If the name Tam Le sounds familiar, it’s because you’ve seen his work on this site before. Tam is the guy who helped piece together the one-off turbo system on Josh Mackey’s Mazda3, building someone else’s dream out of rare parts and fabrication hours. This time the car is his own, and it’s a big one: a 1991 Acura NSX, widened, repainted, and detailed to a level that only happens when the person turning the wrenches has spent years doing it for everybody else first.
Cutting into an NSX is not a decision anyone makes lightly, and the way Tam went about it says a lot about the build. Rather than universal flares riveted over stock metal, the width comes from the NSX-specific catalog: Downforce GTS vented front fenders and Taitec rear quarter panels, each adding 25mm per side, with a Shine Auto front bumper, Pride Marga Hills style side skirts, and Route KS carbon side scoops tying the body together. Up top sits a Taitec Type R hood, and out back a Taitec GT500 carbon wing on powder coated stands looms over a Downforce carbon center-exit exhaust diffuser. The whole car was resprayed in Formula Red with a black top, sealed under Simoniz Glass Coat nano-ceramic, and finished with JDM NSX-R H badges. It reads as one cohesive design rather than a parts pile, which on a widebody NSX is the difference between the builds people remember and the ones they’d rather forget.
Filling those wider arches is a set of Volk Racing TE37SL wheels in Graphite, 17×9 +22 up front and 18×10.5 +22 in the rear, wrapped in Federal SS595s at 235/40/17 and 285/35/18 and held on with RAYS locking lug nuts. Next comes the suspension. Instead of committing to bags or living with a scraped splitter, the car runs BC coilovers upgraded with 10k Swift springs, paired with a four-corner Stance air cup kit on a custom-mounted pump and tank with a pressure gauge. The car sits static like a proper coilover setup, then lifts on demand for driveways and dips. Braking runs R1 Concepts GeoMet slotted rotors with ceramic pads and Science of Speed stainless lines, and an F1-style third brake light with a strobe module covers the rear.
The engine bay follows the honest naturally aspirated path. The V6 breathes through a Dali Racing intake pipe with a K&N filter under a Downforce intake scoop, exhales through Top Speed Pro 1 headers into a custom exhaust built with two MagnaFlow mufflers, two Vibrant resonators, and an X-pipe, exiting through M-style tips wearing carbon sleeves. A Prospeed stage 3 chip with an RDX injector kit handles the tune, a Cometic head gasket upgrade and a Mishimoto radiator with Venair red silicone hoses keep it healthy, and a Science of Speed Sport 275 clutch with an aluminum flywheel puts it to the ground. The dress-up is just as deliberate, with billet pieces throughout, Science of Speed’s billet reservoir, cap, and fuse cover, and valve covers painted VHT gold under automotive clear.
Inside is where the build goes from clean to genuinely custom. The gauge cluster is an S2000 unit swapped in with a Qube LED upgrade and a carbon bezel, and nearly every surface you touch has been redone: Ridies leather covers the seats, door cards, armrest, center console, and even the subwoofer enclosure. That enclosure is a custom carbon and fiberglass piece built into the center console, housing a Kicker 8-inch sub fed by a Punch four-channel amp, with a Pioneer SPH-10BT1 head unit on a Science of Speed double-DIN bracket, Pioneer 6.5-inch three-ways in sound-deadened doors, and upgraded Rockford Fosgate wiring throughout. The driver’s controls run through an NRG short hub and a Works Bell Rapfix quick release in the Yoshioka Special Edition, currently holding a 320mm MOMO Race wheel with a 350mm MOMO Tuner on order. Real carbon overlays the factory trim, an Integra Type R boot wraps the shifter under a carbon knob, Zanardi floor mats cover the floors, and Science of Speed billet window and door levers, LED cabin lighting, and a dash cam mirror with a backup camera round it out.
Scroll down to the thanks list and you’ll understand how a build like this actually happens. It’s long, it names shops and friends by the dozen, and it includes Josh Mackey himself, which brings this one full circle. The NSX has a history on this site going back to features like Fresh Squeeze Naranjita (also shot by Mackey), and Tam’s car is a worthy addition to that lineage: a widebody done by someone who respected the car enough to do it right.
GalleryPhotos by Josh Mackey
