Sell Pork buy Honda. Durp.

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That is a seriously nice bit of gear and I estimate about 800 times better looking than my B18cr powered hillclimb ek rust bucket. I'm still occasionally trawling tardme for the right ep3 civic. 

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This morning, we fanged across to Caffeine and Classics, then rolled straight back home, where I had intentions of mowing lawns and doing general yard work.

Anyway I started cleaning something in the engine bay. Next thing you know it was 6:30pm and I'd just finished cleaning up - after giving the whole engine bay a bit of a tickle with some cleaning products and a range of brushes and micro fibre cloths.

Shit I used included - diluted Simple Green (beware, some people have had this stain alloy), Armor All Multi-Purpose cleaner (this shit is amazing on damn near anything) and Interflon Foam Cleaner (beyond incredible cleaner, kind to plastics and electronics, also a weapon on upholstery). Brushes ranged from a toothbrush, up to a soft dish brush.

Start - this is in the battery tray corner, the general filth on the firewall is indicative of all the painted surfaces in the engine bay when I kicked off.

DC2R Phone (18)-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

No real in-progress shots. I did snap a wee comparison of the old cam cover and the NEW HOTNESS just prior to fitting it up with new seals/gaskets etc.

DC2R Phone (19)-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

It looked good before right? But how much is the difference when you line it up against a brand newie!

DC2R Phone (21)-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

Basically the end result. I am aware I need to remove a few painted brackets etc and get them recoated. I've also put wheels in motion to buy a whole swag of OEM fasteners to replace anything a bit tarnished/rusty etc. Mainly M6x16 factory ones in the grey zinc finish.

DC2R Phone (22)-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

This thing positively glows. It's a thing of beauty.

DC2R Phone (23)-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

Even the letters have a shine and crispness beyond anything I've ever seen on a B-series. Machined OEM finish!

DC2R Phone (26)-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

Likely the most boring photo I've ever snapped. But it illustrates the finish on the firewall/paint at the end of the proceedings. Turned out pretty good. It's not perfect, no, but it's definitely up there as far as 20-year old engine bays go.

DC2R Phone (27)-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

And a parting shot. Pretty chuffed with it all, will carry on with a few more jobs to sort in the bay, and also clean the underside of the bonnet which is quite grubby.

Toodle-oo.

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So it failed it's first WOF under my ownership.

Typical Honda things. Bushes. Front LCA outer bush on the RHS, and both RTA bushes. 

Bought the following from Speed Science/Hardrace

- Front LCA kit (all 4 bushes)

- Front swaybar end links (D-bushes unavailable in 25mm size!)

- Front compliance arm bushes

- RTA bushes

George, being the excellent human that he is let me clag up his hoist for a week. With some help from Dustin (DNG) and Scott (East Tamaki Auto) it's all buttoned up and ready for it's recheck. Feels AMAZING with all the new bushes. Also learned it has a Spoon rigid collar set installed, while I was rummaging around underneath it.

Also;

Scored some nice clean, unfucked arch liners from Pick a Part. Have since cleaned and gotten rid of all the tar on them, will install this weekend. A few other little pieces. Brent at Doozi in Hamilton organised some showroom plates for me, and a new INTEGRA sticker for the center console. Plates as below, just real stupid nerd/indulgent shit.

20190830_175357-01 by Richard Opie, on Flickr

20190830_175651-01 by Richard Opie, on Flickr

Car is looking clean and ok though. Just a few more small jobs and it will be ready for market. Standard suspension is en route but the Stacked! container is having some difficulty with fumigation for the ol' stink bug.

DC2R Phone (28)-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

[johnnyfive 10,038]

4 hours ago, Snoozin said:

small jobs and it will be ready for market.

wat

[Raizer 17,868]

25 minutes ago, johnnyfive said:

wat

Time for another Triumph

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37 minutes ago, johnnyfive said:

wat

I wanna 635CSi tbh

[Bling 21,035]

What could possibly go wrong?

Tidy as fuck Honda bra.

[M.H. 6,108]

41 minutes ago, Snoozin said:

I wanna 635CSi tbh

Do you want a mint one or a project? I know a guy who is thinking of selling his, its an early factory manual one, needs a bit of work though

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That sounds exactly what I don't want.

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So, without going into too much detail about all the boring shit I have done, it's starting to look quite good.

2000 Honda Integra Type RX-195-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

2000 Honda Integra Type RX-308-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

2000 Honda Integra Type RX-350-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

2000 Honda Integra Type RX-434-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

2000 Honda Integra Type RX-294-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

2000 Honda Integra Type RX-129-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

2000 Honda Integra Type RX-151-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

2000 Honda Integra Type RX-56-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

2000 Honda Integra Type RX-37-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

 

[fuel 1,850]

why not keep this and find a 635i? I feel you would be kicking yourself extra times by letting one go twice now.

[Toucan 1,160]

Acquire all the cars, amirite

So damn clean. Such good looking cars

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4 hours ago, fuel said:

why not keep this and find a 635i? I feel you would be kicking yourself extra times by letting one go twice now.

Space, but more crucially, money.

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Still own it, still clean it. Took a photo with another cool Honda.

1996 Honda Accord Super Tourer HART001 (3)-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

Also did some more work/doing some more work so will update soon times.

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Won a trophy at 4&R Nationals for having the best original paint. I guess the 30 + hours of detailing wasn't in vain.

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New name.

2000 Honda Integra Type RX-927-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

New tail lights. AU/NZ spec facelift types with the CREAR WINKER.

2000 Honda Integra Type RX-879-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

Side profile for shits and/or giggles, been playing around watching tutorials on commercial editing etc so easing into it.

