Best intake for fuel injection on 1985 CVCC - Honda Prelude Forum

Mr Duck · 04-16-2008, 06:42 AM

I've got a 1985 prelude 1.6L CVCC with automatic.
Recently rebuilt carbs and she's running great but I'd like to convert to fuel injection as an exercise.

Which intake is best in the sense of

1)fits :-)
2)likely to find at u-pull-it in decent shape with injectors and throttle body(s)

I've experience with megasquirt on motorbikes and will grab the O2, MAP, IAT, and Coolant sensors from donor.

Operative word here is CHEAP.

Thanks
-Duck

Artifex · 04-16-2008, 11:33 AM

If you want cheap, then make your own. It's about as easy as automotive work can get (especially if you are doing your own FI conversion). Just buy some aluminum piping, bends, and a filter. You can use rubber couplers for the joints, or if you really have a hookup, contact a welder once you get the bend angles right.

Mr Duck · 04-17-2008, 05:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Artifex

If you want cheap, then make your own. It's about as easy as automotive work can get (especially if you are doing your own FI conversion). Just buy some aluminum piping, bends, and a filter. You can use rubber couplers for the joints, or if you really have a hookup, contact a welder once you get the bend angles right.

Thanks but maybe I wasn't clear. I want to go to the "pull-a-part" self service parts yard and remove the intake, throttle body, injectors, and sensors from a car there. In order to save time=money it will be helpful to know which models fit and which fit the best. Then I can check their inventory every day and when something comes in grab my tools, jump on my FT500, ride down to the yard, and grab the parts.

-Duck

Artifex · 04-17-2008, 11:58 AM

Heh, well then I really can't help you (I'm not sure anyone can

). What you are proposing is more of a trial & error type of thing.

Mr Duck · 04-18-2008, 07:38 AM

I was hoping someone might know which fuel injected models have intake manifolds that fit the 1600CVCC motor in my '85 Prelude. This way I can go to the parts yard with tools and a grocery bag and come home with a kit to tie into my megasquirt ECU. I can pull the intake off an 85 while I'm there and carry it around for comparison but I'd thought this would be a common upgrade to the computer controlled carburetors. I did a little hunting with google and it seems there is a obsession with mods on the intake side of the throttle body. Perhaps my original two posts were confusing to someone reading in that context.

I have installed fuel injection on a motorcycle and motorcycle carbs on a BMW 2002 so I know what I'm doing.

-Duck

Artifex · 04-18-2008, 12:16 PM

Oh I think I see what you are saying.

I'm fairly certain that the old 1.6 CVCC engine shares absolutely nothing in common with other Hondas (especially fuel injection). However, I know nearly nothing about models that old.