1996 Acura Integra GS-R w/ 170,000 miles, new B18C1 ~50,000 miles ago, new paint ~5,000 miles ago, still rocking the 170,000 mile interior which could use some new seats, door panels, and carpet

Paint: Originally green, was color changed to a dark blue by previous owner, then later converted to 98+ front and rear bumpers that were green, and when I bought it I immediately dropped it off with a friend for paint and body work, now Honda S2000 Grand Prix White

Body: Completely shaved side moldings, wiper nozzles, all badging aside from "A" emblems, even filled and shaved the molded "INTEGRA" in the front and rear bumpers, "CETA" style rear lower bumper painted satin black

Mods: None basically, short ram intake and full ITR header and exhaust, Skunk2 short throw shifter and weighted shift ****, I rarely see over 4000RPMs and almost never actually get into VTEC, it's just a gas saver for me, ITR style lip, H&R Sport springs w/ Tokico Blue shocks and struts, cheapy vinyl red backed "A" emblems, wheels are 17x7 Shu-4 style wheels refinished by myself to a matte gold finish with a brushed lip, 5000k HIDs in the halo headlights (halo/angel eyes not hooked up, I just like dark housing headlights like the S2000 and the dark JDM style headlights, not an OEM USDM Integra headlight fan here)

Planned Mods: Just drive it and keep on enjoying 30+ mpg and a decently fun ride to get around in on a daily basis. And when these tires wear out I'll probably go with Rota GT3/Drag DR-16s in a 16" size because the 17s are just a touch too big for me (they were free and better than the stock snowflakes though). Still staying gold on them with a polished lip. That's it though.

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Photo Details: All shots taken by me with my Nikon D80 and Nikkor 18-135mm lens. Every exterior shot used a Nikon SB-28 strobe mounted on camera with a ABBC bounce as an ambient fill strobe. Post processing was limited to exposure and color correction, contrast and saturation correction, and resizing and sharpening. All pretty basic stuff, no composite images or anything crazy going on.

 

shaved moldings looks good

 

more interior shots! thats money!

just dont like the headlights

 

looks really good plan on chainging the interior to black?

 

 

auh..... needs to be lowerd..and those lights are

 

needs a lil lowering but nice man

 

Yeah, it's down but certainly not slammed. It's as low as I care to go for my daily driver though. Don't want it to be too much of a PITA to get around in.

Headlights are love 'em or hate 'em, I like dark housing lights (S2000, JDM Integra dark housings, Mazda 3s, my GTO's headlights, etc) but I'm not crazy about the halo part, but I'm not buying a $200 set of used OEMs and then tearing them apart to paint the housings black, so these will work for now.

I actually like the tan interior too. As a daily it shows less dust than black so it looks cleaner for longer. I will probably do black seats though, most likely RSX black leather.

 

clean man, love it

 

looks gud!

 

Thanks fellas.

 

I like the rear bumper mod!

 

The last interior pic looks like a Honda model brochure pic.

 

JDM Front Conv slammed and ur cars chill...DE-RICE thaa ride.. lol it aint that bad ive seen way worse

 

love the wheels

 

no v no life

 

Thanks guys. Much appreciated. Here are a few rolling shots my buddy took today too (Andy Stacy Photography).





It had been raining for two days and the car was a little dirty, but I did a quick detail and tried to clean it up the best I could in the short period of time I had.

 

nice man. I like your backstory

 

Pictures look like a video game

 

Thanks guys. The car has come a long way since my friend bought it way back in the day.

I also think some of the pictures look like CGI/renderings/screen shots out of a video game. It's pretty crazy how they turned out. I attribute that mainly to the very even lighting. It works out very well.

 

love everything about it

 

For everyone that didn't like the headlights, they're MUCH improved now.

-Disassembled each headlight (baked in the oven at 225* for 20 minutes and pulled them apart

-Took out the halo rings and spray bombed them black

-Sealed the headlights back up and popped them back in

So now instead of looking like ebay cheapy halos, and avoiding switching to the ugly stock lights (sorry guys, hate the look of the stock headlights, but I prefer dark housings), I've now got clear lenses and dark housings with the projectors and reflectors being the only thing showing, no gay halo rings sticking out like sore thumbs and cheapening the overall look of the car.





Hard to photograph up close and really show, but when I get a chance I'll get some shots from further back to show you how nicely they tie in now.

I also got my 5000k HID conversion kit in and installed and am loving the drastic improvement in light output. No more straining and squinting to see at night, just kicking back, relaxing, and driving with a well-lit road in front of me. Excuse the crappy cell phone picture, but the light is pure white with no tinted blue or purple which was exactly what I wanted.





The car is basically 100% done on the outside. I may at some point sand the casting numbers off the lenses when they need a good buffing, but there is only minor things left like that. Just need to get new tan leather door panels and some tan floor mats in good condition as my floor mats are stained and my door panels are separating to get the car 100% done overall, so if anyone has a lead on either of those things please let me know. Thanks.

 

cool man one of the nicest gsr's

 

I love this car

 

Those shots are really crisp. Clean car man, can't wait to see it on some 16's though!