WIP NSX- really wwwide and speedster

[KTem]

This is some cool project! You're making an entirely new car... fantastic!

If possible, put an engine in!

[robrex]

Wow! thats excellent putty work! I'm very impressed by your skills!

[arknok784]

Dude. I would have to say you are crazy. In all honesty, that is some amazing putty work. You have created a whole new vehicle! It looks incredible. Cannot wait to see the finished product. Any ideas on color yet?

[gionc]

thanks'lot guys I really appreciate yours comments (strange as the project) I'm not expected before all this support to my crazy barchetta: it's feel good

just a little update:

1st fitting test with chassis and rims (I mill down enough fenders from inside to happy marry my nsx with F50 tyres) rims are from the moment rays kinds by a R34JGTC. Chassis interfere somwere with new body and put itup for approx 1mm: at least should be lowered enough: I just want to try a "racing" camber setting





basic work by mill tool on snorkel intake and in the inside of windshield: nex finishing work by hand. Don't worry by interiors: that're almost 15 years old at least, I may remde in racing look



Some ideas to fill the selected sace? spare big tachometer? Nos meter? Hamburger?
I'm playing with the idea to cannibalyze and transplanting in this nsx's belly a mugent heart by JGTC nsx (also Tamy should sell next the '03 arta so I could sacrify my castrol) and relate push-rod sunspension: I'm only worried by the milling work on inside and by the finishing work to make post bonnet presentable: so first test
Artknok784: pearl white...

[D_LaMz]

so how do you open the engine lid?

[gionc]

Originally Posted by D_LaMz

so how do you open the engine lid?

rotating by rear: like GT40 style

[aN4rK1]

Hmm thats looking really really sweet. Cept, i would drop it a little so it looks more like a Audi R8 or that type of lemans car. Its really looking like that already!! NICE WORK!

[drunken monkey]

can't say that i like the front lip.
i prefer my speedsters in that old 70s super sleek cigar stylee.

[blubaja]

This thing is crazy cool looking!!! Keep up the awsome project!

[Wheelin75r]

Amazing!!

[blueboost]

more please!

[Merkava]

Looks incredible! You are doing great justice to the idea of "speedster".

In that cockpit space, why not have a heads-up display? It could show tach, boost guage, N2O meter, etc.... Should be easy enough to make from clear plastic.
You can do it!

[gionc]

Hi friends: time for few updates and... some shopping at mugen over WE
with order:
- Ok I need a tuned engine, I choose that (thanks nismo400 for sharing refs)

looks well to me 450/480 psi in my speedst. belly: with those air duct

ok at work: I keep the engine from castrol nsx, I cut stock's air ducts

I'm impressed by Mark's texture research in his "super7" so I try to mach my badger, testors enamels (not metalizer this time, since I need a thick paint) and a low pressure trought my AC, I simply search a casted alu appeal

2 alu shade, 1 darker for gears
Here's the detailed pulleye cover

and here the tuned head

the result


oh my God, a mugen V12?

air duct/base for variable geometry's ducts by evergreen tubes milled to correct inner diam (at least I know how do frames for my ducatis)

I LOVE YOU SAKAMOTO SAN

those sakatsu stuff are just lean to the duct, needs some adj.

and now my beast need to breath better, snorkel may not be suff., so I plan to enlarge side's intakes: i cutted original, bond vertical surfaces and add horizontal plastic shapes, then I fill with putty




and now.. plumbing and wiring this rocket

[Dylza]

Wow this build is really shaping up! It's hard to say what eh end result will look like with all the different colors of putty and stuff, but I'm sure its going to be a stunner. awesome work on teh motor, it looks like a great replica.

[Martin S]

Boy what a puttyjob!
I was thinking of the area above the instrument housing..
An idea would be to cut it out all the way down to the original edge and put in a small transparent windshield with the same curvature as the shape it has now.
Not so easy perhaps...