JAS Motorsport has finished its restomod take on the Honda NSX, and it is called the Tensei. The name means "rebirth" in Japanese, and the car backs that up with a 420-horsepower naturally aspirated V6 and a six-speed manual gearbox.
Every one of the planned 35 cars starts life as a donor NSX before JAS strips it down and rebuilds it with Pininfarina-designed carbon-fiber bodywork. Honda never touches the project directly, this is an independent shop's reinterpretation of an icon.
JAS kept the NSX's original Honda C30A block but handed the internals to Judd Power, the British engine builder better known for motorsport work. Judd redesigned the crankshaft, fitted light-alloy cylinder heads and titanium valves, and ditched Honda's VTEC variable valve timing for fixed timing instead.
The 3.5-liter engine makes 414 horsepower at 8,300 rpm and 305 pound-feet of torque at 5,500 rpm, revving to an 8,500-rpm redline. Power runs through a six-speed manual with a carbon twin-disc clutch and a Torsen limited-slip differential, sending drive to the rear wheels alone.
That setup echoes JAS's earlier NSX work years before Tensei reached this finished form.
Pininfarina replaces the NSX's original aluminum panels with high-modulus carbon fiber across the entire body, a swap that also brings a flat underfloor and an active rear diffuser the first-generation car never had. JAS lists the dry weight at 2,756 pounds.
Brakes come from Brembo, with six-piston calipers up front and four-piston units at the rear, clamping down on a chassis tuned with KW dampers running Dynamic Damping Control.
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