was going to have dry zoodles.

Make your chicken less raw. This helps prevent salmonella!

Toss your chunks (heh) into the pan as your chicken is approaching unraw. Save a few to nibble on later. Forget about them in the back of your fridge and throw them away three weeks later when they no longer smell like pineapple.

SAUCE!

Throw in your overly-salted zoodles! Stir and mix and grunt as you try to get a wooden spoon through an impossibly tangled ball of zoodles! Rejoice ‘cause it smells good and looks like food! Panic as you realize you’ve been attempting to mix it up for more than the carefully allotted two minutes of cook time!

Put in bowl, add sesame seeds. At this point I was so hungry I would’ve eaten it no matter what, but looking back I’m perplexed by how much it looks like fake food. Not fake like photoshopped-magazine food, but fake like the plastic food you let children play with in their mini-kitchens, where they serve you empty plastic cups of tea and handfuls of plastic spaghetti as you sit cross-legged on the floor and pretend it’s very yummy.

My lazy roommate joined me when she smelled dinner. We both look cautious.

The sad reality: within minutes of being taken off the burner, the sauce all turned into water. Soupy, sad, not-delicious water.

ONE PAN MY ASS.

Final final verdict: Sad. So sad. Winter sucks. I’m just going to subsist off of hot cocoa and wine from now on.

#pinterest #unpinned #cooking #pintrestfail

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