Re: another tidy NSX!

Sep 02, 2005 4 Replies


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> >> > "When chavs win the lottery"
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> >> lol if i won the lotto i'd have an MR2 MK3 turbo with a TRD kit as me > >> daily
> >> driver and a mental R34 for the weekend..... along with a few other cars,
> >> would probably whack a black Alfa GTV in there somewhere and buy a flat > >> bed
> >> truck with it + driver 'just in case' like :)
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> > The NSX is one car I'd love to have. But I want a totally standard MkI. > >
> > They were set up by Senna, so I really don't see how some amateur can
> > 'improve' one by bolting on tat.
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> Because all factory cars are built to a budget and not a spec. Carbon fibre
> panels weigh less = good thing.

It's hardly a 'factory' car - it's a hand-built, low volume Supercar, with a price tag to match.


There's no evidence to say that car is any lighter, either, by the time they've slapped on the panels and filler etc. it's likely to be heavier


- ISTR the NSX is aluminium, so there's not massive amounts to weight to be saved anyway.


Lets put it this way - you wouldn't go slapping a bodykit on a Ferrari


355.

People do slap bodykits on Ferraris. The NSX is a factory car more than a Ferrari, they build them to a price. The widebody probably adds weight but that's how they race them in the Japanese Touring car series. The NSX is aluminium but then again so is the front end of my WRX and my GTR. Both would lose weight with carbon fibre. But would cost twice as much.

Fraser

Fraser

Do they do a Mk3 MR2 Turbo then, or is that an implant jobbie?

I quite like the Mk3 MR2 (MR2 Roadster) - a lot less lardy, IMHO, than the Mk2, and almost a return to the spirit of the original. Did they ever get around to putting the 190bhp Celica engine in it?

I hired one for the weekend last year. I still don't know if I love or hate the clutchless manual gearbox in it.

Fraser

nope although i heard rumours toyota did a limited run of TRD kitted MK3's with the 3SGTE turbo lump in them!

there's loads of turbo kits banging about for the Mk3 and are good for

200bhp on a low boost set up, there aint much room in them sadly! i love them but there a bit pricey still, a 2001 plate sold at work in black with black leather this week to trade for £8800

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