Just Wrong: NSX to Ferrari Conversion

This one's been floating around for a while - but in case you missed it..



It's official! Every single Honda model has, in some shape or form, been converted to a Ferrari.

Church Automotive Acura RDX

Honda really stirred the pot when they brought turbocharging into the mix with the 2007 RDX. The specialists at Church Automotive gave the RDX a once-over to create a mild, driveable package that embodies what the RDX should have been off the showroom floor.

Amidst minor braking and chassis/suspension tweaks, Church focused on extracting some usable horsepower from the already relatively potent 2.3L turbo four. A new downpipe and dual exhaust removes some of the exhaust congestion and an ECU flash with remapped fuel, ignition, and boost curves makes use of some of the headroom baked in from the factory. The result is a 30whp, 50ft/lb gain on the dyno.

608,000 Mile DC2 Integra

Honda Tech forum member DC5-2NR stumbled upon this testament to Honda engineering. When was the last time you saw a 3rd generation integra with perfect paint, a spotless interior, the original motor, and 608,000 miles??

For reference, 608,000 miles is over a hundred round trips from Los Angeles to New York. That's 20,266 gallons of fuel at over $60,000 assuming the 'lil b18 that could' managed 30mpg.


One more pic after the jump.

Every NSX Not Butchered in 3F3F Found In One Place

Ok, we lied. Nonetheless, its an impressive sight when so many of Acura's now-discontinued sports cars converge in one location. What used to be the Crystal Cove meet now takes place at the Ford Premier Auto Group premises - luring theses NSXs in addition to the requisite Ferraris and Lambos . Click the pic for a plethora of snaps (courtesy of Daniel Song).

TL-S, IS350, G35 Willow Springs Shootout

Callmedoc on the Car Lounge forums posted this interesting tidbit from a Japanese publication. Apparently they took a sports sedan from three major marques - the Acura TL-S, G35 sedan (the new one), and an IS350, shipped them overseas to WSIR (Willow Springs International Raceway). and put them in the capable hands of the Drift King himself - Keiichi Tsuchiya.

If your first assumption involved the IS or the G35 duking it out for first place, you'd be wrong. Dead wrong. The TL, being FWD and having the lowest output of the three, came in nearly *2* seconds faster - quite a margin.

For fun, they also threw in an RDX, which lagged a good five-six seconds behind the pack - which isn't surprising from a cute-ute with a turbo 4.

Going Frankenstein: Mid Engine Rear Drive... Integra?

Member dfddfd2 on Team-Integra.net had a moral quandary.

I had a 91 NSX for about 18 months and loved it, but alas too expensive and worried me to death driving it. A rock chip would have killed me.

What do you do when you can't bear to take the NSX out of the garage? Why build your own MR sports car, of course! The idea is relatively straight forward. Start with a 3rd generation DC2 Acura Integra, remove and dispose of the motor. Cut the rear floorplan out and drop in a higher displacement H22A VTEC motor from a donor prelude - right above the rear wheels.

Aside from the obvious weight distribution and chassis concerns, this is pretty much one of only two known ways of drifting an integra (the other being ghetto-rigging an AWD CRV transmission onto the existing motor and disconnecting the front axles). Click the pic for a detailed breakdown of the entire build.