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Ok i guess its time to put a build thread together sadly there are no surviving pictures of the start of the story but ill fill in as best as i can about 2 years ago after a friend convinced me to buy a VTi-S sadly that car had to be commited to the scrapyard in the sky after a little crump (cough.... too fast on a wet road....cough.... lesson learned) and for the life of me i cant remember where i saved the pictures of it >< . however in order to save as much of it as possible we found a rolling shell that was for sale for £250 and a mate of mine kindly went and picked it up and took it back to his workshop. i got really lucky with the shell as it had the full leather interior most of the interior trim carbon wrapped already, Koni shocks and springs and a 2.5" Mongoose catback hanging from the underside! (apparently the guy selling the car couldnt get the exhaust off the car so he left it there O.o ) in the next stage sadly i was stuck about 200 miles away from the car and wasnt able to work on it myself and as a result i could never have done it without some help from 2 really good mates in Inverness, Jamie Love and Sean Mackintosh who stripped the vti-s and dropped the engine and electrics into the new shell. the next time i saw the car they told me that scicilian bonnet was a bit tatty so they had put the pirate black bonnet on, i wasnt so sure about it untill i saw it and realised they had also put the vti-s kit and the black spoiler on it and i loved the colour combination! so here it is, as it was back then just after it was finnished and just a little over a year ago sitting on the koni suspension so the next thing to be done was coilovers. i decided to go all the way and so far its the only really expensive bit ive bought for the car.... MeisterR's! and boy did i make the right decision, totaly transformed the way it goes round corners and still the best thing I've done to the car so far. next thing to get done was intake and a mate sold me his AEM short arm really cheap so that was and easy choice on it goes! next thing to happen was that some stupid bint drove into the back of me and the insurance w****rs wrote off the civic..... however as luck would have it they didnt see any salvage value in the car so they gave it back to me with a payout of what they saw the value of the car as and 12quid later i had a new rear bumper from a breakers yard complete with a 1.4i badge on the back of it still not sure if ill be leaving it there or not but its kinda fun for now when aresholes in audi's think its a 1.4 And that was all for a while, untill the start of this year when i had the time to take a week and give it some love. i started with a basic service as it hadn't been done for a while. so pluggs oil change dizzy cap and rotor arm (dizzy cap was cracked and probably the origonal one) this was all fine untill i was taking the dizzy cap off and the casing on the Dizzy broke off around the bolt so that was an hour spent swapping the guts of my dizzy into the casing from a b****red dizzy that my mate had in the back of his shed next on the list was the front wishbones as this was starting to get a bit worrying (and i hadn't wanted to drop the coilovers down properly untill this was sorted) Before so new wishbones went on and the coilovers were wound down to about a 20mm drop (still fiddling with them so this is defiantly not going to be the final height) After while i was there and it was good weather i decided to tackle the carpeting in the boot that had been p**sing me off as it was constantly falling off and getting in the way so.... Weight Reduction! and finnaly for this bout of work i picked up a new shiny thing from Unit6 spares in perth on my way home DC2 Strut brace! Anyway.... thats all for now, hope you enjoy and ill be adding more to the build as time goes on (probably fairly slow progress though as its my daily driver and I'm a broke student lol) To Do list: 1. Poly bushes for the rear LCA's ive got and get them fit. ------------------------------------------- Ordered! 2. Find and Fix the source of the knocking thats comming from the front suspension --------- Tracking done which eliminated all 3 of these 3. Fix Fog lights and get surrounds for them 4. Fix healdight washers 5. Strip and refurb breaks 6. Better Tires 7. Dechrome grill/rear plate holder and headlights 8. Paint Rocker Cover 9. book it into a body shop to get everything tidied up and get all the panels/bumpers lined up properly 10. (distant future....... PlastiDip!) Very distant future...... 1. Exhaust manifold 2. Inlet manifold 3. Full Bracing 4. S80 4.7 gearbox 5. Wheels (undecided what yet)

Look well on the new wheels dude. You're only 23 though?!?! From your avatar I always thought you were Ricky Wilson from the Kaiser Chiefs

It's really not. Like four weekends. Holy shit!! I have LOADS to do.

ye tomorrow never comes but i do ok, either friday or saturday i'll upload a picture

^^^ You & JD:

I've asked for one and said he has free reign on what to do include! I may regret this

Got back from a 20 mile drive aaand my wheels are no longer white... So, now I'm not sure if I want to do the multi-spokes in white. I'm thinking of Tom's idea. Satin bronze

ok, all credit for finding this goes to DaveMB2, he told me about this company on Sunday at the Scottish meet, but i felt it needed to be listed in here www.Strong-flex.eu i spent ages looking for bushes for my MB6 and these guys do all of them from what i can tell, and the MB's are actually listed on the website and there's diagrams with all of the parts so its dead easy to figure out which ones are the right ones if you are only looking for specific bushes and not the full kit only thing worth noting that I've noticed is that the rear ARB on the diagram appears to be the MGZS ARB so you would need to check with them before you bought ARB bushes

Friday Friday Friday !!!!

There really good price delivered.. i wouldn't have bothered otherwise. Arrived within a week with special grease too. No squeaks yet. They did c**k up my front arb bushes tho. Sent wrong size. Was cool cus My mate reemed them out on a pillar drill and about lost his fingers. Filmed it as well cus it was all a bit sketchy.

I cable tied my plastic under tray as well to the bottom of the rad.

