Popular Post Snoozin Posted April 29, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted April 29, 2019 So I flicked the 944. It wasn't something I was intending to do, but a fella on the Porsche Transaxle NZ Facebook page popped up a 'WTB' post and I responded. With a high price. He initially declined, I didn't budge an inch and then a few days late the wife had mysteriously allowed him to purchase the car. He drove across from Tauranga, was rapt with it, and drove it home. Am I upset? No not really, I didn't get especially attached to that one since it burnt me (and my wallet) a lot during my near 2-years of ownership. Decided I wanted another DC2R, some of you might remember my 96-spec I had about 2007-8 and came along to a couple of NZH NIMM's in etc etc way back then. I put the word out that I wanted another one, and happened to meet Tim Bell (unsure if he's on the forum yet?) around this time through some of the other Hamilton fellas and a group chat. Tim being both an excellent human and the owner of a minty fresh DC2R put the word out among of his Type R friends, and turned up this car. DC2R Phone (1)-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr It's a 2000 Integra Type R-X. The 'X' is basically the final run of these cars, from late '99 through to mid 2000. You all know what a 98-spec car had over a 96-spec. But the R-X added to the list with a few more luxury mod cons. Power folding mirrors, 6-speaker audio, blue-tinged faux carbon trim, privacy glass, bla bla bla. Basically the best spec they came in, unless you reckon no options at all is the best. Which is kind of is. But anyway. It took a little bit of negotiation. The seller got semi-cold feet about the whole thing, had a change of heart, then another, and I ended up buying it for a fairly premium price. But it's clean and tidy, with absolutely minimal molestation. When I first viewed it, the car was on TE37, had a Recaro SPG on a fixed rail, was running a Neptune-chipped ECU via adaptor harness (yay no splices etc) but I was happy enough to not bother with all of that as I wanted as close to stock as possible. As it stands, the car has a Mugen Gen 1 exhaust (cat delete via welded in stainless pipe), and Ohlins adjustable coilovers as it's only mods. Which is fine. Oh and a very terribad Japan-spec hodgepodge stereo of shitness. DC2R Phone (2)-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr But the good! It's clean, straight, has new rotors, Endless pads, 160000km on the odo, a VERY clean engine inside and out, great even compressions, the suspension has $1700 worth of recent rebuild receipts, excellent black Recaros, tidy dash and is the perfect base for what I want. Actually I need to speak to @64valiant about replacing the bolster on one side of the drivers Recaro. DC2R Phone (4)-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr My plans? Chuck some nice fresh audio at it - I've bought a stack of Focal speakers, have a nice Image Dynamics amp and an Alpine bluetooth headunit for it. Tidy up the alarm/install a new one, refurbish the tired OEM wheels, go through all of the tarnish fasteners beneath the bonnet and replace with nice fresh ones. You get the idea. DC2R Phone (5)-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr I'll leave you with these phone shots for now - once I have the wheels done and dusted I'll be heading out for some proper shots with my big boy camera at some stage. Nice to be back though. Forgot how addictive these wee engines really are. And how rattly and generally shitty they are/racecar. 32 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoKer Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 Quote SELLS PORK BUYS RICE. but yeah : nice man, real sharp instrument ya got there 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyteler Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 Yeah the teg looks sharp man. Nice. Rooool nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toucan Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 Man this is a great example, very nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB8-TypeR Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 Wish mine was that tidy. How are the ohlins? Im sick of having coilovers ruin fun roads so swapping back to bilstein/spoon spring combo shortly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoozin Posted April 30, 2019 Author Share Posted April 30, 2019 1 hour ago, DB8-TypeR said: Wish mine was that tidy. How are the ohlins? Im sick of having coilovers ruin fun roads so swapping back to bilstein/spoon spring combo shortly Quite aggressively valved. It also has 10kg springs in it, I want to go a bit softer, maybe 8/6 in due course. But on a backroad, at pace it is sharp as a knife. Bit of a catch 22 situation. Its tidy but still needs some TLC to get ir really nice, photos are deceiving. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB8-TypeR Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Ive got 7/6k in mine on fortune auto. They are alright but not enough droop so dont soak up constant undulations well. Its ok when its just me but always concious of how uncomfortable it is for the wife. Trying to make mine closer to stock as they are so much fun to drive like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Snoozin Posted April 30, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2019 OK so as you can sort of see in those initial shots, the wheels have seen better days. The rest of the car has definitely seen some paint in it's life, it's a bit peely and not super amazing but luckily white tends to hide it a bit. But those wheels. Yeah I needed to do something about those. DC2R Phone (7) by Richard Opie, on Flickr One short trip down to Kwikstrip in Te Atatu, and these were done. Old mate turned them around THE SAME DAY. Who even offers that level of service anymore? Admittedly he did say they didn't have a lot on that particular day so yeah, result. I chose to dip, as it preserves the edges on the spokes nicely, if a blaster isn't careful they can be rounded off etc, end up with slightly different profiles on each spoke. Not ideal. Next step. GT Refinishers. Grant and Ben gave em a coat of champ white. Pretty fresh out of the booth when I picked them up, look not bad at all. Went out for the night so popped them in the living room with the heat pump maxed to try and get the paint to harden a bit quicker. DC2R Phone (8) by Richard Opie, on Flickr The idea was to have them ready to fit tyres on the Saturday. But when we got home it still smelled of paint fumes a bit, so figured they should probably spend a day in the sun. And I just wanted to see them in the daylight. DC2R Phone (6) by Richard Opie, on Flickr Anyway, I didn't fit the tyres then... they were sorted out yesterday. On the car now but ran outta time to go take a reasonable picture. Shit it lifts the appearance maaaassssively. 