Lude Generation

Hi Joined the group few weeks back after saving the prelude from the scrap heap. It belonged to my brother who had left it parked up for 8 months while he was in Afghanistan. So £300 quid changed hands and I became the owner of a prelude with no Mot and looking slightly sorry for itself

My plan is to restore it as a running project and use it as a weekend car. The 1st job was to get it an Mot, I replaced front rear brake discs and pads and replaced front top suspension arms and new tie rods both sides. I took out both headlamps and fixed the top mounting points that always seem to snap and gave the engine an oil and filter change.

Tuesday was the 1st time I drove it when I took it for Mot apart from the tracking being slightly out I had a massive smile on my face it was good to be back in a prelude 6 years after I sold my last 1.

I had an even bigger smile on my face when I drove it home with full 12 months mot and no advisories
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The front end could do with a respray but 1st job on list is to get it cleaned up sort out all the annoying bits like window trims put a new motor in the sunroof and get the wheels sorted of which I have a spare set.

Looking good Doug. Those seats really suit the car

Result!
Well done, that's a fantastic looking lude for £300!!!


Whereabouts are you and do you have any pics of your previous lude?

Nice car, love the seats but I think you should change the location of the number plate as that might be blocking the air getting to the radiator behind it

Nice looking car...

For £300 this is insane.
Looks top. What are those seats? Really suit the red car!

Also she looks very tidy, especially engine bay wise. I like

What the hell is going on?
Nitin has made a sensible, valid car comment?!

Thanks for the comments guys

wurlycorner wrote:Result!
Well done, that's a fantastic looking lude for £300!!!


Whereabouts are you and do you have any pics of your previous lude?

I wish I had taken a picture of it where it had been parked for 8 months! I'm sure you would of said £300 is to much lol. I'm in Northampton I will have a look see if I can find any pics of my old Prelude I sold that to get Accord type R but regretted selling the prelude I had it for 5 years longest I have ever owed a car!

nitin_s1 wrote:Nice car, love the seats but I think you should change the location of the number plate as that might be blocking the air getting to the radiator behind it

I put number plate there as I had no tape to put it on bumper for mot, but I ran my old prelude with plate there for years and had no problems with cooling

prahunt wrote:For £300 this is insane.

Looks top. What are those seats? Really suit the red car!

Also she looks very tidy, especially engine bay wise. I like

The seats are same as ATR recaro's but they tilt forward they have been re trimmed with red centres, as to what there originally out of I have no idea.
Apart from an oil change and putting an old battery in I haven't touched engine yet!!

Have done a massive 58 miles in prelude since it's mot last month. The only problem I found was I couldn't change up the gears in vtec time for new clutch

So after doing a bit of research on here I ordered a genuine Accord Type R clutch and 2 litres of oil and today set about changing it.
9 hours later I was finished what a pig of a job on your own!!! That gear box is heavy. Problems I had were splitting the bottom ball joints I had to modify my ball joint folk as after about 20mins realised it wasn't wide enough to fit the tapper but even then I had to use a sledge hammer. Then the passenger side inner cv joint decided to separate putting that back together wan a nightmare. From reading the guides no where does it say to remove the front cross member to get the gearbox out. Well I had to as there was no way I could get it through the gap lol
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I'm glad honda clutches last as I don't fancy doing another any time soon

Looking good. Would have been good to see it in it's not so good state. Liking those seats too