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Well its about time i made a proper one of these as im doin a brave bit of work on the car at the mo and a few people off the site says i should throw together a progress thread so here goes :D

This is my Integra type R












Thats her in all her glory, As most who know me know, im a big honda fan and iv wanted a type R for ages, since back in me schooldays, the cream o the crop was the mighty "type R" and i remember looking at something i never thought id get so when i finally got one now after the long wait, i wanted to make the most of it. As I intend on keeping this car for a while, i decided to spend a few quid on it. Started off small at first but began buying bigger and better things.



First off were a few small things, brand new oe honda red badges for front and back and oe decals for both sides and back (these can be seen in the pictures below)

Also got a set of yellow headlights from kevtegra :D (sound)


And a set of oem Honda Integra Mudflaps from g.mc.m (also pure sound)




While up with Garret we were talking about how these *******s leak a lot in the boot so I decided to do something about it. After a little research from itr-dc2.com i discovered that the best thing to use to solve the problem is to sand all the rust back down to the bare metal, prime and use Hammerite gate paint to paint over the top to stop any rust ever coming through again.

Thankfully i took no photos of the boot before it was repainted lol





After i had the boot done i wanted to spruce up the rest of the interior of the car, so instead of those crap speakers that people cut into the parcel shelves i got some oem honda rear speakers :D :D



Took another trip over to g.mc.m to see what else he had laying around for me. Thankfully he had a teg up there for breaking that had in around 40 000 genuine miles, so i ripped the inner black plastics out along with the parcel shelf to freshen up my teg :D



These plastics had perfect holes cut at the back for a rear strut bar so i took it aswell :D



Decided to spray the strut bar gold, forgot to take a pic of this but i will get one and throw it in here when I next get a chance. This is the pic of it all together, new rear parcell shelf, black plastics and strut bar fitted



Up front the only thing the car really needed was a new steering wheel as the leather on the old one wasnt in the best of health and a new drivers red recaro. Im split between getting my drivers seat refurbed or just looking for a really mint set, still torn on that one but eventually mint recaros will be in this car lol. As for the steering wheel i managed to get a hold of this

A momo race wheel in near pristine condition (thanks to pearse9000rpm)




That was it for a while, had to save up a few more bob for what i had planned next. Money was put away and eventually at 183044 kilometres



THIS HAPPENED ........ :happy)









Yes yes the USDM bug hit. After looking at plenty of wire tucks and stuff from the states i really wanted to try it and make the car stand out from the many other integras about. Also felt that if im keeping this car for a while, I wanted to rebuild the engine. Poor oul Rhonda had done her fair share of km's and she was gettin smokey and burning oil. This gave me the opportunity to kill two birds wi the wan stone. Began buying away at parts from Honda and kept them all on me kitchen table until the time was right to do the rebuild.

I left the car out to Seán Quinn of Quinn Motorsports in Tyrone and he began last tuesday the 29th of may. I took a few photos but have yet to be uploaded. Guna take as many pics as possible of the engine rebuild and of doing the wire tuck. Stay tuned :D


prroof, its a jap lump , sorry bout the black rocker
(my own one is getting refurbed, more pics to come of that)


UPDATE

Ok as many told me, the rocker cover definately needed some TLC. I didnt want to respray because youl never get it to look oem no matter how well its done and it would always annoy me and then the flat paint jobs look (no offence at all intended to anyone who has it done) ****. Only two choices were to buy a brand new oem rocker from honda or try something different. so before parting with €200, i decided to do something different. As the end result is to have an uber clean engine bay i thought itd look cool to strip the remaining paint off the cover, sand it down to flat bare metal and then polish it up.

few pics

Before (brutal looking)



after a dose of wire brush/sandpaper



At this point i was royally gettin ****ed off of having no feelin at all left in my thumbs so i needed help. Grabbed the girlfriends youngun, few brewskies, locka tunes and made him earn his pocket money haha





So this is the finished product. Its not machine polished yet but all the roughness has gone and its really smooth



After a machine polish (thanks to Tedman) Itl look like this :happy)



UPDATE - 10/06/2010

Ok a bit more progress made with this in the last week. Soon as we had the engine out, we took the head off to see what kinda shape everything was in inside. I took plenty of photos as pictures speak a thousand words and all that *****

Lots of carbon build up





Intake valves



Exhaust ......



.....again





First thing we did was remove all the valves and springs and begin THE LONG task of cleaning them. trust me, this takes patience







While Seán had the valves out and was cleaning them, i took the head down to Mervyn Elvin in letterkenny to get it skimmed, in on wed night, back first thing thurs morn bt





The block was taken out and given a little shower to clear all the gunk and ***** off of it. This engine will be getting sprayed before its put back in but for the time being a good dose of the powerwasher will do


BEFORE






AFTER






Other thing that was checked was the oil pump as this is the only thing i havent bought for the engine yet and i was lucky enough as it was like brand new anyway




Only thing that i bought this week that i actually have in me possession is a magnetic sump bolt from mugensi lol.




Rest of the parts should be here by next wednesday. I have the full headset, timin belt, water pump here. All im waiting on now are the piston rings which are en route from japan, ACL race bearings and ACL thrust washers which were only ordered a few days ago

More to come soon bt

UPDATE 25/06/2010

Ok more progress with this

The agonising wait of parts to arrive is over :happy) . Heres a few pics of the treats that arrived at the door :D

The drives on this car were weird, the drivers side was perfect, no wear at all on either joint, the passo one, the two joints wer fcuked so....

New timing Belt and inner CV joint for passo side



New outer Cv joint for passo side



so that'll be the two drivves sorted now :D


Now onto the engine.......

All new seals, rings, gaskets for the head



ACL con bearings, ACL race bearings, ACL thrust washers & OE Honda piston rings





And no point in havin a brand new fully rebuilt engine without having a brand new key to turn the motherfcuker over bt





Ok so while waitin for all this stuff to arrive, the head was polished out and and all ports cleaned. A few pics of before and after me thinks

Before


After


Intake ports Before


Intake ports After




Exhaust Before




Exhaust After



These are just a few other pics o had of the head now all cleaned up









Only other thing i got this week that I HAD TO HAVE was this......



........ A brand new drivers side recaro bolster from Recaro. This will freshen up whatever Recaros that go into this car. They leave the drivers bolster like brand new from what iv seen on ones that have been done before, removing all likes and creese marks


Hope to have more updates on this by early next week bt

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