The Beginning of the End of my Wallet- 1990 prelude Si Build thread!

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i dont know what made me think you guys deserved to see my new project but hell i just miss you all so much :favorites25: haha here it is!


Future Mods

Interior:
  • Paint red interior pieces blue
  • grease &tighten up shifter, maybe design a short shifter
  • new sony head unit
  • speaker/amp rewire
  • new pedals
  • Full clean/detail
  • 2 Rockford Fosgate P3 10's
  • custom fiber glass enclosure

Exterior:

  • Paint Gunmetal grey/dark graphite two tone
  • My dads old rims and new set of maxxis vectra rubber

Engine Bay

  • valve cover paint- Grabber Green
  • Exhaust manifold shield paint- Grabber Green
  • Clean up & tuck random wires and other random ****

Other

  • Oil change/filter
  • Full coolent flush
  • brake pads/ rotor resurface
  • brake fluid flush/bleed
  • plugs, wires, cap & rotor
  • air filter
  • fuel filter

Performance

  • CAI
  • Pacesetter Headers/ exhaust magnaflow muffler
  • custom front and rear STB Custom A & C pillar bars
  • Blisten Shocks/struts 1" lowering springs

Current specs

  • horse Power: 145 (want to get it dyno tested, i think it has way more then that)
  • Wheight: idk need to google it
  • Engine: 2.1L B21A1 DOHC
  • Compression 1-225 2-220 3-220 4-220

alright so i guess its time to start documenting everything, i know there are people who enjoy reading nice informative build threads so i thought i would start mine for all the enjoy! its going to be slow, mainly because im a broke ass teenager lol, it will be slow from now till sometime after christmas, not to mention i dont think its stoped raining in three weeks, its just my luck that when i get my first car (not technically first, but im counting it as first since i never drove my truck) either way i got this thing just in the nick of time for fall and winter (yea :thefinger: you winter)



either way on with the tale of my prelude. first of, this is her in all her flat black debadged mixed match tire beauty

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other then the bad paint this thing is amazingly clean, theres one area of body damage on the passenger side rear quarterpanel that is an easy fix, the interior is spotless, no odd smells, no stains, only one small rip in the drivers seat that i could repair, no cracks in the dash, no nothing the only real mess is some pine needles from my feet haha.

first thing i did was install my sub amps and speakers, ill get a pic uploaded when i get home, but its a messy install, not very much of it is permanent just my temp system for now, i did not have enough wire to properly do everything so its ghetto for now till after xmas and i clean it all up.

(picture coming in literally an hour or two)

then came the bad. havent owned her for more then two weeks, i hadent even gotten her under my name and new tags yet and she broke down, took me a week of tinkering and testing to come to the conclusion that its my fuel pump, (when i get that there will be a whole other thread on how to replace it) to right now she sits, while i make big plans and tinker with things.

i was going to add in my big list of future mods here but ill add it up to the top^^^^^

will post way more in like an hour when i get home/take pictures and stuff

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those are my soon to be new rims, got it mounted to make sure there was no rubing, its flat due to 4 years if not being used, that tire has maybe 150 miles on it
 

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not a bad start... but why do blue on the inside then bright ass green under the hood.... that screams 2002 F&F bro
 

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Before you run off and waste time, money, and effort replacing the fuel pump, check the Main Fuel relay... They are a notorious issue on this era of Honda (I used to make quite a bit of money repairing them and reselling them).

If that is indeed the issue, they can be fixed by removing the cover and reflowing all of the solder joints. Easy, and free.
 

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Before you run off and waste time, money, and effort replacing the fuel pump, check the Main Fuel relay... They are a notorious issue on this era of Honda (I used to make quite a bit of money repairing them and reselling them).

If that is indeed the issue, they can be fixed by removing the cover and reflowing all of the solder joints. Easy, and free.

where might i find the relay??
 

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not a bad start... but why do blue on the inside then bright ass green under the hood.... that screams 2002 F&F bro

blue & black/gunmetalgrey is my intended theme, green is just temp because its all autosone had and my valve cover is horible right now,
 

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ive never known an Autozone to NOT have black Hi-Temp paint...
 

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ive never known an Autozone to NOT have black Hi-Temp paint...

i wanted blue, it was out of stock, so was black, and red amazingly. yellow was not an option i hate yellow.
 

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What about grey. I tear down a lot of motors all day long and the V/C of most of them is grey looks good uder the hood too.
 

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yeah a light grey engine bay looks good...
 

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blue and black is the theme i like lol, im painting the car gunmetal grey/dark graphite two tone to give it a sleeper look, but my interior and my bay need to be flashy because why the **** not? lol
 

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because you secretly (NOT) want to be Vin Diesel or Paul Walker and relive the early 2000's automotive hit The Fast And The Furious...
 

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because you secretly (NOT) want to be Vin Diesel or Paul Walker and relive the early 2000's automotive hit The Fast And The Furious...

Who cares what he wants to do? It's his car.



Wheeler,

The main relay is usually under the dash, above the fusebox. If you google something like "Honda Prelude Main Relay" you should find plenty of guides and information about it.
 

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Who cares what he wants to do? It's his car.



Wheeler,

The main relay is usually under the dash, above the fusebox. If you google something like "Honda Prelude Main Relay" you should find plenty of guides and information about it.

thanks, found it, how would i tell if it needs fixed/replaced?
 

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