Rebuilding a Junkyard Acura NSX! Pt.4

Summary

The video documents the rebuild of an Acura NSX. After restoring the engine and components in previous videos, focus shifts to rejuvenating the interior. Many new parts are unboxed including a glove box, door panels, armrest, shift knob, and seats. Old parts are cleaned and repaired to make the interior look factory new. A new rear wing and diffuser are installed to enhance the exterior. With the interior overhaul nearing completion and a move to a new shop on the horizon, the next video will provide viewers a shop update.

Takeaways

• 👨‍🔧 The video covers rebuilding and restoring an Acura NSX
• 📦 New parts are unboxed including interior pieces and body panels
• ⚙️ Mechanical work is done like rewiring and engine cleaning
• 🛠 Interior is stripped down and parts are cleaned and restored
• 🚗 Brand new interior components are installed like the glovebox
• 🖼 Door panels and other interior trim is repaired and replaced
• 🎧 Cassette player is removed and audio upgrades will come later
• 💺 New Bride bucket seats are installed
• 🏭 They are moving to a new shop soon
• 🚦 The countdown is on to get cars moved in a short timeframe

Q & A

What is the main focus of this video?

The main focus of this video is rebuilding and restoring the interior of the NSX.

What parts did the team source to restore the interior?

They sourced a new glove box, tack pezel, window trims, armrest, radio pieces, vent pieces, rear hatch bezel and vent, trunk liner, and other small parts from Japan and their friend Brian who had NSX parts.

What upgrades did they make to the interior?

Upgrades included new carbon fiber wing, carbon fiber diffuser, R34 style window trims, and Bride bucket seats.

What repairs did they have to make?

They had to replace broken clips and edges on the door panels, replace the door handle, install new mirrors, and fix wiring issues.

How did they refresh old parts?

They hand polished the original HKS intake and used products to deep clean and restore many interior parts like the center console and rear speaker covers.

What damage did they find?

They found a lot of dampness and green algae in panels from water getting in, indicating the windows had been left down exposing the interior.

What color are they considering painting the car?

They are considering painting the car white based on fan feedback, with blue wheels, to match their RX7.

What's next for the build?

Next they will spend time setting up their new shop before continuing work on the NSX.

How did the parts sourcing go?

They were able to source most of the parts they needed from Japan andenthusiast contacts, except ganador mirrors which they couldn't find.

What was the most exciting part?

Seeing the interior come together with a mix of restored and new parts was the most exciting and satisfying part.

Outlines

00:00

😄 Installing New Interior Parts

The first paragraph describes unboxing and installing new interior parts for the car rebuild, including a new glovebox, tack bezel, window trims, steering wheel button, shift knob, and more. Overall it conveys excitement about sourcing high-quality OEM and aftermarket parts to restore the interior.

05:03

🛏️ Helix Sleep Mattress Sponsorship

The second paragraph features a sponsorship from Helix Sleep mattresses. It describes the benefits of their mattresses, including using an online quiz to find the right mattress, free shipping, 100 night trial, and a discount offer for viewers.

10:12

👷‍♂️ Installing New Exterior Parts

The third paragraph focuses on installing new exterior parts on the car, including an HKS intake cleaned and polished by the team, a carbon fiber rear diffuser, and a new rear wing. Overall it highlights progress in enhancing the car's exterior styling.

15:14

🚪 Replacing Damaged Interior Trim

The fourth paragraph describes troubleshooting issues with damaged door panel clips during interior work. It mentions sourcing high-quality replacement clips from Ma to fix the problem and refresh the door panels.

Keywords

💡Rebuild

The term 'rebuild' refers to restoring and refurbishing the NSX sports car that is the subject of the video. It involves fully disassembling, cleaning, repairing, and replacing many parts of the car. The rebuild process is a major theme throughout the video, as the narrator documents the step-by-step work done to restore the NSX to its former glory.

💡Interior

The 'interior' refers to the inside of the car, including the seats, carpets, trim pieces, dash, etc. Rebuilding and restoring the interior is a big focus in the later part of the video. The narrator stresses the satisfaction of sourcing brand new OEM interior parts to replace the worn out and damaged original pieces.

💡Engine

The NSX's 'engine' is mentioned several times, such as when it was removed to allow access for cleaning the engine bay and subframe. The engine itself was also rebuilt earlier in the project.

💡Subframe

The 'subframe' refers to the chassis structure underneath the car that the suspension and drivetrain components mount to. The video shows the subframe being cleaned as part of the full rebuild process.

