Whats up everyone, the name is Jake. Some of you know me, most of you don’t. Here’s a timeline of my 94
Prelude S:
(Sorry I’m missing pictures of the first part of the Project’s life, the camera they were on took a dump.)
August 2006: Bought the lude from some shady ass stealership a few hours south of here. 160K on the stock F22A1 motor, typical honda cancer, rust on the sunroof, and a spot on the hood. Interior was MINT with the exception of the drivers side sun visor. The claimed the timing belt and the water pump had been changed.
March 2007: Had all the rust fixed, all the dings and dents pulled, and the entire car painted its original color (Frost White). Also added a Wings West RS front lip. Also around this time I added a Forbidden Motorsports short shifter and JDM amber turn signals.
June 2007: Grabbed some 16" MR12s, painted them white, and put them on the car. Went back to the paint shop to paint the stock side skirts. Purchased Tein Basic Coilovers and slammed the thing. Happened to be browsing ebay one day and found a mint set of JDM black housing headlights, so I picked those up too. Also got a Forbidden Motorsports cooling plate.
July-August 2007:
One afternoon I’m in the bathroom when all of a sudden I hear my car alarm going nuts. I clean up and run out to the car to find that my step-mother slammed into my car while backing her convertible out of the garage. (She didn’t look behind her when backing up, I asked) Four days later I’m stopping in the left lane on Rt. 9 for an EMT truck that is pulling out nad I get rear ended by some lady in her father’s Ford Fusion. The carnage:
One week later I was driving back from a party and the car over heated. I pull over, get it towed home. The next day I take a look at the car and conclude the thermostat got stuck (since according to the stealership the water pump was changed at 110K). So I go get a new thermostat and install it, fill it back up with coolant, take it for a spin. Overheats again. After more messing around we determine its the water pump. Well I don’t have the tools to fix that to I tow it to Pep-Boys to get it fixed. The insist I pay for a test to ensure it was the pump that is bad, I’m glad I let myself get talked into that one. Turns out the engine fails a block test and compression on cylinder 1 in low. They want 600 to fix the water pump, and another 200 to pull the head and see whats wrong with the block, and then another 200-1000 depending on whats wrong with the block. Screw that. Towed it home, wento to sears to get some tools and started taking it apart:
Oops, cracked a socket taking out a headbolt, stripping the bolt (I’m sure some of you know this mug shot):
After trying for hours to get that sucker out we broke out the beer and funnel:
One thing we did know at this point is there was oil on the number one spark plug.
After drilling out the bolt I got the head off. Blown head gasket, really baddly scored cylinder wall.
(No more pictures because my brother lost his camera and mine was dead)
September 2007:
Decided to throw out the slow F22A1 (while a good motor to work with, slow as balls stock, and didn’t want to take the time to fix and build it) and throw in a JDM H22A motor, tranny, and ECU. Got the swap from HMO and Synapse did all the work while I was away at school. Love the new motor and Synapse did a great job with the swap. The motor is quick, once I got used to shifting 1500RPMs after the redline on my tach it pulled dc2nick’s teg from a 50mph roll.
December 2007:
Yay Christmas! Part of my haul was an AEM short ram, so now thats installed.
Future plans:
In a week or so (depending on if the guy I bought parts from ever gets them to me) I will be doing a 5 lug conversion. Not many wheels come in 4x114.3, and the Prelude S brakes are smaller than the VTEC brakes. Sourced some hubs off a 5th gen prelude, just waiting on the calipers and brackets from a 4th gen VTEC prelude. To go with the new hubs will be 17" Enkei RPF1s in Silver. Also planned is a 2.5" exhaust with a twinloop muffler.
Far Future Plans:
Wiretuck, Euro-R intake manifold and IL4 68mm throttle body, Skunk 2 Pro 1 cams, Skunk 2 valvetrain (with high comp valves, will put me at 10.9:1), tuning with Neptune.
