Nathan's Daily Drive BB4

[NafemanNathan]

They do indeed Grant I can remember the brand of my boss, just know it's a decent cast jobby. And yeah there's no harm in removing the bonnet heat-shield. I've done it to all my past ludes with no issues, and lots of forum members do it. Ignore Pushki

There wasn't any obvious part of it hanging down Pushki... It was in great condition, but still rubbing. And it's hardly detrimental to the car's OEMness as a whole

[Pushki]

The liner only hangs down about ½" but it's enough to rub the sparkplug cover. It's the same on all 4th gen's.
I know it won't cause any harm removing it. I'm just sad to see it go. I hope you've kept it so that it can be put back on if ever you sell.

[nucleustylzlude]

I also wanted to remove the exhaust-manifold heat-shield as well, so I could remove the rust and either polish it or paint it. The two top bolts were no issue to remove, but of course the bottom one is seized and I've had no joy removing it yet as the bolt has started rounding off I'll have to get my Dad's mole grippers on it

If you get that bolt off, you have the shiny one from mine bud, needs a little refresh but you can pick it up from Japfest for the pricely sum of £15 if ya like.
The hard graft has been done, either touch up with some elbow grease or rough up and paint. Took me a whole day with a bodyshop and air tools at my disposal. Let me know bud. Will have something shinier soon.

She's looking lovely though, it's moving into dangerous territory of the good looking one, it'll end up with the other being a hangin track car at this rate!

[NafemanNathan]

Yes Pushki, it's all rolled up neatly with all the fixings still I wouldn't dream of throwing it away ...

Cheers Rob, I may take you up on that offer

Nah she's staying OEM so she's not going to take up much more time She's got a very slight knocking noise coming from the rear, so it's either an easily solved shock knock (Which I'll try first) or the rear droplinks need replacing as well. Then there's the front lip that needs re-working, the OSR light cluster I want to swap as there's a slight blemish, and I want to take some wet and dry to the headlights as they're slightly cloudy. I'm sure there's a few other things as well, but not a great deal

[NafemanNathan]

Just a quick update. I fitted my Richbrook R1 wheel today...





Now bar the gearstick and the colour of the bonnet, it feels pretty much like it used to sat inside my project lude

[Dino]

I like this vey much.

I miss having a prelude as a daily driver, this makes me want to have one more.

[NafemanNathan]

Always room for one more Prelude in your life Marc

[mart609]

Don't know how i managed to miss this thread??!!?
I remember this lude, glad its stopped on the forum, picked up some nice tasty rare parts there nath

[NafemanNathan]

Got around to fitting the rear droplinks today. Managed to get some BluePrint ones through MotorFactors...



Again, as I'd had to do with the front droplinks, I dropped the ARB. But this time, being it was the rear, I was able to remove the ARB completely to get a good hold on it...



And yet again I find it crazy that you're supposed to prevent the ball joint from turning whilst you release the nut with a poxy 5.5mm allen key! For each one I've been able to use an allen key for the first couple of threads, but then before I'm even a quarter of the way through loosening them, the allen key slips and is no longer of any use... Ergo this set up...



Even with a good 14-15 stone and copious amounts of muscle ( Phil ) I had absolutely no hope in removing the last nut. Even the mole grippers were slipping, so I had no other option but to use the hacksaw...



Once removed, I then removed the ARB bushes in order to regrease them. There was a good (bad) amount of flakey paint hanging off the ARB, so I took the opportunity to wire-brush it...



The areas under the bushes were particularly bad...





But I was able to simply knock off the corroded metal and regrease them before putting the bushes back...





Obviously I would have been better off repainting the ARB and fitting new bushes, but I didn't really have time, so I'll simply add it to the list of things to do for now I'll probably remove the ARBs from the project lude to powder-coat, prepared for a simple quick swap next time. So anyway, back up it goes...



And new droplinks fitted ...





Looks like Nitin has been playing with that last one!

Now fingers crossed that'll get rid of the very subtle knocking noise I could hear coming from the rear. If it doesn't, then I think I've got a case of the old shock knock

[Pushki]

Nice work!