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Integra DB9

Post by Sailor » Sat Jul 25, 2015 8:09 pm

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:-

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And this, believe it or not, was the selected engine:-

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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.)

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Maz and Russell did a great job. Here's "before and after":-

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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:-

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I'm now looking for suggestions for replacement wheels. There might even be a poll in it ...
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Post by wurlycorner » Sat Jul 25, 2015 8:41 pm

Anything but those! :lol:

Nice save though. 4 door teg 8-)

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Post by ek9sid » Sat Jul 25, 2015 8:47 pm

Love 4 door cars these days. Keep looking at 4 door r34 skylines. 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.

Yours is looking in good nick (apart from those wheels :lol: ). What's your plans?

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Post by mercutio » Sat Jul 25, 2015 8:49 pm

get the centres sprayed black they will do for a bit
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Post by Sailor » Sun Jul 26, 2015 12:11 am

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.
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: Yours is looking in good nick (apart from those wheels :lol: ). What's your plans?
No further plans for the time being. I've spent too much on it already!
I'll use it, of course.

mercutio wrote:get the centres sprayed black they will do for a bit
That's what the lady of the house said.
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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Post by ek9sid » Sun Jul 26, 2015 7:36 am

I agree with what merc said though :-)

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Post by Merlin » Mon Jul 27, 2015 9:37 am

A very alternative car since you don't see many. I like!
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Post by Sailor » Mon Jul 27, 2015 2:26 pm

Merlin wrote:A very alternative car since you don't see many. I like!
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.
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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Post by mart609 » Mon Jul 27, 2015 5:36 pm

I've seen a couple 4door tegs in the UK at shows over the years.
Seen a black one and a Silver.

The 4 door Acura's in america are everywhere

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