Bens Del Sol Build - Now going K20


I went over to england on wednesday and picked up the integra with the k swap. Im sure a few of you had seen it for sale or even know the car. I got it at a decent price and saves me buying all the parts myself which is expensive.
The integra is cosmetically quite rough. The paint isn't that bad, apart from being championship beige haha, and the obvious dent on the bumper, crack on rear bumper and red boot. I think a good clay bar and machine polish will do it wonders to be honest. Anyways I didn't buy it for its looks, I bought it for the k swap! The engine and gearbox are spot on and the car shifts haha, definitely a step up from the modified b18s I have had. The spec is:

- EP3 engine and gearbox
- K Tuned swap harness
- Hasport Mounts
- DC5 Aluminium radiator
- K Tuned Radiator hoses
- K Tuned upper coolant housing
- K Tuned lower thermostat housing
- K Tuned heater hoses
- K Tuned oil cooler hoses
- K Tuned idler pulley and belt
- Hybrid racing fuel rail
- Aeromotive fuel pressure regulator
- Torque fuel pressure gauge
- Fuel Lab inline fuel filter
- Custom braided fuel lines
- PLM Manifold
- Custom 2.5" stainless exhaust system
- Custom 3" Intake
- Competition Clutch stage 5 clutch
- Competition Clutch ultra lightweight flywheel
- Hel braided clutch line
- K Tuned Billet shifter box
- DC5 shifter cables
- EP3 driveshafts with new B series Outer CV joints
- K pro V3 ECU - Mapped by RaceTech to 246bhp, 181ft/tq

Heres some photos.












Here is the del sol shell that Ill be swapping the parts and k20 into. It needs a full respray, suspension powder coated/rebushed, new brakes etc etc. First plan of action will be to get it back on all fours again and rolling so I can start getting it prepped for paint and the arches sorted.







Thanks
 
Good project mate, look forward to seeing it progress!
 
Its been a while since Ive updated this thread.
Sadly not long after fitting the black rocker cover the engine crapped itself. Turned out the black rocker cover I put on still had some grit in it from the shot blasting and it ended up scoring the bearings and wrecking the oil pump. I felt stupid but it was a lesson learned.
That was 3 or more years ago and since then this del sol has lay in my driveway with no engine, doing nothing but getting dirty.

However...
Now that I have a standard clean white del sol that I granny around in and won't modify, Ive decided I am going to use this black del sol to build the del sol I have wanted for a long time. A k20 swapped del sol.
I have been slowly gathering k swap parts for the last year or so not really knowing what I am going to do with them. But now that I have sold my daily and Ive got my student loan its time for me to get my act together and get this k swap on the move.

I have already got
- Hybrid racing shifter box
- Dc5 cables
- Hasport mounts
- Hasport shafts
- K swap conversion harness

I may or may not use these parts as I am going over to England next week to pick up a k swapped integra that I can swap the parts over from. Some of you may think Im mad taking the k swap out of the integra and putting it into a del sol but you will get over it haha.

Once I have the k swap all sorted, I need to sort out the del sols body work and get it fully resprayed. The paint is terrible on it now from laying out for so long and it wasn't great to begin with. The arches are solid apart from where the bumper meets the arch. The inner bracket that holds the end of the bumper on has rusted badly on both sides and on the passenger side there is a hole the size of a 10p just where the bumper meets. The sills and the underneath are 100% which is a relief so hopefully the prep and painting process won't take too long.
I am undecided on the colour to paint the car. I want the engine bay and outside to be the same colour, not a funky engine bay colour.
I would like to paint it black again but black is such a tough colour to keep nice. I was thinking either frost white or vsm silver.
What does anyone think? Any suggestions on colours?

Any way I will be updating this as of next week when the donor integra arrives. Cheers
Glad to see your making a move with this again man, I saw a K swapped Teg on ebay not long ago guessing thats the one you went for? As for colour I think you should go for Y56 that would look awesome and K swapped! :D
 
Thanks. Yea it is probably the one you saw on eBay. Never thought of yellow actually, looked on google there and it can look good on the del sol if done right.
 
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