Bananarama - A British DA Integra

[Samuel L. Jackson]

Apt way of putting it. Sucks to hear though, good luck on finding 16's as dope on your car as the minilites did.

[Get 2 the bimmah!]

Changing lanes on the motorway, I hit a mound / cats eye. The car got air and my bonnet flew open.

That must have been an experience lol. Car is awesome though, nicely done!

[los02]

Changing lanes on the motorway, I hit a mound / cats eye. The car got air and my bonnet flew open.

And that's one reason I have never wanted to go down to 15's.

I hit the edge of my garage floor with my DA unexpectedly doing 5 mph. The jolt scared the living crap out of me. I can't begin to imagine how you felt! Probably total confusion, followed by complete terror, followed by confusion again and ending in complete irritation. I'm surprised that you didn't cause more damage!

[willis]

This car is absolutely stunning. Great job!

[michealis]

That must have been an experience lol. Car is awesome though, nicely done!

And that's one reason I have never wanted to go down to 15's.

I hit the edge of my garage floor with my DA unexpectedly doing 5 mph. The jolt scared the living crap out of me. I can't begin to imagine how you felt! Probably total confusion, followed by complete terror, followed by confusion again and ending in complete irritation. I'm surprised that you didn't cause more damage!

I don't think I've been more scared in a car before, I felt angry more than anything as my instant thought was "Oh shit there goes my engine that I just spent over £3k getting built." I guess that's what you get when you run less than 2CM clearance on your pan. So at the minute it is back at a retarded height, it might be alot of fun to drive but I can't bare to look at the fucking thing.

At the minute my main issue (apart from the massive gearbox leak) is trying to find a wheel that I actually want to run, and in 16's I haven't found many. I want something dished and concaved like the Minilites were. My other option is to change to bigger tyres, from 175 / 50 front and 195 / 45 rear to maybe 185 / 55 front and 195/50 rear.

Either way I am going to be dissapointed, I was so happy with how I had it sat that I think I'll always see bigger wheels / tyres as a step backwards.

[michealis]

My DA Teg by Micheal Evans, on Flickr

So this is how it sits now, I know it's not the greatest and a huge step backwards but at the moment it's my only choice. So the next step is to buy some coilovers (preferably Broadways) instead of the sleeves I have been running on, then to find some wheels.

Mechanically I need to find a new gearbox, as mine decides to lose about 1.5L of oil a day, and a new radiator as I have a huge hole in it.

So basically this is the start of a huge overhaul..

[Alex@BagRiders]

Damn, well you can always go air. Might not be considered as hardcore but it will save you a bunch of money in the long run and the headache of replacing broken parts all of the time.

[driftsucky]

If that car was at a bar, I'd buy it a drink and try to seduce it. Then, we I got it home, I'd cook breakfast for it in the morning. After it told me it's sob story of falling on hard times, I'd offer to lend it a few quid(c wut i did thar) for rent money. I'd probably buy it's daughter a few outfits for school as well. Eventually, I'd take it to a family pic of mine and introduce it to everyone. We'd date for a while until a nice G35 came around and enticed me with the leather seats and navigation that I would never even use anyway. I'd end up breaking that tegs heart and it would walk on me. THAT'S how much I love this car.














you're welcome. lol

[michealis]

Damn, well you can always go air. Might not be considered as hardcore but it will save you a bunch of money in the long run and the headache of replacing broken parts all of the time.

I have thought about this on more than one occasion, but I personally don't think I'd ever be as happy as running on a decent coilover setup. That and I really can't afford a decent 4 way setup. I am slowly leaning towards doing a "static plus" style setup just to give me an extra 40mm lift when I need it.

That or I just buy 16's.

If that car was at a bar, I'd buy it a drink and try to seduce it. Then, we I got it home, I'd cook breakfast for it in the morning. After it told me it's sob story of falling on hard times, I'd offer to lend it a few quid(c wut i did thar) for rent money. I'd probably buy it's daughter a few outfits for school as well. Eventually, I'd take it to a family pic of mine and introduce it to everyone. We'd date for a while until a nice G35 came around and enticed me with the leather seats and navigation that I would never even use anyway. I'd end up breaking that tegs heart and it would walk on me. THAT'S how much I love this car.














you're welcome. lol

[michealis]

So that didn't last long, although it's now 30mm higher all round. I just need to order some camber arms for the rear to reel in the poke a bit..


My DA - The Minilites are back! by Micheal Evans, on Flickr


My DA - The Minilites are back! by Micheal Evans, on Flickr

[Tylerhasaphone.]

so beautiful!

[Anonymoose]

Looks really nice at that height etc etc

[BenTen]

still looking good dude!

[MadMax]

Hard to belive it was even driveable 30mm lower

It is so soft, I just had to think about Players when someone got in your Car and it was immedeatly another 10-15mm lower

[michealis]

I know, I'm too poor to be able to afford new coilovers at the minute.

You should ask Kielan how bad it was when he drove it, although him driving on the wrong side of the road towards on coming traffic probably didn't help