💡Wiring

The car's original 'wiring' had issues, described as 'gremlins', which were fixed as part of the rebuild. Proper functioning wiring and electronics are critical in a modern car like the NSX.

💡Parts

Sourcing correct replacement 'parts' is an ongoing theme in the video. Many parts are new old stock (NOS) from Honda/Acura to retain the car's original look and feel. A company called 'MaiM' is also mentioned as a source of restoration parts.

💡Modification

While mostly a stock restoration, some 'modifications' are added for style and performance, like a new rear wing, carbon fiber pieces, and upgraded seats.

💡Respray

The original paint color is mentioned as one of the upcoming jobs, implying the car will get a full 'respray' or repaint as part of the rebuild process.

💡Tools

The narrator and team rely heavily on various 'tools' and skills like drilling, grinding, polishing, painting, etc. to complete the restoration work on the car.

💡Documentation

The video serves to thoroughly 'document' the rebuild process via commentary, before/after comparisons, time lapses, and up-close inspection of parts. This allows viewers to follow along with each step.

Highlights

The video documents the rebuild process of an Acura NSX, focusing on cleaning and restoring the interior

Many new OEM and aftermarket parts are unboxed, including a glove box, tack panel, shift knob, window trims, arm rest, and more

Over $5,000 was spent on sourcing high-quality restoration parts from Japan

A new rear wing and carbon fiber diffuser are installed to enhance the exterior styling

Based on viewer feedback, the car may be painted white with mag blue wheels to match the builder's Mazda RX-7

Brand new interior pieces are test fitted, bringing the degraded cabin back to life

The original HKS intake was hand polished to restore it cosmetically

New side mirrors and door hardware are installed, with difficult broken clips replaced

Bride bucket seats are test fitted and wired up, complementing the tight interior

Evidence suggests the car's interior suffered water damage from sitting with windows down

