DA JeLLie

I will save the first post for quick link references.

DA JeLLie

Hello all. It has been quite a while since I made a long post like this, but without further a due, here it is.

This is my 1991 Integra GS. I have had this car for almost 10 years now, and it is rolling up on 20 years itself right around the corner. It was my second vehicle I have owned, and to date the most fun. It has been out of commission for almost 2 years, and finally got it running again. Now that I recently purchased a house, and got my garage set up the way I wanted it, I thought I might give my integra a little cleaning. One thing lead to another, and now I have started a LARGE project.


Even though I am going to have the car repainted, it won't be until I am done with the motor swap and more, so I just want to get it in better condition, so I am still proud of the car, even before the new paint job. Plus it makes great practice.

Not too bad from far away, but up close swirls and oxidation.




And chips and scratches.




A chip that I had previously just put some touch-up paint on. I plan on doing the touch-up sand, touch-up, sand, touch-up, sand buff buff buff method.


The interior is a little dirty from sitting for 2 years without a cleaning. (even though it was garaged w/ a car cover.)




Grime in the windows


The FAL window will need some polishing. It is all swirled up.

DA JeLLie

I started in the engine compartment


I had been removing items so I could get a full clean, so I decided to remove the headlights to give it a good scrub.


In the process, looking better.


One thing leads to another, I take the bumper support, and fender off, and find small items I want to restore by hand.


I also cleaned the inside of the fender you will never see. And I do have new fender linings but I don't want to replace them until the car has been repainted.


Removed as much over spray from the fender lining as possible, and then dressed the fender lining on the topside w/water based dressing 1:1


I gave it a second coat of Megs Water Based Dressing.




After I washed every area I could find, I re-installed the fender


Then gave it a quick wipe with some LTD. Not too worried about it right now since I will be doing the polishing a bit later.


And it was just supposed to be a quick detail. HA!!! man this is going to be a project.

DA JeLLie

Alright so the last couple of days I have been cleaning up the DA, and trying to get it registered again. I finally finished getting it smogged. Here was my journey along the way.

Before


After (No its not a new piece, yes I cleaned it with a toothbrush)


Before


After


Before


After


Before


After


It took me about a day and a half (not working 100% of the time) to finish the cleaning of the engine bay, bumper support area, and under the fenders. You would be amazed at how many leaves, twigs and dirt you will find in there.

DA JeLLie

Here is what the car looked like after I gave it a quick wipe down after I was done spattering dirt all over the fenders.





So far I only did about 1/3 of the underside of the hood.


I went and picked up some parts that were being stored at my moms before I bought my house. I think this needs a little cleaning.


I think this needs a little cleaning.


I went out and adjusted the fitment of the hood. But really all you can tell from this picture is that I need to spend less time typing, and more time polishing.

DA JeLLie

Brought the car into the garage and spent some time figuring out what my detailing process will be. VERY HAZY


With a side of extra hazy.


I decided to start a testing spot, so I cleaned and clayed half of the hood. Honestly I thought the clay would look a lot worse. I love the process of detailing, because if you pre-test your products to make sure you will get the results you want. Feel the side you started with, and then the finished side. It gives me a great feel of accomplishment.


Half washed and clayed, the other half nothing.




Then I built a square on 1/3 of the cleaned side, and tried 2 different methods.
1. m205 on a polishing pad
2. m105 on a polishing pad (which will be followed by m205 on a polishing pad.)

Reults (the square was left alone for comparison, I polished on the sides of the square.) Please excuse the lame pictures, I was about 30 seconds from running out of sunlight.

m205 on polishing pad - Still kinda swirly


m105 on polishing pad - Much better, but I think I will have to use m105 on a cutting pad followed by m205 on a polishing pad for the results I am looking for.


That's about as far as I have gotten since the last update. And for some reason I can't find any final engine pictures, I will have to take some again tomorrow I suppose.

DA JeLLie

I'm sure you guys could care less about this detailing crap that you will never see, so what do you say we get to the good stuff. What you are really looking for. Here is my Costco shelf of DA parts. (I am going to buy another one to hold more of my DA parts tomorrow)


The things that have to be added. (Some of these you will have to guess.)

Folding Mirrors


Clean bumper, switch OE lip from other bumper, then install on car.


Excuse the dirt, my mom lives in the desert, and even though everything was in a garage, the garage was almost worse than just digging a hole in the backyard to hide everything in.





The Honda Santa, we;ll just call him Sonda for short.




These 2 are the same, have fun guessing.




New Wheels.

dingo ate my baby

awesome effort man

JDM-DC2-GSR-96

lovin it keep it up man

DrZFiNeSt

iTrader: (1)

Lovin the DA.If your new wheels are what I think they are

E-Money

iTrader: (1)

for once a decent thread. nice details.

Nocturnal_4_Life

Im in for this build. I love your car man.Your car was on my desktop a long loong time ago. Good luck with the build.

89lowlude

In for more...looks great so far.

+honda_monkey+

nice tegg. thanks for the teasers. we all really needed that.

John M

nice

DA JeLLie

Here more teasers, of the wheels, now you have an idea of what are.


The tall skinny box has these inside.

jdm inc

iTrader: (11)

one of the cleanest da's ive seen! Keep up the good work!

DA JeLLie

Polished out half of the hood to make sure I would get the results I wanted.
m80 on a cutting pad
m105 on a polishing pad
I will probably end up using fuzion over the whole car once I'm done, but I have probably 8-10 waxes/sealants so I might change some things up.







A good Sun Shot


Then I started working on the paint blobs I've been making for the past few days.


Not 100% happy yet, but Before


After

DA JeLLie

Nothing added yet (a few extra parts arrived that I haven't put on.) Here was a small photoshoot I did before I start to tear her apart.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/mschoelen/4961124474/http://www.flickr.com/photos/mschoelen/4961124474/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/mschoelen/, on Flickr


http://www.flickr.com/photos/mschoelen/4961124970/http://www.flickr.com/photos/mschoelen/4961124970/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/mschoelen/, on Flickr


http://www.flickr.com/photos/mschoelen/4961125060/http://www.flickr.com/photos/mschoelen/4961125060/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/mschoelen/, on Flickr

My favorite, but I am disappointed the light didn't catch the right wheel, so the right side of the car looks like its a jetson mobile.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mschoelen/4961125124/http://www.flickr.com/photos/mschoelen/4961125124/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/mschoelen/, on Flickr

dapek

Great attention to detail man, will definitely be checking in on this thing often! Great bit of oem parts you have ready to go, and pumped to see those regas on

DA JeLLie

thanks, hopefully I keep it updated, and don't let it die like last time.

Ef9vsDa9

luv it!

Ej8_KiD

this is great! keep it up man

DA JeLLie

Thank you guys. It looks like im going to start tearing her apart on thursday. If I don't start now, it will never get done.

TahitianGreen

Awesome!

I love your attention to detail

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