My 3rd gen is no more - Honda Prelude Forum

JohnnyTequila · 10-24-2004, 03:12 AM

Earlier this week i had decided to part out Kristine, part out the other motor, and use that money plus saving to get something else, start from a clean slate. there was entirely too much work that needed to be done to get the car where i wanted it and i made the decision that i would have just been wasting money.

well i had hoped that i would have the car here at my new place so i could strip it and bring all the parts inside and get them cleaned up and ready for shipping to whoever decided to purchase anything from me

now the car still ran......it ran piss poorly...but it did run, wih a rather disgusting sounding rod knock

Kristine was sitting at my buddy lou's place for a bit because we thought we were going to do some of the work there, but our scheduling recently flipped and we worked at opposite times and made it nearly impossible for us to get together to do anything which also aided in my decision.

early this morning i went over there when he got off of work to go transport the car from there to my new place, everything was going good..... but right before i got to 175 going north on 29 i heard a loud BANG!!

smoke started pouring out of the hood and udnerneath the car, and out of of my exhaust...i heard a lot of small pieces start bouncing off the bottom of my car, and there was a nice oil streak behind my car as it coasted to a stop. at first i thought i hit a bump...then i saw the smoke and realized the car had shut off....i pulled it over on the side of 29...got out coughing from all of the smoke. and sat there for a bit contemplating what to do.

i decided to junk it.

i grabbed my tools, and my buddy lou and i went to work right there on the side of 29, and started stripping anything and everything off of the car that i could think of at the time that i wanted to sell and/or keep. took the wheels off, and put on the four steel wheels....took off my strut bars, intake, battery. was about to even take the suspension and leave it sitting there on just the wheels, but i realized that the shocks were pretty much gone, and i wanted coilovers on my next car, and selling it wouldnt get me much money, if any at all.

i got al the parts here right now.....im going back tomorrow morning to grab the ECU, and maybe the trunk lid, but early monday morning crazy rays junk yard is going to pick the car up and that will be the cars final resting place.

im sad that im losing my car, i knew it was coming, but i didnt want it to happen this way. im keeping certain parts incase i get another 3rd gen prelude i can just throw those parts on that car.

dont know what ill be getting next...possibly another 3rd gen.
ill still be around because i love preludes, and i can still offer what knowledge i have to anyone who needs it.

reyke · 10-24-2004, 08:20 PM

hmm I've personally built, rebuilt, and blown 5+ 3rd gen motors, some mistakes were my fault some were the machine shops and the rest were plain age. But now I've come to the stout conclusion that it makes no sense to touch any portion of the short-block unless it's to be filled with stronger internals. That's why I just pay the 500 bucks far a shipped to my door JDM motor, I've had two of these motors one has been put through hell and is still running in my current car, the other is sitting in my garage getting my upgraded top end parts, and I have yet to damage either of these engines, especially after 7k rpm shifts on at least 20 occasions at the most during the day, and if I run it at an autocross or drag it, it definitely gets more abuse. So in my experience I have decided it's just cheaper and more cost efficient to leave the short-block work to the professionals.

ludehawk · 10-26-2004, 01:28 PM

i'm sorry to hear that trevor... hope you get something you love just as much and is better in every way

PreludeChick89 · 10-26-2004, 02:11 PM

as long as you stick around here, we'll be happy no matter what car you get