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Originally Posted by zfinatic
Half the works done for him. A harness and a the sensors wouldnt be to much work in my opinion. The motor/trans is the blunt of the cost of the conversion. Its an oppertunity to familiarize and learn something about it and his car to. Suspension wouldn't be hard to swap out either. Specially if he planned on upgrading it anyway. Its not like he wants this done over night am I wrong? Stop putting it down and help him out....
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No plans on doing this anytime soon unfortunately, but I've felt that it COULD be a neat project in the future if I were ever able to pick up a wrecked SH and be able to take my time with it. It would purely be for my own enjoyment, as it would not be worth much since it truly is a base model by VIN# no matter how many SH parts I add to it.
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Originally Posted by Re and Cheryl
Beleive me. Even if he had all the parts he needed that is only 20% of the job. The hard part would be identifying and seperating the necessary harness from a donor car and installing it into his car. It would be an electrical nightmare to me. And I have done this stuff before. And in the end, the reward would not be worth the work. If you could even get it to work.
But if you want to do it, the first thing you will need is factory service manuals with acurate electrical diagrams.
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It would surely be MUCH easier (and cheaper) to just buy a SH... I actually hope that I can buy one sometime in the future to add to the collection!
Why ANYBODY puts the amount of time and money into some of their car projects is purely out of love for the car they have. To expect to gain anything or re-coupe your time and money from a project like this is just silly.
I plan on having this car for a while and would like to have some fun with it. To be honest, if someone wanted to trade me a base engine and tranny for my SH engine and tranny I would be open to it to be able to make it stock again.
I am reminded of my younger years when I helped my Dad restore a '67 Mustang 289 for about 4-5 years. It was a car he had liked in HIS youth and they were super common still in the '80's and could be found easily in every junk yard around the U.S. It was only 15 or so years old...
I realized a few days ago, when my daughter was helping me to fix MY 15 year old car that I liked when I was younger, that I was doing the same thing now!
It was a great feeling, but at the same time made me feel a lttle old! LOL
From a collector stand-point, the best thing to do is keep it stock. When we got T-boned in the '67 stang, the car was toast. We went in search of another one, but every 67 we looked at was either a hack-job, a rust bucket, or some kid had tried to beef it up to drag and race or make it ghetto (can't tell you how many "hurst" shifters we saw out there!).
We didn't want someone else's "project", otherwise known as a "problem."
I see that with our Preludes as well. The future is going to hold these cars in the same ranks as the Mustangs, T-birds, and Corvettes of our parents time in my opinion.
But, the more non-stock stuff we do to them, the less they are worth in the long run.
So, back to my Non-SH SH transplant prelude. The best thing to do with my car would be to put a Base engine and tranny back into it... I agree. I purchased it with the engine already swapped, and a bunch of other non-stock stuff done to it. I've been slowly bringing it back to stock as you can see from my prior posts. I don't have a ton of money, so it will not be a short journey, and I am fine with that.
As far as sensors go, besides the ones all over the transmission and ATTS unit, and the steering column, what other sensors are there that help to operate the ATTS that you say I am missing? I noticed when I purchased it, that the fuse block had been swapped along with the engine, so I have to wonder if all the wiring came with it from the SH donor as well... Until I really get into that area of the restore, I won't really know.
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-1992 Honda Accord DX... sold
-1993 Honda Accord EX 5spd...Sold
-1991 Honda Prelude SI... Sold
-1989 Honda Prelude AWS... Sold
-2002 Honda Civic EX... Sold
-Now-1997 Honda Prelude 5spd Base model with SH engine and Tranny... In the process of restoration.
-oh yeah... I'm also a chevy guy.
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