first off let me say hello and give some info about myself.
hello.
i have been wrenching on car's and motorcycle's since i was about 12..mostly i have worked on building streight line muscle car's. My first car was a 71 dodge dart swinger special which i converted from a 170 hp, 226 slant 6 to a bored out 318 putting down 380 hp. curently my daily driver is a yellow 2004 SRT-4, i am leaveing this one stock while it is under warenty. i am also a co-owner of a regular neon that i will be converting to a 340 - 400 hp SRT-4 as well once the other owner is finished driveing it as his daily driver.
but recently i've been bitten by the sport's car bug, and have started searching for a relitively inexpensive fixer-uper, however 30 + grand is a little too far out of my league for a used secondary project car. the NSX has been at the top of the short list for some time now
however i stumbled on one 52 mile's away that has an amasingly low price tag on it.....it's a 91 with 81,226 mile's with an asking price of $5,500 here's the link.....dirt cheap NSX
now, at that price i expect it needs alot of work, and the car fax say's it has 13 report's on the vin, i will be ordering the full report in the next few day's to see if there is anything serious there.....if i'm finding multiple frame damage and the like then i won't be going any further with this vehicle.
basicly i'm trying to estimate the potential cost of rebuilding this car, if i can keep repair cost's between 10-20 grand i think it will be worth it.
the first thing that will have to change will be to scrap all those nasty body panel's and restore the body back to original, about how much can i expect that to cost? it would at least need a new hood, hopefully the side skirt's and bumper's didn't damage the other body pannel's.
whenever i buy a used vehicle, i do a full engine tear down to clean and inspect all the internal's...provided there is no damage, i will still replace all the seal's, plug's, and other parishible's.....again, what is the average cost for the standard maintence part's for the vehicle? this would be my first import and i expect the NSX has a lower part's avilibility then most.
also are there any common issue's with one's this old that i should look out for?
thanks in advance.
hello.
i have been wrenching on car's and motorcycle's since i was about 12..mostly i have worked on building streight line muscle car's. My first car was a 71 dodge dart swinger special which i converted from a 170 hp, 226 slant 6 to a bored out 318 putting down 380 hp. curently my daily driver is a yellow 2004 SRT-4, i am leaveing this one stock while it is under warenty. i am also a co-owner of a regular neon that i will be converting to a 340 - 400 hp SRT-4 as well once the other owner is finished driveing it as his daily driver.
but recently i've been bitten by the sport's car bug, and have started searching for a relitively inexpensive fixer-uper, however 30 + grand is a little too far out of my league for a used secondary project car. the NSX has been at the top of the short list for some time now
however i stumbled on one 52 mile's away that has an amasingly low price tag on it.....it's a 91 with 81,226 mile's with an asking price of $5,500 here's the link.....dirt cheap NSX
now, at that price i expect it needs alot of work, and the car fax say's it has 13 report's on the vin, i will be ordering the full report in the next few day's to see if there is anything serious there.....if i'm finding multiple frame damage and the like then i won't be going any further with this vehicle.
basicly i'm trying to estimate the potential cost of rebuilding this car, if i can keep repair cost's between 10-20 grand i think it will be worth it.
the first thing that will have to change will be to scrap all those nasty body panel's and restore the body back to original, about how much can i expect that to cost? it would at least need a new hood, hopefully the side skirt's and bumper's didn't damage the other body pannel's.
whenever i buy a used vehicle, i do a full engine tear down to clean and inspect all the internal's...provided there is no damage, i will still replace all the seal's, plug's, and other parishible's.....again, what is the average cost for the standard maintence part's for the vehicle? this would be my first import and i expect the NSX has a lower part's avilibility then most.
also are there any common issue's with one's this old that i should look out for?
thanks in advance.
