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Old Dec 20, 2016 | 10:37 AM
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Hello! A few months back I bought a 95' Acura Integra GSR to be my little project racecar. Figured I might benefit from signing up to some forums after I noticed the Integra subreddit was so dead.

It's got no interior panels, an expired bucket seat, and a broken driver's side door handle, but I love her. Over the next few months I'll be working on her quite a bit.

Registering her at the DMV.

I overheated the car while practicing manual back over the summer and since I haven't fixed the head gasket I have been avoiding driving her. I went to turn the car on to make sure it would still start a few days ago and it made an awful belt/pulley noise. I noticed a puddle underneath the left side of the car and so I think I may be deleting my power-steering sooner than I had hoped...

As for me, my other hobbies include web design, photography, and video gaming. I'm very new to this whole car thing and so sometimes I say really really dumb things like "intake header" so bear with me. I also have a daily driven 2010' Mini Cooper S that is even more broken than this Integra. I am a full time student with a part time job at Autozone and am the co-founder of a company called We Don't Lift that sells racecar parts and safety gear to other track enthusiasts like myself.

I would love to answer any questions you may have because in a few weeks time I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have about four thousand to ask you guys.
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Old Dec 20, 2016 | 12:49 PM
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Welcome, and hopefully you find a lot of good info on the forum to help learn about your car, and fixing/ tracking it!

Go poke around and reply to some threads, and get to know the board a bit, it might take a few days for the forum to let you post pictures in new threads, just trying to prevent spam!
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Old Dec 21, 2016 | 12:35 PM
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Default Re: Hello! I'm new to this whole car thing...

Originally Posted by snobordboy
Welcome, and hopefully you find a lot of good info on the forum to help learn about your car, and fixing/ tracking it!

Go poke around and reply to some threads, and get to know the board a bit, it might take a few days for the forum to let you post pictures in new threads, just trying to prevent spam!
Thank you! I appreciate it.
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Old Dec 21, 2016 | 05:45 PM
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Make sure to google "integra {part} replacement" or "integra {part} repair" for whatever needs fixing because there's tons of resources online. I did a clutch replacement on a 98 LS last year with nothing but a walkthrough and a few videos I found online. Took me forever, but I did get it done.
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Old Dec 23, 2016 | 06:30 PM
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Default Re: Hello! I'm new to this whole car thing...

Originally Posted by Jeema
Make sure to google "integra {part} replacement" or "integra {part} repair" for whatever needs fixing because there's tons of resources online. I did a clutch replacement on a 98 LS last year with nothing but a walkthrough and a few videos I found online. Took me forever, but I did get it done.
This is how I do most of the repairs on my Mini already. I usually do quite a bit of reading/watching videos before I start on a repair since I am pretty new to cars. I've really enjoyed Eric The Car Guy's youtube channel.
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Old Dec 23, 2016 | 08:20 PM
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Welcome! Enjoy the forum tons of useful information here!
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Old Dec 25, 2016 | 06:30 AM
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nice car!
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Old Dec 26, 2016 | 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Gmane22
nice car!
Haha you say that but you haven't seen the puddles underneath the car, and it officially did not start today- so I'll have to jump it to get it to the place I'll be working on it.
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Old Jan 4, 2017 | 06:57 PM
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oh my god your car reminds me of my integra when i bought it 2 years ago
good luck with the head gasket and that puddle lol
if you need any advice i got lots !
i just signed up on this forum as well (:
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