iM Highlight: Danio’s NSX

Since Dan’s last feature, a lot has changed. And by a lot, we mean Dan has made a switch up and is back so to speak with a completely new platform. The last car you may remember from Dan was his infamous S2000 (Featured HERE). Since then, Dan felt the need to move on from his S2000 and after a brief moment owning an E90 M3, Dan has found himself back to his Honda ways with undeniably every Honda Fan boy’s dream car, the NSX.

Although still a project in the making, Dan has quickly gotten to work on his NA1. Found on the exterior of his NSX are the NA2 Side Skirts and NA2 Rear Valence, fitted with the ’97 Front Lip. On the inside, Dan’s attention to detail is found with his Science of Speed center console, and an NSX-R horn button suited to match with his Momo Tuner steering wheel, Momo hub and titanium steering wheel bolts from Baller Bolts. An ARC Tear Drop Shift Knob and Recaro Pole Position seats can also be found in the interior of Dan’s NSX.

On the performance side of things, Dan’s NA1 sports a Taitec Header paired with a test pipe and Gruppe M Exhaust. A Prospeed Stage 3 Chip and RDX injectors are also implemented for a little more power gain.

The highlight of Dan’s NSX is found in the suspension, wheels and tires department. Dan definitely wasted no time getting his NSX lowered the “Level ONE way” (aka SLAMMED with no cares given, haha) on an 18″ set of Volk TE-37SLs wrapped in Yokohama S.Drive tires. All achieved by a set of BC Racing Coilovers and a custom spring rated set of Swift Springs.

Because this is still an on-going project for Dan, we definitely cannot wait to see more from this NA1 in the future. Looking at what he’s already got done, there’s no denying the endless possibilities that are in store for this project!

In the mean time, enjoy these photos taken by Alex Lu…











EXTERIOR
NSX NA2 side skirt
NSX NA2 rear valence
97 front lip

INTERIOR
Recaro pole position leather
Buddy club seat rail
Momo tuner steering wheel
Momo hub
NSX-R horn button
Baller Bolts titanium steering wheel bolts
ARC tear drop shift knob
Science of Speed center console

PERFORMANCE
GruppeM exhaust
Taitec header
Test pipe
Prospeed stage 3 chip
RDX injectors

SUSPENSION
BC coilovers
Swift springs

WHEELS.&.TIRES
TE37SL
18×10 +40
18×10.5 +22
Yokohama S.Drive
225/35/18
255/35/18

iM Highlight: Sam’s Acura NSX

The Acura NSX, a car almost every enthusiast dreams of having. Sam, lucky enough to find one and purchase it was happy to hear we wanted to shoot it. After seeing it once or twice throughout the summer we thought we would share the eye candy with everyone else before it goes back into hiding for the upcoming fall/winter season.

Although stock in almost every sense this car is beautiful in every way. With a subtle lowering and fitted with the infamous Volk TE-37s the NSX puts on a stance that’s sure to intimidate.

On to some more pics to showcase what a driving machine really is.

|Car:2005 Acura NSX
|Owner:Sam Tang

//Wheels.&.Suspension
Lowered on Bilstein Shocks
Science of Speed NSX Fitted Volk TE37
Front: 17×8 235/40/17
Rear: 18×10 275/35/18

For more pics check out the gallery HERE

Extra cars with my coffee

Welcome to Cars & Coffee-Irvine , California…
I actually drove almost an hour at 6am from West Hollywood to Irvine just to experience this gathering of appreciation for rare and tasteful automotive exotica…we don’t have these in Jersey or anywhere in the mid-Atlantic so i was determined to see what all the hype was about..

As you can see C&C is a good mix of everything from American muscle, Japanese innovation and vintage European works of art…

NSX-R..

After looking through my pictures from this show, I couldn’t help but smile when I saw the expression of the kid’s face…looks like love at first site 🙂

Yeah, this new Ferrari attracted alot of attention…

..can’t really go wrong with a vintage bimmer

A Noble! What is this doing here??

By far my favorite car at the show..so sexy, so classy

Vintage Saabs had a strong presence here

Your guess is as good as mine. It says Rossi on the back….looks like a retro split-back ‘vette.

Last but not least, me standing next to my current crush…the all-black Audi R8 🙂

3rd Annual Honda/Acura Meet

This last Sunday (Sept.19,2010) Calgary and area had it’s 3rd Annual Honda/Acura Meet. Unfortunately the weather was against the group and it was cold and wet the entire day. Regardless there was a large group that was brave enough to come out and hang around.

Hopefully, with winter nearing in on Calgary, everyone can get together a few more times and give this impressive season a final good-bye before we nestle away from the snow and cold.

Now on to the pictures…








The car everyone so anxiously waited for in the rain:

The 20th Anniversary of the Honda NSX

To continue on the NSX week..

Last weekend was the 20th Anniversary of the Honda NSX.
The meet was held during the performance days at the famous Nurburgring.
Special part was a meeting of European based NSXs. A total of 58 cars made it out there.

You must understand the special appearance of the car since at normal meetings, there are a max 15 cars together.

It all started at Saturday morning when most of the NSXs and more Hondas joined up and drove off to the ring. Must be an awesome thing to drive there with a lot of those cars.

Sunday morning everybody showed up at the GP Strecke.

Everybody parked up together and then it was time for photo’s and a loot of catching up between the owners.

Since I know you guys also like the ladies, so at this point I’ll just shut up and let you enjoy the rest of the pictures.

Also a cool example of how a Ringracer should look like.

Thank you Dimer, once more for the shots.

iM Introduction: Memory Lane

Hi everyone!

