* Project Teg *

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24/08/10 - Project finally starts on Page 3 !!!!


Firstly, do you see those 2 stars, arn't they pretty

So, along with Mr Fonzee I am also now in possession of a DC2, but mine had the proper front end rather than some weird accord type hybrid-r

After seeing a number of cars around I finally settled for the one in my local town. It seemed the best one in this price range and I really couldn't be bothered to travel around anymore. But all was not rosy, and after paying the man (well young lad) in the bank I went for my first drive. Found a nice road and after having some fun up through the gears I chaged into 5th and.......... CRUUUUUUUUNCH The next 5 mins in the car would cause every swear box on this planet to detonate drowing us all in mustard

But alas, otherwise she is great, and depending on iff the MTF oil fixes the crunch (unlikely), she will be off to TGM sometime to get the gearbox rebuilt, a little arch rust sorted, and some mods put it to restore some happiness.

Regular updates will come (and hopefully the weather won't make the pics soo dark), but this next week I will be busy with a job transition, but if I get anymore time some paint correction might be squeezed in

 

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A wash after my rag around the local countryside.

Absolutely love driving it, but will plan in some advanced tuition to really help me find her limits, as I'm afraid of running out of talent on these slippery roads whilst riding on RE010s.

Note the removal of those horrible rust causing arch liners!!!

First go at the roof with clay (1hr), AG SRP x2 coats, Collonite 476 x2 coats.... Crap picture, but much much better than when I picked her up, although you can tell CW paint wasn't made to win any shows

 

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to prevent damaging the rubber window seals with the machine polisher ?

also, looks like the rain channels are rubber too.

Not machine polishing, just SRP by hand, but I had just cleaned the rubbers so didn't want polish all over them

UK!!

*Runs off a cliff*

JDM scummer

so whats the project?

Bringing it back up to standard, modifying, gearbox, yadda yadda

Nice Did you not notice the crunch when you test drove it?

And yeah it's not really a project, more a worklog, that's why I asked a passing mod to rename my MX5 thread

Nope, he test drove it both times I had a drive and I made him test all the gears. As it happens at about 50mph when changing into 5th then I'm positive that he changed up in the same area as the crunch happens, as we certainly were not going under 50 I think it is just a case of extremely bad luck.

WOrklog is probably a better name for teh thread, but it is still my project

 

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nooooooooooo you got the crunchies gutting mate

just to rub it in, you seen Archs is up for sale too? would have been perfect for you!

looking spanking after the clean up though

Yup, soo annoying and I really am hitting myself, especially as I nearly pulled out of the deal on this one a few days before as I saw Archs pop up, and that is my favourite UKDM on the forum. But I thought that with the £1400 saving on this I could do what I want to make this car my own. Then I drove it the long way home and found crunchy which I'm positive was not their on either passenger ride

It'l cost more than that though, but at least I'l know where it's at transmission wise. Waiting for a call back from Tom @ TGM today for a chat. Might try some amsoil MTF first, then possibly a new clutch from Saint Matt with a Fidanza lightweight flywheel, but I need to diagnose the root cause of the crunch first. Gearchange is very notchy and jerky, but I'm still unsure if that is a problem or just me getting used to it.

How's your peach of a car?

Block changing down is what kills the syncros on these VTEC engined cars.

Good luck with the project and sort the arch rust ASAP

Rust will be done at teh same time as the gearbox if it does need rebuilding. No block changing for me, I always rev match as much as possible and change down through each gear keeping it nice and smooth.

Might go order the MeisterR coilovers today to give me somethign to look forwards to. But I better not look at my CC statement

 

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MeisterR coilovers seem to be very good indeed, plus would go for the non-pillow bearing Zeta-S version (rubber) as I'm certainly not building some mad track weapon. Just want to get rid of the 73k dampers and far too low lowering springs.

 

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Get a deflector

Spoiler OOOOFFFFF!! But those wheels need to be CW

My rims were refurbed last year, but alas not in CW white either. Although it isn't far off.

