Nellers2001: JDM 2.2 vtec Prelude

Look much nicer How are they at night?

nice looking car is that, ive always like the preludes, a lad round my way had a silver one, was decked on it arse but went like stink aswell

Got my first one a few weeks ago and for £550 you carnt go wrong

First one Jamesy?! Sound like there's another in the pipeline then lol

Looks good dude, HID's really do make a hell of a difference. Good to see you sorted the problem in the end too

Yeah made a hell of a difference.

Had the prelude coming up to 4 years now, so guess you could say I like it too!

Looks awesome Sam, can't beat being able to see at night

Anyone else with the hids found that at night all road signs look like they are all internally lit? Must be the colour of the light, but makes the signs very bright and clear!

They must be good to do that.

Fancy sorting another group buy out if Jamesy and some of the others want to get some Sam?
I need better lights, I dont like missing corners because I cant see them till the last minute.

Yeah can sort something out. Can get single sets at a time if people are interested. Seem like good kits anyway!

Ballasts are waterproof too

Sam, yeah I get that in the day aswell when it's cloudy but yeah the sign thing is awesome, Illuminated the mud on the jeep great on the way home last night aswell.

Right finally a small update. Hoping to have josh up next weekend to sort my parts haul onto the car. Had a spare couple hours today so thought I'd make a start on stuff that would take up valuable time.

Car jacked up, front wheels off, bumper off, undertray off:



Aircon rad and all air con piping removed from the engine bay:





Just the air con pump and cast iron bracket, and internal from behind the glovebox left to remove!

Also thought I'd remove the resonator from behind the bumper. It takes air from the wing and passes into one open tube, and one tube controlled by a butterfly valve which opens and closes dependant on throttle, and then into the airbox in the engine bay. Mr Honda said this was for extra fuel economy and noise reduction...and i'm not bothered about either! I will then remove the reflector that sits next to the indicator in the bumper and use that as a cold air feed straight into the airbox!



Thought I'd be really jdm yo! to and removed the badly fitting rubber grommet that filled the gap left by the rear wiper I removed and fitted a Japanese beer bottle top...just hope it holds!

Good to see things happening dude!

Love the bottle cap!

Nice progress Sam and that bottle cap is great love it!

That beer bottle cap is so pimp it hurts! Awesome touch!

Haha, good call with the bottle cap!

Had a package turn up this morning.



It's a goodridge braided clutch line that also deletes the clutch damper, so will fit this along with the gearbox this weekend!

Wahoo. I can also see my HID's

You certainly can see your hids as well...and a blanking gromet for the rear windscreen just incase the bottle cap doesn't hold!

nellers2001 wrote:

You certainly can see your hids as well...and a blanking gromet for the rear windscreen just incase the bottle cap doesn't hold!

Lol! And about that badly fitting gromet before... I used to get wet toes when i went through puddles because of that!

Well had a mammouth weekend working on the car! Massive thanks goes out to Josh (nelly08) for staying all weekend and working on the car with me to get my list done! And a thanks to Jamesy for helping with the gearbox lowering and lifting of the new one and holding a spanner looking bemused!

Bear with me on what we've managed this weekend on the Lude:

Old radiator drained/removed and old coolant hoses removed.
Non LSD gearbox drained.
Air con pump removed (did all the pipework and rad earlier in the week).
New air con delete belt installed.
Exhaust down pipe removed from manifold.
All clutch line removed from slave cylinder to master cylinder (including damper).
Non LSD gearbox removed.
Lower/upper rad mounts modified for new aluminium rad.
Rad fans removed and modified to fit with new rad.
New 52mm aluminium rad installed and filled with new coolant.
New silicone coolant hoses installed.
New LSD gearbox on.
Engine oil drained/oil filter removed.
Sump removed.
New sump gasket and new baffled sump on.
Sandwich plate installed with new oil filter.
Gauge senders installed.
New braided clutch line installed.
New front and rear discs installed.
New front Hawk HP+ pads installed.
New NS rear caliper installed.
Manifold removed and heat wrapped manifold and downpipe.

Think that's everything and here are the photo's!!

Soooo... Much... progress

Good job guys, hope the changes have had a big effect on the car

And now I'm knackered and Josh is driving home! Oh and at some point this morning Josh even managed to skip all the hard graft and fitted his new HIDs on his Xsara!!!

