1997 Prelude Project (new parts in, almost ready to tune)
I joined this website a few months ago to research a little and search for a car. After a while of searching I found a prelude about a month ago. Its a 1997 Prelude. I bought it with a blown block for $1800. I have a Rebuilt engine with about $10,000 put into it. The Engine was built a few years ago by my father and his Professional Mechanic friend. They never could find a car for it, so I got the engine!!!! The engine is currently being installed in the car by my father and his friend at his shop, Rudy's Auto Service and Racing in Gainesville, Georgia.
MODS:
Outside
GENUINE Mugen front bumper
GENUINE Mugen spoiler
Side Skirts
18'' Masitaly Rims
Skunk 2 Suspension
Future Candy Apple Red House of Kolor paint job
Inside
Leather Seats
MOMO stearing wheel
A-pillar gauges
JVC Head Unit
Upgraded speakers
Infinity Basslink Bass
Engine/ Performance
All motor 12:1 compression ratio
Stroked Crank Shaft
Custom Crower Rods
Crower Cams
Custom Stage 6 Wisco Pistons
Heads, Intake, Plenum Ported with custom stainless vales
Stage 6 cylinder head by DPR
Moroso Oil Pan
Fluidampr
Try Y headers coated in Swain Tech Coatings
ACT Clutch and Flywheel
AEM Fuel Rail
AEM fuel pressure regulator
AEM fuel filter
Fuel pressure gauge
Walbro 255 LPH High Pressure fuel pump
RC 440cc Injectors
Custom 2.5" stainless steel catback Exhaust
Magnaflow 14'' Round Resonator
Magnaflow Cat Converter
Magnaflow Muffler
Jacobs Electronics ignition system
Battery relocated to trunk
DC Strut bars
Hondata s300
P72 ECU
Last edited by ExtrudeLude : 07-29-2009 at 10:44 PM.
That could be his car in the background (the red one)... if so, I sure hope those aren't altezza tail lights on it!
Unfortunately, they are altezza tail lights, They were on the car when I bought them and im gonna replace them, or ill smoke them maybe.... But they gotta go.
Wow it really cost you 10k to rebuild a h22??? That sounds really high to me (unless you are counting good labor).
Yeah the actual rebuild of the engine was done about 7 years ago. Tons of parts had to custom made. If I were to make the same engine, it wouldn't cost as much. About 7k was put in 7 years ago, and another 1k was put in last month (Cams, Moroso oil pan, Headers, and other small stuff). And I still need a new computer and I need to get it tuned. So after its finished about 10k in parts and labor.
So I've gotten some more work done to the car. The engine bay was painted a candy apple red. The engine was installed about a month ago and we were waiting on my new headers that I sent out to get coated. I also ordered a magnaflow catalytic converter and resonator with some 2.5'' stainless steel piping to make an exhaust system. I made it so when I take it to the track, I can drop the catback from the headers and put an extension pipe on w/ out the cat converter, resonator and muffler.
Here are some pictures of my car when I got it.
Painted engine bay. Another coat along with the clear coats were added the next day, so this isn't the exact color. But I didn't get a picture of it finished without the engine in it.
Engine with old headers on. (this is the paint with the extra coat and clear coat.)
Three weeks and $400 coating later, the coated headers arrived.
Later that day, the new exhaust was on, along with the headers.
The muffler at the back of the car seems to have something lost on the inside, so I will have to get a new mufler. I was thinking about going with tanabe, but please recommend others.
I just have to say, the engine with this exhaust sounds soooo bad asss. I can't wait to get it running well. I still have to get a new ecu and get it tuned. The wheels are going to get polished and the whole car still needs to be painted.
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1997 cdn package
sir s-spec jdm engine, aem CAI, meagan racing header, seibon c/f hood,greddy front lip, ww back and sides rsx type-s rims
Because the mugen lip on this car isnt a real mugen. and its tore up to hell. and its hard to find an authentic mugen bumper. and I like the look of the greddy.
well, yeah i do but I still think mugen bumpers are so much nicer, i dunno thats just my opinion
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1997 cdn package
sir s-spec jdm engine, aem CAI, meagan racing header, seibon c/f hood,greddy front lip, ww back and sides rsx type-s rims
I'm a big fan of your car so far, but what I'd really like to see is some details on how you got the transmission to bolt up with that Moroso Oil Pan on the engine. This is a modification I'm really considering more and more. Could you please show some more pictures?
