take your time bro, not sense in rushing it

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Uuuugh but I wanna drive it again real bad.

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my car has been parked for 6 years. I've driven it only a hand full of times.

be patient young padawan.

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I waited 6 months to drive Lucky. Busted motor was replaced with a used motor. After a short jaunt it was parked for some gawking and bragging photos. Thwewmph... ssssssssss... hot green liquid spraying in all directions...
Busted hose. Fixed it two days later.

It wasn't 6 years, mind you. But it was loooooooong 2 days.

Patience is a muthaf@¢ka but the pay off is stellar.

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Oh man, I set you up perfectly to put me in my place. Touche.

I hope so! I'm doing my best to cover all my bases this time around. I'm ordering a couple coolant hoses that connect to the firewall today actually, along with the clutch release bearing.. I'll continue painting through probably Wednesday or so. Til then, here's the progress for week 3..


Pushed it out and took the hose, brake cleaner, and simple green to it, followed by a good light sanding;




Pushed it back in and finished sanding and cleaning up any grease;




Started priming;




And started painting. I ended up choosing a Nissan burgundy metallic;

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Nice

glad you save a lude!!

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http://www.preludezone.com/new-membe...therlands.html

Wow great work! Lets see some more pictures.

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BB1 for life.

Nice color choice.

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Will you paint the whole car red as well?

Nice color man! Are you going to get your valve cover powder coated the same color?

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those two colors go very well together!


good job lindso!

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Wow that was like an explosion of responses. Awesome!

Thanks guys! I'm really enjoying myself over here.


I will as I go along! Right now it's just a plastic-wrapped paint booth, not much more goin' on than that.


No I'm going to keep the 'Cashmere Silver' on the outside and concentrate on glossing up the black trim, save up for a good carbon fiber hood, and try to keep that clean stock look.


Yes! At least, I really want to. I'll wait til I put the motor in and make sure it's not gonna be burgundy overkill. Maybe I'll paint an Anchorman quote into it to mix it up some. Something like, 'Tits McGhee', or 'Pants Party'. Damn I love that movie.


Thanks man! I was trying to think of it as 'When I wear my khaki pants, what color shirt do I wear?' and BAM I wear maroon ones when I'm not wearing plaid. **** painting it plaid in there.

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Well if you decide to there is a guy in taxes that does any valve cover for a luder for 75 bucks.

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I was hoping you had picked that color for the bay with plans of keeping the outside cashmere silver.
Definitely a classy pair of colors. Your swapage/restomod is inspiring to the rest of us regular joe's n janes.

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Where's Taxes?


Thanks dude! It's still gonna be a lotta work getting that exterior in top shape though, so I'll be taking pics from far away for awhile haha.

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Lmao...^^
Put an 8pt star filter on your camera for a gleam you don't get without one.

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I'll just photoshop in a bunch of lense flares hahaha

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I meant Texas. He's the moderator on bb alliance tb on Facebook.

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Yessssssssss

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i can honestly say im thoroughly glad you got another lude man!

Oh freakin sweet. I'm definitely gonna need a powdercoater sometime. When I find a spare valve cover for cheap I'm gonna strip it bare and cut the side off the cam gear cover.


Me too, thank you!

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Need some help!
H23 to H22 swap- if I use the H22 engine harness, do I still have to wire VTEC straight to the ECU in the shell of a 1995 SE model?


Kind of a rough day with the Prelude today. Took longer than we were hoping to pull the H22 since the front end was crushed. Dropping the crossmember made it easier but my header got whacked by it and has a little dent. Once we got everything transferred over, I ended up having problems with my Innovative motor mounts. First, the rear mount bolt holes didn't line up so my friend drilled it out a little bit to loosen it up. Next, the drivers side mount is much thinner than the stock mount so I have to go buy new shorter bolts and nuts to hold that one on. Lastly, the transmission mount is all ****ed up, it doesn't line up at all. I'm pissed because I don't want to continue installing the motor if they're gonna make me send back the whole set. I've contacted the seller, so all I can do is wait.

Anyway, here's a couple pics-pardon the overspray;


Finished painting and clearing the bay





Here's the mount issue I'm having;

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Dang dude so the mounts wouldnt fit, i think that specific mount set is made to delete the driver side mount to make room for tranny mount. i could be 100% wrong but that kit only comes with 3 mounts for the BB6

Or i would check the mount brackets from your other car, could be different

It gets rid of the front mount if I don't want it. And I don't because it's all twisted funny from the wreck.

All the mounts between the two are the same. I actually just got off the phone with the seller Robert at West Coast JDM who gave me this link and seems very willing to help me get through this issue;

4G Prelude Innovative motor mounts install-- - Honda-Tech

It at least addresses the rear mount problem directly, and obviously that guy had to pry the engine around a bit to get it to work, so maybe I underestimated the difficulty of the mod. I'll keep working on it this week and see what happens.

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just take your time man, :P i finally got mine running right! check the new vid

So I was thinking that you shouldn't finish the 'lude until after Halloween so you can dress up as Paul Bunyan.

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any time I've installed a motor with innovative mounts, we've left all the mounting bolts slightly loose until the center bolt is through each mount. they are a pain to install but worth the hastle. I'll ask mitnz which order we installed them in his 4th gen, he should remember. Don't drill out anything...

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If you can talk A into dealing with this beard and mustache for another three months, I will be the creepiest Paul Bunyan you've ever seen. But I don't think you're gonna be able to do that..



3.5 hours of pulling, prying, lowering, lifting, cursing, loosening and tightening later, I have all three bolts in :)


I went rear - driver - passenger. I loosened all 4 bolts on the T-bracket and I think that's what ended up helping the most. I also left the two bolts out of the driver mount until the transmission side was on. Once I got the bolt through the transmission side, there was one vertical bolt on the drivers mount I had to spend another hour on, ended up using a screwdriver, a socket extension and a rubber mallet over on that side if you can imagine the fun I had..

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I don't think so either. But my imagination is running wild!

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