Speaker grilles are refinished to match the renewed factory look

The next phase will prepare the new shop space before relocating

The interior restoration brings the vision for the neglected car to life

Future videos will show more progress as this unique rebuild continues

The satisfying transformation shows the potential in a car left for dead

Transcripts

this is the video that I have been

waiting to film out of this whole entire

rebuild in the last couple videos we've

reserved the engine cleaned all the

interior pieces we've cleaned the whole

subframe we've fixed wiring Gremlins and

now we're moving on to putting back the

interior and making the car look a

little bit nicer so right here I have a

box that was imported from Japan that is

consisting of a bunch of pieces we were

missing a glove box let's put that aside

we're talking brand new in b

be oh please for the love of God be very

careful with that this is a key part to

the interior love seeing that let's put

that to the side ooh I think this is

actually the tack pezel yeah the tackel

oh there's your button are we missing

that button no no your button for the

headlights oh look there's a TCS button

in here ours was broken and we bought

one that's Weir ours is located in the

center pil really uh-oh is this an na2 I

don't know maybe we got the wrong bezel

we'll find out stay tuned this is good

Cal right here this is R34 style

restoration look at that brand new

window trims yeah window trim brand new

UN boxed window trims look at the felt

you see the felt fresh fresh felt not

dirty not dirty felt we love that Honda

Honda what do we got

go oh baby yeah don't break that we know

all about this that is a very very so it

falls off the table and cracks here's

the old one looks pretty clapped out

here's the new one

absolutely brand new let's get a

close-up on the button

press oh just a good old

one oh new one nice fresh produce that's

good looks right

there I don't even want to touch it Cal

look at look at that leather please oh

it's fresh it's like factory factory new

ooh this is heavy this is really heavy

oh that's a good piece it's really

heavy yeah that's the thing you're going

to interact most with oh my gosh I think

we spent close to $5,000 on pieces Jesus

Oh

fresh BNI I also have a box here from

our friend Brian who had a bunch of NSX

Parts ooh okay our car came with nothing

in the trunk so he actually had a spare

trunk liner look at that oh look at all

the oh they're all the bits yeah yeah

that's huge D we didn't have any of that

finding lips for this car is pretty

difficult the style that I wanted you

couldn't find anywhere but he actually

had one and he said it's a little bit

damaged but it's repairable so I said oh

we'll take it so you can see right here

there's a little bit of a little bit of

damage but nothing a little Bondo can't

fix there is something about seeing a

table filled up with brand new parts

that just gets me going so now that we

have all these laid out we're going to

start swapping over the pieces that we

can some of these components look like

this armrest that's going to go in the

center console we also have some radio

pieces and some vent pieces that also

need to get transferred over now a lot

of these pieces came from a place called

Ma I'm going to link them down below

they started to support us after the

last episode they've been sending us

some good parts so if you need something

for your NSX check out ma it's link down

below interrupting Calvin's time lapse

to show you a box I just got from ma as

well one thing that was requested was

all o replacement clu and hoses now this

job would have been much easier to do

with the engine out for the sake of time

and for YouTube we put it in and we're

like we we do it later we didn't think

we'd get this so soon there's also a

fair amount of products in here that Ma

makes themselves that they sent out some

of the stuff that you can't get new they

actually refurbish themselves like this

piece I don't know when we install all

these door pieces I'll show you so you

guys can get a good look at what they

actually are they also make a really

cool shift knob that was really excited

on and it looks like the NSX R shift

knob and oh man that feels and looks

great so this is the rear hatch bezel

and vent it's a new one

and this is the old one new hotness this

is the new one a this smells really good

damn

[Music]

while we're in the back I'm going to go

ahead and install our new Wing this is

like an NSX R style Wing very popular

and common Wing among the nsx's for good

reason it looks really good let's put it

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now let's get back to it while C's

working on the interior while I've been

working on the back of the wing Dylan

has been in the interior of the car

dealing with probably one of the most

unfun jobs you could possibly ever do on

a car had to lift all the carpet that we

did which is fine Fold It Forward and

and tap every single B hole for the seat

and then uh since I did that I've been

basically kind of just like you eyeball

it take a look right here eyeball it

kind of hold your finger in some place

so let me see the hole can you see how

grimy it

is yeah dude um basically you hit it

with smaller drill bit and a larger

drill bit and then you're able to put

the bolt through it and then I've been

chasing it with a tap and then I have a

tapered bolt somewhere here that I've

been using that has like a a guiding

bolt nose yeah yeah damn all right well

he just finished the passenger side got

bolts going through all of them so

that's good oh just left a print on the

carpet you did yep you oh yeah [ __ ]

it ain't do

anymore don't be in that pocket now now

it's a pooby trap we have a diffuser

that we're going to be throwing on this

car just a little carbon bit car doesn't

need much cuz it already has skirts and

a few other pieces but did feel that the

rear needed just a little more in the

back so got this cool carbon diffuser

for it and while we're waiting for Ian

to finish pinning out the electrical on

the wing I'm going to Chuck this

on heck yeah oh wow is it heavy dude you

could honestly take like 35 lb off this

car just getting rid of the

bumper It's just like you still can't

see it because it's green it's really

ugly turns out that rear bumper was an

absolute nightmare to take off there

were so many pieces of Hardware but I

guess that's '90s technology this is our

new diffuser and it calls to reuse all

of the Fasteners that came up the stock

bumper so have a little bit of

modification to do to make sure this

thing fits nice and tight so it doesn't

end up flying off on us but it looks

good we're adding a lot of carbon to

this car and I saw all the comments in

the last video a lot of you guys

suggested going white with the car and

then doing mag blue wheels and having

all the carbon exposed and that would

match our RX7 so right now I'm kind of

leaning towards doing that there's a few

other colors I'm considering but the

white is tempting so thank you for all

the suggestions we had over 5,000

comments in the last video your voices

are heard so whatever feedback you guys

have is if you want to see us do

something leave it down below cuz trust

me we listen now let's modifi this

diffuser so it fits the bumper assemble

it and put it back on the

[Music]

car ooh I like it a lot way more

aggressive

oh oh

no oh it's going to look sick exhaust on

it I know yeah this going to be sick

it's really

cool and now my favorite part of this

episode putting back all the brand new

pieces but this is what I saw from the

very beginning I saw the potential and

seeing it come together is one of the

most satisfying things of this whole

entire

build

while we tackled the interior Ian went

ahead and hand polished the OG HKS

intake that came on the car and got it

looking mighty fine the NSX comes with a

cassette player right here a lot of

people end up modifying the center

console and they end up like making

their own hole for a double D and then

just like Bondo the rest of it so it's

Sleek that's what was done to ours we

ordered a brand new one so it has the

cassette player stuff we're obviously

not going to Source an old cassette

player just because we'll add audio to

this car I don't know what we're going

to do yet so we'll have a little hole

for now but we will sort that eventually

that's going to need to come

out this is the first time that we've

actually had this interior in the car

which is really cool to see I don't know

if you got a shot of it but yeah look at

that that is so rad to see that together

this is my favorite thing about this

whole entire project it's that we

sourced a lot of new interior bits that

we were just missing but it's really

cool to take what was once left to rot

and who knows if or is ever going to see

the L of day again or what was left to

become a parts car and to put in some

love some elbow grease and some

Maguire's product this we didn't Source

new we just like heavily cleaned it and

brought it back it may not be perfect

but it's like more than good enough to

where if you got in it once the car was

done you would like look back there and

be like man that's really grinding me

that's what makes this type of project

so exciting to me is taking what was

once considered trash or parts car and

Reviving it so cool

[Music]