Yup the steering wheel is fugly as hell. Not too bothered though it does its job

Track time will be on the cards but only once I'm happy she can handle it. Plus I'm around 15mins from the small village of thurleigh

Tom @ TGM seemed a little busy to talk today, but will harrass him more this week for advice and getting her booked in.

 

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The number plate doesn't end is SVK does it?

I had the syncro problem in mine, but only on fast upshifts between 2 and 3. I also had a number of small rust patches and 3 totally shot engine mounts @ 55k.

Great car though - had one of my most memorable drives back from Reading to the West Midlands at 11pm on a weeknight. All A/B roads, All VTEC.

Nope, not that plate.

Amsoil MTF in a few days, so hopefully get it in before my drive on Saturday and see if that fixes up the problem.

Really have fallen in love, but will definately get a DA polisher ordered when next months pay comes in, as the current SRP and Collonite is just there to protect her through this wet spell.

 

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ignore

Too late

Fitted my first performance mod today but don't have any pictures...........

x2 Password JDM reservoir socks. I'm sure the car feels less notchy and is more free revving now

 

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Indeed it is, but these were a great price and I was getting a magnetic sump plug from the seller at the same time. PLus finding £40 in my paypal account meant it was essentially free, with the remainder of the funds going towards a tegiwa brake cylinder brace.

Costing up all the bushings atm and trying to decide if it is worth getting the coilovers done at the same time with new tires on and full alignment to finish off.

Got my oils though, just need to pickup a new crush washer for the gearbox plugs before I change the oil on sat and see what it does to my ickle crunch.

 

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I hate you OP and Fonzee.

I want

If you contribute to 1/2 the costs of getting it back to complete perfection/better than perfection, I'l give you a passenger ride every week and a hug!

Have not even driven it since the weekend, far too busy checking it over and claying the damn crap out of the clearcoat. Will save the real claying for the spring/summer as to remove every tar spot will probably take 20-30mins a panel and there really are more important things to do

 

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Did a few things this weekend, but didn't have the stamina or effort to do the engine cleaning and spraying I wanted to do on Saturday as I spent 11pm until god knows what hour securing my Grandmas house and chatting with the police RE the ****ing scum or broke into her house. All good though and she was fine

Enough excuses, so here is my first little mod (well internal). Swapped in my nicer Pioneer HU, replacing the crap kenwood that came with the car. But as DC2 owners will know, the symphony grinding, dunk dunks, and madness of the constantly crazy aerial does get annoying (when switching between aux/cd/tuner). So I installed a rocker switch to control it and also put in a connecotr for my ipod.

Will crack on with a few other things and people can see the fruits of my labour at the meet on the 27th. But the amount of labour time will vary wildely on work over the coming few weeks.

The engine bay.

Installed PW JDM socks and polished up Injen

The saturday night chill with some San Miguel and lots of bits.

All hacked up and wired up.

Super 'show winning' audio install completed (needs a damn fine clean though)

 

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Junk that POS aerial and get a lightweight one

Why bother spending money, possibly leading to problems with the seal aroudn the aerial/reception.

£5 for parts and you can control it with a flick of a switch, plus as I was installing my new HU and putting in an ipod lead, it was just common sense to do it at the same time. Simples

80's aerial = awesome , mine doesn't go up/down when switching modes, only comes up when I turn the unit on.

You got a link to that switch installation, I wouldn't mind having control over it, would be handy when not listening to the radio

http://www.itr-dc2.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=73427

More pics and info there

It was easy, just cut the blue wire on the conversion loom and put in a simple switch in there. Some spade connectors, heatshrink
and a soldering iron is all you need. Or just crimp the connectors if you can't/don't want to solder.

