1998 integra gsr turbo (fake race car, wannabe show car)
this got to be in the top 5 of my favorite cars ive owned. picked this up as a project car as i didnt want to throw money into a automatic celica. learnt how to comfortably drive stick in this car, and to this day i swear its my favorite driving manual. i dont know if i miss the car itself or the memories being in my early 20s with no financial responsibilities. a lot of good times with this thing. eventually a lot of electrical and tuned related gremlins surfaced and i was getting bored of the gsr. swapped the interior and wheels/suspension over to a ITR and straight traded a non running turbo gsr for a running ITR.
power: plenty, dont remember the exact number but it was in the high 2xx whp.
handling: torque steered like crazy. with a lot of "fake race car" mods it drove just like a stock ITR.
interior/NVH: very uncomfortable, super harsh ride and everything rattled. couldnt tell what was "normal" and what was broken. it was awesome, very race car like!!
exterior: to each their own i guess... no its not authentic mugen/jdm front end.
emotion: financial mistake, yes... regret? no way! theres something special about driving a highly modded car. i cant see myself ever doing this again but glad i did when i was younger.
