Well if it's worth it or not is all relative.
If you are gong to tear apart the head and block (read $$$$$$$$$$) then you might as well go all out. Get it B&B'ed, P&P'ed, have the crank balanced and knife edged (if you are going to up the red line a lot), you might as well get stronger rods (than the JDM Type S ones). If you get the Type S pistons you won't have to resleeve the block, if you get the JRP (I think you mean SRP) pistons you will have to.
Crower's cams are supposed to be out and they are about as expensive as the JDM ones so you might look into those. You should get new springs and retainers if you get new cams with higher lift.
Save your money and get the quaife LSD. it's cheaper than the JDM one.
Unless your're going FI the skunk manifold will probably hurt your performance. Someone told me that some company had an advertisement in grassroots motorsports magazine about a prelude manifold with individual throttle bodies on each runner. It would be better but probably costs an arm and a leg. Or you go go the route Billy went and get the ATR manifold if you could find a place to get it.
ECU swaps are a big topic right now. You could convert to OBDI or you could get a management system like the hondata, zdyne, etc one but those are big money. I think the Type S ecu is still over $1k so it's pretty expensive too.
All in all it's going to cost you a lot of money to do all those things (this is not a backyard project unless you don't want to drive your prelude for a few months). You ultimately have to decide if it's worth it or not.
Just my opinion though.
Gabe
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97 Prelude
see it here:Hondaprelude.com
[This message has been edited by Gabe (edited March 28, 2001).]
If you are gong to tear apart the head and block (read $$$$$$$$$$) then you might as well go all out. Get it B&B'ed, P&P'ed, have the crank balanced and knife edged (if you are going to up the red line a lot), you might as well get stronger rods (than the JDM Type S ones). If you get the Type S pistons you won't have to resleeve the block, if you get the JRP (I think you mean SRP) pistons you will have to.
Crower's cams are supposed to be out and they are about as expensive as the JDM ones so you might look into those. You should get new springs and retainers if you get new cams with higher lift.
Save your money and get the quaife LSD. it's cheaper than the JDM one.
Unless your're going FI the skunk manifold will probably hurt your performance. Someone told me that some company had an advertisement in grassroots motorsports magazine about a prelude manifold with individual throttle bodies on each runner. It would be better but probably costs an arm and a leg. Or you go go the route Billy went and get the ATR manifold if you could find a place to get it.
ECU swaps are a big topic right now. You could convert to OBDI or you could get a management system like the hondata, zdyne, etc one but those are big money. I think the Type S ecu is still over $1k so it's pretty expensive too.
All in all it's going to cost you a lot of money to do all those things (this is not a backyard project unless you don't want to drive your prelude for a few months). You ultimately have to decide if it's worth it or not.
Just my opinion though.
Gabe
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97 Prelude
see it here:Hondaprelude.com
[This message has been edited by Gabe (edited March 28, 2001).]
