In reply to Tom1200 :
There's no doubt there, she's one of a kind!
In reply to Tom1200 :
There's no doubt there, she's one of a kind!
Well, I think I'm going to be keeping the Integra.
For the past year, I've had a set of Corbeau seats in my Integra, with the driver's seat bolted to the ground so I could fit with a helmet (I'm 6'2" and it's a GS-R moonroof coupe). I decided to remove the Corbeau seats and throw a set of OEM seats back in the car... If I was going to sell the car, I figured I would need a sliding seat in the car anyway.
Prior to today, my wife has actually never driven my Integra- I'm 6'2", so I had to mount the seat pretty far back. My wife is around 5'4" 117 lbs, so she couldn't even reach the pedals with my floor mounted seat lol.
She had to run a few errands today, so I threw her the keys to the Integra and told her to put some miles on it and have fun. She came back grinning ear to ear, raving about how much fun it is to drive lol. She claims that she prefers to ride in the BMW, but had more fun driving the Integra. She was trying to conceive a way to "buy" it from me haha (we've always had separate bank accounts and paid for our own cars)- an idea that I couldn't help but laugh at!
So, I think I'm just going to keep the Integra and let my wife drive it whenever she wants. It gets much much better gas mileage than her V8 powered vehicles and is much easier to maneuver in traffic on days she has to drive to the office. Plus a part of me will just be happy to see it be driven and enjoyed. Problem solved.
Wow! I always enjoyed my Hondas but never imagined that by the time they were 30 years old and highly modified they'd be enjoyable for a younger (?) woman to drive! How about that!
Well, I'm happy for you both
In reply to P3PPY :
Thank you! We're in our mid-late 30's (I'm getting dangerously close to 40!), I'm not sure if that still counts as young, but I'll take it! My wife probably looks younger than she is and would prefer it to stay that way haha!
Prior to her Challenger, my wife's last 2 fun cars consisted of a manual Camaro SS and a manual ND1 Miata lol... she's still young at heart!
And while the Integra is modified, since I'm running OEM Type R springs, the rates are mild and the car is very street friendly. I tracked down new OEM motor mounts I installed, so no excess noise or vibration... and the HardRace suspension bushings hardly made a difference in NVH at all (I actually couldn't tell any to speak of). The Icebox added a bit of volume, but it just made the induction noise more prominent, like a low growl without making it loud. I always felt like this is what the Integra should have felt like from the factory, as it's more like an OEM+ build or semi-Type R.
After giving this some thought for a while, I've changed my mind a bit. I think I'm going to jump back into the foray of FWD track car. My Integra is pretty close to a NASA TT6 build, so I think I'll just throw a more aggressive set of coilovers on it, maybe try to eek out a few more ponies, throw it on a dyno and see how much power/weight I can gain/lose to run NASA TT6. I feel like it should be fairly competitive in TT6 without much work and it would be a shame to build it to the level I've built the car to, just to just occasionally drive it on the weekends.
In reply to roninsoldier83 :
My wife always tells me it's cheaper and more efficient to fix what you have..................thus far she's been right.
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