This past thursday, some guy ran into the rear end of my 97 Honda Civic and screwed it all up. So now, I bought a 94 Acura Integra LS off my pops. The only thing is the motor has 205,000 miles on it. I was planning to build it and go all-motor but before I do that, should I do something I do anything to the motor? Someone a while back said something about cleaning the carbon build-up. Anyways, any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks.

 

to clean the carbon use sea foam good stuff

prob wanna do a leak, compression test on that motor,

see when the water pump, timing belt, oil pump was changed last

 

Alright cool, thanks. That sounds easy. Anything else is more than welcome.

 

congrats on the teg...dont worry bout the miles just yet..i have a94 gsr with 209K on the bottom end, but it has a gude racing head..just do good and frequent oil changes, you might get a oil pressure guage to keep and eye on the pressure so if theres some changes you will know you might have bearing isues...but for the long run i would get a rebuild and get a vtec head and you will be amazed....good luck


Modified by IntegraGSR(-1) at 1:51 PM 5/13/2006

 

sea-foam it, then change the oil, plugs and possibly dizzy cap, rotor, plug wires
if it was owned by an old man, it shouldn;t have been beat on too hard.
gl w/ the project

 

cool. thanks alot homies.

 

what is this sea foam, how does it work (instructions) and where do you purchase it?

 

seals and gaskets too, they may be old and cracked if never been cheanged

 

http://www.diyimports.com/seafoamprint.html
heres the seafoam info. oh and yeah i forgot about the gaskets, thanks.

 

BTW, if your neighbors dont hate you already, they are REALLY gonna hate you after you seafoam your car, especially one with that many miles on it.

 

lol, When you seafoam make sure your in the middle of nowhere,

 

haha. i'll find someone i hate.

 

lol well goodluck, And get some pics up

 

Seafoam is like a enema for your car. The Seafoam does a really good job of getting carbon build ups off.

 

With that much mileage sea foam could very well make the car leak oil. Alot of times those deposits are the only thing holding a good seal. Compression and Leakdown Test it, change the T belt, water pump and tensioner, cam seals, tranny fluid, oil and roll the hell out.

 

i'll be sure to do all of that. the car is still pretty much stock so it'll be a while for the pics. oh yeah, since i'm here, i know this has probably been discussed a billion times before, but is there a difference between the 94-97 and 98-01 front bumpers, and if so, are they interchangeable? also, will the 01 tail lights fit on my 94 teg? sorry if this is annoying but it's my first integra. thanks.

 

yes, all of the parts from 94-01 are interchangeable. but if you get the 98+ bumper you'll need the 98+ headlights, otherwise it'll have a big gap with the 97 and down headlights, the 98+ tail lights should go in with no problem.

 

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& turn signals

 

lol yeah, forgot about that one.

 

alright cools. so i'll be getting the 98+ bumper, headlights, and turn signals, for sure. i'm pretty sure i'll be getting the tail lights as well, they red and clears are bad ***. thanks people.

 

ever notice that the 98-01 parking lights are the 94-97 ones turned upside down...weird.

 

hm.. never realized that.

 

oh yeah, is there any differences between the jdm/usdm/typer/gsr/ls turn signals? if so, which one do you think looks best?.. i know this is getting way off topic. thanks anyways.

 

In 94-97 yes, I have the JDM signals which are amber on the inside and clear on the outside. The USDM are all amber. In 98-01 they are all the same. I love my JDM signals.

 

darn. i was hoping they had the amber/clears for the 98+. thanks though.