John's 1991 R-72P Integra restoration thread

GENERAL General G2/G2IC Discussion
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I have been driving my DA regularly for about 2 weeks, and just keeping it as a winter beater will not satisfy me since this car deserves to be brought back to its original glory.
I always loved the DA ever since my friend had one back in high school that was lowered with a set of polished Si’s, I knew I would eventually have to have one for myself.

Found one that seemed to cheap to be anything decent, but went and looked at it anways…and im sure glad I did.

filthy filthy inside, dirtier than my 1971 impala was when I bought it back in high school…anyways the usual dents and dings, quarter rust was the least I had seen in a car that spent its whole life in massachusetts. So I bought it, and the affair began.

took the interior apart because the heater controls…speed and direction… didnt work at all… soldered the heater circut board back together, and replaced the B.M.Resistor. Also took the panels inside and cleaned them intensively.

The car was idling horribly and leaking coolant from somewhere, and i could tell by the radiator that the p.o had just been topping it off with water. so i cleaned the iac and the fitv and traced the leak the the hoses going to the fitv. replaced the hoses and did a coolant flush

The spark plugs i was sure that they were trashed, low and behold i am correct.

car now leaks no coolant, and stays at a very nice temp at all times once warmed up,(i know because the place I got an inspection from let it idle for a good 25 minutes while they did the inspection. also stays at what I would consider a perfect idle speed.

the frayed and torn seat was driving me crazy, and I cant seem the find the correct seats for this interior and I dont want to change the entire seat design.

so i hemmed the seat and then added in a new piece of fabric that doesnt even come close to matching but its better than 20 year old exposed seat foam

the hatch was beyond repair, the rot had gotten to the insides and the rubber hatch bumpers were pushed in through the rust.

so picked up this hatch off a gs in the salv yard. nooooo rust!!!

its rio red but oh well im getting the DA resprayed in the spring.

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scrubbed the interior, scrubbed the door panels clean

cleaned the rear deck cover and repainted the speaker grills

started removing the a/c lines. comp, cond, evap, will come out in spring or so.

changed the oil today with some high milege 5W-30 and also added a can of engine restore.

the 5 next things up on the list are

complete bushing kit
rear radius arm bushings
clean up all the headlight mounts and fastners
replace hatch shocks
get 2 factory style chrome exhaust tips

oh yea and my girl made banana bread today. hell. yea.

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Nice nice nice nice super nice banana bread!!!=]

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hell yeah, subscribed

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will this check valve cause the brakes to sometimes loose feel at idle? i am trying to find a replacement for under 30 bucks haha

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alright, today i wanted to take out the air silencer, so pulled the fender liner out and did it. then i was thinking that i dont want to go the route of C.A.I and that I wanted to retain the factory airbox.

so I left the lower part of the box that faces the engine side in tact, and modified the 2 inlets that were already there, and also added another inlet to draw air in through the other side of the lower box.

then added this…K&N filter…

and there you have it, with a factory look kept intact, and definently a noticable difference in low end, and also on the highway in 5th.
and of course the great throttle growl.

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more updates?

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X2

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hey whats goin on guys. hope everyone had a good holiday weekend. mostly been tied up driving the da back and forth to holiday gatherings haha, but ive already put 1200 miles on her and shes running perfect.

as for the brakes, they are in bad shape. the drivers side front is siezed up and the passenger side has the bleder valved frozen and rounded off. so ive had to hold off on coilovers ect so i can address the brakes. so today i purchased 2 front calipers, front and rear pads and rotors.

BUT… in preparing for spring news, I will be picking up and polishing a set of 93 gsr wheels. i will post all kinds of pics when its all said and done… dont worry though I will be finishing this car and it will be the original color. but it needs alot more love before it will be where i want it!!!

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nice start.glad your taken care of all the needs before the wants.good start and welcome

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SWEEEEETTTTT… Another R-72p teg in the house… Thing is looking nice, man, keep it up…

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How does the airbox sound without the big resonater? Is it much different?

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its fairly noticable under moderate pedal, but if im just cruisin not much sound difference. But i will say merging onto the highway is alot more pleasing to my ears haha. those crisp 5500 rpm shifts…except for 5th. i always have to dbl clutch 5th or it grinds. that reminds me, i have to pick up some royal purple syncromesh fluid

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parts to the breaking system are starting to come in.

also finished the detailing of the rear portion of the interior. the rear seat bottom was really bad, i can figure out what kind of dust was in the seat,took forever to get out, like particle board dust or something…

i took it out and brought it where the good vacuum was! haha. i will get pics of the whole interior later.

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alright no big update but just want to keep ahead of this so here we go.

got some front calipers, with rayb pro pads. and nice looking brake hoses.

gonna clean them up and paint them high temp color prob just do aluminum flavor.

took a scrub brush and some light degreaser to the inner metal and firewall… i want to wait untill i put a new gasket on the vc before i pressure wash the bay…

removed the ac fan and the manifold guard as it was pretty rusted at the lower mounting point and rattled.

then i also got some tips just to clean the small standard tailpipe

alright now to finish saving up for a total bushing kit and an energy trailing arm bushing kit.
prob throw some cheap coilies on there while i have it all apart.

hope everyone is having a good first few days of 2012!!

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alright so good few days! got a tire for my a6 the exact one i needed. (damn quattro) anyways also scored some bits for the DA.
things that should be here soon…
headlight mounting brackets
center ash tray
cig lighter
grab handle bolt plugs

the headlight mounting brackets in the car are in very bad shape.also picked up a flush mount kit for the engine bay, as I will be seriously detailing the engine bay starting in the spring. also i need to get a new pass fender first.

also scored something that i am really excited about, gives me motivation to finish this project.

E30 bmw wheels, i will be fully polishing these and probably running a 195 60 14 tires on them. also got 5 of them so i will be doing a custom trunk setup with a flush mount wheel in the factory location.

(said a6 tire in trunk with 5th wheel)

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wanted to see what kind of paint and primer im workin with here. ohh yaaa ill def be going the polished route with these. picking up some aircraft strip tomoro and i already ordered my dremel sanding and polishing kit.

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:up: Keep up the good work! I love these progress threads.

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:drool: MMMMM Bananna bread…

Dam buddy, youve been putting in a lot of work. Im loving the progress:up:

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this was the 5th wheel the guy sold me…looks like its never had a tire mounted on it, but the valve stem says it has… haha.


i like these rims more every time i think of them FULLY polished and on the da.

so i recieved a big brown box today courtesy of muayteg (great seller, i highly reccommend this g2ic member!!!)

yess it was like christmas early or late depending how you look at it haha

got a cig lighter element
ash tray

no more holes in the dash!!!

also If you have been following my booring ass thread, you would have read me mention that i wanted to re-do my headlight mouting brackets…
this is why

yikes.

oh well problem solved!



flush mount bolt and washer placed on just because.

Now to get crackin on this damn suspension!

catch ya later!