For the last six months or so I've been searching for the right NSX for me. I'm not too comfortable buying a car sight unseen so I've stuck to looking at cars that have been within eight hours or so of driving from the Dallas area. My number one goal was to find an NSX at a price point where if needed I could most likely sell it without taking the financial a$$ whooping cars are known to give.
I did a lot of reading on prime about the in's and out's of buying an NSX. I took the first two cars for a PPI at the local Acura dealerships. The PPI's were worth the cost in the knowledge I gained but when I factored in the travel expenses and the cost of the PPI's I could see this route was a good way to spend a lot of money with no car for the effort. I looked at 91 model cars from 15k to 25k. The thing that I found interesting was that for me to make them a car that I was comfortable driving, each one of them would have been at least 26k-28k after it was all said and done.
Two weeks ago I aquired a 94 NSX project car from a dealership that is right in the middle of the project part. That meaning that someone else took it apart and now I am going to try to put it back together again. This is not the car I had in mind when I started my search, but after resigning myself to the fact that most of them are going to need some work I decided that I might as well learn to do it myself.
I wasn't expecting much on my initial visit, but I was pleasantly surprised by the cars condition. I spent the rest of the week looking over the service manual and the exploded parts diagrams on the Delray Acura site to familiarize myself with the major engine and transmission components. On my second inspection of the car I went through the two pallets of parts and it seemed that everything was there with the exception of the cats and the turbocharger. The engine and heads were still in the crate from the engine shop and they had a receipt for the work that was performed. I spent a few more days going back and forth with myself and then one morning after a tall Starbucks I decided to quit being my normal conservative (aka puss) self and take a chance on it.
I've had two weeks now to find out what I actually have in hand. So far all of the surprises have been pleasant ones. The best surprise came when I called the engine shop to find out more detailed information on the work they performed. Since I had the invoice number he didn't have any problems finding the build sheet. He said that he had received the engine and a few new parts to install. He rattled off the following:
Installed forged JE pistons
Installed billet rods
Installed Brian Crower stroker crank (daddy said cha-ching :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin
Bore 91.3mm
Stroke 84mm
Balance and blueprint, assemble shortblock, competition valve job...etc.
So the journey begins.
Pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsxstroker/sets/72157625509875359/
I did a lot of reading on prime about the in's and out's of buying an NSX. I took the first two cars for a PPI at the local Acura dealerships. The PPI's were worth the cost in the knowledge I gained but when I factored in the travel expenses and the cost of the PPI's I could see this route was a good way to spend a lot of money with no car for the effort. I looked at 91 model cars from 15k to 25k. The thing that I found interesting was that for me to make them a car that I was comfortable driving, each one of them would have been at least 26k-28k after it was all said and done.
Two weeks ago I aquired a 94 NSX project car from a dealership that is right in the middle of the project part. That meaning that someone else took it apart and now I am going to try to put it back together again. This is not the car I had in mind when I started my search, but after resigning myself to the fact that most of them are going to need some work I decided that I might as well learn to do it myself.
I wasn't expecting much on my initial visit, but I was pleasantly surprised by the cars condition. I spent the rest of the week looking over the service manual and the exploded parts diagrams on the Delray Acura site to familiarize myself with the major engine and transmission components. On my second inspection of the car I went through the two pallets of parts and it seemed that everything was there with the exception of the cats and the turbocharger. The engine and heads were still in the crate from the engine shop and they had a receipt for the work that was performed. I spent a few more days going back and forth with myself and then one morning after a tall Starbucks I decided to quit being my normal conservative (aka puss) self and take a chance on it.
I've had two weeks now to find out what I actually have in hand. So far all of the surprises have been pleasant ones. The best surprise came when I called the engine shop to find out more detailed information on the work they performed. Since I had the invoice number he didn't have any problems finding the build sheet. He said that he had received the engine and a few new parts to install. He rattled off the following:
Installed forged JE pistons
Installed billet rods
Installed Brian Crower stroker crank (daddy said cha-ching :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin
Bore 91.3mm
Stroke 84mm
Balance and blueprint, assemble shortblock, competition valve job...etc.
So the journey begins.
Pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsxstroker/sets/72157625509875359/
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