18 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyteler Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 So fresh and so clean, clean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACKAZ Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 Bloody nice Honda Richy. Nicest shape out of all tegs imo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoKer Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 instant Classic : is it OS yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thousand Dollar Supercar Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 2 hours ago, MACKAZ said: Nicest shape out of all tegs... Lol... If you drive a 'Teg, yo, props to you, I hip hop for you... Get Rich to that pls. Best Motoring vid of one beating on rival RWD and 4WD ricemobiles (turn on the subtitles): 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACKAZ Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 12 hours ago, Thousand Dollar Supercar said: Lol... If you drive a 'Teg, yo, props to you, I hip hop for you... Get Rich to that pls. Best Motoring vid of one beating on rival RWD and 4WD ricemobiles (turn on the subtitles): Sorry, that's want they were called back in the dark ages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Snoozin Posted July 18, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 18, 2019 I've actually done heaps to this, like; - source and fit factory airbox and intake pipe (as seen in pics earlier). - fitted nice new K&N filter. - wheel refubishment finished, tyres remounted etc. - replaced dashboard with one that wasn't cut up where the stereo sits in the DIN slot, also a nicer dashtop than the one in there. - installed new audio. Alpine head unit, Focal components up front, Focal 2-way coaxials in the rear. - existing door trims had been hacked to fit some dubious audio, so replaced those with some sourced from same car new dash came from. Full clean/shampoo of upholstery brought them up A1! - rear interior stripped, everything cleaned, all fasteners sourced and replaced (had maybe 1/3 of what was supposed to be holding the side trims in) replaced and there's not 677864254% less rattles. - front bumper resprayed by Brendan at Platinum refinishers, no more stonechips or cracked paint. Scrapes on underside of lip reappeared pretty quickly while negotiating driveway though. - full Royce-spec paint correction and wax. Including ceramic coating on the wheels (OK I did that bit...). - new OEM Type R stickers on quarters, it had non-OEM ones on there and they weren't put on straight. - boss kit acquired to fit my Personal Neo Grinta wheel (although the plan is a red stitch MOMO Monte Carlo in time). - OEM optional rear strut brace fitted, and shock covers cut and trimmed as per the OEM template you received if you bought this new in period. Did it like they did in 1998 basically. - replaced rear boot carpet with a bloody mint example Mr. Jimmy Lucas scored from Zebra for me. - bought a replacement OEM key cos well, choice, and available. - replacement foam inner for the drivers side Recaro has been purchased ex-UK, just need to install/get @64valiant to help me install. - sourced and fitted an OEM clock, mine had a blanking plate fitted but the Type R-x was supposed to have a clock (loom was there etc) Then I got word Honda NZ had a single, solitary one of these NLA Type R cam covers sitting in their stock. So I thought "that's pretty flippin' neat" and I bought it because magpie. Haven't fitted it yet. 2019-06-24_01-57-46 by Richard Opie, on Flickr So we're sort of nearly where I want it to be. Some stock suspension on it's way from Japanland also. I actually haven't taken any other photos of it yet. 13 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willdat? Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 Glorious, my little brother had a stock 98 spec 4 door back in the mid 00s. It handled so well I’m sure the slightly shorter wheelbase will make it feel even more go-kart like. The rattles were what made him flick it on in the end, but in hindsight it deserved a thorough going over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoozin Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 22 minutes ago, Willdat? said: Glorious, my little brother had a stock 98 spec 4 door back in the mid 00s. It handled so well I’m sure the slightly shorter wheelbase will make it feel even more go-kart like. The rattles were what made him flick it on in the end, but in hindsight it deserved a thorough going over. Negligible I would have thought, really. Heavier though! Yeah they rattle. I have had basically the whole interior out (including dash!), and replaced all fasteners and anything broken, with something that is not broken. And it still rattles. But so do racecars, and racecars go fast. At least that's my justification. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB8-TypeR Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 What size tyres do you have on this? The factory, hard to find 215/45R16? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoozin Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 Nah it's got 205/45 on it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB8-TypeR Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Cool, at least they still look good. Im looking for tyres for mine and options for 215/45 are fairly average/expensive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Snoozin Posted July 27, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 27, 2019 DC2R Phone (11)-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr Here's a pic from this evening, it basically looks exactly as it did in post 1. But honestly, I have done a lot of things to it. 17 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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