Mugen88
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- Nov 7, 2009
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*THIS BUILD IS TAKEN FROM WWW.DTDIRL.COM, THE ORIGINAL FORUM I POSTED IT UP ON
Hope You Enjoy (",)
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Hope You Enjoy (",)
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Well its about time i made a proper one of these as im doin a brave bit of work on the car at the mo and a few people off the site says i should throw together a progress thread so here goes
This is my Integra type R
Thats her in all her glory, As most who know me know, im a big honda fan and iv wanted a type R for ages, since back in me schooldays, the cream o the crop was the mighty "type R" and i remember looking at something i never thought id get so when i finally got one now after the long wait, i wanted to make the most of it. As I intend on keeping this car for a while, i decided to spend a few quid on it. Started off small at first but began buying bigger and better things.
First off were a few small things, brand new oe honda red badges for front and back and oe decals for both sides and back (these can be seen in the pictures below)
Also got a set of yellow headlights from kevtegra (sound)
And a set of oem Honda Integra Mudflaps from g.mc.m (also pure sound)
While up with Garret we were talking about how these *******s leak a lot in the boot so I decided to do something about it. After a little research from itr-dc2.com i discovered that the best thing to use to solve the problem is to sand all the rust back down to the bare metal, prime and use Hammerite gate paint to paint over the top to stop any rust ever coming through again.
Thankfully i took no photos of the boot before it was repainted lol
After i had the boot done i wanted to spruce up the rest of the interior of the car, so instead of those crap speakers that people cut into the parcel shelves i got some oem honda rear speakers
Took another trip over to g.mc.m to see what else he had laying around for me. Thankfully he had a teg up there for breaking that had in around 40 000 genuine miles, so i ripped the inner black plastics out along with the parcel shelf to freshen up my teg
These plastics had perfect holes cut at the back for a rear strut bar so i took it aswell
Decided to spray the strut bar gold, forgot to take a pic of this but i will get one and throw it in here when I next get a chance. This is the pic of it all together, new rear parcell shelf, black plastics and strut bar fitted
Up front the only thing the car really needed was a new steering wheel as the leather on the old one wasnt in the best of health and a new drivers red recaro. Im split between getting my drivers seat refurbed or just looking for a really mint set, still torn on that one but eventually mint recaros will be in this car lol. As for the steering wheel i managed to get a hold of this
A momo race wheel in near pristine condition (thanks to pearse9000rpm)
That was it for a while, had to save up a few more bob for what i had planned next. Money was put away and eventually at 183044 kilometres
THIS HAPPENED ........ :happy)
Yes yes the USDM bug hit. After looking at plenty of wire tucks and stuff from the states i really wanted to try it and make the car stand out from the many other integras about. Also felt that if im keeping this car for a while, I wanted to rebuild the engine. Poor oul Rhonda had done her fair share of km's and she was gettin smokey and burning oil. This gave me the opportunity to kill two birds wi the wan stone. Began buying away at parts from Honda and kept them all on me kitchen table until the time was right to do the rebuild.
I left the car out to Seán Quinn of Quinn Motorsports in Tyrone and he began last tuesday the 29th of may. I took a few photos but have yet to be uploaded. Guna take as many pics as possible of the engine rebuild and of doing the wire tuck. Stay tuned
and for those that thought its an SiR engine with the black rocker
(my own one is getting refurbed, more pics to come of that)