My builds - 116 track toy & 522 street toy

NSX 116 - track toy

Some of you already know my first NSX, which after some years of street became my track toy. Now it has around 50 kmiles.

So far mods are :

- Tein Flex
- 17' x 8' ET40 & 18' x 9.5' ET30 Enkei Kojin
- 230/610/17 and 280/640/18 A005 tires
- Downforce air scoop & UNI air filter
- Gt-One N1 exhaust
- Taitec test pipes
- DC Sport headers
- OS Giken LSD with 4.44 final gear
- Brake air deflectors
- Stoptech BBK
- Carbotech XP8 pads
- Type R bars
- Sparco Corsa seats
- 6 point harness
- Oreca steering wheel SoS hub
- 1'' Dali track swaybars
- Front camber bushings
- Front non-compliance suspension clamps
- Rear suspension beam non-compliance bushings
- Rear non-compliance toe links
- Full cage
- Polycarbonate windows and some other weight reductions
- Home made undertray
- Shine GT front lip
- Wing west rear spats
- Diflow rear diffuser
- APR GTC-300 rear wing

To come :

KW Clubsport coilovers










NSX 522 - street toy

I really missed the joy of a NSX on a street for the sunny weekend days. I had a good opportunity and bought this very nice NSX with 35 kmiles. The mods will be far less hardcore.

So far mods are :

- 94-01 wheels painted in white
- Type S rear sway
- Bilstein shocks
- Remus exhaust

To come :

- 15 / 30 mm spacers
- H&R springs
- LED bulbs
- Rear spats
- Type-R rear wing
- DC Sport headers
- Downforce intake scoop & UNI filter
- Type R front sway
- Type R chassis bars
- Updated audio system with woofer

Wow living the life!

I found the bilsteins a bit too harsh on the street. Everyone has a different butt dyno but that's one area in your build I'd spend a little extra $ on.

DC Sport header on the (long) way. No problem for the time. But WD40, lots of different wrench extensions and an impact gun are really helpfull.

did you put the kw on? if so what spring rates,and how do they feel vs your old system?

Not yet. Not even bought them as I am preparing the street toy for next spring. Maybe next year.

This is the stock springs with 15 mm front and 30 mm rear spacers. I realised that the front where on the lower perch while the rears where on the upper perch. Hence the slight slope forward.



I went with Tanabe springs. I first put both fronts and rears on the lower perch but the slope forward was to pronounced. I would scrape everywhere with such a setting. So I finally put the fronts on upper perch and rears on lower perch. Now the ride is pretty flat. For the time, the lowering is pretty light. But I think I will lose 1/2'' more after some miles. I have 205/45 fronts and 245/45 rears. So fender gap would also be a bit less with 215 and 255.













I will come back with better pics later and after some miles.

- - - Updated - - -

I installed the DC Sport headers with stock cats and my (ugly) Remus exhaust. I had already changed the clutch myself some years ago. It was a pain in the ass for an amateur mechanic like me. But changing the headers was not a lot easier. Alignement of the DC headers was not perfect. I needed some muscle to put the cats back between the headers and the exhaut. Lots of thinks to take away (beam, sway bar and reinforcement bars). But this is not the most complicated. Taking out the heat protection of the front header can be trick with rusted screws. You need to take out the O2 sensor first to do this. These O2 sensors are tricky to take out. Get a 22 mm O2 socket. This will save time. Having an impact gun and lots of different 1/4'' and 1/2'' ratchet extending length is a must to access all the different screws.

No leak. Just waiting for the O2 sensor extension cables to test.

Cannot find my David Bowie tapes anymore. So I went with something more up to date.

Tanabe springs (upper perch front, lower perch rear). Going with the lower perch front or the upper perch rear gave a pronounced slope forward. This way the car lays flat (not the case of the ground on this picture).

New windows for my track toy :






And some pics of my street toy. I still have to onstall the rear spats and NSX-R rear spoiler.

Just need to do an alignment and it is ready for the summer !









Mods are :

- Bilstein
- Tanabe springs
- 15 / 30 mm spacers
- Type R front / Type S rear sways
- DC Sports headers
- Remus exhaust
- Downforce air intake scoop
- Type R rear wing
- rear spats
- sound system

Lucky man, beautiful pair of red aces. I'd love to have a mildly tuned road car someday,

Last trackday for this year. Almost 300 km done. But it was time to stop

Now after almost 80'000 km total of which more than 10'000 were on track with slick tires, it is time to change my right wheel bearing (left has been done 2 month ago). I also have to take out the gerabox to do my synchros (2nd is scratching a bit when downshifting).