Ah, I think I recognise this from the facebook page, nice looking car, not many vesuvio red ones around.

Yes, yes, yes!!! Brilliant mate, it does look a little lower on the rear but at least she's down and that arch gaps been reduced, see how you get on. :D

Oh well, that's fair enough then.

Thanks mate, but I just finished the job today. The seats look well but could do with a good clean.

I managed to get the car on the ramp today and she's finally got her a$$ down! But I'm not too happy how she sits on the rear. Sitting a tad too low and these are with the rear standard EG springs! The Beaks bar is hitting every speed bump and I have to be so careful going down the very bumpy lane to my house. Tell you what though it is so so much fun to drive now! In-fact, I am over the moon with it. I cannot stop looking at my car Picture has to be taken just as I reversed out of the garage...

Wheels look nice mate you don't wanna ruin them in the winter I have a set you can buy for winter lol

Thanks guys. Videos will likely come around Japfest time. The exhaust is too bassy for my phone to pick up from inside the car.

Cheers dude! Big compliment coming from you!

There's two, yellow is harder than red. Sport: http://www.strongflex.eu/en/acura-integra-93-01/154-081097a-anti-roll-bar-bush-18-26mm-sport.html Regular: http://www.strongflex.eu/en/acura-integra-93-01/155-081097b-anti-roll-bar-bush-18-26mm.html Make sure you chose the size you need on the drop-down, can't remember the size for the MG one! Hopefully someone will confirm it!

It's no secret, you're helping me out with it

Perfect thanks mate

Doesn't matter if they use the other smaller one, but be handy to know in case I need to get some or barter for them

I know the question wasnt directed at me... But thats a tough one ... Burble Vs looks ...

Yeah no probs it will just be sat in the shed.

Yeah its not Adam mate .. Craig something or other, i PM'd him this morning .. Car looks good mate .. Like the two tone ..

Thanks man, yeah the lights will be a welcome upgrade haha my golf had Angel eyes and CSL (rep) wheels but my BMW has neither, time to change that.. And dw man maybe next time! Yeah it's all in the cabin and the best bit is it all looks standard so people wonder what you've done to it!

That's were I got my polys from. It's polish company prices are awesome when converted to gbp

About time you did the front end to match the rear!

I will have a new one if your offering lol free range like kryz lol

Aaaaand a long overdue update! First things first the audio is fitted, no pictures of this because it all looks.. well, stock? Which is what I wanted from the sound system. The full speclist of my audio goes: BMW Professional MP3 CD Headunit recoded to Hi-Fi (the base system has a weird EQ on it that compensates for the lack of tweeters it has) Alpine front component speakers with alpine tweeters (x2) New door trims for both front doors with tweeter grilles (x2) Harman Kardon Logic 7 8.5" Underseat Subwoofers (x2) Alpine 4 channel amp for front components and underseat subwoofers. Non audio but still interior mods: CREE interior bulbs.. 14 of them! - Here but not fitted. Digital speedo coded into the central speedo display which is GPS accurate, brilliant for hooning and makes me feel like I'm in a racing game... Biggest recent mod that arrived today (Ignore the messy bed): Genuine BMW E90 Facelift angel eye headlights, ordered CREE LED angel eyes so when they arrive (typical me forgetting it was a four day weekend so Tuesday!) then they'll get fitted. That's progress for now, thanks for reading.

^^ they are expensive but sooooo worth it, i cant speak for any other coilovers as these are the only ones I've ever had but they were highly recommended by various people before i got them

That's interesting! I know it's said they give better low-mid range, suppose it makes sense though! Must be why the Type R's still have that set up from factory!

Look a little bit like Chrono's! Nice!

Bronze, now there's a plan! You understand now why my Rota's aren't staying white?

You're asking me?

Cheers bud, I'm gutted for you, I intend to be parking a long way from the kerbs but it is difficult in those side streets, I know I've hit one there before. Yes I have locking nuts, although they are my old ones which need replacing so I'm trying to find some neo-chrome ones with a ball seat fitment, not easy. Thanks mate, they're not perfect but I'm happy with them, yes filler primer, it just helps fill in any imperfections to get a smoother finish. I think I only hit these once before but they used to be on Jon's car which his wife used as a daily. *Crunch*

I'll get right onto this today at some point mate!

mine was the same.....cable ties sorted guard in seconds!!

Looking good with drop chief

I haven't watched it yet, I'll put it on my to do list for the evening!

Nope! Our man Dinochips is!

Random photo whore peeking out round the corner

Got the the starter on, turned it over and a flast orange came out that filter, took it off and the carb was filled with smoke, so cleared the smoke and tried again without the filter and hey ho she lives! So here you go, enjoy!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE6lOARBk2Y Cant seem to get to load as a pic so you can watch here instead of following the link.

Reminds me of my EU7. D14 with plenty to give.

Okay Okay, I like it as well.....

Give it a few extra coats of lacquer too, it'll darken the colour a bit more. Also I couldn't resist taking a couple of pictures whilst I went out for food.

Out with the drinking straw. In with the cannon. It's a 2.5" cat-back system with a center silencer (it doesn't sound like it's silencing anything ) and a Turborevs back box. It sounds great, my MPG suffered greatly on the drive home with my constant revving. I'll attempt to get videos up, but it's a bit too loud to be doing it on my driveway.

no word's just pictures.... just one thing though, i could possable be the first person to have 16'' speedline chronos on a deck.....

Yeah! Some folk go for decibels while others go for that crisp sound and clarity!