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6.9K views 28 replies 11 participants last post by  nickatnight1989  
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i know im probably gonna catch some crap for starting this thread and not having anything very worthwhile done, but i need to start somewhere so im not posting up a million pics and whatnot when im done and so i can show some progress... so heres my plan, a championship white lude with a 300 whp engine running boost. planning on starting with tokico blue suspension, irotor slotted and drilled rotors/ceramic pads. gonna get low compression forged pistons along with forged rods and a mild bore yatta yatta yatta more details when it all comes along. but heres what i had to start with...



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the car was hit by two deer and the hood is messed up along with the drivers site quarter panel and passenger headlight housing. i already picked up a new quarter panel and headlight housing but to prevent this car from rusting any further i decided to go ahead and start to primer it since it will not be painted for another year or so... so time to start body work

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then i wanted to get my valve cover off to clean it up, it looks horrible and dont have any picks right now but the head sure does look awesome

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now time to start my first engine pull and wow... is about all i have to say since im such a noob at this.

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thats it so far but my intentions are going have this thing decked out so it will take a lot of patience and quite a bit of $$$
 
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good progress so far.

just make sure you start in one area and finish before you go on to the next. else, nothing will get done and all will be half way.
 
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lol Are you picking the hole car up by the cherry picker? Good luck with your build.
 
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91 prelude si 2.05 said:
lol Are you picking the hole car up by the cherry picker? Good luck with your build.
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yea we got it up and on to jack stands cause the jack we had took a crap on us, we were gonna get the engine out but we couldn't get an axle socket since everywhere was closed so hopefully tomorrow : )
 
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the 88-89 ludes use the 32mm the 90-91 ludes use the 36mm.
 
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Keep trying its a bitch. My drivers side came right off, but my passanger side sucked. I only had hand tools, bent my breaker bar. I did get it off tho. Try useing the biggest breaker bar you can get, and get a long peace of pipe and you should be able to get it off.
 
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If you don't use an impact pneumatic driver use something stronger then craftsman like snap on etc. I used the biggest craftsman breaker bar in 1/2" (18" long and about $27, and the black metal socket adaptor broke on 4 of them before letting the biggest 1/2" pneumatic impact driver by craftsman, drive it off for 2 minutes.
 
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oh yeah I was using like an 8 foot pipe. do or die, my motto
 
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I say if using a breaker bar heat it up with a cutting torch without cutting it. Thats all the impact i doing is heating it up after a thousand torques. If you have to replace a seal or gasket no big deal. Considering you will have it off and be able to work on it. I had to get my about 1" deep crank pulley bolt orange red to get it off. Still holding strong years and miles later!
 
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Been a long time since i've updated and thats for a good reason. Purchased a crx with a b16 in it in november and i have just been getting that thing into good looking shape to be a DD once the lude is done. But about the lude, i had been storing it at my buddies mom's house for the past year for free and his mom is moving and the lude has to go. Good news is that i finally got the engine out by just removing the knuckles and leaving the axle nut on there.

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there it is getting hauled away and about to be rebuilt and improved on.

But now for the sad part of the story, the shell is done for im just going to get a different lude with the b21 in it since i am going to use that head for my build plus i wont have to worry about wiring since it should already be obd1 for tuning and such. But i am pretty much ripping everything off the car and the body is probably going to get scrapped. if theres any thing ppl want let me know and we might be able to work something out but for the most part it is gutted.

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there it is saying its goodbyes
 
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nooooo! not another good shell lost to the crusher! hide it under your bed or something lol.
 
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alright, well it may have seemed like i had fallen off the face of the earth after getting rid of that shell. Which i kinda did for a bit, i now have a b16 crx that i've had for the past couple years. Then there's this little sweetheart i picked up in April/May.




Then just a few months later turned into this. Still Planning on doing the turbo build with this one but really it's going to be a while cause i'm going to give the car about every supporting modification possible before i pull the motor and put all my money into that.

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I appreciate it guys, I try to just keep it clean for the moment. The wheels were actually used and got them for a deal. There is a little rust just starting that I'm gonna take care of next, and get the lip kit color matched at the same time. Also it is actually sitting on eibach springs but ksports are definately in the cars future.
 
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Decided i would like to track some progress on here.
The current project is the engine, it is actually in the process of being turbocharged/having an engine built this time. I promise haha.

It has gone through some minor changes (mainly aesthetic)since my last post here.

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But there are bigger things coming, overall goal for the build is just an all around great car. would like to do drag racing, along with road course, and still be able to hard park if i feel like it. But the near goal for the engine is something in the high 200's to high 300's, since it seems shortly after the 400whp mark that the transmission is more headache/$$ than its worth.

engine build is going to compromise of:
9:1 81.5mm weisco pistons
eagle h beam rods
cometic HG
arp head studs
weirtech turbo manifold
garrett gtx2876 genII turbo with .82 A/R turbine housing
1300cc FIC injectors
ported head

Thats the main jist of it, i could name every $10 fitting but i dont know that i care to haha. I would like to primarily run E85 but i like the flexibility of going anywhere with 91 as well so probably going to end up with a flexfuel tune but thats not 100% yet. Here is some car part porn though.

weirtech turbo parts straight from canada

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The pride and joy of the build
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Cant wait to give this fuel rail a home with the FIC injectors

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Here in the next month or two the exhaust and intercooler piping will all be getting put together. Picked up a trubendz 3" stainless steel setup with vibrant muffler. Plus wanting to put together one of the hybrid b20a5/h22 intake manifolds once someone starts producing the adapter plates. Although i do have both manifolds and will probably start cleaning up at least the exterior of the manifolds to keep a fresh look.

Oh and one last thing, the engine that was pulled way back when on this thread is the one that has been pulled apart and picked to be used as the built engine for this car. although after pulling the head off we did find some rust on the bottom of the cylinder walls... hopefully boring the cylinders out .5mm does the job cleaning them up.
 
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