- UPDATE 10.1.07 PAGE 4

Hey everyone, I figured I would finally post up my own thread in here. As some of you probably already knew, I had spent the past 5 years of my life, from age 16 on, building my old teg into my "dream car." I couldn't afford a real R so I did as much as I could to make it what I envisioned a clean car to be. Well, on 8/1/07 that got taken from me too soon, after only a year of having my JDM ITR swap done to it...



After that, I figured I'd only be happy with one thing.. an R of my own! So i flew all the way to TX with a friend to pick up what is now my 2001 #0618 NBP R.









This car has been a pain since I brought it home not going to lie. I took it to get inspected and it failed for the following reasons:
- right front wheel bearing needed replaced
- needed all new tires because the guy sold it to me with BALD tires (and yeah i had to drive 24 hours on them)
- rear fog light not working
- wiring completely effed up under the fender
- battery was relocated poorly to the back, if anything had hit it it would have shorted
- he pulled the fuse box through the firewall and had it chilling on the passenger side feet area, not even nicely mounted anywhere it was just hanging there.
- he had put the rear seat belts back on wrong, switching sides
- and it had a test pipe (which i did know about) so it was throwing codes for both o2 sensors.

So, after completely pretty much gutting the car, fixing as much as I could with a friend, and then taking it to a shop to mount and balance new tires, replaced the wheel bearing and hub assembly, buying a new expensive *** secondary o2 sensor, and doing the whole 90k tune up (timing belt, etc) since it is nearing that marker... it FINALLY passed inspection.

Suspension needs changed out badly, its making a weird noise when I go over bumps in the front (wondering if its because he put the stock springs on koni yellow shocks incorrectly), and the rear fog/front fogs are not working, so the wiring must be bad somewhere to the fog light switch. But slowly she is coming together. I am going to be using this thread to update with pix and whatever I decide to do to her =]

- Ashley


Modified by hypeR_ash at 1:53 PM 10/1/2007

 

about damn time

boo, no pics of the owner with the car

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by BlueR &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">about damn time

boo, no pics of the owner with the car </TD></TR></TABLE>

That's probably her driving the white DC2?

Keep the R safe if you've already had a Honda stolen from you, and welcome.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Ross &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">That's probably her driving the white DC2?

Keep the R safe if you've already had a Honda stolen from you, and welcome.</TD></TR></TABLE>

hahah yeah thats me.

actually the car was totalled... the link is below, some @$$ didnt yield and caused MAJOR front end damage

but yeah i've already gotten some security added to the R.

 

LOL. We made ITR work in progress threads close to the same time. While you posted yours I was working on mine.

Edit: And we both bought our ITR's from idiot previous owners.

 

y0... was nice talking to you for a bit the other evening!

Thanks for sharing the pics

Glad to hear things are coming around.......

Stay tuned for Thanksgiving meet coverage

Edit: .... tell your boy to put his effing collar down!

 

Hey ash, good to meet you in nashville and good to see you got a R. Your other car was a gem.

Question though:
Why didnt you use a jumper and a obd1 ecu and just get by the secondarys that way?

 

Glad you went with a Black R Sexy Huh

 

Congrats, we'll probably meet @ Expo.

 

Congrats again! Curious where your R was listed...

 

Congrats on your new R

 

Congrats on buying an R Your old GSR was pretty sweet lookin! Did you get to buy any of the stuff of it from when it was totaled? like the red recaros for example?

 

Congrats on the awesome replacement

 

was the R a smoking deal or what was the reason for flying and driving back so far for it? gl

 

-Victor

 

nice! LOVING the rear FOG lights

 

badass.

 

Good to see that R finally has a worthy home.

 

yeah ashley

 

good work. how much did you pick it up for?

 

is that py car

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Stunna BEN &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Hey ash, good to meet you in nashville and good to see you got a R. Your other car was a gem.

Question though:
Why didnt you use a jumper and a obd1 ecu and just get by the secondarys that way? </TD></TR></TABLE>

good question.. i probably should have esp since my old ecu was tuned.. i dunno honestly i was just trying to get it to pass inspection asap.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ylfotevoli &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Congrats again! Curious where your R was listed...</TD></TR></TABLE>

not to put any names out.. but it was actually posted on HT, ITRCA, and i dunno if anywhere else. if i had realized everything that would have to be done to it to pass inspection I would have tried to talk him down even more..

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jgirard &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Congrats on buying an R Your old GSR was pretty sweet lookin! Did you get to buy any of the stuff of it from when it was totaled? like the red recaros for example?</TD></TR></TABLE>

yeah i bought it back for 500. ive been parting it out for awhile now. still trying to decide if i should put the red recaros in, or try to find mint black ones, so its not as eye-catching..

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Mr.OB*GYN_Rhett &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">was the R a smoking deal or what was the reason for flying and driving back so far for it? gl </TD></TR></TABLE>

i talked him down to a pretty damn good deal considering the mileage, and shape of the body. but once i saw everything else that was crappily done, i kind of got pissed at myself lol. oh well you live you learn. i'm just glad i was able to fix all the things he messed up

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Seedc2 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">good work. how much did you pick it up for?</TD></TR></TABLE>

14.5

 

14.5... how many miles?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Doostur &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">14.5... how many miles?</TD></TR></TABLE>

86k when i picked it up lolx

 

Sounds like you got a good deal Keep it safe!