Britludes NSX story

[britlude]

in my defence, the car had been standing for about a month at that point!!!

but the rust on the braking surface was from washing the suspension the day before the rust treatment.... doesn't take long!!

[Senninha]

Just pulling your leg Jonathan ... I don't suppose you found the template for my little project while you were bored did you? I'm doing some odd jobs on mine and it would be stood time to install that part .... Fingers crossed

Regards, Paul

[britlude]

just to bulk out my hose order i got a main relay too... nothing wrong with mine (i've soldered it up already years ago) but thought i might as well!

the new and the old....
2012-08-21-1572 by jon sutherland, on Flickr

or was it the old and the new.......????

[britlude]

quick boring update...

118400... oil change !!

plus i dropped the exhaust box, and replaced the fixings for the box to cats, and the cat covers with stainless bolts and brass nuts.

i chose brass nuts as stainless nuts with stainless bolts can gaul and seize in extreme environments (copper slip can help, but doesn't guarantee they won't seize)... been there, done that, had to cut things apart!

apparently, if you mix the grade of stainless (ie. A2 nuts, A4 bolts) the problem doesn't happen, but it's easier to get brass nuts!

[britlude]

forgot to add the latest tweak/update...

Christmas 2012 saw very little action as the weather was foul, but i did tweak my DRL/indicator units (that i'd also forgot to mention here) and fit a set of fast HID lamps.



full details in this thread..... http://www.nsxcb.co.uk/showthread.ph...e-will-be-pics!)

[britlude]

for most of the NSX in this country, they are wrapped up in a nice warm garage, but alas mine is a daily driver so still being enjoyed!!! so with this in mind, just before the first lot of snow of the season (literally 3 days before!), i dug out the original 15/16 wheels, fitted winter tyres, and put them on the car.... OMG they look tiny after the 17/18 combo, and sooo far under the arches!

while the fat wheels were off i decided to give them a spruce up! so now I'm doing mods to mods that i have already modded!

the tyres let down, the 31 rim bolts on each wheel were removed and the centres popped out. i then sand blasted them and primed with etch primer....
2013-02-22-2423 by jon sutherland, on Flickr

before being based in black
2013-02-22-2427 by jon sutherland, on Flickr

[sorepaws]

now you are wheely showing off ! (*grimace)

[NSX 2000]

now you are wheely showing off ! (*grimace)

Don't give up the day job Mike

[britlude]

while the centres were out of the rims, i decided i was fed up with the inners always being dirty/stained, so a paint up was in order! i gave them an etch prime and tried some plastidip on them for a nice matt black finish....

2013-02-25-2434 by jon sutherland, on Flickr

2013-02-25-2435 by jon sutherland, on Flickr


then it was a case of finishing the paint, and putting them all back together, just the 31 bolts in each wheel!!

now that the weather has finally perked up it was time to take the '92 wheels with my winter tyres off the car and refit these....

2013-02-25-2435 by jon sutherland, on Flickr

hurrah, spring has finally sprung!

the colour i've gone for (couldn't be just black now could it) is maybe a bit too subtle, so might have to paint them a bit brighter next year.. maybe closer to the cube wheels in the background.... still, it's only paint!


but get the light at the right angle they come alive...

2013-03-03-2452 by jon sutherland, on Flickr

[britlude]

with the nice shiny wheels back on and looking fabulous, this has obviously shown up just how icky the brake discs look, with their nice orange rusty centres and edges,

2013-04-14-2543 by jon sutherland, on Flickr

so a pot of high temp matt black is winging it's way to me, just to tidy things up a bit....