Really need to sort my suspension next after the gearbox rebuild. It's soo damn low that on a good blast around the countyside I have to slow right down for any dips or humps as it keeps bottoming out/wheels hitting the inner arch. Silly muppet to whoever put these springs on the car!!! Coily time

 

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Wooooooahhhh revival time

So finally sorted myself out and blocked out some time to tackle the suspension. Car feels alright in the corners but a little skittish and doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. Glad I planned this a month or so ago as my RTA bushes looked a bit meh and low and behold the MOT flagged them up as close to being failures..... So it was time to act.

This thread will be regularly updated until she is complete. I feel I might be a single man by the end of this if it drags on



My Overhaul spreadsheet inc the brakes and other bits and bobs. Plenty to get done over the coming weeks:

24/08/10 - Front Survey and penetrating up with plusgas.

HELLO RUST!

Also just noticed from one of the pics that an ARB bush is split badly, more to order. O yay!!!

Had this nice package waiting for me upon my return from work. Thanks Rich @ Performance Autoworks:

 

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No.

Thought you were coming over to do it for me

 

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I assume you have a press?

I have hammers, tools, vice, blowtorch, coping/hacksaw blades, and a lot of effort.

Presses are for women and i10 drivers

Might live to regret that last line!

I've just fitted Konis to mine (handing is ) but the car is going to WIM on Thursday for the castor bushes.

Nice, good handling mods and overhaul are the way to go. Can't wait for it all to be done and get her back on the road and setup properly.

 

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Cheers. Upper arms have no new bushes, I've bought SPC forger aluminium adjustable (castor & camber) arms. £180 for the pair when new bushes and ball joint for the standard arms wouldn't have been that far off £100.

It'l be tricky torqueing up, as you have said it has to be done with teh suspension loaded as to not pre-load the bushes and suspension. Might need a tiny helper to get under and do it for me

Thanks Chris. DC5 !!!!!! Glad you didn't, I would have bitten your head off The zeta-s are lovely and look well engineered, can't wait to get them on!

 

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I see your logic, nice one

Using my trolley jack as an extra safety on the front jacking point (as well as axle stands) but can remove that for torquing up. Plus with your method it will give the correct loading and have the plus point of no wheel in the way.

Shweet!

 

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Richie serviced mine when I had her, brilliant garage! Couldn't ask for any better

Neil.

Rich does seem pretty damn awesome. Even put some notes in with teh bushes to help me install them.

Will be going up to his for the checkover of my handywork then getting him to properly set it up for a fast road setup. Cannot wait!

So onto today

Just about managed some diagonal JDM parking in the garage and as you can see the front is getting overhauled first.

Got stuck in firstly undoing all the bolts holding on the brake line clamps to the damper assembly, them took the forks off the damper assembly and off the lower control arm. Good thing was that the previous owner who put the eibach lowering springs on was nice enough to copper grease everything so it came off easily.

Managed to screw myself over and thought I had sheered the droplinks. No biggy to cut them off though. Then I realised how stupid I was and upon pulling off the rubber covering saw that they are a spherical bearing inside. Trying to undo a nut attached to a spherical bearing at the other end will obviously just turn and turn and turn........ Duh! Anyhow, these won't come off the ARB anyway as the slot for Alan key is soo rusted that I can't get any purchase on it, so will probably cut them off the ARB or drill em out.

Test fitted one of the coilovers, pretty

Spent the rest of the time left this evening loosening the bolts on the calipers and carriers ready for taking off all the brakes tomorrow, followed swiftly by complete removal of the suspension. That should cover tomorrows work and iff all goes well then some cleaning of the arch and putting the arms and parts in a Deox-C rust eating bath overnight should complete the day nicely.

 

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Thanks for that Simon, simples over brute force and destruction!

Overslep today, but what the hell it's a bank holiday. Brakes are off one side with the hoses sorted too and am about to go and break teh lower balljoint and look at getting the hub off.

 

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Hmmmm.

Any idea on how to get the spindle nut off, so I can slide out the driveshaft from teh hub assembly?

Car is on the ground with suspension back on (meh) and I just can't shift the damn thing. I'm presuming I need 3ft of pipe to go over the breaker bar and to jump up and down!