Ell's Artic Blue DC5 - Honda Integra Type R
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Cracking day at Cadwell, really good circuit and the car was faultless all day, well ran track day with MSV too, minimal red flags and when there was a couple they were dealt with super quickly. Few photos....
So I think that’s it for any track action this year I think! I’ve owned the teg for year in November... which also means MOT time, so I’ll give it a look over this weekend and see if anything needs replacing before then, I need to put my OEM wheels back on for winter too!
So I think that’s it for any track action this year I think! I’ve owned the teg for year in November... which also means MOT time, so I’ll give it a look over this weekend and see if anything needs replacing before then, I need to put my OEM wheels back on for winter too!
Well its about time I updated this... corona killed the teg!
So I started getting stuff ready for a summer of track days... nice easy job of new discs and pads, until the caliper bolt seized in both sides and snapped into the caliper itself. Took them off and took them into work, got one of the lads to weld a nut on to try and get the rest of the bolt out but no luck, in the end I got a company to drill and helicoil them for me.
Which meant I could eventually get them built back up with new Chook discs and a fresh set of PBS pads.
Not long after this, is when the whole corona stuff kicked off, I got put onto furlough and thought it would be a good time to get the car undersealed properly, so I decided to have a look down the rear speaker cover and down into the inner arch and sill... well I wish I never looked!
I thought this was bad, then started poking around and it soon became a lot worse... as soon as I touched the inner arch I started to see daylight where "metal" used to be, the more I prodded the worse it got. I left it a day to have a think, I know its not the end of the world and it could be fixed, but the car was my daily and I know good fab work isn't quick or cheap, the arch lips were getting a little crusty, there were a few spots appearing where the rear bumper bolts up. I knew it needed good money spending on it to make it properly right again and seeing that rust just really put me off, so I decided to sell the car on, it went a couple of days later.
After telling a friend about this, he offered me his R53 Mini Cooper S he bought as abit of a project but had too much going on, I'll save the details but it was a good spec car and at the right money, so I purchased that, and since have spent abit getting it prepped to take on track, I'm loving it so far! My first car other than my very first car that isn't a Honda. Might start a thread on the mini, but we'll see.
So there we have it, if it wasn't for corona or being furloughed, I probably wouldn't have looked yet and I'd still own the car. Overall, I absolutely the DC5, best car I've owned easily, ticks all the boxes. Would I own another? Probably not, being honest I got the car originally for a bargain price, so I knew this would happened eventually, but if I wanted another I'd want a fresh import, which means fresh import prices, and for the money I think there is better cars out there, maybe one day I'd have one again, but prices are only going one way.
I'll leave this with one good thing to come from being furloughed... I found a photo of the teg at the ring I hadn't seen before!
So I started getting stuff ready for a summer of track days... nice easy job of new discs and pads, until the caliper bolt seized in both sides and snapped into the caliper itself. Took them off and took them into work, got one of the lads to weld a nut on to try and get the rest of the bolt out but no luck, in the end I got a company to drill and helicoil them for me.
Which meant I could eventually get them built back up with new Chook discs and a fresh set of PBS pads.
Not long after this, is when the whole corona stuff kicked off, I got put onto furlough and thought it would be a good time to get the car undersealed properly, so I decided to have a look down the rear speaker cover and down into the inner arch and sill... well I wish I never looked!
I thought this was bad, then started poking around and it soon became a lot worse... as soon as I touched the inner arch I started to see daylight where "metal" used to be, the more I prodded the worse it got. I left it a day to have a think, I know its not the end of the world and it could be fixed, but the car was my daily and I know good fab work isn't quick or cheap, the arch lips were getting a little crusty, there were a few spots appearing where the rear bumper bolts up. I knew it needed good money spending on it to make it properly right again and seeing that rust just really put me off, so I decided to sell the car on, it went a couple of days later.
After telling a friend about this, he offered me his R53 Mini Cooper S he bought as abit of a project but had too much going on, I'll save the details but it was a good spec car and at the right money, so I purchased that, and since have spent abit getting it prepped to take on track, I'm loving it so far! My first car other than my very first car that isn't a Honda. Might start a thread on the mini, but we'll see.
So there we have it, if it wasn't for corona or being furloughed, I probably wouldn't have looked yet and I'd still own the car. Overall, I absolutely the DC5, best car I've owned easily, ticks all the boxes. Would I own another? Probably not, being honest I got the car originally for a bargain price, so I knew this would happened eventually, but if I wanted another I'd want a fresh import, which means fresh import prices, and for the money I think there is better cars out there, maybe one day I'd have one again, but prices are only going one way.
I'll leave this with one good thing to come from being furloughed... I found a photo of the teg at the ring I hadn't seen before!
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