The life and times of my DC2 (pic heavy)

[DaddyC]

Hello all, I know I have bored you enough with another topic I just kept randomly adding to, so I thought id do a wee break down of the history of my motor since I got it just over 2 years ago, and hows it progressed to today with different things ive done over stages… Whether some of it is good or bad is up to you

Well firstly these are some of the advertisement photos the guys at Tegiwa Imports had up. I was torn between looking at the silver one and the yellow motors they had as both appealed to me being a bit different and rare…

But as you know, after much debating and humming and ha’ing and melting the lads heads, I decided to go for the yellow one just for the extra rarity, which was a tough call, as they were both 2 great shape fairly original low mileage motors. Mine having covered just under 35k km’s since Dec 99 till June 07

So off I went on my journey from Stoke on Trent to Stranraer having some fun with a yellow Evo 5 on the country roads to the port (looking rather high here oddly :S )

Then over to Ollies the next morning so he could fit an alarm and have a good tug over one of these as Ollie is a big PY fan lol!!!

The ganch himself

With the car being yellow and being 8 odd years old, naturally the colour was a bit patchy in places and a bit swirly, so off it went to my friend Pete to do the business on bringing it back to a bit more of a respectable state

It was hard to get photos of it before hand and the swirls due to it being yellow, but you get the idea here:

And after:

The car also got a full service of belts, oils, filters all round and spark plugs at this point…

 

[DaddyC]

Then came time to change from the radio controlled car looking OEM aerial to a nice subtle S2000 jobbie, which oddly helped me get a bit better reception!!! I also fitted a set of HID white (even though look bluey, but its just the camera) sidelights from ultraLED’s to tie in a bit better with the HID’s as opposed to the dull yellow look… (also fitted at the time was a set of silvertec indicator bulbs to de-tango the headlights, but forgot to photograph that, you can see further down however)

I started getting a bit sick of the white wheels at this stage and wanted something a bit more moody. I also wanted a bit of lowerage without going too nuts, so I ordered a set of Eibach pro’s springs and spoke to a very nice man named Adonai (some say Pete is too nice and likes to pat little boys bums :O ) about swapping wheels on his MR Integra which were the graphite 98 spec wheels.

So in came the springs (thanks to Armo at Street Racer) which I got fitted, and as we all know it takes time for springs to settle, but as it turned out, these springs actually RAISED the car (11mm at front, 13mm at rear!). Don’t know what happened there as they fitted perfectly and were sent direct from Eibach, so that’s why the car is so high in some of the following photos…

 

[DaddyC]

Eventually I got the correct springs sent to me and fitted as well as getting a Spoon B pipe and a Spoon Street back box fitted after a bit of cleaning up

Half & half:

After (colgate sparkle):

Bit of posing

I had always wanted a set of SW388’s and managed to find a set with the perfect offset and size from D2 Tex on the DC2 forum… Sadly these were white Regamaster Evo’s (same wheel anyway, just different name), but needed refurbed as there was a few chips and scrapes in them, so just needed to decide between gloss black and matt black:

Naturally I went for the matt as the gloss looked cack quite frankly. So Nu-Luk in Carrickfergus done a great job trying to get them a colour I was happy with and I got them wrapped in a lovely set of Yokohama Advan AO43’s, which are a hard tyre to come by, but highly rated in Japan, but Julian at rare Rims managed to sort me out there

This is when my Spoon and brand name whoring started lol… As out came orders for Spoon calipers, Spoon wheel nuts, Dixcel slotted discs & Dixel pads (thanks to Dixon @ Dixon Racing motorsport for the discs & pads), Goodridge braided hoses, Spoon coilovers, Spoon steering wheel (just to save wear on the yellow stitched wheel like a sado, and thanks to m11gen for coilovers & s/wheel), Buddy Club P1 front & rear adjustable camber arms (thanks to Bibby for fitting the brakes & suspension and thanks to Unit 8 for the BC camber arms), Spoon front & rear strut brace, Spoon engine torque dampner, Cusco brake master cylinder stopper, Spoon oil & radiator caps, Spoon reservoir covers and Spoon carbon mirrors (thanks to Livvy for the mirrors)… While the wheels were also getting done by Nu-Luk, I left in a rocker cover with them to get painted Spoonesque yellow (just a mix of Porshe yellow lying around and wee drop of white) and added to this, a Spoon carbon plug cover

