My progress thread

[97lsteg]

Udate on My progress thread

hi my name is Steven and I live in West Linn Oregon. I own a 1997 Integra Ls with a LS/VTEC. I purchased the car back in November with 21k already invested into it. I bought it for $4900!!! I have been a member of CI for about 1 month now and promote it when ever I get the chance.
Excuse the poor pictures, I took them today right after it got done raining, it was cloudy, my camera sucks, adn the car is really dirty. I will get out as soon as the sun comes back out into this forsaken city and get some new pics of the teggy when it's clean.
Being a full time college student my progress has been slow buty my future plans are:

JDM front end conversion
Metallic Midnight Blue paint with CF Hood & Hatch
And am debating wether or not I wish to pursue RWD conversion after everything else....it could be a fun mod lol. I know it's not too feesible or sensible for that matter.
And YES the snakeskin IS coming off when I get the time and money.
OEM Rear bumper++++++INSTALLED
OEM Skirts
ITR Front Lip

Engine:

DC Sport Header
DC Sport Muffler
Option Racing Cold Air Intake (Setup for short ram right now due to weather conditions.)
B16A head swap
High Comp. Pistons (Do not remember what brand, it got losed in the transaction of the car.)
Rings
NGK Plugs
Random Technology metallic substrate catalytic converter
Magnaflow Resonater
Apexi V-AFC
Short Shifter

Supsension:

Eibach Springs Pro Kit
KYB Shocks AGX Adjustable (Front and rear)
OEM GSR strut bar (Front)

Exterior:

Shaved door handles
Shaved emblems
Shaved key slots
Shaved antenna
Autolock door popper
OEM front bumper with half Lip
Kombat Rear bumper-----------------------------GONE!
Kombat side skirts
Paint: Gold metallic flake under black
17" Konig Rims wrapped in Zexius tires
Clear front bumber lenses------------------------Went back to my ambers.
Diamond Blue headlights
Blue LED License plate lights

Interior:

GSR Leather front seats
GSR Leather rear seats
GSR Leather arm rest
Pioneer DEHP5000UB Head Unit
12" Pheonix Gold Ryval subwoofer
Pioneer 500w amp
OEM interior speakers
ITR Shift Knob
2 Gauge Bezel
Autometer Temp Gauge
Autometer Oil Pressure Gauge
Amber gauge backlights
ITR Shift Boot
Mounted Apexi V-AFC controller
Acekogyo pedals (I know they are lame but my stock rubber slips where worn and my feet were hard to keep on the pedals, a temporary fix until this summer when I am going to permenately attach a set to them. Sparco perhaps?)

Before

After

Thanks for reading and hope to further my progress soon

 

[JDMxDB8]

JDM front end conversion
JDM Fog lights
^ Fog lights are part of the conversion

And am debating wether or not I wish to pursue RWD conversion after everything else....it could be a fun mod lol.
^ Wow...

VTECH head swap
Forged Pistons (Do not remember what brand, it got losed in my giant pile of reciepts.)
Reinforced piston walls
^ Triple wow...

Welcome to CI!

 

[Ominous G2]

OEM 98 rear with optional lip kit.

 

[K. Legaspi]

You've got a phone for your head? I like it. And good luck doing a RWD conversion.

 

[97lsteg]

OEM 98 rear with optional lip kit.

yeah deffinately, I hate the one that is one it right now with a passion, it's the first thing to go once I decide when and where im going to get it re-painted and the body work done.

 

[97lsteg]

You've got a phone for your head? I like it. And good luck doing a RWD conversion.

Lol my bad...ill fix that. The RWD was just a thought and admittedly will probably not happen. I used to love the whole drift scene before it blew up and miss RWD.

 

[97lsteg]

JDM front end conversion
JDM Fog lights
^ Fog lights are part of the conversion

And am debating wether or not I wish to pursue RWD conversion after everything else....it could be a fun mod lol.
^ Wow...

VTECH head swap
Forged Pistons (Do not remember what brand, it got losed in my giant pile of reciepts.)
Reinforced piston walls
^ Triple wow...

Welcome to CI!

I know its lame that I cannot remember what brand the pistons are and i am in the process of obtaining it from the shop I go through, I do hope that you don't through me into your poser list and think I am full of rice.

 

[Ominous G2]

I would look into that, at least then you have an idea of the compression ratio.

 

[97lsteg]

I would look into that, at least then you have an idea of the compression ratio.

Yeah deffinately, the buying of this car went very quickly and alot of information was lost in the transaction. So I am going through reciept after reciept trying to find out what was done to it.

 

[kcombs]

looks good.

 

[97lsteg]

Udate!

I checked in with a local shop that my teggys previous owner had most of his parts installed at, and they said they could not figure out what brand pistons were put in but they have a written record that the compression ratio was raised to aprox. 11:1cr.

Anyways found it to be interesting and plan on having someone just open it up and look but am waiting until my budget gets a boost.

will update pics soon but am waiting for a sunny day to detail and photograph the car =/

 

[nate2k5]

how in the hell did you invest 21k in this car, i don't see one mod that is of very high quality on any of the car

welcome

 

[2K6NFR]

looks like a good project, not feeling somethings but thats how you want your car to look and i respect that. very nice car, keep it up

 

[Bizkit64]

... Wow welcome... 21 grand?...??...???

Drop the body kit / rims / crocodile door panels.

JDM front asap maybe 5 lug if you have the cash.

 

[97lsteg]

if you guys did in fact really read my discription you should know that I bought the car this way and AM fixing it. I know the body kit is gay, and the guy deffinately spent his money in the wrong places, not my money though. Thanks for the few compliments I did recieve however.