whats up guys, this is my da9 build thread

bought in december of 2010, bone stock with 128k miles



took it home and did some cleaning & maintenance stuff









installed Function Form suspension





and some wheels



before



after



then installed camber kits, lca's, and es rta bushings

 

hey man good to see you on honda-tech i dont know if you remember me. im the one with the white gs-r that had black slips

 

ahh whats up man! yeah man i remember ya

 

nothing cant wait till i fix the gs-r i miss it . nice work your doing on the da9 if you need anything let me. know im going to junk two inetgra soon ill give it to you for dirt cheap and if you need help

 

im actually sitting on an Ls shell right now its pretty much completely stripped out. thanks for the offer tho, we need to get that gs-r running so we can cruise man. What's it need? the only thing i'll need help with is the manny swap but im not going to do it until winter probably.

 

lookin good man, how much did those seats set you back?

 

200 with my leathers on top

 

it needs a tranny which i have a b16 tranny waiting till a good weekend.BUT we have to swap that auto out your car its easyto do.only takes a good weekend and if your shell is 5 speed your good to goo. we definatly going to do some cruising.you meet to meet up with us on hondaDAY we drive with like 20 cars deep MADE FUN

 

yeah man i have the manual pedal assembly, clutch cable, cluster, ecu, just need to source a cable b16 tranny. yeah man im deff down for hondaday sounds sick.

 

hey bud do you happen to have a ys1 or any b series casing lying around

 

nice project. can wait to see it finished.

 

nah man i dont sorry

 

thanks man

got some stuff done this weekend, new passenger lower ball joint, new front lca's, and moog swaybar end links. car drives like ****, i have a date with an alignment rack sooon

 

Thats a pretty clean ride man. I like it. I would like to repaint my integra someday too. How did you go about prepping the areas before you painted them? I want to repaint my whole Integra. I gotta fix my rust first though.

 

It depends. If you need to use filler ( which you almost always do), I start blocking it out at 40 then go to 80 with the block. Then slap on a 180 disk for your Dual Action sanded and work it all the way up to 300 I'd say. Followed by a wetsanding of coarse. (start at 600 and go to 2000)

 

Well I hate to say it, but many of those parts I would not recommend. Camber kits (not needed, bushings and ball joints probably aren't the best quality, may slip), LCA's (bushings are likely junk), and the poly RTA bushings (binds up, doesn't allow full range of motion).

 

whered you get the carbon on the dash parts? or is it just a wrap

 

its awight....

 

3m di noc

 

lookin good! cant wait to see the progress

 

Thanks for the tips man. Well unfortanately I have some rust holes by my wheel well on the body. A couple spots are rusted through. How would you reccomend I go about repairing them?

 

it all depends how bad it is. If they are small you could get away with glassing/filling them but if its really bad the only real solution is to weld in new metal.

 

Yea. On a couple spots I just took a grinder and grinded the rust down to the bare metal then laid down some bondo over the bare metal. On the rotted parts do you mean put bondo or fiberglass inside of the rotted part? I'm thinking about getting a sheet of thin sheet metal and maybe rivet it in. Then bondo over the rivets to get it almost flush.

 

^^^^ i believe he means youll need to cut out the rotted part and get new metal welded in. bondo over rivets doesnt seem like a very good idea because it gives lots of room for movement and can easily crack away.

 

Ok. I will have to pick up some sheet metal. How would you get the welds flush with the body? My uncle has a MIG welder. Would that work to weld the sheet metal on? I know a TIG welder would be better but he is the only one I know with a welder. And yea I know what you mean about that lip above the wheel well pain in the ***. And last how do you prevent the rust from coming back when you bondo?