Only got new NS rear caliper and pads to fit.
Fit rear brake lines to new calipers on the back.
Adjust handbrake.
New power steering rack boot to fit.
Gauges to install in car and wire up to power and sensors.
Cooling plate to install along with the front bumper.
And then just the interior to put back together!

Wow lots happening in wales this weekend. And more to go lol

I also see a hammer lol

Nice work guys... hell of a lot of progress for a weekend!

Mega progress i should really do some bits to my Lude now

Some good progress there

Home sweet home. Am shattered now but some serious progress team :-D

nelly08 wrote:

Home sweet home. Am shattered now but some serious progress team :-D

How did you find the HIDs ?

Excellent work Team Nel!
You ought to move the horns to improve your cooling further, before fitting the bumper. They might not look much but they are blocking about a 1 sq ft of radiator from direct air flow. Small job with positive benefits!

cracking progress tbh, more than any of us mere mortals have managed on the city or any other cars.

Good progres sam!

Cheers guys. Progress is still on going but at a much slower pace due to work, overtime, house buying stuff and helping with the baby. But got the mot booked for 11th April.

Rear brakes are all back together, all brakes bleed with new fluid, handbrake adjusted, fitted both new power steering rack boots, and drained old gearbox fluid now its cleared the gearbox and new amsoil stuff put in!

Mainly just putting stuff back together, wiring in the stereo and gauges and fitting the new steering wheel!

Getting there slowly!

Managed to sneak an hour on the car after work yesterday so removed the air con condenser from under the dash as the rest of the aircon is already gone! Saves another couple kilo's of useless crap!



Also unbolted the drivers seat and rail as need to splice into a wire in the under dash fusebox for the ignition live for the gauges. Found a perfect source that is now redundant from when I removed the 4ws and already goes through its own 10amp fuse....puurrrfect!

that the box which is behind our amazingly big glovebox?

Lol yep! The box is 10 times bigger than the glovebox.

Obviously to retain the normal blower function I had to put the black box back in, but only after I removed the condenser!

Yours back in one piece now jezer?

poopoo thats a big box!

coming along though Sam!

Well I'm aware there have been no updates for about a whole week now...to be honest it must just be laziness! Anyway while you lot were sunning yourselves looking at cars all day I was working on mine again!!

Got the stereo surround and the gauges installed back in the car.
Spliced a live ignition feed for the gauges.
Wired up the pressure and temperature sensors.
Put all the interior back in (well dash parts).
Bumper back on.
Cooling plate installed.

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I have also left out the reflector in the bumper on the drivers side. There isn't a bulb in there so thought I'd leave it out now the resonator box has been removed so it gets lots of cold air straight into the bottom of the airbox!!




MOT on monday and after that will change the steering wheel to the new one, and sort the slight oil leak I have from the blanking plug on the sandwich plate!! Then I'm kind of done for a while in terms of mods!

Wahey its almost back together!
Starting to look pretty dam nice, although this means I do have to get my shed done so you dont beat me on track!

LOL Thanks bro. Took it out to bed the brakes in tonight, they certainly do make a hell of a difference. Don't know whether it's just a placebo effect with the LSD box but the car seemed to really stick to the road around a few roundabouts!

You'll soon feel the LSD working in the wet! Shame about the inner wheel arch but it happens now and then - an EVO at Castle C went three or four laps with his nearside one wrapped around and hanging out!! He was clearly having far too much fun to be worried about it. Surprised he wasn't flagged for it though!

Lude had it's mot today...passed with no advisories. Got all the old mot's back to import date in 2001 but I know for a fact for the last 6 years it's had no fails and a total of 2 advisories. Not bad for a 1993 car!

Says alot for build quality that!!

Cars looking great sam! Be good to see it again at japfest

That's good going! Will be good to see it (and you) again, it's been ages!

Fairplay mate shes a good girl

That is pretty good!!

As said it'll be nice to see this back on stand at japfest

Yeah will be good to get her out again! May take my r888's in the boot incase some cheap track time comes up!?

Yes yes yes!!!

Oh... Well done on the mot front

Got the insurance sorted yesterday, 500 fully comp (less than last year)!

Also got hold of some magnecor kv80 ht leads.

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Also put the new steering wheel on as the old one was looking tired!

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good update. nice steering wheel. the nos buttons let it down a bit. but a nice looking wheel