Integra DB9

YouTube · 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:-

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 ...

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 8:41 pm

Anything but those!

Nice save though. 4 door teg

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

). What's your plans?

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

get the centres sprayed black they will do for a bit

YouTube · 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 ). 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.

Post by **ek9sid** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 7:36 am

I agree with what merc said though

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

A very alternative car since you don't see many. I like!

YouTube · 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 ...

mart609 · 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