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wllm · Post by **wllm** » Sun Oct 25, 2020 5:55 pm

Hi! My name is William and I'm form the Netherlands!

I've loved the prelude 4th gen ever since I was 15. I've had my first prelude (2.0) in 2008 and bought an 2.2 vtec with 4ws in 2010. The 2.2 has been in storage for 7 years now and recently started to renovate the car. It has rust all over the place ofcourse and it will get a completely renovated H22a engine.

My car is overall stock except for a few mods
* AC retrofitted
* EDM EL Cluster retrofitted
* JDM Climate control retrofitted

My reason for signing up here is to gain and share knownledge and look at the classifieds section

Regards,
William

My Prelude after 7years in storage.

Bodywork on the rear

Scott560 · Post by **Scott560** » Sun Oct 25, 2020 6:54 pm

Welcome to the forum.

Looks like you have your work cut out for you (literally!). You will find plenty of parts on here!

Keep us posted.

toadster · Post by **toadster** » Sun Oct 25, 2020 8:43 pm

Lo

Welcome along

Cheers

Toadster

Post by **Drax** » Sun Oct 25, 2020 9:55 pm

love these colour 4g ludes

great to hear your restoring her

lots of knowledge here definitely, keep up the good work and keep us in the loop with it too

wllm · Post by **wllm** » Sun Oct 25, 2020 10:37 pm

Thanks for the kind replies!

The metal and paint work is something I won't do myself, I'm quite good with electronics but with bodywork; I do know how to damage it

Yup, it's a good colour

the bordeux red (colour of my first prelude) is also nice in my opinion! Cars these days are too often just white, gray, brown and black

I'm trying to restore it in a near mint condition and as stock as possible however I will do some mods to make it work with modern technology. I'm planning to do something very cool when I my hands on an OEM radio/cassette+cd player but it seems it's not an easy part to come by nowadays.

Post by **vanzep** » Mon Oct 26, 2020 1:17 am

welcome to LG

wllm · Post by **wllm** » Tue Jan 19, 2021 3:21 pm

Some updates:

My Prelude runs again!

The body work is finished and the new engine is installed. Went to tuner to get my p28 with neptune tuned for my new engine. It runs great

I sourced an OEM radio/cassette+cd-player from an Irish bloke in the US. It turned out that the outputstage for the frontspeakers was dead. I replaced the output stages and the radio now plays perfectly

Next I will be replacing the backlight bulbs, getting the right bulbs here is the hard part actually. The radio will be connected to an ESX QE80.8 amp and I will start building my bluetooth box soon. Now I still need the "VTEC rear subwoofer" assembly and cover for my audio setup. If you have one, I would love to buy it from you

For the bluetooth box I need to investigate the two extra pins that tell the radio that a indash cd player is connected. It's something Alpine designed and there is no documentation ofcourse but it looks this might be a very simple interface, much less complicated than MBus that is used to "talk" to the cd changer.

Some pictures

Radio stuff

toadster · Post by **toadster** » Tue Jan 19, 2021 3:59 pm

Lo

Looking good

Thanks for posting

Toadster

mr_drc · Post by **mr_drc** » Wed Jan 27, 2021 7:15 pm

Post by **Drax** » Wed Jan 27, 2021 7:37 pm

Excellent work well done!! I'm jealous you have a working lude lol what was the p28 & Neptune for, you have some aftermarket parts fitted to tune in?