So about 8 months ago I picked up a 97 DB8 with 140K miles on her.. I bought it from a girl who was 2nd owner and had no idea what she had.. Lets just say I got a good deal.

The car was in decent shape but it was owned by a girl so it needed some love. Car was BONE STOCK

here are some pics of her when I first got it.









After having it a month I order up some buddy club N+ coils and put on some Enkei 92's i had from my hatch.. 15x7 + 20 with a 195/45 tire.. I was scrapping splash guards







After this I took it to my buddy who is a local Honda mechanic and had him go through and replace any seals that where leaking, Also flushed all fluids and replaced with Honda OEM fluids and did a tune up. I drive my car 3-400 miles a week so I need it to be reliable..

so I got bored with my enkei's and I wanted something wider and concave.. I come across the TR motorsport wheel so I ordered them up

15x8 + 20 with a 205/50 tires. I wanted a little more meat under the car..also Added buddy club front and rear camber kits



After this we had a local car showing coming up so I started with some cleaning up touches

I pulled and died my carpet black



then i pulled my headliner and decided to do some custom fabric







after this I added a benen Tow how and a front license plate as I had been pulled over 3 times in 4 weeks for no plate





I also added a circuit hero shifter extension with buddy club shift know and blox short shifter.. Sorry no pics..

here is my car at are local car show IR208



and a couple more pics at a local meet





A coupe months later my brakes started making noise so I decided to upgrade.

Went with DBA Gold street series rotors with goodridge steal braided lines and OEM pads



I have been wanting to change the color of my wheels as I like bright colors so after some research I decided to plasti-dip them but I didn't want black. I found out they make blue so I ordered up 4 cans and on the next warm weekend I got too it



sorry no pics on car as my car is so Fing dirty and it's been so crappy out..

Here is my latest purchase



Got everything I need to put my steering wheel in.. So be looking out for that.. some teasers





also added this little nugget today



A couple pics of the wheels on the car... finally got a chance to clean it





Keep looking back for updates....

 

Nice dude looking good! I liked the Enkie meshies more though, but that's just my opinion.

 

nice!

 

What a fantastic platform to start with.

Wish my DB was that clean when I picked it up.

 

what did you use to dye the carpet?

 

It would be sick if u painted the rims white and put Type R on em

 

Would u sell the enkeis

 

What's 4 DUR? Or you just can't spell Door? Lol

 

I liked the Enkei's more lol. Very nice project,I wish my RS came stock with LS meshies tho =( lol.

 

this stuff by dupli-color

http://www.duplicolor.com/products/vinylFabricCoating/

I really like it.. I also did my floormats and trunk carpet in a darker grey color..

I sold the enkei's local..


Thanks for the compliments guys..

I think am going to go back to a rim with a lip as I did like the enkei's better they just weren't bigger or wide enough for me

I want step up to a 16in rim either 7.5 or 8 inches wide..

 

did you swap black seats, dash, etc or dyed it?

 

Dash was already black..... and I have leather which is dark grey so it all works.... I plan on replacing my seats anyways

 

installed my rear DBA rotors today... Damn it was cold out...

Have everything to put my personal steering wheel in just need to find the time

 

good stuff man, the integ looks clean when bought! good luck with the build/upgrades

 

Nice Teggy! Love the rim color!

 

OP...may I ask where you found that fabric for the headliner by chance??? What kind of other designs did you have to choose from sir? I'd like to re-do the headliner in my DB, was thinking of black suede but a pattern would be good too!!!

Cheers!!!

 

I actually got it off of ebay.. An buddy of mine suggest trying to use kimono fabric.. SO i did a search on ebay and i suggest happen to come across this design...

here is a link to the person I got my fabric from...the have an EBAY store

http://stores.ebay.com/emeraldcityfabricandcraft

 

I like the look of those TR wheels - was that a TireRack special?

 

what do you mean?? the color??

 

Nice build. I've always loved the DB8's. Makes me miss my old EG8s.

 

The TRmotorsport wheels are decent looking and you cant beat the price. Im looking to get the 15x7.5(42) for my eg.

 

yea i really like them and there super lite... I think I am going to go up to 16's though.. I don't like the higher offset version there not as concave...

 

Looks like a great start so far, liking the stance. Any plans for performance?

 

pimp

 

thanks... as for performance... Plan on doing some bolt ons and what not here and there but nothing over the top... I don't want to mess with the reliability of my car...

Added a couple pics of some goodies i got today