Scenario:<br><br>I'm driving my S2000 to work at about 30mph when all of a sudden the power dips and I hear a rather nasty metal-on-metal knocking when I rev the engine about 3000rpm. I'm about 100 meters away from my parking place at work, so I pull in. I sit in my parking place, pounding my head on the steering wheel wondering if what I think just happened really did or if I'm in some truly horrific nightmare.<br><br>I get up to my desk and call my local Honda dealer, explaining the situation. The service manager suggests I drive it in. I explain that the noise does not sound good and that I did not feel comfortable driving it in. He said as long as the engine light was not on, I can't be held responsible for any extra damage. Reluctantly, I take it in.<br><br>When I get there the service manager asks me to take him out so he can hear the problem. I simply rev the engine to 3.5k rpm and everyone in the service center became misty-eyed.<br><br>They take my car, which only had 7200 miles, and get me a loaner. A friggin Dodge Neon. Ouch.<br><br>They run their diag computer and can't seem to locate any problem. The computer in the s2k reported that all was well. <br><br>Honda tech-line time. They are baffled as well. Exploratory surgery time. <br><br>Diagnosis: Brass metal shavings in the oil pan. Apparently one of the lower bearings disintegrated. Aw hell.<br><br>Prognosis: Engine is thrashed. The Honda Tech people say that mine is the first S2k to do this. Lucky me. I should have played the lotto that day.<br><br>Suggested repair: Drop the engine, send it to Honda for forensics. Get new engine from Japan.<br><br>It's two weeks later and my car is still engineless and I'm still tooling around in that POS Neon. "Hi!"<br><br>Honda has been good to me in the past. I've had 4 of them and they were all great cars. <br><br>Somebody hold me. I'm going to cry.<br><br>-Bill