So I’ve still got an Integra GS-R engine sitting in my garage, waiting to be swapped into my hooptie ’92 Civic DX— because the fifth-gen Civic, with its ease of parts-swapping and galaxy of aftermarket stuff, is to the present day what the ’55 Chevy was to the 1970s— and when that happens I’ll need better brakes, right? Problem is, whenever a third-gen Acura Integra (which was a fifth-gen Civic with luxury and performance upgrades) shows up at a cheap self-service junkyard, it gets picked clean faster than just about anything this side of a Toyota Land Cruiser. It’s much like a ’55 Chevy owner in 1974, discovering an intact 396/4-speed Caprice 20 minutes after the car hit the yard at the U-Yank-It. When I found an intact ’94 Integra while on a Junkyard Find photo expedition at the Denver yard near my place, I knew I had to work fast. (Read More…)
Tagged as 1990s, 1994, 1994 Acura Integra, Acura, Acura Integra, Denver, Disc Brakes, Don't Try This At Home, Down On The Junkyard, Honda, Integra, junkyard
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Onus - But now we have its ancestor as rwd. The lx. the sucessor i hear will go back to rwd or fwd in longitudinal layout.
Scoutdude - It should be called “Not Quite in Time 4wd”.
Scoutdude - There is the big difference the FWDs you are talking about barely had enough torque to open a beer bottle so they...
Prado - I bought a 99 CR-V new with the Realtime 4WD. It should have been called RealBad 4wd. A total crap ‘reactive’ and...
Kyree S. Williams - Gee…you’re right. There are hardly any midsized body-on-frame SUVs. The only ones left (that I can...
Chuck Goolsbee - The changes from S1 to S2 were to meet US Federal safety & emissions mandates, not because what buyers wanted....
Scoutdude - The original “Real Time” system was a big joke. It used a center clutch that was powered by a pair of...
NMGOM - Alex, Great article on a complex topic. Thanks. You obviously put a lot of work into it. To show you what a mess of misleading...
Scoutdude - Maybe from the big 3 but International Harvester offered factory installed 4wd starting in the 1955 on their 3/4 ton S-120...
Scoutdude - Yup, a elegant solution.