Viper V10-Powered Honda S2000 Is Pure Insanity on Wheels

By Brett Foote - March 5, 2025

Stuffing a Viper V10 in a Honda S2000 is nothing new, but this build is the most well-executed such combo we’ve seen yet.

Over the years, we’ve seen a couple of Honda S2000 roadsters with Dodge Viper V10 swaps, and they simply never fail to make our collective jaws drop. While Honda purists always scoff at the notion of removing that car’s legendary high-revving four-cylinder, we. certainly don’t seen anything wrong with stuffing a much larger, more powerful alternative in the diminutive model – that’s the mere embodiment of hot-rodding, after all. However, this Viper V10-powered Honda S2000 featured in a recent video from AutotopiaLA is a far more polished product than any we’ve seen precede it.

The owner of this wild Honda S2000 – Rich – purchased it with the third-generation Viper V10 already installed, but it was something of a basket case at that point. He proceeded to finish the job, rebuilding the engine and fortifying it in many ways, including adding forged pistons and steel rods to that mill.

Rich also gave the car a brand new double-adjustable Penske suspension, AP Racing brakes, a sequential gearbox, and a Ford Explorer rear end with a Wavetrac gear-driven limited-slip differential. Ultimately, it’s built to handle far more than the 8.3-liter V10’s output of 510 horsepower and 535 pound-feet of torque, which is never a bad thing.

While we imagine the exhaust note gives it away, this Honda S2000 is certainly no sleeper, largely thanks to its widebody kit and massive rollers, coupled with a gigantic rear wing. That bodywork adds a whopping five inches of width to the roadster, and are joined by a custom hood that utilizes a pair of L88 Corvette hood scoops that have been mated together to make room for the massive powerplant underhood. Rich also made full use of that extra width by stuffing huge meats underneath – 315s up front, and 335s in the rear.

While one might assume that this Honda S2000 is still packing a bit too much engine for its size to be controllable at all, the V10 actually doesn’t upset the car’s balance too much – it has roughly the same front-rear weight distribution of a C6 Corvette Z06 (53 and 47 percent, respectively), so it’s perfectly fine to drive, if not a pretty wild experience.

It’s truly surreal to hear this thing carving through the canyons and emitting the sounds of a Viper V10, albeit in a small Japanese sports car – a combination that makes it pretty darn cool – if not a bit insane – at least, in our opinion.