mattrt09

wow that VC looks amazing all put together

SHG_EasyE

Damn dude vc looks great.... You know that plug cover of mine would look too good on there shoot me an offer if you're still interested!

skipunk4

Thanks man. Buddy picked it out

Hell ya. Thanks for the words man

Thanks man. Erik did a damn good job

Oh I know it would man. It's definitely still on my mind. I need more funds! haha


Came across somethin that Ive been wanting for a little while and just my luck it was in central WA.

Not even was it in WA, but the dude just happened comin over hear for some tournament and was in Tacoma and said he could deliver for a little extra cash. So no shipping fees for a big package and I got it way sooner than expected

Long story short I got this OEM ITR checkered trunk mat delivered tonight



Can't wait to get it in there. Almost ready for the interior to go back in!

Na-Spirit

love the valve cover dude.. Gives me a idea to paint mine the color of my first honda, it was a seattle silver da... i rolled it back in 01.

build is amazing man, my lack of funds keeps me basically only getting my car running, no real extra goodies, I did score some weds tc05's tho, better offset so i can actually drop the car with no rubs ha.

mattrt09

ohh i hate you! i used to want that for my old gsr so bad!

dapek

VC turned out immaculate man. I really love the clear over the lettering, makes for all the difference.

ITR mat as well

skipunk4

Dude I like that idea. If I woulda done that I woulda had a ef teal vc haha. Seattle silver vc on white would look sick though man Funds are causin my car not to be done as well haha need to buckle down and buy sh*t i NEED rather than stuff I want. Got some more stuff comin this week that doesn't have anything to do with my engine or motor haha

Haha hater

Thanks man. I'm real happy with it for sure. Homie hooked it up

mattrt09

haha im a hater freal! i hate that this isnt my car!

Na-Spirit

ef teal rofl..hey wacky contrasting colors give a bay character, i think.. Welp looking forward to seeing your extra goodies. I think im going to get my momo monte carlo at the beginning of aug..sick of my stock wheel! end of august is cams/cam gears/injectors! probably will just go with some blox c's seeing im poor..and they make great power from what I've seen. Atleast this year ill run them..getting antsy for some power!

skipunk4

Hahaha thanks for the love homie.

Haha maybe, but idk about teal on red. I'm gettin so close I can taste it! Always liked the monte carlos. I was going to get one and get the oem Honda Momo horn button available at icb motorsports.

Looks like this one


And I am also gettin real curious to see the power now compared to the old high mileage LS. Should be a night and day difference. I'm gonna have to wait and do cams and injectors down the road as well. No spare funds at the moment and ctr cams aren't the cheapest cams. Good luck with the build man, keep us updated. Always like peepin ur thread. Wish you woulda kept those sw's!

TCIHonda

Great Build! Nice Integra

skipunk4

Thanks man

morseb1

I love this car, everything was almost the exact same as mine... Until the swap... then you just went and made me jealous Amazing car stance is dialed

louuu

just finished going thru all 33 pages for the first time..

what a build man.. congrats.

cant wait to see everything put back together!

skipunk4

Haha thanks for the words man

Thanks man me either! haha


Sorry about the lack of updates guys. Have been putting in some work on the teg and just hadn't had time to get pics and post em up. So much TLC work it's crazy!

The front wheel wells that I undercoated with the rubberized undercoating were absolutely not drying at all and were about to cause me a lot of grief.

I don't know if I just laid it down too thick, but whatever it was after a month of sitting it was still gummy to the touch and stuck to my fingers when touched.

I spent a little time trying to strip most of it off using a wire wheel and brushes but it is taking some time and is a absolute mess...

Progress so far..



I need to get them completely stripped then clean them out with some simple green so I can lay down the new undercoating.

I wised up and spent a little extra money to get some POR15 in semigloss black. Stuff is super durable and you get enough in one can to do quite a bit of undercoating as well as suspension coating.



Picked up a couple brushes as well as for layin the POR15 some SEM trim paint to refresh the windshield cowling and windshield side moldings



I'm going to be running a stock B series cast iron exhaust mani for the time being and mine looked absolutely disgusting, so it got a nice refresh.



Spent some time wirewheeling and cleaning up the header. After it was clean enough I layed a couple coats of Rustoleum High Heat Engine Enamel. Masked off the bottom pipes and just sprayed the cast iron and the heat sheild then installed new heat shield hardware



Also picked up the last bits from the machine shop. I had to have the head reassembled because the valve spring compressor I had didn't work unfortunately.

Valves installed



Mmm clean exhaust ports..



..and freshly ground valves



As well as OEM dual valve springs (supertech valve stem seals in there somewhere haha)



And lastly got the ARP 9mm rod bolts resized and pressed in to the GSR rods



ARP 12pt's are soo nice



Will hopefully have the engine assembled by next week. Still in need of motor mounts and have some suspension and brake clean up to do, but almost done finally

mattrt09

nice!

alot of time man!

.B

you're gonna love this setup!

skipunk4

Ya and elbow grease. My arms are gettin tired..

Thanks man I hope so! I can't wait to drive it for the first time again haha

dapek

Nice detail hitting the window cowel and refurbishing the exhaust mani

Head looks great! Should flow excellently, can't wait to see it running!

SHG_EasyE

Sucks about the wells dude, so much extra work

I did mine with grey POR a few months back and not a singe chip yet

racing_reject_001

looking good sry to hear about the wheel wells issue, and i ran into the same issue with the valve spring compressor, a buddy came up with a somewhat dangerous but useful tool, custom cut a socket, use a 8 mm c clamp and put the valve stem seals in like that, it was a beotch and i caught the c clamp in the face once....but heads done lol i no i no not to smart but hey gotta do it some how.....still nice updates cant wait to see this thing done

Davisaudio20

Hey man how do you like your coil overs? I've been looking at getting the ground control coil overs but i want some feed back on them.

benjamin626

excellent work man! keep up the clean attention to detail.

skipunk4

Thanks man. Wanna get this bish as clean as possible before it goes back on the road

I know man totally sucks.. Can't wait to see how the POR comes out.

Haha nice. Evan (^^SHG_EasyE) showed me a tool that is soo sick a couple pages back specifically for Honda heads. Plan on gettin me one of those down the road

They are nice. If you run extended top hats it rides even better. Look into the koni/gc combo with top hats. Your gonna fork out around 7-8 for that setup but it will ride real nice though

Thanks man will do


Got some more work done in the wheel wells. Stripping out the undercoating was an absolute mess and was no fun at all.



Still need to clean out the rears real good, but should be layin the POR15 real soon



Rears still need LOTS of love

Also got this real clean OEM Itr arm rest w/ badge from JDMFreak_DC2 Super chill dude. Thanks again man, can't wait to get it in there!



Should be gettin the engine assembled this week or next and still have lots of TLC work left to do so lots of small updates till the money shot! Stay posted

YAGYAGAN_JDM

itr arm rest btw my cousin (Jaydm EK) just updated his build yesterday. you can check out the story to see why he hasn't updated it in a while.