So earlier last year I finally made the decision to purchase a second car. Something nice that I could have some fun with when I wanted. My car search varied quite a bit from start to finish, cars I looked at included: IS300, S2K, Vtec swapped <1973 Mini, S60 R, and eventually ended up at the NSX. I searched for many months and eventually narrowed down a great find at a dealer located close by, was for a completely stock 1991 NSX 49k miles, excellent condition with a recently changed clutch/timing belt/and brake pads. I let the idea fester over night and the next day I pulled the trigger and brought it home!

Being an older car it definitely needed some updated wheels and suspension, as well as a revamped audio system since the 20 y/o Bose system was about shot (not to mention it used cassette tapes! xD). Suspension wise I went with Tein Monoflex coilovers since I read good reviews on NSXprime, stance was lowered without very much compromise in the ride quality, I was satisfied.

Audio was completely redone as well, Polk Audio for the door/center speakers as well as tweeters. 8"sub in a custom enclosure hidden in the passenger side footwell and JL amp behind the drivers seat, all mated to a Pioneer AVIC-X930BT. Audio was finally in the 21st century lol.
Wheels were next, talk about a major pain in the ass... Finding a set of wheels with the correct offset/width/and staggered diameter was something I never want to go through again (as with tires for that matter). I decided on Enkei RPF1's since they are light and priced really well for a forged wheel, sized as 17"x 8" Front and 18"x 9.5 Rear.

Unfortunately they didn't come with center caps but I'll get to that later

Next came the go-fast parts, first being the exhaust (big surprise), the stock exhaust was VERY quiet and quite heavy as well (a touch over 40lb!) so it was replaced with a full stainless quad tip exhaust. Mark on NSXprime provided me with his Pride v2 exhaust. Amazing sound and superb craftsmanship!


Next were headers, I chose Comptech because they have the only NSX headers with a CARB EO label, so I wont have any trouble smogging the car in the future (being a CA registered vehicle). Headers were the biggest choke point on the NA1 NSX's so installing these were a must. Look at the primitive cast iron logs that came off of it! Jeez...

Birthday: Apr 9 1987 (Male)
Location: Washington DC
deal close by? fail troll

I also installed a Comptech CF intake with UNI filter since it was also CARB legal. As well as a bored out throttle body and engine torque damper. Engine is much more peppy and is sounding great.

Cosmetically there wasn't too much I had in mind for it, it wasn't until I was on vacation that I scored an amazing deal on a CF NSX-R style hood and thus decided to give the car a little face lift, I was certainly going to paint the hood since a whole CF exposed hood doesn't really fit the NSX in my opinion. I ordered a Wings West urethane lip as well since that was my best bet to avoid any cracks/chips that duraflex/fiberglass will get you. To avoid any mismatched paint I went ahead and had pretty much the entire front end redone: hood painted, lip painted, front bumper repainted, emblem shaved, fender chips repaired and blended all together.
Here's a before pic:

And here's after


Being a little compulsive I took it back about a week later to have that "mouth fin" painted black. The end product looks pretty good

About my center cap problem, as stated before my wheels didn't come with center caps and the RPF1 caps themselves are just ugly! With a center bore of 73mm '06 Civic Si caps would work just fine so I purchased a set at a local Honda stealership. I sanded them down and sprayed a coat of red on them, I then had vinyl Acura emblems made and I put them on followed by a few coats of black. Once the paint dried I peeled up the vinyl and sprayed a few coats of clear and blammo, Acura center caps!
Apologize for the crappy photo (not to mention the caps are dirty AND look ORANGE) but I assure you they are RED (as seen in the above photo).

And thats how it stands right now. I definitely have more in store for it but parts for this thing are stupid expensive so money is the limiting factor at the moment. Future mods will be: Side skirts, rear valance, stoptech big brake kit F&R+ e-brake, High flow cats, Prospeed RDX injectors + ECU tune (amazing mod!), CF center console and shift boot w/ stainless knob, Comptech supercharger with 9lb pulley kit.

And stand by for updates as I come along!


tl;dr

and posting all these pics one min apart with all the words means it was made ahead of time fail troll

In the Air Force, was stationed in DC prior to purchasing this. Changed career fields and am currently in Kansas, but I'm originally from CA and the rest of my family is there as well

no trolls here ^^

typed everything ahead of time and posted in sections since this forum only allows 3x pics per post

anything else??

oh sry. was mistaken by some photos with mountains and certain trees in the back ground to palm trees and finally to some pos appartment building. my bad