NSX Kudos
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NSX Kudos
Saw this on another site and thought it'd be good fodder to share:
"From the September 2009 issue of Classic Cars Magazine (www.classiccarsmagazine.co.uk) p68-71: "Mould Breakers: Honda NSX"
Some notable passages:
R&D Lead Shigeru Uehara:"The most difficult thing was to build the body with aluminum. Everybody hated it. There was the issue of galvanic corrosion, and the production process was very different to steel and difficult to handle."
Bobby Rahal: "I thought the car was too 'oversteery' for most consumers."
Gordon Murray: "Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Aston Martins of the period were pretty unsophisticated really from the point of view of their ride/handling compromise, particularly with things like secondary ride comfort. By comparison the NSX was just brilliant."
"Murray used the Honda to benchmark the F1 for a range of qualities, particularly suspension-related, and talks enthusiastically about its 'really skinny forged alloy suspension links' and 'compliance pivot' secondary subframe design ... Uehara recalls this feature being a major pain to develop."
Gordom Murray again: "I wouldn't consider it the best proportioned car of all time, but on the other hand it wasn't ugly ... You couldn't put anything in the boot because it melted.'"
"From the September 2009 issue of Classic Cars Magazine (www.classiccarsmagazine.co.uk) p68-71: "Mould Breakers: Honda NSX"
Some notable passages:
R&D Lead Shigeru Uehara:"The most difficult thing was to build the body with aluminum. Everybody hated it. There was the issue of galvanic corrosion, and the production process was very different to steel and difficult to handle."
Bobby Rahal: "I thought the car was too 'oversteery' for most consumers."
Gordon Murray: "Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Aston Martins of the period were pretty unsophisticated really from the point of view of their ride/handling compromise, particularly with things like secondary ride comfort. By comparison the NSX was just brilliant."
"Murray used the Honda to benchmark the F1 for a range of qualities, particularly suspension-related, and talks enthusiastically about its 'really skinny forged alloy suspension links' and 'compliance pivot' secondary subframe design ... Uehara recalls this feature being a major pain to develop."
Gordom Murray again: "I wouldn't consider it the best proportioned car of all time, but on the other hand it wasn't ugly ... You couldn't put anything in the boot because it melted.'"
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Re: NSX Kudos
The boot on the nsx suffers from excessive heat! This is because of the exaust not being insulated enough, & lots of transfer from the engine! I had great results with
cool-it thermo tec products! They're light weight & really affordable! If you line the whole wall shared by the engine/trunk (inside the trunk), & the tool box base, it helps a grip! Now I can put anything in the trunk, & everything stays pretty cool! I had problems before I did this with my amp overheating (tool box placement), & a cell phone battery blowing up (ooops)...
cool-it thermo tec products! They're light weight & really affordable! If you line the whole wall shared by the engine/trunk (inside the trunk), & the tool box base, it helps a grip! Now I can put anything in the trunk, & everything stays pretty cool! I had problems before I did this with my amp overheating (tool box placement), & a cell phone battery blowing up (ooops)...
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