Merlin's H22a8 '99 5th Gen

[Merlin]

A few weeks ago the car failed its MOT, just on a few silly things:

Intermittent headlight bulb
Front indicators wrong colour
Handbrake needed adjustment

The intermittent headlight bulb was actually a cracked bulb holder, but luckily Vanzep had a brand new one in his parts pile that he kindly gave me. I previously swapped over my clear front indications but forgot to put in the orange bulbs And yesterday Vanzep gave me a hand to reset my handbrake and properly adjust it.

I picked up some carbon door card inserts from a Japanese auction site. I do have a full interior set already, the radio surround is nice, but the door inserts are heavily scratched. Thankfully, it wasn't too much of a pain to install.

[vanzep]

much better
im not a fan of the fake wood trim on a prelude or any other car for that matter

you should be back driving a lude very soon - good luck with the mot

[Merlin]

The car passed its MOT last week. No advisories as I worked through the small list from when it failed last month. The MOT dude commented on how clean the car was

I have stripped everything of worth from my last 5th gen, but it's the M2P4 gearbox that I wanted to reuse. The gearbox on my new 5G has high rpm grind in 3rd and 4th gears, so I am swapping gearboxes over. It would be silly not to swap the clutch while I'm there as the car has done 82K miles.

The new bits going in are a Competition Clutch lightweight flywheel (2-701-ST), not the ultra lightweight (I have that version on my racecar). Its single piece 4140 forged steel flywheel weighing 5.8Kg.



The timing marks on the edge of the flywheel




This is an ATR OEM clutch plate sitting in place on the CC flywheel, and the space around the edge:






And the OEM pressure plate sitting on the CC flywheel:



I also have a set of new Honda OEM pressure plate bolts and a new set of ARP B16 forged steel flywheel bolts (208-2802) to use.

[TitzonToast]

That flywheel looks pretty damn sweet. I would love to upgrade to one myself.

[Merlin]

Had the Lude out for a drive on Sunday and took a few pictures. One crazy thing has happened through, the clutch pedal spring has fallen off I have no idea how it has happened and TBH I can't feel any difference in the pedal.