Teamspeed.com - 2002 Long Beach Blue Acura NSX Correction

Recently completed in the shop, the owner of this vehicle sought me out after viewing a thread on NSX Prime where he saw me restore a NSX in terrible condition to "As new". Rare Long Beach Blue the finish,interior and especially the wheel wells needed restorative work to bring the vehicle back cosmetically.

The vehicle has some nice mods such as KW coilovers (V3) and the forged stock wheels painted anthracite grey along with a Comptech supercharger, the end result was quite a turnaround.

Here is the beginning prrepping the vehicle for clearfilm @ Elite Films down the street.

First the clay step.

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Then removing the old clearfilm.

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The paint under the film WAS NOT corrected before the film was installed.

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50/50 of the finish.

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The finish is now ready for clearfilm installation.

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On to the heavy correction this car required............rear wing as bad as you want.

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"Proof of life"..................

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Opposite angle of the rear wing.

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Rear tailight fixture was marred badly as well, 50/50 of this area.

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Just a little built up dirt & patina.

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Trim finish was in awful condition.

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During compounding step with Megs D300 and cutting disc 4".

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Now for the true horror of this correction...................just like a 993 C4S I did last year, oily slurry seal embedded in the wheels wells. That Porsche took 15 hours to correct that issue.......this Acura required at least 20 hours.

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Same wheel well, I achevied 90% correction, 100% would have put the cost of the correction out of reach. Brought in Tony Ito to help with this task and the interior.

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During clean up of the front drivers wheel well.

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Also deserving mention is Ken Black who came down from Sacramento to help with the vehicle as well!! ....Thanks Ken.

Wheels polished and sealed, then re-mounted and torqued to spec(80ft/lbs).

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Space saver spare was taken out, and the front area tightned up.

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