I'm a big fan of your car so far, but what I'd really like to see is some details on how you got the transmission to bolt up with that Moroso Oil Pan on the engine. This is a modification I'm really considering more and more. Could you please show some more pictures?
I'm bringing it home tomorrow, ill get pictures tomorrow.
Well, on the way home, just as we pulled out of the shop, Things were going smoothly until the car started bucking and we lost power steering. Check Engine light came on and we pulled over. We opened up the hood and noticed that the power steering belt came off. We looked further and noticed that the crank pulley was loose. So we have to wait until Monday for the mechanic to take a look at it(He is out of town, we were taking it home to do some work to it ourselves). There are three things that we think could be wrong with it.
1. The pulley is broken.
2. The Crank key is Broken.
3 The worst of all, something is wrong with the crank.
It was driving fine that other day we took it out, so we are thinking and hoping that the crank key just broke and nothing else. If not, we could be set back a bit.
What really sucks is we broke down literally one minute from the shop, but the shop was uphill on a busy road. So we had to call a tow truck...
Last edited by ExtrudeLude : 04-09-2009 at 09:00 AM.
I can personally tell you that just when everything is all tightened down and strapped in, something will inevitably go wrong
Not making fun man, I've just been down that path before and I know it sucks.
Keep us posted
I know it totally sucks, I've read your build thread, took me hours. I love your car and you've done some great things to the "Best Prelude in the World"!!! i have also read all the times you breakdown. I woulda gotten a picture of my car on the tow truck(for the whole minute it was on), but my battery died.
Last edited by ExtrudeLude : 04-10-2009 at 08:25 PM.
So the car is home, but has had some problems from the start. When testing the first day it got home, it was misfiring like a biatch. misfiring 90% of the time on 1 cylinder and about 5% of two. So I got a second new pair of spark plugs. But it was still happening. So then I decided to get a new distributor cap, but didnt help. After a few hours of trying to figure out what happened, me and my dad gave up for the night. It was the next day after looking at another prelude, that my dad noticed that the stock coil had been taken out and replaced with some aftermarket ****. He read that the stock coil has 4 wires connected to it, the coil in mine only had 2 wires. So I did some more reading a found out that the stock coil needed to stay in IN ADDITION TO the aftermarket. So im getting rid of the aftermarket coil in it currently and replacing it with a stock coil and this Jacobs racing coil and ignition that my dad had.
So while I was waiting on a new coil, I decided to polish up some stuff.
Dont bother with that stuff. I'd just go with OEM.
Well, i'm going to install a stock coil first to see if my problem gets fixed. Then Ill go about installing the Jacob's, and see what the difference is.
For the past few weeks I have been ordering and waiting on parts to get here.
New Parts:
72mm throttle body
The tps sensor on the old throttle body was broken...
OBD1 p72 with conversion harness
Hondata s300
While the throttle body was off, I got a picture of the ported Intake Manifold.
I will be getting it tuned shortly, but am still waiting on a Fuel Pressure Regulator And I am designing a piece for the IM, So that has to get made first.
So its been almost 2 months since my last update. It has taken me a very long time to get it ready to get tuned, mostly because I have not had much time to work on the car, waiting for more parts, and having to replace soo many things because the car was in bad condition when I bought it, way worse than I first thought. Well I am going to try to make an appointment next week for the tuning, but I might as well share what I have done to it in the past two months.
changed out the stock injectors to the RC 440cc Injectors.
changed the stock fuel pump to a Walbro 255 LPH High pressure fuel pump.
Battery Relocation to the trunk.
installed a Jacobs electronics Ignition system.
Installed AEM fuel filter.
Installed AEM fuel pressure regulator.
Installed fuel pressure gauge.
Had a new magnaflow oval muffler installed.
Changed the fuel lines.
And the thing that has taken me the most time, I will not reveal. I will say It has something to do with the intake, but thats all.
I am now waiting on some magnecor spark plug wires.
All that needs to be done at this point to get it ready for a tune is to change the plugs and I need to tidy up some wires. So hopefully by next week I will be able to provide some HP numbers.
Here are some pics of the battery relocation and jacobs ignition.
You can see the mess of wires I have from the ignition
I still need to cut out the carpet for the battery, but it works for now.
Here you can see the AEM FPR, AEM fuel filter, and fuel pressure gauge
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Last edited by ExtrudeLude : 07-28-2009 at 06:33 PM.
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I will say It has something to do with the intake, but thats all. 
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