frame repair at 3 NSX at one time

[austrian type-R]

#1 black NSX from Austria. Damaged all around. Trunk aluminium damage and front light housing incl frame out of center.

#2 red NSX from Sweden. Bented front frames and a light rear hit.

#3 red NSX from Austria. Bented front frames, the most frame damage of all 3.

Lots of used and some new spare parts are needed incl a donor car where we cutted the good front frame off to use it on #3 . This pics today are just showing the rough work made to the chassies and see how the frames are off from factory settings. The fine work to get the frontlight mould in correct shape, bringing back a nice tail to the black NSX and all the other little stuff like perfect weldspots, paint job, etc... I will show you in some next postings.

Number 3 I bought back in 2008 and parted out the car, since repairing was not worth the money. The value of a nice NSX back in that time was just around 30000 Euro. Now in 2016 this prices has doubled and repairing that chassie is now right in time.

Each buyer of those cars will get the pics and a well documented story about how things were made.

Enjoy the pics, I think only a very few to non people here on prime have ever seen such a work on our old NA1/NA2 cars. Thanks to the Chassie/Bodyshop who does the work to that cars. I know most are afraid when such huge frame work has to be done to an aluminium chassie.

The allignment tool used. I was told one of two available in Europe. And the donor-car, a roll-over NSX from Sweden.

The easiest to allign of the 3 cars.

#2 from Sweden get a brand new front right frame.

# 3 the worst frame hit. Thats how the pivot is attached to the frame! Another pics shows the fixing points from the suspension. Reminds me on that Terminator hand skeleton in the first movie.

 

[Jinks]

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[Speedmaster]

Love it...show us more.

BTW, that Celette jig...it is not for pulling, rather it is for measuring and lining up, correct?

 

[RUNDLC]

:biggrin:
This ought to be fun!! Where's the popcorn

 

[clutch1]

Amazing! Can't wait to see more of this, it's downright raunchy

 

[scammy]

Wow nice work

 

[austrian type-R]

Love it...show us more.

BTW, that Celette jig...it is not for pulling, rather it is for measuring and lining up, correct?

Yes thats right. You need it to get all the oem measures back again. I am no pro of this work, it is done by a alignment and paint shop just 45 minutes from me.

 

[JohnWayne]

Yes thats right. You need it to get all the oem measures back again. I am no pro of this work, it is done by a alignment and paint shop just 45 minutes from me.

Im sure it only took them 45 minutes to do the work as well right :wink:!

Truly inspiring the labor that was required to do this. I also agree the price on wrecked NSX's has doubled as well!

In for more photos...

 

[N Spec]

Love to see stuff like this!

 

[Brendan]

Is this where they are joined from the factory?

Only reason im asking i have to replace mine. I have bought a complete chassis rail that goes up to the lower sill.

 

[austrian type-R]

No, thats not where the frames are joined from factory. The body shop told me it is way less work and functionaly the same than cutting/rewelding at the oem spots.

 

[solidol]

I truly admire your efforts and apparently great quality work to resurrect these great machines.

 

[austrian type-R]

recover pics of the Swedish car. The frame is finished. The headlight housing and the radiator support will get black later (like it is oem). Now I have to put all parts together and when it rolls again with freshly serviced engine, new clutch, etc...it goes back to the body-shop and get all new R-77 painting.

 

[CB72]

A couple of years ago, I had to replace one of my front beams following a road accident.
Apart from getting the alignment right, the biggest issue is to find the guy who can weld aluminium.
I also had to fight with the insurance company that wanted to scrap the car...
Last but not least I sourced the parts from the USA where for instance the front beam was half the price from France!

 

[Jinks]

recover pics of the Swedish car. The frame is finished. The headlight housing and the radiator support will get black later (like it is oem). Now I have to put all parts together and when it rolls again with freshly serviced engine, new clutch, etc...it goes back to the body-shop and get all new R-77 painting.

Like the accident never even happened!

 

[TyraNSX]

Any chance you could post close up pics of the plastic yellow clips at the bottom of the windshield? Those are the ones people have trouble with when they get a new windshield installed.

 

[Vanishing Point]

I assume these cars won't have the "stigma" of being branded as salvage cars in Austria as cars in the states would be faced with having similar damage?

 

[austrian type-R]

Yes thats right. I think in most other Euro countries we do not have the "stigma" you have in US. I think this is a good system you have, would be nice to have it also here

Well, the black one is finished as well. Now both cars get the new ABS system, cause I will not reinstall the old one, it's too much out of time and known to get out of function any way. The black one will get same look with oem parts like the silver in the picture with ATR dry carbon hood and wing and real oem 2002+ side skirts. But first I will buy a sodium blaster to get the suspension parts etc as nice as new.

 

[BBVNSX]

Amazing what you are doing! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Jinks]

The walking dead.....:biggrin:

 

[austrian type-R]

By end of last year, Chasie Nr. 3 was finished from the body work.

The red swedish Chassie is sold to Germany without engine, transmission and some other parts, cause the customer has a Honda Shop and some NSX spare parts in the shelfs. The customer will assemble it himself and safe me lots of work and doing the paint job and him lots of money. So we both are lucky and he get an NSX for just 2/3 the market price (when the car is finished).

 

[solidol]

Great seeing your work ressurecting these great machines.

 

[austrian type-R]

Some update here. I will post more in the forums again instead of FB, cause of the lack of an search function at FB.

some shoots when the NSX chassie #2 was picked up this year in spring from the german customer:

Overhauld engine ready to get married with the black chassie #1 . NEW: hone, piston rings, rod&main bearings, valve seals, ALL o-rings and gaskets in block an heads, overhauld heads with valve job, timing belt, waterpump, spark plugs, LMAs, crank pulley with shield and crank position sensor. The clutch and tranny have just 17000 miles on the clock. Cleaned intake manifold and thottle body with all new gaskets

Some cleaning of the nice aluminium parts.

 

[goldNSX]

Not that you have repaired them and are selling them how about the info about the CHASSIS NUMBERS or these cars? Furture NSX owners in Europe would be highly interested in how the cars looked like before and how they were repaired...

 

[austrian type-R]

The buyer will get a full history and photo documentation of the work. I dont see the sense of posting a vin number yet here.

1) in europe there is not such an system like in usa where damage is reported to each vin number.

2) the next owner after the person i sell the car will not find any infos anywhere (if the preowner will hide my given documentation) ecept in the forums when reading my posts. He could simply ask me if he comes over this thread. Since this is not an sales thread either, this info is not needed yet. If i will advertise the car, the vin info will of course get posted incl pics and service info.