My old Honda - NA1 NSX

[MommysLittleMonster]

+1 for Porsche.


This thread is so incredibly satisfying to read through, coming from someone who is incredibly detail-oriented. Amazing work, and incredible dedication.

[nsogiba]

[hkz286]

speaking of which, here are the new calipers.

Also they get the award for the most package per item that I've ever seen.

a crisp high five to the person who guesses what they are from :P

[hkz286]

Top notch work sir! Looking forward to future updates.

thank you very much

LOL at the title, definitely wasn't expecting this but I'm more than pleased. I vote the Cr Kai's to go back on but that's just me. It could just be the color because I love dark bronze with black it just looks so aggressive. This build is super rad so far and I love that you're documenting everything! Keep it up man I am sub'd

yeah I liked the works too, its just that style of wheel requires a slight concave to look nice, and on the front there is not enough room to run a low offset wheel.

Plus, I need 18" up front for my new bigger brakes

[190Evan]

LOL at the title, definitely wasn't expecting this but I'm more than pleased. I vote the Cr Kai's to go back on but that's just me. It could just be the color because I love dark bronze with black it just looks so aggressive. This build is super rad so far and I love that you're documenting everything! Keep it up man I am sub'd

[Bimmerteck]

Top notch work sir! Looking forward to future updates.

[hkz286]

So happy when I see an update from you! Love the attention to detail.

lol thanks chap, I too, am a sucker for a good build thread, so I'm glad you consider this one

[becausephilchow]

So happy when I see an update from you! Love the attention to detail.

[hkz286]

Good stuff man, digging the CV Pro table as well.

thanks bud

I can never remember if they are cv-pro or GRC

[electricalbox]

Good stuff man, digging the CV Pro table as well.

[hkz286]

Just gone through the whole thread and nothing disappointed man!
The attention to detail you have taken this too is sick man, defo going to be keeping an eye on this thread.

Bad ass NSX and Build

Thanks bud. It means a lot sorry it's so long and you have to go through some much rambling on my part but well done for putting up with it till the end

[AtlantisTouring]

Just gone through the whole thread and nothing disappointed man!
The attention to detail you have taken this too is sick man, defo going to be keeping an eye on this thread.

Bad ass NSX and Build

[hkz286]

this thread should be renamed:
"My no longer old Honda"
"The Story of One Man's Spiral Into Obsession for his NSX"
"10001 Fun Weekend Projects for your NSX"

Awesome attention to detail, love the custom interior bits with the vinyl covering.

lol thanks

I've been reading your build threads for a while now so means a lot coming from you

[nsogiba]

this thread should be renamed:
"My no longer old Honda"
"The Story of One Man's Spiral Into Obsession for his NSX"
"10001 Fun Weekend Projects for your NSX"

Awesome attention to detail, love the custom interior bits with the vinyl covering.

[hkz286]

Another thing I had notice on the car from when I first bought it, was that the cv boots on the driveshafts were letting grease out. The cv boots themselves were fine, but the grease had broke down so much, and was so old, that it was escaping out from under the edges of the boot.

You can see what I mean here (tie was removed a this point)




ewwww.




Obviously, cv grease shouldn't be that colour and generally is considered to be best placed in the joint itself and not leaking outside of it :S

So the first job was to crack the big 36mm nut that holds the driveshaft on. For some reason Honda decided to use a staked nut as a locking mechanism, instead of a much better and easier to maintain split pin and castle nut arrangement. So an inordinate amount of time was spent un-staking the nut and trying to loosen the large nut.

It broke my 6ft breaker bar, but my cheap chinese impact gun took it in its stride......yeah i didn't figure it out either :s

Then came the job of trying to remove the driveshaft from the hub, after never being touched for 25 years. These have a tendency to become seized, and in certain circumstances require removal of the entire assembly to be put into a press. Considering myself a clever chap, I thought i would plan for this and acquire this puller below:



This is the biggest goddamn hydraulic puller I have ever seen, for scale, that's a blue wheel spacer in the background.

Didn't even touch it, not a sausage, so to speak. At this point I was considering my previous thought of being a "clever chap" and giving up on cars all together, heading to the woods, and live off grid as a full time forest pixie (i'd inhaled a lot of penetrating fluid at this point)

I had previously been soaking the spline in the hub with plus-gas for a few days, however it was useless. I had read on nsxcb about someone using a mixture of acetone and ATF fluid as a pretty nasty, but ultimately badass, penetrating fluid. I have zero belief in penetrating fluid, however, I was considering become a fictional forest creature, so I figured what the hell.

here it is:



You can see how it separates quite quickly, so a thorough shake is required before each usage (oooh err) and how I stole mrs-hkz286 spray bottle for an ideal applicator.

Having applied it every 15 mins or so (acetone evaporates really quickly) for a few hours, I got to work with a cheap crappy hub puller (I had to give back the massive hydraulic one) and was quite frankly waiting for it to snap into a million pieces and have a small piece lodge into a sensitive part of my body (it had been that sort of day).




However, to my complete and utter surprise, it went "bang" and actually separated.

holy shit right? Again, after spending a lot of time now inhaling this weird homemade acetone and gear oil mix, I thought it might of been in my head, but no, here is proof I'm not crazy:



So after doing a small, but dignified (I'm British after all) happy dance and proclaiming to the driveshaft that I was master of the universe etc etc (remember, inhaling weird fumes) I thought I better crack on with the task at hand. So, instead of yanking out the shaft and storing the gear oil currently residing in my gearbox, on my garage floor, I drained it before hand (thats the kind of knowledge only gained from years of cocking up royally):



Which then meant I could take out the shaft itself:



...and making sure to keep the shaft clean I wrapped it up (remember this is the bit that is in the gearbox)




Taking of the spider and bearings from the shaft:




Because everything is hardened steel, its generally considered better to make sure everything goes back together the exact way it came apart:



so with everything marked, orientation and placement noted etc I cracked on.






and in pieces:




So I masked up everything and painted the shaft with a bit of touch up satin black:




Whilst that was drying I decided to repack the bearings themselves, with new grease.

this is what one bearing looks like in bits:



There are 3 of these per side of the shaft, 6 in total on each shaft. So...yeah, it takes some time.

All back together with each individual needle bearing placed back in the bearing with new grease. You will have to forgive the lack of pictures but this stuff is really gross and smells revolting, so I didn't want to get it all over my phone.

So after having repeated the above more times than I used the word "so..." in this build thread I moved onto cleaning out the cups:



...and then onto painting. I used por15 on this for durability reasons and that it makes it look nice and pretty, you know, for all the times I look at my driveshaft cups :S




cleaned off everything as best as i could:




...and then all back together with all new ties, grease, circlips, and snap rings




So now I just have to put it back in (waiting on a new oil seal for the gearbox) and repeat the entire process on the other side....or go live in the forest.