Thanks again guys!
GoldNSX: you should have told me
before I fit the new gearbox in place! Anyway, the 3 month warranty the seller gave me would be void if I did open it just to replace that bearing or the snap ring...I will think of it now when I'll have to replace the clucth.
wareenw: unfortunately I won't be able to keep all 3 cars, and will have to sell one or 2 very soon:frown:
Dreampowered: I will be at 2012 NSXPO but without any of my cars, I'll be pleased to meet you there
Meeyatch1: here in europe is easier to find a low mileage nsx than in the US simply because we can't use the car as a daily driver,fuel is about 9$/gallon here, so it will always be a second car, for the weekend or special events. Then not many people like the car the way we do ("we" as primemembers and NSX addicted). Parts and maintenance are something that will scare a potential new buyer. In top of that, if it is a non running NSX, stopped for a long time, with a need of a full servicing, all belt, waterpump, fuel pump, tyres, painjob, seats, automatic to manual conversion... that will be just for a crazy nsx lover like myself I suppose. The Portuguese car was for sale for months and I was the only one to buy it probably because of the documentation troubles... Same thing for the french one, but this time I knew about it from a french firend of mine owner of a Honda dealership in France. Now I think it´s probably that deffective gearbox in top its light accident that made the owner stopped the car in the first place and gave up replacing it...then ten years of bad storage did the major damaging.
In the end I was lucky to find them, and even more lucky to be able to fix them exactly the way I wanted.
What if I told you there is a JDM 2003 coupe, under 15000 miles for about 40000$? What if that 2003 coupe was a genuine NSX-R for that price? you probably won't believe me right? Well this car is for sale for about 1 year, and it is a genuine NSX-R, converted to a racecar, located in Germany
http://suchen.mobile.de/auto-inserat/honda-nsx-r-rennwagen-rechtslenker-chemnitz-mittelbach/96335966.html?lang=de&pageNumber=1&__lp=1&scopeId=C&sortOption.sortBy=price.consumerGrossEuro&makeModelVariant1.makeId=11000&makeModelVariant1.modelId=15&makeModelVariant1.searchInFreetext=false&makeModelVariant2.searchInFreetext=false&makeModelVariant3.searchInFreetext=false&negativeFeatures=EXPORT
It would be very easy to convert it back to a road version, with a full paintjob and add some fake or genuine NSX-R accessories. Can you imagine the value of that car? This is a car that only someone like us would buy I guess!
At the end you probably won't like to remember the old interior and racetrack history right? Well that is how I feel, but I will add some "before" pictures at the end of the project
For now I have new pics of the Reventon to share with you and Nefarius
I had trouble bleeding the clutch line, the clutch master is quite small and makes it very hard to fill a complete dryed line. Car was automatic so there was no clutch line before!
I took the car for an "illegal" testdrive today (no insurance, tax or MOT) so I could only drive it offroad.
She still needs some final headlight cover adjustments. I scratch the other one while adjusting it, so it had to be reprayed today
She runs on oem shocks and height for the moment, rear seems quite higher but a major 4-wheel alignment should solve that problem!
Car needs to run now...and will then be a good base for a later turbocharging and interior mods.
Interior is stock but I have some suede and carbon fiber on my mind...
My good friend Nuno "HunhuZ" gave me that antenna, I couldn´t live with the chrome OEM one on a matt car
Portuguese people really hate that "old" black license plate, it is mainly used for vintage ...and military cars nowadays!
Military look is just perfect for the Reventon :biggrin: