Fefelarue's 3rd gen Honda Prelude

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 8:33 am

great work buddy you need to get the rest of the brackets under there done now

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 9:15 am

Hard task master ^^^^^

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 10:44 am

wurlycorner wrote:Hard task master ^^^^^

on the lude i sold to Bri i fitted the tanabe anti roll bars before they were sold to nathan and it made the rest look bad so i took the petrol tank out and rubbed down and painted that

fefelarue · Post by **fefelarue** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 12:23 pm

Thanks everyone

fefelarue · Post by **fefelarue** » Sat Nov 28, 2015 3:29 pm

Howdy luders.

My manifold has been blowing like a dutch hooker, and been getting worse and worse for months, to the point where exhaust gas is coming in through the heater, so decided it was time for a change.

After scouring the interballs for a while, the only manifold - standard or aftermarket - available ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD seemed to be an OBX stainless jobby from california, for the facelift lude (year after mine). So two weeks later here we are

I was worried it wouldn't fit, but didnt really have a choice.

So here's my engine bay, stained brown from months of 26 year old exhaust fumes:

And here's what I'm replacing it with:

SHINY AS BALLS RIGHT?!

But you'll notice there's a pretty major problem, there is not one mount on the entire damn thing, let alone a hanger in the right place, ar maybe a flange to bolt it to the rest of the exhaust?? NOPE

But I have welder friends, so I knew I just had to do an airtight bodge for now and I'd be happy.

Off with the old manifold, and a huge well done to the Honda engineer 30 years ago for this access point to the far right manifold nut

So here's the downpipe:

PRETTY SCREWED

And here's the old vs the new:

I knew at this point i'd have to do some cutting so i legged it down to halfords and bought some stuff ready for the bodge.

Chopped:

Chopped:

Ready for the best bodge of all time?

Job jobbed:

Job even more jobbed:

And it's completely airtight!!

Spot the new gasket with one poor forgotten hole. Not sure how you get this wrong:

But it's on!

Woo

I also went over to Longlife Exhausts in Carshalton and got a full stainless system with twin exit 2.5" pipes

Their customer service was pretty terrible, although the workmanship seems spot on. Mandrel bends and great welds

And it sounds incredible

Thanks for looking!

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Sat Nov 28, 2015 5:33 pm

Manifold looks great could they not put some better tailpipes on? but great work buddy

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sat Nov 28, 2015 8:02 pm

Excellent, really glad it fitted ok

But no hangers?

That's not a facelift/no facelift problem - they both have em!

fefelarue · Post by **fefelarue** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 12:28 pm

wurlycorner wrote:Excellent, really glad it fitted ok
But no hangers? That's not a facelift/no facelift problem - they both have em!

Yeah I know! It just seemed like someone had made the manifold pipes the right shape but then stopped there haha

mercutio wrote: Manifold looks great could they not put some better tailpipes on? but great work buddy

I asked for straight cut pipes that extended past the bumper, but I did assume they'd polish them not just whack on pipes that still had extrusion marks on them. I'll polish them myself at some point.

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 3:40 pm

get some trims

fefelarue · Post by **fefelarue** » Mon Jan 04, 2016 9:51 pm

LOWS!

Got some BC racing coilovers for christmas (from myself), so got fitting them

The fronts went on fine, but the rears literally took me 2 days - the lower strut bolt had seized to its bushing sleeve which had seized to the bush, which was all trapped, rotating inside the lower strut fork. NIGHTMARE. It was also way too big of a bush to blowtorch it all the way through without doing some serious damage to some nearby components, so after a day of drilling, burning, twisting and angle-grinding, the old bush looked like this:

And this is what was left of the motherflipping bolt:

Then of course the new poly bushes were another nightmare to get in - waaaaaaay too big. But after several hours the feckers got in there.

Then I decided I needed bigger wheels, and saw these potentially nice wheels, hiding under a shitstorm of disgusting blue powdercoat and multi-fitment shitness:

But they were only £160 with brand new tyres so I was happy to take the risk, but I wasn't gonna put them on in their grim blue state, so I did a bit of stripping:

powdercoat is SO FRIGGIN HARD TO GET OFF!

Anyway, I thought for a while how low I wanted to go, but then decided to just dump the thing to the bottom of the coilovers:

This is my daily driver as well, commuting is slow now haha, but I can still turn to full lock with all 4 wheels

I will be making custom centre caps for the wheels to cover up the multi-fitment mess.

Thanks for looking!

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