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Old 23-01-2011, 06:34 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default 1988 Honda Prelude SI 4WS

So i'm Trevor and i've had this crazy idea to have a 400+HP (at the wheels) Prelude for the last few years.

The idea is to spend about $15k on the whole car when i'm done. A couple grand on the body, a couple on the suspension, and a lot on the engine.

Turbo, cams, valves, injectors, pistons, rods, crank shaft, exhaust manifold, intake manifold, ECU, fuel system, exhaust system, head, block, transmission, valve springs, and many, many other things will be upgraded or added.

I'ts going to be a great project and i'm looking forward to the wonderful help that I will get out of the TorqueCars community. Thanks in advance to all of you who may help me out!
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hey and welcome,
only downside to your plan is that is on a FWD. yuo could have fun trying to get the power down
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Hi and welcome to the forum from me. Looking forward to seeing how you convert that 150hp n/a engine upto that sort of power figure and put the power through the front wheels and how the rest of the car handles it. Great cars the mk3 Prelude BTW, had a mk2 once and wished I'd never sold it
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Old 25-01-2011, 05:05 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Hi and welcome to the forum from me. Looking forward to seeing how you convert that 150hp n/a engine upto that sort of power figure and put the power through the front wheels and how the rest of the car handles it. Great cars the mk3 Prelude BTW, had a mk2 once and wished I'd never sold it
Yes they are great cars, I have 2 88's, identical besides the color and 4ws. The 4WS needs an engine though, as the engine that was in it was thought to need a new head gasket, so I bought the thing with the valve cover pulled off and the timing belt removed and it turns out that the guy had thrown a rod in it and "didn't know" (dummy me, I never even thought to look at the block.) Oh well, I wasn't too mad. I only paid $700 for the thing and had the exhaust redone along with stage 2 & 3 parts in the tranny and it's still good!

As for the regular 2.0si, it has the stock B20A5 engine with only 140,000 miles on it. If it wasn't for the body on it being completely rusted out beyond feasible repair, I would throw some more ponies into that one as well.

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Hi there and may I wish you a warm welcome to TorqueCars, it is a pleasure to meet you.

You'll find us a pretty friendly bunch and I'm sure you'll start to love and enjoy the forums as much as we all do.

Feel free to get involved in our other threads, all opinions are welcome and as they say "the more the merrier"!

To get that sort of power you'll really need to think about forced induction. I have to admire your ambition though! And I hope you pull it off.

http://www.torquecars.com/forums/f10...-engine-15003/
Cheap turbos can be purchased from breakers yards which are ideal for a try it and see type project.

Please note that I don't think it is worth adding a turbo to an old car with a small capacity engine. There is nothing stopping you but the money and hassle will just not be worth the power gain you get.

Adding a turbo is a major engineering task and without a kit with full instructions and all the parts you need there is a big risk of blowing up the engine. Expect to spend 50 hours upwards on a project of this type. This is not the sort of modification unless you are mechanically competent.

It is worth looking at superchargers as these are easier to install than a turbo is.The best mods for a car engine are as follows.

Internal work yields the biggest gains, head work like porting polishing and 3 angle valve jobs will maximise the airflow and raise the power.

If you want to go to the max then cryo treat the block, get it rebored and look into blueprinting and balancing as well.

Bigger valves are an obvious addon but not all engines are suitable as it depends how close together the OEM valves are.

A fast road cam will yield good power gains, especially in the top end of the rev range. Don't go mad though a profile of up to 270 degrees will give the best gains without the engine becoming cammy.

The most popular power mods are induction kits (which are questionable as power mods but they can sound nice if that is your sort of thing) and sports exhausts with sports catalysts or decats.

To keep the car legal I'd recommend a sports catalyst rather than a decat.

The last mod should always be a remap as this will allow you to fully realise the power gains on offer from your mods. Turbo cars respond very well to remaps.

It's worth having a read of the articles on www.torquecars.com/tuning/ for more information on these mods and what the terms mean.
Keep us up to date with your project as well, we like to see what people are getting up to with their cars.
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