My new prelude Project - Honda Prelude Forum

ExtrudeLude · 02-20-2009, 09:29 PM

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

prepreludesh · 02-20-2009, 10:23 PM

D-zam!

95greenlude · 02-21-2009, 07:26 AM

wow....that header has really bad ground clearance. Good luck with your build

Phryxis · 02-23-2009, 10:11 AM

very nice!

boymeetsfence · 02-23-2009, 10:39 AM

Pics of car?

jimbo24 · 02-23-2009, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by boymeetsfence

Pics of car?

+1

prepreludesh · 02-23-2009, 02:02 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!

JDM-BB4 · 02-23-2009, 03:11 PM

Love the engine build!
That manifold looks so hot!

ExtrudeLude · 02-23-2009, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by prepreludesh

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.

petern101 · 02-24-2009, 08:59 AM

Wow it really cost you 10k to rebuild a h22??? That sounds really high to me (unless you are counting good labor).

ExtrudeLude · 02-24-2009, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by petern101

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.

petern101 · 02-24-2009, 08:38 PM

^ah see that is more like it.

Wow dedication!

ExtrudeLude · 04-04-2009, 08:17 AM

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.

sask-lude · 04-04-2009, 10:29 AM

you want a greddy lip? why? mugen>greddy lip

ExtrudeLude · 04-04-2009, 02:52 PM

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.