Hey guys looks like its time for me to show you guys what I have been working on. Some of you guys might remember that I got in a car accident in my 00 ITR almost 3 years ago. If you don’t here is the link https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1513998

Well I ended up finding a 97 ITR shell; I have to say it was a little gold nugget! I got it from a guy who had it in his back yard for 5 years or so. I went ahead and bought it. The jdm radiator support was already installed; it also came with mugen pedals, jdm itr cluster. One of the most surprising things that it came with was mugen 26mm sway bars front and rear!

Well here are some questions I have for the ITR community…

How do I find out the badge number?
Does anyone know who used to own this car? I did a carfax and there’s only 16000 miles on the chassis. As far as I can tell this car had quite a few mugen parts, and it has never left Arizona. Well enough of the boring stuff here are the pics!!!


Here are so pics after I cleaned her up a bit, was too excited so didn’t get any pics of her while she was still dirty!







A little cleaner







Now I had to reorganize the garage, lol. Due to more parts coming in!







Some parts I had from the previous R and some new parts since then also.












Brand new Recaro SRDs






Mugen…That’s all I have to say!



Just need the bonnet now!!!!


Now putting all of the pieces of the puzzle together






Well after all that…I decide to rip it all out and get her ready for paint. I know, should have done that first but I was going to track her only so I really didn’t care much for a baller paint job. That’s until I saw my friend azteggi’s 97 R he’s putting together, paint job is better than the first day it rolled of the show room floor! Damn you Charlie!!!! So now I’m trying to keep up with the Jones!! LOL


Azteggi’s Pimpin R



See what I have to keep up with!!!


This is how she looks now ;(





Now for the bad news fellow R owners….I have decided to go “K”!!!!!!





Well stay tuned, more updates to come!





Modified by WingDC2R at 1:57 AM 10/9/2008


Modified by WingDC2R at 11:37 AM 10/9/2008

 

Nice man! About time you posted a build thread about your car.

You have a lot of good parts man.. Its just a matter of time before we get the cars done.

for two 97 R's in AZ

 

2 gorgeous 97 R's that have stupid front ends

nice build thread dude, was this a theft recovery?

and gimme y0 cluster

 

Lets get her out to paint! Errrr....you just told me what they quoted....

 

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Yeah 5 digits.....

 

Charlie you were lucky! You got such nice paint.

 

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nice build thread dude, was this a theft recovery?

and gimme y0 cluster </TD></TR></TABLE>

Yeah its a theft recovery. As for the cluster..... a dollar.

 

wow love those yellow stitched recaros!!! Trade you my black ones...you dont even have PY so it dosent match.

 

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Yeah its a theft recovery. As for the cluster..... a dollar. </TD></TR></TABLE>


a dollar? you take paypal?

 

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Lol I have amnesty I used to have a PY R!

 

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a dollar? you take paypal? </TD></TR></TABLE>

Yeah but I forgot to mention shipping is going to be $999.00, also don't forget that paypal fee!

 

is that shipping fee negotiable?

 

Thats nice. I see that you came across a Mugen bumper. Sorry that I couldnt be the donor when you asked me to of this beautiful car.

 

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Thanks man. Also I already had a mugen bumper, when I asked to buy yours, just wanted a spare! lol

 

Nice project. Wish I had money to do the same.

 

Always nice to read these theft recovery buildups threads.
Good job!

Why did you decide to pull the engine out, and swap it for a K series?

 

seen it on azht looks great man, az is coming up in the r game

 

Nice build mang... Keep up the great work!

 

wow nice work... cant wait to see the updates!

 

Nice build. Love those seats.

 

great rebuild, i love love love jdm front cw R's with cw jdm itr wheels, somemthing about it looks so smooth, clean and just right

 

very nice car, and i saw the K mounts in your other pics so i figured it was going to be K before you even posted it

looks like your putting alot of money into the car, make sure you get a good alarm etc and keep it garaged

 

Beautiful job rebuilding the car

 

I dun see any '97s

Good job bringing another R back from the dead Good luck with the rest of the work I'll send ya a PM in a sec about the badge.

 

Keeping up with the Jones's will get ya everytime. That's a great collection of parts you got there. She looks to be in good hands.