Riggers' 96-Spec JDM Dc2...

[Bren Rogers]

Not got round to uploading pics yet, but here's a vid of some utter hero action.

[video=youtube_share;GJ3gsPyz9I4]http://youtu.be/GJ3gsPyz9I4[/video]

 

[Bren Rogers]

Never mind I'm still awake.. pics here

 

[jamie rigby]

sweet pics!

rocker cover gasket and new badges have arrived!

ordered 1/2meter of 2.75'' stainless for a new tailpipe to replace the 4'' inwardly rolled

 

[DanielJames]

Should look good that mate.

I love driving about with the yellow fogs on... although somewhat a chav/bradford thing to do, it looks damn cool. JDM y0

 

[Gaz.]

LOl at needs premium. So did the Accord, never made a difference. Nor does it to my mate's JDM DC5. If it had boost I'd put it in though.

 

[jamie rigby]

old badges -

new badges -

fitted -

car just needs a a good clean as its full of sap with having to be off the drive until the fiestas gone, now it has the dc2's on the drive!

oh and the 2.75'' stainless arrived yesterday, size difference -

cant wait to get it swapped, will probs do it over the weekend or next week when my mates free!

 

[n9oll]

looks nice mate, drive past yours all the time

 

[DanielJames]

Nice one mate, did you pay retail on those badges? £40odd each aint they.. yikes

 

[Ray Gin]

Thought they would have been more, to replace the type r decals on the sides it was £40+ for me!

 

[DanielJames]

Aye I saw that. Mine are Tegiwa replicas, you can't tell the difference

Had some horrible ebay reps on it when I bought it

 

[jamie rigby]

badges were like 8quid off ebay, I aint paying 80quid lol



service items, only cheap ones for now as im gonna see how it runs on 10w40
as the oil's leaking from the headgasket slightly, not running out and dripping
on the floor, just seeping out around the front left corner/3/4'' along the
front -

whilst the car was up in the air I removed the air-resonater box, quite heavy -

then de-greased all the painted white areas in the bay -

then gave it a bath now its on the drive not sat under trees now the fiestas
gone

also bought a tool kit off ebay (jack and wheel brace) as the car didn't come
with one

 

[Rob]

It looks great, but tyre shine man!

 

[jamie rigby]

It looks great, but tyre shine man!

pfft behave haha



been faffing today, wiper arms before -

after -

drained abit of oil as I overfilled it abit, then thought id take a pic of this bit of jdm'ness my mate noticed the otherday -

removed this as the position of it was doing my head in as its not central so ive ordered some new ones off ebay -

looks alright without but not as good as itll be with a new one correctly positioned -

Going to remove the Air Con this week and get the new tip done!

 

[Keith185]

Lovely looking car and great work. Badges make massive difference

 

[Djw Dave]

Fresh badges have worked wonders. Keep it up.

 

[jamie rigby]

so, before -

where the AC pump was -

without -

battery tray removed and pipes removed right back to the bulkhead all removed undamaged or bent -

how the bay looks now -

everything that came off -

new sticker's came too, looks better central but im abut pissed off that the R isn't red -

 

[JackJack]

Amazing how much difference little details make.

 

[Dan519]

sweet pics!

rocker cover gasket and new badges have arrived!

ordered 1/2meter of 2.75'' stainless for a new tailpipe to replace the 4'' inwardly rolled

​Pretty sure rocker cover gasket was replaced when the painting was done

 

[jamie rigby]

​Pretty sure rocker cover gasket was replaced when the painting was done

how'd you know? its barely seepeing from the rocker gasket after doing more miles in the car, leaking from the headgasket a tad more

 

[Dan519]

did you not read the bit where I said I raped it round Bedford autodrome? LOL, I really did. Did a major amount on this including the big brake conversion (well I supervised with a bad back).

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?665415-My-new-car-Integra-DC2/page2&highlight=integra

 

[The_Pirate]

Love this!

What are running costs like?

 

[Gaz.]

Oh, this is Deacon's old one?!

 

[jamie rigby]

it is

running costs... gets low 30s mpg mixed driving

 

[jamie rigby]

so, bumper off, tip ready to be chopped off -

ta da -

took the car up on the ramp, new one chopped to the right length then welded on, great when your best mates handy with a welder -

finshed and bumper back on, much better -

random pics, standard unhit manifold altho the sumps rather scraped haha and standard cat -

and the second centre silencer looks like its been bodged in for some strange reason I don't know why when it has a large centre silencer as it is and a large back box -

may de-cat it but going to see how the fuelling is first after the rolling road session at EFI sunday!

 

[mattjones]

Love it! Round the corner from me as well so I'll keep an eye out

 

[jamie rigby]

went on the rollers at EFI parts today...

chris/scoff said it was running bang on like Hondas always do, a tad rich to be safe, if it was him mapping it it'd be a tad leaner and make 2-3bhp more probs


video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_rPFeO7MRc

 

[jamie rigby]

few more better pics from sunday, I fitted the new matching ITR stickers on the sides now too to match the one on the rear which I changed last week -

ive lowered it 5mm on the rear and 10mm on the front since these pics, I will be changing the suspension for dampening adjustable coilovers in the next 2-3months before i'll be taking it on track


I also bought some Ferodo DS2500's for 98spec calipers as I was told my car had Civic MB6 Calipers and I was told again all Honda 282mm brake calipers were the same... so they turned up yesterday and they were 20-30mm too long *sigh* turns out I have MG ZS 180/ZR 160 Calipers after reading up on the previous thread for this car as aparently they're the same as Civic MB6 calipers but these are different to the 98specs/ukdm/prelude/nsx/ATR 282mm brakes... so I sent them back today £13quid postage bloody rip off and I've bought some MG ZS 180 Ferodo DS2500's off ebay, they better be the right ones this time for £167 :evil:

 

[jamie rigby]

so, hopefully the correct ds2500's will be here tomorrow

also bought some correct size/22mm purple polybushes for the rear anti roll bar as atm it has the 98spec 24mm black polybushes so you can see daylight inbetween the bush and roll bar *facepalm to whoever fitted them*, hopefully they'll be here before the weekend!

ive also bought a Blox Velocity stack air filter kit from America hopefully that'll be here before next weekend, if you don't know what one of these is here it is - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... OC:GB:3160

meant to give the maximum gain over any filter/airbox on these

 

[Philip.]

