Brian Smith's 1991 Acura NSX

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By: Che Chou

10.25.06 // 12:08

Although it may not be the very first aspect of the game to grip your senses, audio is a crucial part of Forza Motorsport 2's simulation equation. The audio characteristics of each car in the game remains a fine point of detail you pick up after hours, days, weeks spent on the edge of grip in the world of Forza Motorsport. For the development of Forza Motorsport 2, we go through pains to record hundreds of cars to get that aspect of the game just right. In an effort to share with you some insight into how all of this game development voodoo works, we're pulling together a recurring series of features called the Turn 10 Dyno Spotlight that looks at a sampling of the most interesting cars we've gotten to record over the past year of Forza Motorsport 2 development.

For our fifth dyno session, we shine the spotlight on Brian Smith and his modified jet-black 1991 Acura NSX. Originally introduced in 1990 as an experimental street car platform (New Sportscar Xperimental), the NSX shook the automotive world with engineering feats such as a mid-engine RWD layout, an all-aluminium chassis, and a naturally-aspirated 3.0 L V6 motor that produced 270 hp with 210 ft-lbs. torque — per-liter specs for a V6 that were simply unheard of back in 1990. Today, the car is legendary not only because the NSX stands up to 16 years of automotive advancement, but also because it's becoming an increasingly rare car to find in decent condition.

But that didn't stop Brian Smith, Forzamotorsport.net's guest contributor and owner of our featured 1991 NSX, from tracking one down and using the platform as a car-upgrades playground. We asked him to send us the story of both car and driver and received a letter not at all dissimilar from many other car enthusiast tales we've heard and published. Certainly, you'll be able to relate if you're a car lover.

At the end of the dyno spotlight, we've included our usual audio freerun quiz featuring four anonymous MP3s that require you to pick out which of these is Brian's prized NSX. So without further ado...

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