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Originally Posted by Playslikepage71
See, my problem with that is how...ghetto that is. Sure it's a fun little project to do for yourself but if I want to spend 80k on a car, it's going to be on a GT-R. I love how it looks and I love how it has so much technology in it. I would dispute your numbers but...I really don't know where you got them? The NSX's power to weight ratio is at least 5 lbs/hp with your turbo twin engines. The GT-R's is something like 7 lbs/hp. That doesn't really matter though because your Hondastein would not have all of the differentials and software necessary to accurately deliver the power to the right wheels and the handling would therefore be compromised.
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I know someone who has done this with a del sol. It would crush your GTR.
The engine in the trunk is the NSX 3.2 the engine up front is a revamped stock engine. Both are supercharged.
The NA output of the SI-R engine from a 97 "red-top" block (H22a(I think its an 8)) is 200 horses, the NA output from the 3.2 NSX Accord V6 is 290. NA engine output would be 490. No complex differentials required because the shafts aren't connected. All you have to do is have the same gearing on both ends and its entirely fine(via running the Sol on a Dyno both engines produced the exact same number of RPMs without even having the linkage of the road between them.) So instead of having extremely complicated systems that transmit power from one end to the other to ensure even take off or to avoid burning one set of wheels while the other pulls, the road and the transmission take care of it for you.
Under nominal boost you'd pull 40-50 horses out of each engine(I rated low for the nsx and equally high for the red-top) for an extra 100 horses. I rated in HP/ton because thats what supercars are rated as usually. And the GTR would definitely have a ratio in your units of 8#/hp(7.9458 is much closer to 8 than 7). If we assume the NSX weighed the same as the GTR(It would weigh less from every other twin engine build excluding the original Twin engine olds) its going to have 6.4#/hp. The Redtops can take alot more than nominal boost.
Also you can dig up a fully functional 97 NSX under 100K miles for under 40, Prelude SH 97 for 5, superchargers for 15. And I get a targa top ^_^. If you want you can get a 97 for about 20K but its got paint issues so for 1-1 comparison 20K less cash, 100 more horses, less weight, about a thousand times more unique, and convertible. Not to mention the fact if one of the engines goes you still have another to get home as fast as a stock NSX. . .or if any one component along the drivetrain. If your single engine goes dead, pops a valve or does any number of things that may happen to a heavily boosted engine you have to wait for a mechanic.
Not to mention the only thing about it that would be Frankenstein is where the front engine mounts sit on reinforced NSX supports and the axle is replaced for the one out of the prelude.