Upon searching Google for the world’s quickest street driven NSX, there are a few threads on NSX Prime reporting 1/4 mile times, but currently you don’t see many 600+ whp street driven NSX’s anywhere… except down south in “Mexico”.  Sam Du of Super Street contacted me about shooting Brandn Wilbur’s K20A swapped NA1 NSX in October 2016… I’m now finally able to share the images now that the feature is out in the latest Super Street July 2017 Honda Issue.  Grab a copy and support print! 

The shoot started early in the morning at Catalina Coffee.  Kind of an iconic spot for the ricers to meet up Sunday mornings for Coffee and Rice…

It wasn’t an easy task to schedule the shoot with Brandon because he lived about 1.5 hrs away in Lake Charles, LA…

So we scheduled the shoot whenever he came into town which was for a dyno tune session with Huy at Inline Racing…

Gotta love early Saturday mornings on Washington St….

Awesome vanity plate…

Wait… K20A swapped??

It kinda makes sense Brandon would stick in a built K series engine into the NSX….

The original K series engine was from his previous street racing car, the Toyota MR2 SW20… 

Branden told me when he had bought the shell, it was in a million pieces… I can’t imagine putting everything back together like a Lego set…

Interior is meant for business on the streets of Mexico…

Brandon kept the exterior simple and wasn’t show quality, but it was more of a clean street sleeper type of set up meaning no crazy aero or downforce… 

For this shoot, I had a little help from Dennis Nguyen as a spotter and rolling car driver… 

What’s the best time to get rolling shots of a black car?  Either during sunrise or sunset… 

Shout out to Brandon and his gf for taking the untuned NSX on the streets for a few rolling shots…

Check out that blown out skyline…. 

Later on in the evening I stopped by Inline Racing to check out the dyno tuning session… 

Huy Tran of ILR is the man behind tuning Brandon’s past race cars… 

This was the first time getting tuned after swapping in the engine… 

Tuning mumbo jumbo… 

Gotta check those spark plugs when tuning…

The dyno tuning session lasted all night and as I had mentioned before it was the first session so things didn’t go accordingly to plan.  A few months later, Brandon came back for a dyno session and was making steady power with a new setup but had blown the rear hatch glass.  A final dyno tuning session happened at TX2K17 and that’s when the car hit 970whp… 

During the first dyno session, I grabbed a couple of video clips and put together a really short clip.  I’m still working on learning the right settings for video and editing so don’t critique too hard lol.  Anways, I’ll post the video below and let me know what you think.   Shot with just a Nikon D750 and various lenses.  I decided to edit without music and just raw tuning/shop sounds.  As always thanks for checking out what I’m doing!

Danh Phan
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