that_civic
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Will be an animal with a k series in it
Will be an animal with a k series in it
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!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