I thought it might be worth a threadlet to itself.
What I thought of as a DC2 last year is a DB9.
As many of you know, it had a wheezy D16ZC engine that ran a big end bearing and broke a thrust washer many months ago. It took me ages to find a replacement engine that I could trust - one from a testable donor car with fewer than 100k miles on it. This one, bought 3 miles away from the Venerable Nitin:-
And this, believe it or not, was the selected engine:-
The next stage was to get it up to Hond-R. (It was a struggle to get it up the ramps - no ground clearance to speak of.)
Maz and Russell did a great job. Here's "before and after":-
The original springs and shocks were junked in favour of some BC coilies I couldn't really afford. It sits like this at the moment:-
I'm now looking for suggestions for replacement wheels. There might even be a poll in it ...
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get the centres sprayed black they will do for a bit
bristol_bb4 wrote:ahhh a 5th gen, i love 5th gens
Dino wrote:I loves the 5th gen really.... just dont quote me on it...
4thgenphil wrote:Mines 4 1/4 unches mate, sorry
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They did. They all have the JDM front. There was a black one for sale in Bradford last year and a white one in Shropshire was on Trovit last month.ek9sid wrote:Had a look at a 4 door "type r" integra (not sure if they did a type r version of the 4 door) when I got rid of the ek9.
No further plans for the time being. I've spent too much on it already!ek9sid wrote: Yours is looking in good nick (apart from those wheels ). What's your plans?
I'll use it, of course.
That's what the lady of the house said.mercutio wrote:get the centres sprayed black they will do for a bit
On the other hand, they didn't look too bad on the silver Civic Coupe, oddly enough, so I might put them on that to bump the price up a tad.
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I believed it was unique in the UK when I bought it, but have since heard that there's a black one running around somewhere.Merlin wrote:A very alternative car since you don't see many. I like!
There's at least 1 each in Canada, USA and Australia, and a few on Cyprus. The rest of the survivors are believed to be in Japan, or perhaps elsewhere in SE Asia.
Honda didn't make many: it wasn't a sales success ...
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