Type R Club of America

Nick MC wrote: ↑Sat Feb 06, 2021 8:20 am We did a hard reset for 2021. Found a new job with Hershey maintenance in the factory. My wife started a new job at a local school and my daughter started at the same school. We had to make a bunch of changes to make things work out. Being the new guy I’ve been working 7 days a week with some 12hr shifts but it’s paying the bills and supporting the family. Not much to update as it’s been too cold to get out in the garage. I been putting the audio back together. I found a 1998 Acura EL head unit to keep it all amber. It’s I identical to the ITR radio. One thing someone brought up in another post was the antenna will go down with the CD player on. I couldn’t remember if this was the same on my 2001 or not but it was nice to read that and not think I was going senile.
Long story short when I received the radio I found the serial number had been damaged so I had to go onto the Honda radio code website and brute force search the right code. Only the last 3 were unreadable and I was able to narrow it down to 200 units with a google search of similar serial# part# and production dates. It was tedious but in the end it paid off. Unfortunately my radio was within the last 30 I searched.
I was able to order new Oem speakers from Honda. They were about $13 each nothing special.


There are slight variations amongst the antennas between years, market, and body style. I haven’t grasped the why and when but if you are repairing the antenna they made an update to the hold down nut and black collar. The four spoke version is the new style and requires a different collar. From the repair manual it seems as though this just affects how it’s sealed from water. I wasn’t to concerned so I just used the new collar anyway, it still secured the antenna so I’ll see what happens when I wash it. The black collar is discontinued so my options are limited.
There is a different flange between db8 and dc2. One is identified as st7(dc2) the other st8(db8) I was able to swap these between masts. Pay attention to that if you get one used. Most imports I use regularly don’t differentiate on their websites.
The reason I swapped antennas was because I thought the motor was bad. Between the original being dead from water and the donors being noisy I picked up a third from hmotorsonline. Now it worked perfectly fine but being that I bought a new mast I wanted to use that and not waste it. Big mistake. Normally this is a simple job. Take off the nut. Radio on. Pull mast. Set new mast in. Radio off. New nut back on. As you can see the antenna got stuck from corrosion. On top of that it seems the JDM mast is taller than usdm. What that caused for me was the motor would overrun when the antenna was fully up or down causing the ratcheting noise. I did have one good JDM mast left and was able to get it back together and working right.

Stin1 wrote: ↑Wed May 04, 2022 2:26 pm That car turned out so awesome. Looks absolutely beautiful. You sir are very talented.

Dc2-ProductionS wrote: ↑Wed May 04, 2022 12:46 pm caR looks amazing Nick! Please share some more shots. Dying to see a full side shot of SSBP with no moldings and some R badges! There's got to be more!