From:

To:

 

[DaddyC]

Then I wound the coilovers down a bit more

Unfortunately due to a wee accident involving a power washer, an old acquaintance’s father, industrial strength pavement cleaner and my rear ¼ panel, this all combined = suffering from lacquer peel (you can see in a few of the rear passenger side just above the fuel cap). So it was time for a respray to solve that and just to freshen up the car… So then began the strip down

Whilst I was getting the respray done I thought I may as well get a few other wee bits taken out that I always thought the car would look cleaner without… These being the front numberplate holder, the rear bumper Integra insignia, a wee crack I put in the rear bumper, the bootlock taken out of the middle panel (thanks to the guys at SQD for sorting out a brilliant job on these) and also get the aerial smoothed out.

I also got lucky that I had a set of replica optional skirts from the states to go on the car, but then a real genuine Honda set and rear spats came up from Tegiwa, I had to snap them up just cause im **** that way Needed a few scratches etc taken out, but nothing other than cosmetic

 

[DaddyC]

So while the car was being sprayed I got Pete (who buffed my car previously) to do a wee clean up on the headlights as they were stating to do the usual cloudyness these go

Before:

During:

After & 50/50 comparison:

I then got the skirts and spats on and the rest of the car built back up, putting all the interior (well not all) back in and a lot of replacement exterior bits over one of my free weekends with brand new Honda stickers, badges, window trims, rain drain rubbers and a few new of those silly screws that always bust so easily (thanks to dragong2modz for those) Thought it would be a good time to underseal the front body panels as well to prevent any rusting in future and so its all not noticeable behind the bumper

 

[DaddyC]

Then off the car went to get fully undersealed now it was all painted… I ripped every bit of plastic out from the arches where possible front and rear to make sure it got in everywhere…

Now that things were coming together in a more respectable standard, sadly the wheels did not last the test of time due to the type of matt paint that was tested on my wheels as there was no lacquer (we both knew it would be a possibility from the start) and the wheels just went dull and grey looking. So Nu-Luk were able to sort me out with a freshen up of the wheels and I decided to go for a satin style job as at least there would be a bit of lacquer there to protect the wheels from general use and weathering. Much happier anyway as they tied in better with the theme of the car. Ordered a new set of blue Ultralite internal drive nuts as the Spoon ones were absolute bobbins!!! Threaded themselves in no time and scored and scratched just by looking at them… Never even matched the colour of the brakes more to the point

Sadly the fact that there is no centre caps on these wheels made the big rusty nuts (ooh err) look trampy as, so thought id need to give them a lick of paint and decided to give the rear calipers and housings of the brake discs a freshen up at the same time, so out came the crackled black Hammerite to sort it out

Before:

After:

 

[DaddyC]

And that was the car ready to rock…

 

[DaddyC]

Then that was me pretty much happy with the car…………………………………..





…….. for a while!!!! Dixon (proracer) can then be blamed for me and something ive always craved…. A Spoon splitter!!! Or copy in this instance as it was stronger and more well built (no front plate FTMFW )

Some new shots taken by a friend who has a proper camera:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thegingerdaddy/sets/72157622348282125/with/3962858352/

The car is also now up for sale Honda : RARE 99 Pheonix Yellow JDM Integra Type R DC2

Thanks all...

 

[fintovtec]

excellent post boss!! sum amazing pics in there, have to say the car looks the absolute buisness mint clean with super rare yellow recaros in mint condition!!! faultless

 

[virtue]

x2 very good work keep us posted on futher work

 

[abunai888]

awesome !!

 

[Stuarty]

This is the best DC2 i have ever seen, without a doubt!! Stunning!!

Just wish i had the funds to take it off you.

 

[Mattharvey12]

that is a absolute minter

 

[rvm]

Amazing thread! I'm thinking on painting my dc2 yellow

beatufiul car

 

[CAL]

love it!

 

[Lars P]

Nice!

 

[ijwhiteman]

I like ALOT! Good choice of parts!

 

[jase_87]

wow thats gorgeous

 

[Chandlerek4]

who renovated your paint for you early on mate? cos im desperate to get mine done!

 

[matt o]

sexual!!!!