So awesome.

I really want to stick mine on rollers just out of curiosity.

 

[jamie rigby]

So awesome.

I really want to stick mine on rollers just out of curiosity.

should do id highly recommened scoff/eif parts especially withy being near to us!

my mate had his ep3 on the rollers on the same day, 02plate with just a hks backbox and a k&n induction kit which is placed right next to the exhaust manifold haha, it hade 196bhp 143lbs ft, I had a go with it on the way there and I pulled away and I had a passenger, I was surprised but it must be purely down to the extra ~250kgs they have and the extra 500rpm these have

 

[Philip.]

Where abouts is that mate?

I would hope mine has a little more with a straight through, n1 backbox and the hondata airbox mod.
Who knows!

 

[jamie rigby]

Where abouts is that mate?

I would hope mine has a little more with a straight through, n1 backbox and the hondata airbox mod.
Who knows!

Runcorn mate on the industrial estate there ive forgotten the name of it!
probs say 200bhp with that and just being down to the airbox as the K&N on my mates is dreadful, great for vtec roar but such a bad design kit!

 

[JamesBryan]

Astmoor Industrial Estate

 

[jamie rigby]

Astmoor Industrial Estate

that's the one!

pads and bushes still havnt arrived yet


I went to a dc2/ek9 breakers yesturday to get a parcel shelf as the car didn't come with one, whilst I was there I got a spark plug cover, fitted it when I got home and removed the expansion tank too -

cant wait for the new filter kit to arrive

I also got a new pcv valve while I was there as I snapped mine when trying to remove it to clean it as its meant to reduce smoke on vtec , notta clue how but yeh, I tried and failed to remove it so I got one for a 5er from the breaker (160+vat from Honda lol), taken a good hour to fit it with getting the old one out with the ball ache of a position its in -

..and the crap long-nose pliers I have haha
got new h-stickers for the centre caps too, they arrived today, fitted, note the new lowered ride height -

hopefully the pads come tomorrow!

 

[imprezaworks]

Love these. Some days wish I had tried one before the ep3

 

[jamie rigby]

Love these. Some days wish I had tried one before the ep3

my mate says the same he opted for the ep3 just for a newer car that'd get maybe better mpg and be more reliable wear n tear wise altho theres very little if any difference between the two mpg and maintainence wise

I also bought some Ferodo DS2500's for 98spec calipers as I was told my car had Civic MB6 Calipers and I was told again all Honda 282mm brake calipers were the same... so they turned up yesterday and they were 20-30mm too long *sigh* turns out I have MG ZS 180/ZR 160 Calipers after reading up on the previous thread for this car as aparently they're the same as Civic MB6 calipers but these are different to the 98specs/ukdm/prelude/nsx/ATR 282mm brakes... so I sent them back today £13quid postage bloody rip off and I've bought some MG ZS 180 Ferodo DS2500's off ebay, they better be the right ones this time for £167 :evil:

so following on from this... ive been sent the wrong pads,BAS***D... been sent MG ZS 1.8 pads instead of 2.5 180 pads, theyre 4mm longer and a lot narrower, total different shape so it isn't worth thinking of keeping and reshaping them a tad, onwards to return them after work if the place is open tomorrow then if they havnt got an 2.5 180's in ill be just getting a refund and getting some Red or Yellow stuff's, had some Redstuffs in my old Zetec S with 300mm brakes and they were awesome!

RARB bushes should be here Thursday as theyre being dispatched tomorrow and so is my Velocity stack kit coming from America!

proper fresh pics after fitting all new stickers, badges and lowering it a tad -

 

[Dan519]

lol, don't know why you're bothering changing the brakes, they were brand new in april, same as the oil, oil filter, sparkplugs......

 

[Dan@SJM]

Make sure the read trailing arm bushes are changed for genuine Honda ones if they haven't been done.

 

[jamie rigby]

lol, don't know why you're bothering changing the brakes, they were brand new in april, same as the oil, oil filter, sparkplugs......

lol, pads are down to 2mm on the nearside 3mm on the offside and theyre standard pajid's and the oil I wasn't to know what grade was in there plus it had covered a trackday to getting to temps I don't know either that's why


dan@sjm i'll check them out when I do the RARB ones!

 

[jamie rigby]

returned the pads yesterday and in return I came away with some yellow stuffs as they don't do ds2500's for these calipers and a 95quid refund too...

so, pads that are the correct size -

fitted -

theyre awesome, they were even reversing off the drive nevermind after bedding them in and giving them some stick haha

also this box came yesterday -

so, airbox and spoon filter removed, velocity stack fitted -

filter fitted -

sounds mega and it definaty feels abit better, ive bought 250mm of 3.5'' stainless of ebay to get it tucked right behind the headlight and im also going to sort a cold air feed too eventually

still no sign of these RARB polybushes from Larkspeed!