It's been a while since I got some work done on the car and although the handling part of my setup probably makes the biggest difference, I've always hoped to improve the naturally aspirated performance of the engine. Unfortunately, being a relatively low production car with a bespoke platform, the costs of R&D to produce products for the S2000 for all motor power would be much higher which results in the offerings of products being either limited or not delivering much results for the money.
It's well known that many exhausts and exhaust manifolds routinely lose power or make low single digit gains when tested on the S2000, so most owners tend to just buy them for weight savings. The offerings on the intake side of things include the usual bored out or bigger throttle bodies, intake systems and individual throttle bodies (ITB) but none of these make significant gains in power on the F22C. ITB's cost big money and require a standalone ECU which brings the bill pretty close to 5 digit while generally being more effort to maintain from a tuning standpoint. Intake systems and throttle body mods don't make much gains even after tuning and most owners say they are happy with just a few hp gain (if any!).
This is how my engine bay has pretty much always looked
That massive hunk of carbon is the Password JDM carbon intake and when tuned it did get some small gains so I pretty much left the intake side of things like this for many years since I did not want to get CEL issues or stuck throttle plates from a throttle body mod. I ruled out ITB as well due to the high cost and the maintenance required. A reasonably priced off the shelf intake manifold solution did not exist since the options that were available were mostly unsuitable for NA setups causing performance loss at the mid range which would be bad news for track performance.
I then came across the PracWorks Carbon intake manifold for the K series which seemed to deliver excellent gains at a reasonable price point.
I reached out to PracWorks Carbon and started discussing on the possibility of a such an item being made available for the S2000. After some back and forth on dimensions, design, potential interest level and protoyping, PracWorks Carbon delivered this quality item to me for fitment on my ride!
