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Old 08-11-2012, 01:10 PM
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I talked to the Honda R&D team for quite a while. This car is full of rare parts. All the body panels are the carbon fiber LeMans pieces. It's now a twin turbo. Rev limit of about 8k. Spherical bearings all around...custom rollcage (quite hard with an aluminum body).



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Very impressive!
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Yeah I think so. This is it's first time in public. I will attempt to get some video footage of the climb also. They said if it garners enough support and they do well enough they will try to improve on the current design and go again next year.
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This car looks aggressive!! I like what they did with it!! Fast as Hell to I bet!..
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Wow...thats a sick nsx...
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Nice looking car, well built!!
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Awesome............love NSX's!!!
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the guy on the far left of the first pic is either yawning or just had his mind blown by the NSX heh
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i find it amazing how they're still utilizing this same chassis, unchanged (to a certain extent), 20 years later and still competing with their competition of today.

of course there's other cars in different classes and/or other forms of racing that are doing the same but this is a honda forum and the nsx is our supercar.
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Ick gad, I wish someone would put together this body kit for sale.
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Nice to see the car is getting some attention. Potentially a great car, but needs some different gearing and a properly oriented engine (longitudinal). Cruddy part was that it was on it's way to a really good time, but in the last segment it was wet. Engine is basically from the old LMP car.

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I would love to see the in-car footage!
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Default Re: 2012 Pike's Peak Challenge NSX

Originally Posted by sleepyEK
I have some good in-car footage that perhaps I can post up if enough people are interested.
Interested.
Just wondering, what kind of power is it putting down?
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right...20 years later and the NSX still be a HUGE car,i like the headlights front.
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Wow nice ride +2
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