moment

next up I'm going to go ahead and take

off the door panels because we have new

mirrors for the car but before I show

you guys that we are going to be fixing

our door handle because well we're not

going to be fixing with but the door

handle we had was pretty gross and our

friend Brian sent us out a replacement

so we're going to go ahead and do that

so I already removed the old door handle

here's a new one yeah that is fresh our

other one works worked but let's get a

side by side comparison here yeah don't

need to tell you that that the one on

the bottom is definitely better so we're

going to replace that then we also have

a new set of mirrors that we're going to

throw on and to get to that we need to

get the door panel off to access that

Cal what kind of mirrors are we going to

do some carbon fever ones race ones

craft Square these are sick we have the

uh same ones on the FD oh do you really

like them thought this would be a good

touch we were going to go ganadors on

this car but we just could couldn't find

any it was a long search pull up and off

and it requires medium Force

but oh God what did I just do let me

tell you C it's not what you want to

see a few moments

[Applause]

later oh my God he got it that was so

satisfying I wasn't filming but tell

them what just happened this thing was

dangling and it caught on my apron and

it [ __ ] snapped

it a pretty obscure piece dude that's so

[ __ ] it caught on my [ __ ] apron bro

ask you how you are you you just have to

say that you're fine when you're not

really fine but you just that is the

list of things to find no it's that's

impossible reenact going to fix yeah

reenactment you yeah so it was like this

okay ready ready hey pep can I get a

shot here sure sure

sure and you hear

aink and we got to figure how to get

this trim molding

[Applause]

off we're going to throw in the seat

today and I picked up a pair of brides

it's my favorite bucket seat I went back

and forth on what type of seat I was

going to put in this but the thing is is

this NSX is very much like an FD in the

fact that it is very tight on the inside

and doing any sort of seat other than

Factory or doing a very small bride like

this is really hard to fit a

seat the heck is

this is that a butt warmer what the heck

what the [ __ ] is that is that what that

is or it might be it looks like maybe a

pressure sensor like a factory pressure

sensor so if you have like a BMW and

it's like you know when you put your bag

on it and it's like someone put the seat

belt on someone's your seat or your dog

lame I don't know if that's it could be

maybe you hot wire that I much rather

like to believe that it's a buttw warmer

okay well either way we're going to go

ahead Chuck these in we have the rails

for them it's going to look really good

so when I was taking off this door panel

a lot of these outside Clips like right

here that one that one that one's intact

that one's busted that one's busted and

that one's busted and that one's almost

busted those six holes are what hold the

door panel to the actual door and from

the research that I did on YouTube and

trying to figure out how to get this

thing off everyone mentions how they're

always busted well well ma makes

replacement parts for this door which is

really really cool here's example here's

a bottom side that we can go ahead and

install and we're going to have these

clips brand new again which is really

rad that someone actually makes this so

it's refurbished it's an actual like ma

piece so they sent these to us so thank

you Ma we appreciate you we're going to

go ahead and install them and fix our

door so we just installed all of the

replacement edges unfortunately some of

this stuff this is so brittle when we're

putting it back together is falling

apart I know that I can actually order a

lot of this like inside of the door

controls new so I'll probably go ahead

and spring for that but I also just

wanted to notice what what happened

forgot a

pie this car uh has a lot of like damp

pieces in it and that's because the

windows were left down on this car for

who knows how long and I think that's

what all this like green ALG is all left

from I saw some comments like this car

was never left with the windows down all

of the door panels and all the panels we

put out today are all like water log and

they're all saturated so that's

unfortunate again I'm going to keep my

eyes built for door placements let see

what we can

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find now that we we have finished up the

speaker covers for the drawer panels

there's one more speaker in between both

these seats and with how good the

interior looks we're going to give the

same attention to this little speaker as

well so Dylan just finished taping this

thing up and I am just going to start

painting on the die and do the best we

can to get this thing looking brand new

again and today's video is coming to an

end the interior is finally starting to

come together and that was the vision I

saw from the very beginning and arguably

one of the most enjoyable parts of the

build in my opinion we're going to spend

the next few days at the new shop

getting it ready for us to move into

because the countdown is starting and we

have a lot to move in a very short

amount of time so I will see you guys in

the next video with a new shop update

video thank you guys so much for

watching peace out and keep moving

forward

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