skylinescotty
RMS Regular
Thought I would make a new thread of my car to put it all together and show what has been done during the year that I have owned it.
I bought it completely standard with 108k on it. When I bought it I had my plates swapped over and had a jap plate made for the front with a tilter on it. I then fitted my head unit and led side lights.
Then came the carbon bonnet.
I then got a supersprint 4-2-1 manifold, which I heat wrapped, and a decat. Also got a vtec solenoid cover.
The car was very smokey in vtec and burnt a lot of oil so next I decided to give the engine some work. Piston rings, valve stem oil seals and head gasket were done, aswell as ARP conrod bolts, timing belt, water pump, thermostat, all the other belts, filters, brake pads etc.
The photo of sam and my engine in background
All engine work was done by William at WH Autocare, could not recommend him enough, did a top job!
I had a go at making my exhaust looking a bit better. Used wire brush, nitromorse, then 1200 grit, 2000 grit, and 4000 grit and polished with autosol.
Before shot.
After.
Then came the change I was waiting to do since I got the car. In general the paintwork wasn’t great, surface rust on arches, stone chipped front end, paint flaking in various places, not up to my standard. So off it went to my cousin terry at KRCR. After thinking about what should be done I decided to have a full respray instead of just a couple panels painted, and since It turned into a full respray I started to think of different colours, and that’s when terry came up with the idea of pirates black. I thought it would be perfect since it is such a nice colour, its still a factory Honda colour and also integras didn’t come in pirates black so it will be a one off integra. Also decided to put the standard bonnet back on for the respray.
So since it was going to be off the road for a while I had to find some sort of runaround. I ended up with this, suppose it will do the job..
The deal was for me to do the stripping, prep work, wet sanding, polishing etc and terry would do the painting, although he did help me quite a lot during the whole process to be fair lol! Now for the pictures
The shell ready for primer
Shell primed
Doors and bonnet primed
Shell ready for paint
Shell painted
And then lacquered
Eyooo
Doors and bonnet painted
Bumpers ready for paint
bootlid, spoiler, skirts, wing mirrors painted
First sight of the paint in sun, rolled out straight after painting, hasn’t been flatted or polished yet. The finnish was unreal! I suppose terry isn’t too bad with the spray gun
I then flattened the whole car and polished back up with g6. Here is the car flattened and the wing polished
After compounding
I then went over the whole car with g10. After this I got some menzerna polishes since they were non silicone and the car was then given another 3 stages of polishing. Rolled out into the sun the check the colour again
Then it was time to start building the car up again. Terrys ghetto brackets to hold the back windows in place once they were stuck in lol
Honda badges and stickers were ordered through Honda. Thought this was quite good, on the left were the ones on the car originally, in the middle are ebay specials, and to the right are new genuine Honda ones
After polishing
I then thought it would be good to have a few touches round the car. Terry came up with the ‘purple’ redline idea and I thought it would look cool, and a nice touch so had the vinyl made up and put on the speedo
Theres a few other vinyls still to be put on but they are still being made.
While the car was there I also had a few things done that I wanted for a while. I took the wiper at the back off and got a honda blanking button for the whole, the scuttle panel and front wipers were painted the freshen them up, behind both bumpers were given a quick lick of paint, and the car also got 6k HID’s fitted, new main beams, led number plate lights at the back, and clear indicators for the front.
And that was basically it, after about 5 weeks it was ready to be rolled out.
Cleaning up
Thumbs up finally done lol
I then took the car home and gave it a good clean, including arches, wheels taken off and cleaned, interior and up to my clean standard again. I then meet my cousin that night and we took a few photos
Over the moon with the results, could not be happier.. and can’t thank my cousin enough for doing this for me. If anyone needs paintwork done I could not recommend him enough, really top job and anyone will say that that’s seen the car close up!
I was planning on letting the car go but its not going anywere now after the amount of work that went into it. Im now going to keep it and have a lot more plans for it including:
- Get photos taken of it by gee
- Coilovers (probably meisterR)
- New set of wheels, still thinking so give me some ideas
- Undersealed
Thanks for reading, comments and criticism welcome
I bought it completely standard with 108k on it. When I bought it I had my plates swapped over and had a jap plate made for the front with a tilter on it. I then fitted my head unit and led side lights.
