First off, No I am not about to do turbo without building the internals lol. Had to write that to get you to click . My question is, do you guys think its a wise idea to build up a car with over 196K on it? My prelude is pretty much in perfect condition infact everyone tells me it looks very nice. They think it has about 60-80k on it. My plan is to do a total rebuild and built turbo engine and turbo setup. BTW I am also coming off from a modded turbocharged 2000 accord I had (now stock and trying to sell). MY plan if I don't mod the prelude is to buy another 4th gen. Maybe one that has a built turbo engine, I see tons of them on this site often forsale.
If your going to rebuild, i doubt there will be a problem doing it. But you might have to replace a lot more like ball joints, bushings, axels, brakes, brake cylinder, brake booster, clucth master cylinder, etc. Cause you know the engine isn't the only thing that takes wear
The good thing about my car is the lady before me invested a crap load
new A/C system
New Power Steering Pump
New Clutch
New Master Cyl.
and about few years ago or so I guess she also replaced bushings and a bunch more stuff. She normally took it to honda and whatever they told her it needed at the time she did it. She only wanted to get off it becuase they were saying it needed a head gasket (which I think they tried getting her out of the car cuz it was just oil seal around oil cooler that was leaking oil and I haven't seen any problems. If I rebuild the engine, it would detail new oem rebuild with JE 9.0:1 compression forged pistons, sleeved darton block machine everthing blue printed and balanced, forged crower rods.
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. My question is, do you guys think its a wise idea to build up a car with over 196K on it? My prelude is pretty much in perfect condition infact everyone tells me it looks very nice. They think it has about 60-80k on it. My plan is to do a total rebuild and built turbo engine and turbo setup. BTW I am also coming off from a modded turbocharged 2000 accord I had (now stock and trying to sell). MY plan if I don't mod the prelude is to buy another 4th gen. Maybe one that has a built turbo engine, I see tons of them on this site often forsale.
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