Picked up my second NSX

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J-RnsxT

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:biggrin: I picked up my second NSX from diegonsx(Jeff). Great guy and I really appreciated all his help. AUTOWAVE has put together this amazing machine. Right now, it has 24k miles on built motor making 550whp/431tq at 11 PSI. Really happy with the car and can be seen here if I could have an admin unlock it for record keeping purposes. http://www.nsxprime.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111330. The car has been retuned in Florida because of the terrible boost cut I expirienced interminently. I'm looking at adding AEM failsafe methkit to the system. Any pros/cons? new pic
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Deal was damn good to pass up. This NSX moves. I was really impressed by the way autowave built the vehicle, even underbody of the car was done really well.
 
You might want to consider doing a HKS Fcon engine management as well. I have heard some reliability issues with AEMs. Just a thought since you are running such high boost.
 
Congrats that car is a good deal.
 
I though I was happy with owning just one NSX, yikes I dont know what I would do with 2. I am so freaking Jealous. I actually have been saving up for that second one I already have a Black one, so I think I am gonna go white with my next one, so I can do the NSX-R Upgrades. Lucky Bastard. LOL
 
VegasSpeed said:
You might want to consider doing a HKS Fcon engine management as well. I have heard some reliability issues with AEMs. Just a thought since you are running such high boost.
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We've sold hundreds of AEM's units and have yet to have a single issue unrelated to user error. The AEM EMS is a powerful tuning device that gives the user complete control over the engine and all of it's parameters. This is great in the hands of a capable tuner, yet spells disaster in the wrong hands. I wouldn't trust any other tuning device to power my personal and my customer's vehicles! 32psi of boost and 920WHP is more than most NSX's will ever see and it was done using a 5 year old AEM EMS. The car was daily driven and continues to be driven by the new owners on a regular basis.

Should you have any personal experience with AEM's products, please share, otherwise spreading useless and inaccurate information benefits nobody.



To the OP, GREAT car at a GREAT price! I was wondering when somebody was going to pick that up. Enjoy and be careful!!!
 
dynomike said:
Did it end up being the coils or plugs what did you end up finding on the intermittent misfires
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Mike, glad you could chime in. We found out that it was the duty cycle for the boost controller. Before observations were made, we have changed the rear coils and spark plugs (number 5 was really bad). On the dyno, the boost cut did happened and the turner was able to decrease the duty cycle just by 1%. Its been running great since then. We didnt increase the boost as I want the reliability that you guys(AUTOWAVE) built. I drove it from San Diego to Panhandle Florida to test the NSX, it did fantastic(24k miles now from conception). After the registration in Florida, it will head back to Anaheim, CA(dont like smog) with an addition of meth kit with 1000ccs and additional inline fuel pump. I will have to make an appointment later on this year to get an additional 150hp:biggrin:. Mike, you guys built this NSX with a lot of attention to detail. No corners were cut. Im really happy that this deal ended up on my hands.
 
shawn110975 said:
I though I was happy with owning just one NSX, yikes I dont know what I would do with 2. I am so freaking Jealous. I actually have been saving up for that second one I already have a Black one, so I think I am gonna go white with my next one, so I can do the NSX-R Upgrades. Lucky Bastard. LOL
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I'm upgrading the other NSX to Turbo, It feels slow now. LOL :biggrin:
 
I personally have never bought and used one but have friends that have had issues with them. There is certainly an abundance of tuners available for the AEM EMS but that doesn't make it better. It wasn't issues with the tune. The EMS itself went bad after a few years. It litterly crapped out is what I was told. I will get more info on it and pass it on.

Look, either EMS will work. Don't get your panties in a bunch Cody. Jesus, take it easy.
 
Lucky bastard is right!:eek: OOOOhhhhhh I would not be able to sleep at night with those to gorgeous machines sitting in my garage! It’s like flipping a coin on which on to drive! Congrats on the new car............I am still jealous:biggrin:<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>
 
Soap said:
Lucky bastard is right!:eek: OOOOhhhhhh I would not be able to sleep at night with those to gorgeous machines sitting in my garage! It’s like flipping a coin on which on to drive! Congrats on the new car............I am still jealous:biggrin:<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>
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:biggrin: Thats what I did Thursday and end up driving the R wanna-B, Yesterday I drove the black one. :biggrin:
 
VegasSpeed said:
You might want to consider doing a HKS Fcon engine management as well. I have heard some reliability issues with AEMs. Just a thought since you are running such high boost.
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Ill read up on the Fcon EMS but theres only a hand full who can tune Fcon. Upgrading to Fcon might also have an effect AIM system cause I think it only runs on AEM(dont quote me on this, ill try to find out). I have the Lambda controller coming so I can see the AFR from the screen. The AEM on this system has been great for 2 years so it should be pretty good as far as reliability. I wish I can run higher boost cause 11 PSI is just waking up the turbo.
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Ko-nsx said:
congrats! That was hands down the BEST i've ever seen for an nsx! :biggrin:
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Thanks man. The set up is great. The suspension department needs some more beef though. The white NSX has JIC coilovers and you can tell the big differnces between the two.

It seems that I cant use HKS-F con, it is not supported by the AIM instrument cluster.
 
Disregard what I said about the HKS F-con. You are fine with what you have.
 
Jeff told me that you tested the car. I'm really honored that this NSX has been through the hands of one of the baddass driver on earth(because of your accomplishments). I really thank you for that. I do however have a question for you Billy, hows the suspension? It feels like its night and day compared with my other NSX(JIC suspension). The power is great but I think suspension needs some beef. I will print this thread just to say that "BILLY DROVE MY CAR":biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

stuntman said:
Congrats!

I test drove that car late last year... Power is fun.
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nsx4jack said:
Jeff told me that you tested the car. I'm really honored that this NSX has been through the hands of one of the baddass driver on earth(because of your accomplishments). I really thank you for that. I do however have a question for you Billy, hows the suspension? It feels like its night and day compared with my other NSX(JIC suspension). The power is great but I think suspension needs some beef. I will print this thread just to say that "BILLY DROVE MY CAR":biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
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Thank you for the compliments :)

Honestly i've probably driven 30 different cars since I drove yours but I vaguely recall that your car has Konis, the ride quality was on the softer side, but compliant and good, car didn't get too squirrly and the suspension handled the power nicely. You might try stiffening the shocks first (counter clockwise = stiffer) and see how that works. I'm sure the biggest difference is increased suspension travel, softer springs, and softer shocks compared to your JIC-equipped car. With the soft dampers and spring rates the car might hook up and accelerate better than an over-sprung or over-damped suspension which would cause the tires to break loose (talk to Vega$NSX who had a stiff suspension setup then went to a softer one and how his car hooks up a lot better now).

You just bought a very powerful car. Enjoy it and drive it around, get use to it first before changing expensive things like suspension.

Billy
 

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