Hello Prime,
I am finally joining the NSX club after a year-long search for “the one”. I am the proud owner of a very clean 87,000ish mile Formula Red ’91, VIN JH4NA1156MT000896. The original owner from new was in WI (delivered 12/31/90!), and the 2nd owner had only had the car about 6 months in Cincinnati before he contacted me saying he was getting ready to sell. I’m proof that posting a WTB thread works! Also, I want to give a special thank you to Brian and the crew at Source1, and my former coworker Yinzer for all his time and advice.
I lucked out that Source1 was able to perform a PPI and give it a mostly clean bill of health. Although it’s a well-cared for example, she needed a little bit of work out of the gate. The ABS system was shot and needed to be bypassed at the very least. That, a little bit of other minor work, and a somewhat overdue TB/WP service was taken care of by the capable crew at Source1. She’s all stock save for a short fixed antenna, and now the stainless brake lines.
I planned to take care of the required maintenance items and then get started on the slippery slope of modifying the car into my mountain machine. I will probably start a build thread once I start to work on the car in earnest, even though I’m confident that I won’t be doing anything that hasn’t been done a million times already. I just want to document the build on this one since I didn’t do that on my last car.
Speaking of other cars, she will be sharing her bunk space with my other longtime toy and project, an RB25-swapped ’95 Nissan 240sx that I built with my dad while I was in college. Hopefully they’ll get along.
If anyone finds themselves in East Tennessee and wants to take a trip into the mountains near The Dragon, Cherohala, and other great roads in the area, I’m always game (assuming I'm home, that is). I’m excited to continue meeting more of the great people on here and get deeper into the NSX world!
Now for the pictures!
Picking her up from Source1:
The bridge from Cincinnati to Newport, KY:
The view from the chase car:
Nestled up with her new bunkmates:
I am finally joining the NSX club after a year-long search for “the one”. I am the proud owner of a very clean 87,000ish mile Formula Red ’91, VIN JH4NA1156MT000896. The original owner from new was in WI (delivered 12/31/90!), and the 2nd owner had only had the car about 6 months in Cincinnati before he contacted me saying he was getting ready to sell. I’m proof that posting a WTB thread works! Also, I want to give a special thank you to Brian and the crew at Source1, and my former coworker Yinzer for all his time and advice.
I lucked out that Source1 was able to perform a PPI and give it a mostly clean bill of health. Although it’s a well-cared for example, she needed a little bit of work out of the gate. The ABS system was shot and needed to be bypassed at the very least. That, a little bit of other minor work, and a somewhat overdue TB/WP service was taken care of by the capable crew at Source1. She’s all stock save for a short fixed antenna, and now the stainless brake lines.
I planned to take care of the required maintenance items and then get started on the slippery slope of modifying the car into my mountain machine. I will probably start a build thread once I start to work on the car in earnest, even though I’m confident that I won’t be doing anything that hasn’t been done a million times already. I just want to document the build on this one since I didn’t do that on my last car.
Speaking of other cars, she will be sharing her bunk space with my other longtime toy and project, an RB25-swapped ’95 Nissan 240sx that I built with my dad while I was in college. Hopefully they’ll get along.
If anyone finds themselves in East Tennessee and wants to take a trip into the mountains near The Dragon, Cherohala, and other great roads in the area, I’m always game (assuming I'm home, that is). I’m excited to continue meeting more of the great people on here and get deeper into the NSX world!
Now for the pictures!
Picking her up from Source1:
The bridge from Cincinnati to Newport, KY:
The view from the chase car:
Nestled up with her new bunkmates:
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