Hi guys/girls!
I noticed there's a lot of threads like these with people saying they're future Nsx owners, but I'm really hoping to be one some day.
I'll start from the beginning.. I owned my first Nsx.. model car (the plastic ones you build) when I was 8-9 years old. At the time I thought it was a Ferrari and just thought it was cool looking. Fast forward in time several years.. when I was 16 I got my first car so that I could work on it, because my parents knew I had always been into cars and I didn't have that many hobbies.
My dad found me a Red 1990 Honda Prelude for $2800 and they would pay half only if I studied hard and finished high school. Well I didn't study hard because I hated high school but I did finish it.
I really loved that car, but after 4 years of ownership and it was getting pretty rusted and there were always problems with it (mostly because of me). I was never able to tackle all of the rust on it by myself as it was just too much work..
In the time I owned it, I managed to completely rebuild the head by myself
Made custom speaker panels for the larger speakers
Full LED lights all around
The rust was overwhelming.. but I managed to fix the worst parts.
The gas cap rust was something also..
I also liked the clean the engine a lot and make things look good in the engine bay.
There was several other rust jobs but those were the worst. In the end I was tired as hell of working on it (it was my only car) and never had the time to do it all.
Right before selling it..
So I decided to sell it and buy the next closest thing I could afford to an Nsx.. another Prelude. This time after several months of searching, I found a '98 Type SH Prelude with relatively low miles.. but most importantly it was red.
That was back in 2007, I've been driving it since then but I've done a lot less modifying on it than with the old prelude because I'd rather keep it stock for when I sell it.. which is what I'm actually doing right now.
After high school I didn't know what to do, so I visited a trade school and went into Industrial Mechanics. After completing the course (it was a lot of fun), I realized I wasn't ready to just start working as a mechanic at the same shop for the rest of my life and probably wouldn't be happy that way..
I decided to go back to high school and do physics and math requirements to get into College (btw, College and University are two different things here).
I went to college and studied in Mechanical Engineering, I finished the course this summer, it was a ton of fun and made me want to continue, but it also made me realize once again that I found math boring as hell.. So now I'm in University and studying in Industrial Design.
Thus one of the reasons I'm selling my car, it doesn't get the attention it needs anymore and I don't want some douchebag Montreal driver to scratch it.
Here are the latest pictures of my car after almost 3 years of ownership.
Here is my custom jack that I made next to my car after a full brake rebuild.
The clean looking engine
Here's more pics of my Prelude
http://s690.photobucket.com/albums/vv265/Prelude98sh/
I think that's about it for my cars, I'm 22 now and I still love my Prelude to death and driving it is a blast, I never really get bored of it.. but I need to sell it to make more money for university.. which is a depressing decision but my whole point is to be able to buy an Nsx in 5 years hopefully if everything goes well and I don't get some girl knocked up.
I don't know why I've never signed up to this site previously.. but anyways I'm here now. All I really want is to learn some new things about the Nsx and it's awesome aluminum body that DOESN'T RUST.
If there's some cool threads you can all direct me too (Build threads, info threads, etc.) that'd be nice.
That's about it for me, I hope I didn't bore you too much with my little story.
Here's a picture I drew to make up for it if I did.. it's not perfect but I'm getting better.
The snowmobile (the other toy I wish I could afford) is a lot better though.
Thanks for reading!
-Alex
I noticed there's a lot of threads like these with people saying they're future Nsx owners, but I'm really hoping to be one some day.
I'll start from the beginning.. I owned my first Nsx.. model car (the plastic ones you build) when I was 8-9 years old. At the time I thought it was a Ferrari and just thought it was cool looking. Fast forward in time several years.. when I was 16 I got my first car so that I could work on it, because my parents knew I had always been into cars and I didn't have that many hobbies.
My dad found me a Red 1990 Honda Prelude for $2800 and they would pay half only if I studied hard and finished high school. Well I didn't study hard because I hated high school but I did finish it.
I really loved that car, but after 4 years of ownership and it was getting pretty rusted and there were always problems with it (mostly because of me). I was never able to tackle all of the rust on it by myself as it was just too much work..
In the time I owned it, I managed to completely rebuild the head by myself
Made custom speaker panels for the larger speakers
Full LED lights all around
The rust was overwhelming.. but I managed to fix the worst parts.
The gas cap rust was something also..
I also liked the clean the engine a lot and make things look good in the engine bay.
There was several other rust jobs but those were the worst. In the end I was tired as hell of working on it (it was my only car) and never had the time to do it all.
Right before selling it..
So I decided to sell it and buy the next closest thing I could afford to an Nsx.. another Prelude. This time after several months of searching, I found a '98 Type SH Prelude with relatively low miles.. but most importantly it was red.
That was back in 2007, I've been driving it since then but I've done a lot less modifying on it than with the old prelude because I'd rather keep it stock for when I sell it.. which is what I'm actually doing right now.
After high school I didn't know what to do, so I visited a trade school and went into Industrial Mechanics. After completing the course (it was a lot of fun), I realized I wasn't ready to just start working as a mechanic at the same shop for the rest of my life and probably wouldn't be happy that way..
I decided to go back to high school and do physics and math requirements to get into College (btw, College and University are two different things here).
I went to college and studied in Mechanical Engineering, I finished the course this summer, it was a ton of fun and made me want to continue, but it also made me realize once again that I found math boring as hell.. So now I'm in University and studying in Industrial Design.
Thus one of the reasons I'm selling my car, it doesn't get the attention it needs anymore and I don't want some douchebag Montreal driver to scratch it.
Here are the latest pictures of my car after almost 3 years of ownership.
Here is my custom jack that I made next to my car after a full brake rebuild.
The clean looking engine
Here's more pics of my Prelude
http://s690.photobucket.com/albums/vv265/Prelude98sh/
I think that's about it for my cars, I'm 22 now and I still love my Prelude to death and driving it is a blast, I never really get bored of it.. but I need to sell it to make more money for university.. which is a depressing decision but my whole point is to be able to buy an Nsx in 5 years hopefully if everything goes well and I don't get some girl knocked up.
I don't know why I've never signed up to this site previously.. but anyways I'm here now. All I really want is to learn some new things about the Nsx and it's awesome aluminum body that DOESN'T RUST.
If there's some cool threads you can all direct me too (Build threads, info threads, etc.) that'd be nice.
That's about it for me, I hope I didn't bore you too much with my little story.
Here's a picture I drew to make up for it if I did.. it's not perfect but I'm getting better.
The snowmobile (the other toy I wish I could afford) is a lot better though.
Thanks for reading!
-Alex
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. As a fellow Mechanical Engineer it's a good job with great pay I recommend it 
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