This will be a long read, but i've had the car for a while and have done quite a lot to it over the years.

I first got this car in February of '03 with 149,917 miles on it from all-american motors in Kingsport, TN. It was completely stock (1.5 4spd std. model) had no problems except for a leaky radiator, I told the salesman about it and he had it replaced immediately.



Here is the first picture I have of the engine, I wasn't really into what was under the hood the first few years I owned it, so this picture is probably after at least two years of owning it - as you can see, clean as can be...oh how that will change.




I added my Enkei Rs5 wheels on that I had bought for my previous car, a 1988 Honda Prelude 2.0s:



I then added a fartcan muffler, lowered it with Weapon-R coilovers which I was told by some less-than-knowledgable friends at the time that they would be one of the best things I could do to my car. I only ended up with busted struts and a shitty *** ride. I was also in a car club for a short amount of time and added this awful gawdy sticker which wasn't on there for long, I hated how big it was and it wasn't put on evenly.


The car remained the same for probably close to a year from there on, blown struts, shitty *** ride, no power, but still a clean, nice-looking car that I was happy with.

During that year, I found out about the whole "jdm" scene, and I basically took a lot of crappy pictures, "raced" with a 60hp motor, and eventually found out about the now ever-so-popular 421, (421 is a road that goes from Bristol, TN well over into NC...the real curvy section is between Bristol and Mountain City, TN. So then I started going to 421 to take pictures and raise as much hell as possible with 60hp, lol.

Just a few pics of the car lowered with the rotas:











In that whole amount of time, the factory 1.5l motor finally gave out, I think it was around 200k, and it was replaced with a jdm d15b non-vtec by a factory-trained honda technician who runs his own very reputable garage....got way overcharged, but it was done right and never had a single problem, so I guess you get what you pay for!

Then all hell broke loose, I met my now best friend, Brandon...he showed me the way to the darkside of modding cars...modding the stuff that really matters. So I knew what my car needed to make it safe and driveable again, but I didn't really have any fundage to change it any. I was the passenger in a pretty bad car accident, and ended up getting a little bit of money back, so then I had the funds I needed to do a little to the Honda.

First things first was ordering my new motor, a 1st gen b16a, along with a SiR front end conversion and rear DA Disc brake swap:



The B16a was a full swapover bought from [img]www.hmotorsonline.com[/img], got the YS1 tranny with optional LSD.



Drove the car for a little while with just the swap done, no rear disc or front-end swap...had a few different things like takata harnesses, etc.





The front end conversion came with: front bumper, headlights, corner lights, bumper lights, both fenders, and hood. All courtesy of [img]www.hmotorsonline.com[/img] as well.



Here's a few pictures from the swap-process.










I also had a few parts waiting to be installed: AEM cold air intake, Integra Type R header, apexi worldsport 2 exhaust, Earl's Stainless Steel brakelines, Falken Azenis RT-615's (been through 2 sets of these tires, love 'em.)



Installing the exhaust, suspension & rear discs



I love this exhaust






And heres pictures from the front end swap process:




All torn apart




Starting to come back together



Finished



also put a CRX Si steering wheel on because the factory one was falling apart in my hands....The suspension was updated with Koni Yellow struts & H&R Race Springs