Then came the carbon bonnet.
I then got a supersprint 4-2-1 manifold, which I heat wrapped, and a decat. Also got a vtec solenoid cover.
The car was very smokey in vtec and burnt a lot of oil so next I decided to give the engine some work. Piston rings, valve stem oil seals and head gasket were done, aswell as ARP conrod bolts, timing belt, water pump, thermostat, all the other belts, filters, brake pads etc.
The photo of sam and my engine in background
All engine work was done by William at WH Autocare, could not recommend him enough, did a top job!
I had a go at making my exhaust looking a bit better. Used wire brush, nitromorse, then 1200 grit, 2000 grit, and 4000 grit and polished with autosol.
Before shot.
After.
Then came the change I was waiting to do since I got the car. In general the paintwork wasn’t great, surface rust on arches, stone chipped front end, paint flaking in various places, not up to my standard. So off it went to my cousin terry at KRCR. After thinking about what should be done I decided to have a full respray instead of just a couple panels painted, and since It turned into a full respray I started to think of different colours, and that’s when terry came up with the idea of pirates black. I thought it would be perfect since it is such a nice colour, its still a factory Honda colour and also integras didn’t come in pirates black so it will be a one off integra. Also decided to put the standard bonnet back on for the respray.
So since it was going to be off the road for a while I had to find some sort of runaround. I ended up with this, suppose it will do the job..
The deal was for me to do the stripping, prep work, wet sanding, polishing etc and terry would do the painting, although he did help me quite a lot during the whole process to be fair lol! Now for the pictures
The shell ready for primer
Shell primed
Doors and bonnet primed
Shell ready for paint
Shell painted
And then lacquered
Eyooo
Doors and bonnet painted
Bumpers ready for paint
bootlid, spoiler, skirts, wing mirrors painted
First sight of the paint in sun, rolled out straight after painting, hasn’t been flatted or polished yet. The finnish was unreal! I suppose terry isn’t too bad with the spray gun
I then flattened the whole car and polished back up with g6. Here is the car flattened and the wing polished
After compounding
I then went over the whole car with g10. After this I got some menzerna polishes since they were non silicone and the car was then given another 3 stages of polishing. Rolled out into the sun the check the colour again
Then it was time to start building the car up again. Terrys ghetto brackets to hold the back windows in place once they were stuck in lol
Honda badges and stickers were ordered through Honda. Thought this was quite good, on the left were the ones on the car originally, in the middle are ebay specials, and to the right are new genuine Honda ones
After polishing
I then thought it would be good to have a few touches round the car. Terry came up with the ‘purple’ redline idea and I thought it would look cool, and a nice touch so had the vinyl made up and put on the speedo
Theres a few other vinyls still to be put on but they are still being made.
While the car was there I also had a few things done that I wanted for a while. I took the wiper at the back off and got a honda blanking button for the whole, the scuttle panel and front wipers were painted the freshen them up, behind both bumpers were given a quick lick of paint, and the car also got 6k HID’s fitted, new main beams, led number plate lights at the back, and clear indicators for the front.
And that was basically it, after about 5 weeks it was ready to be rolled out.
Cleaning up
Thumbs up
finally done lol
I then took the car home and gave it a good clean, including arches, wheels taken off and cleaned, interior and up to my clean standard again. I then meet my cousin that night and we took a few photos
Over the moon with the results, could not be happier.. and can’t thank my cousin enough for doing this for me. If anyone needs paintwork done I could not recommend him enough, really top job and anyone will say that that’s seen the car close up!
I was planning on letting the car go but its not going anywere now after the amount of work that went into it. Im now going to keep it and have a lot more plans for it including:
- Get photos taken of it by gee
- Coilovers (probably meisterR)
- New set of wheels, still thinking so give me some ideas
- Undersealed
Thanks for reading, comments and criticism welcome
