Hi everybody,

I just had a question for those of you that own the older (91-95) NSXs with 90,000+ miles on them. Do you guys drive your car hard? as in do you accelerate aggressively? and do you take some corners/curves hard just to see if you can?

I saw a 91 NSX with 110,000 miles in the local area for $23,800. But I thought with that many miles, how well would the engine put up with me constantly redlining it and taking curves aggressively as I sometimes like to do. I am looking for a used car and if I can get rid of my Lude and find a older NSX for $28,000 or less, I wanna make sure I am not gonna pop my engine or screw up the suspension/handling of the car.

TIA


[Modified by BlueShadow, 11:31 PM 11/28/2002]

 

My uncle owns a NSX with like 175k miles and drives like a maniac.... so if the car hasnt been slammed into a wall i think its fine

 

If the car has been well maintained, it shouldn't be a problem. One of our SF Bay Area NSX club members has a 91 NSX with 197K miles on it. It's his daily driver and he drives the car aggressively. Still runs great and burns no oil. The engine has never been opened up before. I belive there are two NSXs running around in Phoenix with well over 200K miles on them. Check out http://www.nsxfiles.com. This guy drives the wheels of his NSX. The car's engine lives at 8 grand. I believe his original motor lasted 150K miles before he chose to rebuild it for heavy duty racing. It was still running fine at that time.

The NSX engine is almost bulletproof as long as all the maintenance has been kept up. My 91 only has 44K miles on it but I have no reason to believe why it wouldn't go beyond 200K miles.

Vytas

 

100k is nothing on a well maintained NSX... throw a SC on it and youre in the right pwr range to contend with today's cars.

 

we got one at my acura dealership, 175k daily driven. Alternator went bad (900 dollars just for the part!!!) but its a ex comptech sponsered NSX, has koni coilovers and random other comptech things. he is asking 16k for it right know.


edit- when it was sponsered. it was supercharged. they blew the motor and comptech replaced it with a motor with like 5k on it. The motor know has like 35k on it.


[Modified by vw-honda-hatches, 9:58 PM 12/5/2002]

 

If the Koni coilovers are the Comptech professional suspension, they could be worth a lot of money. I'll switch ya the suspension!

 

I drive the wheel off my 90 Accord. It has over 318K miles on it. When I get out of my 10K mile NSX and jump into the Accord, it's weird, the two cars feel exactly the same only completely different. If my Accord won't blow up, unlikely the NSX will.

 

How much power do you guys with supercharged NSX's put down, daily driven or not ?

 

It depends. I've seen some with 330rwhp w/ a Comptech unit and over 400rwhp with a Basch Boost unit. Comptech says theirs is good for 390+ right out of the box but I think it's pretty much unanimous that they overstate their power ratings.

Although the Basch Boost has more hp the Comptech unit has a lot more usable power down low. I test drove a BBSC and it seemed stock until I hit 6K and then it was fantastic.


[Modified by Ponyboy, 4:22 PM 12/9/2002]