piyu

Hi Everyone,
I'm new to the ITR world. I called Acura a few times for parts and they seem to be all discontinued. Where does everyone go to get parts that are OEM or OEM replicas?

thadon805

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Maintenance parts are available through the dealer.. however, accessories for our cars are long discontinued, the only Optional accessories available for our cars as far as I know are the 98-01 Foglights and 2001 type r Flootmats. For anything else you'll have to hunt on eBay, the classifieds on this forum or Instagram/facebook.

Boosted_01 R

ICB Motorsports, for JDM OEM things. Just bought a bunch of hard to find parts, and their prices are pretty good from what I have seen.

330R

Does ICB carry or can they get items that aren't on their website? Or to ask another way, do they not update their site? I always hear good things about ICB, but it seems like their site has barely changed in years, and so much is stated as out of stock.

To the OP, parts for the ITR are becoming discontinued at ever increasing rates. It's not just accessories and cosmetic parts (interior pieces such as steering wheel, pillar trim, rear side lining), it's also maintenance items (idler pulley), which is alarming; ITR-specific mechanical parts (steering rack, rear shock absorbers), ITR-specific parts (rear spoiler).

My advice is, search every category in the online parts catalog on a site such as www.acuraoemparts.com and for each item you need that is discontinued, search on a site like www.partsgeek.com to see if there is an OE replacement. Also try the usual places like eBay and our classifieds; make a want to buy (WTB) post. Can't hurt.

The newest ITR is now 16 years old and even parts that are common with other Integras (rear ABS lines) and even with the 1988-2000 Civics are discontinued (underfloor heat shields for b-pipe near fuel tank). I think the NSX may have better parts availability.

thadon805

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Www.hmotorsonline.com

Steve, the owner is s good guy and if he doesn't have it in stock he can possibly Acquire it for you from Japan. His Warehouse is always stocked with used and new jdm goodies for our cars.

feck

A while back I had a conversation along the lines of this thread with a couple of relatives of mine who are into restoring and running vintage cars(50/60's Alfas and Jaguars). I asked them if they had a time machine what bits and bobs would they have squirrelled away for their cars. Their answer was interior trim parts mostly and model specific exterior parts like headlights, rear lights bumpers and the like. And spare panels, wings/fenders, sills/rockers. In our cars' case a third party source of panels for the usual rot areas like rear wheelarches would be nice, but nobody seems to do them for the Teg some reason? In my neck of the woods you used to able to get third party front wings/fenders for the four headlight front, but that was many years ago. The biggest danger to old cars is the rust worm, where costs can really escalate if major remedial work is required. If I was an R owner in the US where the standard Integras were a big selling model, I'd be hotfooting it to scrapyards in dryer areas like California and Nevada and chopping out solid rust free panels and keeping them in storage.

Another bit of advice they imparted was to go for a car that was a "special", but that shared most of its underpinning with far more common models, because then parts become much easier to source as the years go on and a model with a large tuning/aftermarket supply in the period and after. They agreed the Teg R is most certainly well within that bracket with so many commonalities with other Tegs and Civics of the period and a huge tuning/aftermarket industry. They didn't worry so much about mechanical parts. Their contention being that they can be remade, repurposed from other sources and kept going for longer than interior and exterior parts. Seats can be later recovered, panels can be welded and so on. Another advantage is the fact the R was sold in many markets and used parts are likely to remain at some level of supply for a while at least. Though local to me I saw an advert for R strut braces and the seller had five of them and I realised that meant five dead Tegs. We also have an advantage previous restorers and savers of cars didn't have; the internet. As your good advice said;

It does, but that's as likely down to the fact they sold far fewer than they expected to or built.

lmrhay

some of the parts on the car you can buy aftermarket and modify or disguise to look OEM.