My name is Aldrich and I’ve been invited to contribute to the site.  I run my own blog as well (http://aldrichevangelista.blogspot.com), but I will try my best to post quality stuff and promise not to bore you.  I’ve decided to make this a full introduction with my trip down memory lane, so you know where I’m coming from and why I will post what I will.

I’ve been in this Calgary car scene for about 14 years now (before some of the illMotion members were legally driving), and I’ve seen a lot of changes in it.  Shops and teams come and go, the scene having its ups and downs.  I’ve known the illMotion guys for quite a while now, and although I sometimes don’t agree with everything that they do, I can’t argue with what they are trying to accomplish with the local car scene by trying to revive it, and will do my best to help them every step of the way.

If you’re reading this post, and/or frequent this site, we have a common passion… cars.  I’ve had three cars in my lifetime so far, and for some odd reason (and most of you can relate me to), I can’t leave any of them alone.  I have to modify something.  It started with my 96 Civic coupe.  Bought new in 1996 by my parents, it was meant as a commuter car for my dad, with some occasional driving by me since I had just turned 16, and gotten my license.  But that idea didn’t last very long.  I pretty much was into cars at 14, and know I couldn’t just let something I drove look like every one elses car.  A few years later, my parents ended up with another car, and I was free to do whatever I wanted with the Civic.  The car changed every year (mainly the wheels, I think I’ve gone through 10 sets), but I wasn’t truly happy with her until 10 years later.  Here is my first love Jen-Elle in her prime (photos from 2006):

DTP Calgary 2006 with Mercedes Terrell:

After some editing in Photoshop:

Another one at DTP 06 taken my my buddy Trevor:
Wow, I miss that car.  Maybe one day, I’ll buy another and do everything exactly the same, except with another motor for more power.  I think thats what lead me to my next vehicle, my lack of power in the Civic, which by the way ended up with a best 1/4 mile time at Race City Calgary of 16.8 on the stock SOHC 1.6L non-VTEC motor.  
Granted, I didn’t get a chance to do a bigger motor swap, but around the time that I thought about it, I fell in love again with another car.  Or I should say truck.  Working in downtown one day in summer 2006, I saw one for the first time, and I said I had to have it.  And finally on October 6, 2006, I took her home, Jen-Neen, a 2006 Toyota Tacoma X-Runner.
The night I picked her up:
The very next day, taking home ‘Best Truck/SUV” at SCC Calgary 2006 (by default since there were no other trucks there):
I told myself that I wouldn’t mess with it, but the stock look didn’t stick with me, and being who I was, aside from the wheels, and lowering, I did all the little things that added to the big picture.
Here she was in her prime in 2008:
DTP Calgary 2008:
It was around the time of these pics (2008) that the economy started taking a bad turn, and I realized that I was in a pretty bad situation paying more that I should monthly for this truck, and with the big 4L V6 (which put down a respectable 15.4 at Race City for her weight) eating so much gas, the decision was made to find something smaller and more economical.
I was kinda worried because I thought smaller would mean less power, I had gotten used to decent power with the X-Runner.  And so I started looking at smaller, more economical cars.  I didn’t like what my options are.  But then I guess it was meant to be.  My brother picked up a 2008 Subaru Impreza WRX hatchback in early 2008, but in 2009 decided that he didn’t want it any more.  Way better on gas, decent power, and cheaper payments?  How could I go wrong?  Did both of us a favor and took it over so he didn’t have to pay for the lease break, and I had a new car!  While I didn’t like the look of the new hatchback at first, it ended up growing on my pretty quickly.  I just wish it was red (can you tell what my fav car color is yet?).
Most of you have seen it already, it was featured here a few weeks ago ( http://www.illmotion.com/2010/06/im-feature-richs-rex.html ):
Thanks for taking a trip down my memory lane, hope I didn’t bore you too much.  So what does the future hold for me?  I don’t know.  All I know is that I will try my best to help out this site with pictures and articles and with the ill.motion team in general.  Look out for some interesting posts from me in the near future.
And before I forget, as the organizer of the Beyond.ca yearly supermeet, this year it is in its third year, and will be held on August 4, 2010 at Chinook Centre in Calgary between 7-10pm.  I invite you to attend to help keep the local car scene going.  More information can be found here: http://forums.beyond.ca/st/309492/-403-honda-beyond-ca-everyone-else-wednesday-august-4-2010-super-meat-round-3/
In leaving, and in the spirit of NSX week, JC is gonna kill me for this one:

NSX Rain Race Crash

Seems like it’s NSX week 😉

Once again – most of you are probably familiar with Dimer’s NSX over in the Netherlands. It’s an interesting story of how he got hold of the NSX – being passed down from his dad after he started having troubles getting in and out of the car.
In the past, Dimer’s dad tracked it quite a bit and now Dimer follows in his track bringing it often to the Nurburgring and various tracks to compete or just have fun.

Back in 2005, Dimer’s dad had brought it to the Spa Franchorchamps and on the Second lap he had crashed at a speed of more than 200 kph at Blanchimont. Due to rain and unpredictable road conditions, you’ll see what happens at the 5:00 minute mark for those impatient ones.

Since then, it has been restored to the state that you’ve all seen in previous posts. As mentioned, Dimer will be going to the Nurburgring shortly, so hopefully we will have some shots of it in action.

Video: Honda NSX by Format67.net

I’m pretty sure those who frequent the internet saw this video over the weekend but for those who haven’t seen this, take 6 minutes out of your day and check this out!

Format67.net brings out a “movie” in all the vehicles they feature! I love it!