Fefelarue's 3rd gen Honda Prelude

[toadster]

LO fefelarue

Luvly 3rd Gen

Just wondering what paint you used on your manifold cover

The paint keeps peeling off mine in places

Cheers

Toadster

[fefelarue]

Cheers mate It's just hammerite, so won't peel off because of the rust. Not sure how long it will stand the heat though, but we'll see..

[simoncider]

love this car! good work.

[Edson]

Hi mate,
Great stunning looking 3rd. Nice to see how much attention you're giving it

How about putting them exhaust in a straight line ? Would look much better in my opinion haha

Keep up the good cleaning work mate !

[fefelarue]

Cheers buddy but nooooo i like it slanted, impreza style

[fefelarue]

Okay, got bits from the postman today:



Here's the engine bay before:



And after a lot of cuts and burns, I managed to pull this out, the most ridiculous air intake I have ever seen!


And there's still another friggin resonator box under the inlet manifold which I didn't have time to get to today.

Cut all the bits down and test fitted it all:




I know it's a silly place to have the filter, but i'm still waiting on a long bit of pipe to bring it down to the front of the bay..

Thanks for looking!

[wurlycorner]

That's quite some plumbing on the old system

Guess it's a mixture of resonator and collection of both cold and warmed air.

[fefelarue]

Hello again.

Got a few more bits done today. Progress isn't that fast as it's a daily driver, but it's getting there bit by bit..

First off, I took off the rusty plug carrier bits in the corner:





And gave them a lick of paint to match the rocker cover:



Then started the wire tuck with the two ugliest bits first; the throttle cable which goes right over the engine for some reason, and these horrible red wires snaking their way around the bay:



Relocated the throttle cable up to the top, and after a bit of hassle, ran the wires round the other way and wrapped them in tape:



Then I swapped this:



For this:



And finally got that bit of pipe to move the air filter down right where the air intake is behind the light



That's all for today

Trying to decide what big thing to do next, I'm thinking a flocked rocker cover

[wurlycorner]

Nice and neat!

How on earth would you keep a flocked rocker cover clean?


Refurbing the wiper arms makes a big difference imho

[fefelarue]

Nice and neat!

How on earth would you keep a flocked rocker cover clean?


Refurbing the wiper arms makes a big difference imho

Well flock's made of tiny hairs made of plastic, so any degreaser would clean it without discolouring it

And yeah, wiper arms is a good point, I need to get round to doing it!