NSX Snap Ring Failure Confirmed

Here is a picture of the little bits I found in the access port of my transmission.


And some metal shavings....


And this is the snap ring that I am speaking of....hopefully there isn't too much internal damage.

Fun with all the cars...

Where to start? How about with the fact that my daily driven "super reliable Honda" (i.e. Acura NSX) decide to become unreliable last night. Just cruising home from the grocery store, I hear a pop. I get off the gas while still in 2nd gear and the shifter rocks further than normal while the transmission makes a less than pleasant grinding noise. Hmmm...it appears my car that already had a transmission replaced because of a snapring failure has once again had a snapring failure. So yeah, the car is now parked and won't be moving for a while...not fun times.

Move to the '93 RX7. After finally deciding to buy a set of track wheels (17x9.5/9.0 Enkei RPF-1's), it looks like that is now put on hold due to the NSX fucking up. I don't know if this car is ever going to be track worthy. At least the motor/drivetrain is strong and I can at least drive it even if it doesn't have A/C.

Which leads into the '83 RX7....which as of 1pm today, has air conditioning. I found a place that still had R12, which I was pretty excited about...but at the last second, I decided to retrofit to R134a because it is cheap and I figured that one day I would have to anyway when everyone runs out of R12. But I couldn't be happier with the R134a in this car. I replaced the drier and they pulled vacuum on it for 30 minutes, reoiled the system, and recharged it. Now it blows a nice 40-degrees on a super humid 85 deg day. Not too shabby.

So some good and some bad, but shit happens when you like playing with cars.