2000 Honda Integra Type RX-894-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

Over lock down, I also finished the caliper rebuild and assembled them. They're coated in HPC of some sort, whatever the flashest one was, in a finish to mimic the OEM ones. I'll do the rears in due course. Also detailed the inner arches and front suspension, it's all very clean in there now. Will try for some pics a bit later. Rears to follow, again.

2000 Honda Integra Type RX-917-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

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Project other is going all right. So I bought some wheels. I've long lusted after a set of SSR Type C, however do not like the price that tidy examples command. Some chance Facebook Marketplacing saw these things turn up. 

The description simply read: Honda wheels 17-inch. Coaxing the seller through a few extra pics confirmed they were SSR Type C, 17x7.5-inch forged wheels. They weigh 5kg a piece.

They looked rough. I bought them for next to nothing, and did a roadtrip to Wellington to get them the first weekend we hit Level 2. Great idea to also get out of Auckland, get some driving in, and see some people I hadn't in a really long time.

This is what I got.

98272862_10216632842556010_1422751630977138688_o by Richard Opie, on Flickr

Assorted tyre sizes. Pretty haggard in the paint department. Some of Australias finest export quality matte black I expect. 

99048908_10216650052466247_8180097297808359424_o by Richard Opie, on Flickr

With the tyres off things didn't get any less ugly. The full scope of the repairs needed started to become apparent, more of which is detailed below.

99006202_10216650056026336_8451286377600909312_o by Richard Opie, on Flickr 99078092_10216650054786305_4216971291200061440_o by Richard Opie, on Flickr 99138489_10216650053066262_530452122030833664_o by Richard Opie, on Flickr 100086434_10216650053946284_2533449599859818496_o by Richard Opie, on Flickr

And more. But anyway I dropped these into Wheelfixit in Wairau for a look and a quote, turned out they were totally repairable and it wasn't even very expensive.

Step 3, was acid dipping, kindly taken care of by Kwik Strip in Te Atatu. Again, bargain prices and criminally fast turnaround. As in, these were done in the space of several hours.

100597172_10216707809990149_7015287452575203328_o by Richard Opie, on Flickr

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99291047_10216707810350158_3946752332850528256_o by Richard Opie, on Flickr

Some were worse than others, with signs of surface corrosion evident on some of the wheels. I also cleaned up the kerb damage on the one non-bent wheel by gently filing and sanding, enough so that the lip retained it's profile and was not 'flattened' too much.

But then, for my final trick, paint. Of course I suck at paint. But I know some blokes who don't. Ben and Nick took the job on for me, and gave em a splash with Porsche Weissgold, with a satin clear over the top. To say I am stoked on the result would be an understatement.

101952115_10216857720217811_7586636871987907807_o by Richard Opie, on Flickr

104433228_10216857720617821_5444337198238180490_o by Richard Opie, on Flickr

102458703_10216857721577845_1496879978836587088_o by Richard Opie, on Flickr

And that's that, so far. I am going to get some stickers for them in due time, and probably some tyres. Run em for a bit then put them up for sale to the period-correct JDM piners. Unless I decide I quite like 17s and keep them on. But 16s was probably the ideal... anyway, thanks for looking.

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2020-06-26_08-08-47 by Richard Opie, on Flickr

Finished. Tyres and stickers. Good.

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DC2R Phone (33)-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

DC2R Phone (36)-Edit by Richard Opie, on Flickr

Wheels, meet car. Yeah good. Caffeine and Classics tomorrow if the weather holds!

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THISSS....

Is a very expensive and difficult to get piece of discontinued Mugen equipment for a DC2R

2000 Honda Integra Type RX-932 by Richard Opie, on Flickr

Why did I get it? Because I'm a stupid fucking magpie, that's why. I also have a Mugen exhaust and a recently restored header (which for some reason I never updated but OK), and wanted to finished off the intake, header and exhaust (I/H/E) holy trinity with a matching piece. So a friend of a friend found a wee shop in Hong Kong who had this. He subsequently bought it on my behalf, I sent him money, he sent me a large box, I dealt with the hassle that is customs, and voila. Here it is.

2000 Honda Integra Type RX-945 by Richard Opie, on Flickr

I am going to read this manual, and figure out how it installs. There's a lot of parts.

2000 Honda Integra Type RX-953 by Richard Opie, on Flickr

This is the airbox, and the velocity stack that locates inside the inner gaurd. Vs the stock arrangement, it has a HUGE volume. I'm going to assume there is some kind of science involved in the shape, and volume of it. Because well, justifying it.

2000 Honda Integra Type RX-940 by Richard Opie, on Flickr

The airbox attaches to this bellmouth with the biggest V-band clamp I've ever seen. Apparently this particular part is quite responsible for the Mugen setup producing some better numbers than most other units on the market. I'm not a surgeon, so I can't comment with any real conviction. Really nicely made piece of kit however!

2000 Honda Integra Type RX-947 by Richard Opie, on Flickr

This thing stops all the nasties getting in, and claggin up my 'tec. It's really important that you keep fine particles away from your VTEC. K&N make this. So you can just do washing and oiling like you do with all the other K&N things and it'll last forever. Or at least for a few thousand KM this gets driven every year.

2000 Honda Integra Type RX-950 by Richard Opie, on Flickr

It is REALLY important to have a sticker. So here is the sticker, that usually goes on the shiny top part of the airbox. I'm gonna scan it, so I can get replacements made when I inevitably wreck the other one while I'm doing my best impression of an apprentice signwriter whom hasn't yet read the dictionary definition of "self adhesive." The shiny stuff is sticky tape. In true Japanese tuner fashion, you use that to stick the trumpet onto the end of the airbox. No lies.

Join me next time, for the part where I swear, scratch my new parts, cross thread some bolts and take some nice photos of it so it all appears super mint and well installed.