ASM Time Attack CTSC NSX

[Dimer]

what size tires are you running on your new varsttoen setup? i ordered advans in similar sizes and love the way your tires look on the wheels

225/40
265/35

However, in the front I could have used a wider tire. The rear is perfect.

[Sandro]

Some new pics??

[Dimer]

Some new pics??

I will upload some new pics ASAP Were are getting the car ready for the third Time Attack on June 17th.

[FD3SNSX]

always loved your car! good luck

[Nukem]

Maybe its the red, but some reason your car reminds me of the Le Mans GT NSX cars.

[Nefarious]

Great seeing a pic of your dad. It feels like its been a long time since I've read anything from him or seen new pics. His race threads always were fun to read and watch the videos.

[chudson1549]

Did you find out why your fuse is blowing? If it's the one behind your head for the comptech. it's the FMU. My car did the same thing and I couldn't figure it out until I tested the relay which was bad and shorted out the fuse to the unit under boost.

[Dimer]

Did you find out why your fuse is blowing? If it's the one behind your head for the comptech. it's the FMU. My car did the same thing and I couldn't figure it out until I tested the relay which was bad and shorted out the fuse to the unit under boost.

Its the one under the steering wheel. We thought we fixed it, but today it blew again! Back to the drawing board... We will now completely separate the fuel pump and give it it's own fuse box and on/off switch. Let's see what happens.

[Onsoku]

Great reading; subsrcibed!

[Dimer]

Yesterday we had another race at Zandvoort. I hope to post up the complete story tonight. I haven't found pictures of the event yet, but here are some that I took:


RSP Time Attack NSX by dimervansanten, on Flickr


RSP Time Attack NSX by dimervansanten, on Flickr


RSP Time Attack NSX by dimervansanten, on Flickr


RSP Time Attack NSX by dimervansanten, on Flickr

[96cxt]

I Love the stance of your NSX. The wheels look great.

Very nice pictures.

[Sandro]

More pics of whole car looking very racing now.

[MvM]

Hi Dimer,

Nice thread and nice pictures.
It is good to see your dad (Gerard) back in a NSX and on the track again.

I am very sorry last Sunday did not work out exactly as planned. I just hope that you will get the car fixed and all the little problems worked out soon.
Are you going to the Ring again in August?

Hope to see you adn Gerard soon on a track somewhere with some good NSX's again.

Regards - Maarten

[Dimer]

Once again it has been an interesting weekend!

Friday morning I took the train from Amsterdam to Ede to pick up the NSX at Stickerdump. They were going to revamp the NSX with some fresh livery. I gave them 'carte blanche' so I had no idea what I could expect, especially in the little time they had. I was pretty excited. After two hours I finally arrived at Ede and went to their shop. The car was covered with camouflage, ready to be unveiled. When I took the blanket off the car I was stunned. The NSX looked awesome, like a real race car. After the car had been tuned and aligned I had not seen or driven it, so I was eager to take it for a spin and head home. Unfortunately it was raining pretty bad and with semi-slicks I had to be extra careful. The ride home went smooth, until I had to stop and suddenly the temperature went up. But as soon as I started driving it dropped again.

Saturday I had to go to work, but the splitter had to be mounted. Luckily my friend Shaffy came to the rescue and picked up my car and took it to his workshop to 'get his hands dirty'. And he didn't dissapoint. The splitter is not finished yet, we need to add a piece to fully cover the battery part, but it looks great.

My dad wanted to take his NSX out on the track as well, but he had some problem with the car. Tonny (from RSP) was already there to help him out. When we arrived at about 20:00 Tonny and my dad thought they found the problem, but where could we found NSX parts on Saturday night? We gave our Belgian NSX buddy Danny a call to see what he could do. He had what we needed, so we got in the car and went on our way to Belgium. We got back home at about 1:30 and started working on the car immediately. We started the car and... nothing... At this point there wasn't much we could do. Since his NSX wasn't going anywhere we decided to swap the cooling reservoir, maybe this would fix the cooling problems. By the time everything was done, it was 3:00 and we had to get up at 6:00, so it was time to get some sleep.

Sunday morning we headed to Zandvoort. The inspection went very smooth so we could start preparing the car for the training. I started the training relaxed. Warming up the car and the tires and getting used to the new settings. After one or two laps I came back in to have the tire pressure checked and saw my temperature going up again. When I drove out of the pitlane the temperature dropped. After another lap the temperature went up again, so back to the pits again. I parked the car in the box and we bled the cooling system. There was a lot of air in the system, this was probably the main reason the temperature fluctuated.

We got ready in time for the qualifications. I went out on the track again. I was still in my warm-up laps when suddenly the car spun. It happened very quickly and out of the blue. I lost a lot of coolant while bleeding the system, so maybe some coolant came on my tires. With a small burn-out I hoped to 'clean' my tires and went on my way again.

A couple of laps later I felt the back-end slipping away again, but I was able to catch it. For some reason the car was very tail happy, so the next corner I slowed down a bit but found myself looking at the wrong side of the track again. The temperature went up again and I saw a lot of steam coming from my engine. A bit dissapointed I headed back to the pits. My team immediately checked everything and came to the unfortunate conclusion that my head gasket was shot. There was no white smoke from my exhaust or oil in the coolant, so hopefully we are in time and there's not much damage.

Like I said, it has been an interesting weekend! We have much work to do before the next race.

[PHOEN$X]

Interesting is definitely the word! Thanks for the updates. I enjoy reading them.

Good luck with your efforts!

[Ponyboy]

Great read...thanks for sharing. Looking forward to reading more.

Quite the transformation!

[Dimer]

I just spoke with Rising Sun Performance and I hope to bring the car there this week. The plan now is to make a plan The next official race is in September. We will take out the engine and strip the car. The engine will be overhauled, we will put a cage in and I'm expecting some nice parts from TitaniumDave and the whole body needs some loving. I have 'blemishes' all over the car and this morning my bumper got stuck on a speed bump and my left front fender cracked. We've got a lot of work ahead of us, so stay tuned

Oh... and I have to find that pot of gold somewhere...

[Dimer]

Found some more pictures:

[Sandro]

Sorry to hear about temperature problems and hope you repair your car soon.
Good luck!

[HONDA_RJJ]

What all was involved to install GT2 breaks? Did you only do the front?

[Chase_acura]

truely amazing car

[Dimer]

What all was involved to install GT2 breaks? Did you only do the front?

I believe it was a conversion kit that Movit made years ago.

Here is an old pic I found on my HDD (I found lots more, but haven't had time to edit them yet):



HiRes can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dimerva...n/photostream/

[Dimer]

Another feature! This time in the Honda Tuner UK:

[Dimer]

It has been a while since the last update.

I am proud to announce that AS Motorsport is our new sponsor!

We are rebuilding the car for next season. We are going to pull out the engine for a complete overhaul. A Safety Device cage will be installed together with a lot of TitaniumDave stuff. I'm also looking at the OS Giken LSD and Stoptech Trophy kit (front rear). And the damage from last season has to be fixed (front bumper and fenders).

Today we started stripping the interior. This was much more work than I thought and we are not done yet. But we are making progress I was especially surprised by the amount of (useless) wires and how heavy some parts are (like the sound deadening foam behind the seats). Hopefully next week we can remove heater, airbag stuff and start cleaning up the wiring and start preparing it for the cage.

Next we are going to remove the ABS and A/C.

[TURBO2GO]

Wow good luck with it all. That's a lot of wire!