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- 4 September 2000
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As a member of the "don't mess with what Mother Honda created" crowd, I thought fellow members of this elite group might like to hear my thoughts after performing my first modification -- as some may remember, I installed a set of Eibachs.
First, my car looks incredible now -- I am stunned at how much wider, lower and more exotic it looks than before. Every once in a while I drive it to work, and sometimes I go out to the parking garage just to look at it -- makes a dull day just a little more bearable.
Second, I have noticed a pronounced improvement in handling feel from the lower cg, with no noticable difference in ride quality.
Third, it may just be my imagination, but the car feels lower and wider from the inside, too. The view over the hood seems all the more exotic and video gamesque.
It occurs to me that this is the way the car should have been from the beginning. The elves at Honda probably had the car at the ride height I have it at now, and then some bean counter/liability hag/warranty lawyer told them to raise it so that the random secretary who buys an NSX because its "cute" wouldn't tear the nose off bounding into the Safeway parking lot.
So now, I have a new view on modifications --to the extent the you are correcting the
corporate-think-dumb-it-down-to-the-lowest common-denominator shortcomings of the NSX, you should proceed with vigor. Now, for that supercharger I've been thinking about...
First, my car looks incredible now -- I am stunned at how much wider, lower and more exotic it looks than before. Every once in a while I drive it to work, and sometimes I go out to the parking garage just to look at it -- makes a dull day just a little more bearable.
Second, I have noticed a pronounced improvement in handling feel from the lower cg, with no noticable difference in ride quality.
Third, it may just be my imagination, but the car feels lower and wider from the inside, too. The view over the hood seems all the more exotic and video gamesque.
It occurs to me that this is the way the car should have been from the beginning. The elves at Honda probably had the car at the ride height I have it at now, and then some bean counter/liability hag/warranty lawyer told them to raise it so that the random secretary who buys an NSX because its "cute" wouldn't tear the nose off bounding into the Safeway parking lot.
So now, I have a new view on modifications --to the extent the you are correcting the
corporate-think-dumb-it-down-to-the-lowest common-denominator shortcomings of the NSX, you should proceed with vigor. Now, for that supercharger I've been thinking about...