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[matthewk]

hi i am new to this forum i went looking for a site that could help me with my project car that i recently bought. and this site seems to be great for things to do for your car. and this car needs alot of help

[ghettogeddy]

welcome to the site have fun learn some new stuff about the 3rd gen accord, please fell free to use the search feature its your friend and will open the doors to almost all of your questions, feel free too post pics of your project

[MessyHonda]

:welcome: to 3geez...if you have any questions just use the search option on the corner or else people get mad if you ask the same question like how to make my car fast with 2 pens and a drity mag...lol well post some pics of your car.

[2oodoor]

welcome matthewK, what Kind of car did you get.
\\countless information and other interesting things happening here.

[matthewk]

i bought a 1986 honda accord. and the one emblem says its an exi but i haven't seen anything on the internet that says accord has made a model like that. so i have been thinking it could be some other type of honda. and here are some pics of the car along side my twin brothers 88 LX
http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/6702/accord001ao5.jpg

http://img476.imageshack.us/img476/3650/accord014in3.jpg

http://img481.imageshack.us/img481/3199/accord002cv4.jpg

[ghettogeddy]

nope exi is the high model in cananda

[A20A1]

Accord is the model

Honda is the maker

EXI is the trim

[ghettogeddy]

she needs a bath

[MessyHonda]

nice car....is what are your plans with the car?

[A20A1]

wait so you have a twin brother? or the are you saying the cars are twins?

[2oodoor]

you got lucky and got a fuel injected model 86 LXi,

[matthewk]

yes i have got a twin brother who bought an 88 lx but his car needsa new engine the head on is car is cracked. and mine needs a new transmission. and my plans for the car is to make a nice drivable car that could possibly beat some of the cheap ass civics around our city.

[Pico]

:welcome:

[MessyHonda]

yes i have got a twin brother who bought an 88 lx but his car needsa new engine the head on is car is cracked. and mine needs a new transmission. and my plans for the car is to make a nice drivable car that could possibly beat some of the cheap ass civics around our city.

thats cool. well yeah this is a good start. i joined since i needed some carb help and now i own 2 of them and one is geting some major mod done to it....tell your brother to join also

[A18A]

haha thats cool, twin brothers with twin cars :D good stuff. :welcome:

[ChaseR]

Welcome dude!! Always good to see New members, And don't sweat if you slip up and god forbid you forget to or can't find something on search. If someone lashes out then they need a life outside the internet.. But for the most part we have a lof of great individuals on this site!

[1ajs]

hey welcome to the forum felow canadian.
looks clean what kinda trany?

heres q cheap to look for trany. your twin brother might be able to find a head for his 3gee also good luck BTW theres a price list on that site also
http://www.bucksautoparts.com/locationsframe.html
just click on the star for your city to get a map

[matthewk]

i dont think he will be looking for a new or used head the last owner had the head off for a while i guess and it must of rained or some thing but when he pulled the head off there was rust in all over the insides of the engine. and my accord when we tooka closer look at what we thought would be a little body work turns out to be a hell of alot pretty much the whole trunk and surrounding area needs to be replaced so were putting the engine into his car and some of the nicer parts that are mostly brand new on to his and scrapping the 86. and then i have to go in search for a new car

[1ajs]

o the trunk rust of doom ya not worth fixing that shame. good luck on finding your self another car hopefuly a 3gee..
has a parts car thats rusted right out trunk is falling right out on it and doors are rusting out ect ect ect

[matthewk]

well my brother is going to give me his then he's going to buy a 85 prelude from a friend. were just trying to dicide if we should leave it carb or change it over to efi.

[A18A]

Change to EFI =D it will be worth it, carbs give problems over time :)


EFI FTW!!!

[ghettogeddy]

u should def change it scence u have the motor to do it

[1ajs]

hope he injoys his prelude. glad to see your guna stick threw with the 3gee :)
have fun

[matthewk]

i was just wondering how hard is it going to be to switch it to efi if the car is only and lx

[A18A]

i was just wondering how hard is it going to be to switch it to efi if the car is only and lx
http://www.geocities.com/carotman/howto/eficonv/EFIconversion.htm

[ghettogeddy]

i have th elink at home but form what i understand is if u know what your doing it should only take a couple days

overdosed is faster then me lol

[MessyHonda]

yeah if you want reliability EFI is the way to go...carbs are not bad but you have to knoe what you are doing...once you tweak something everything can go wrong...I own both types a DX and a LX-i and they are both good cars but the DX is giving me problems right now

[matthewk]

was thinking of just leaving it as a carb and seeing if my best friends dad could help with the vacuum line removal. but having a problem find out how i would go about leaving the choke and the secondary choke alone on the car and not making it a manual choke because im not really sure if that would work out well in the cold winters we have in canada. will probally do efi sometime later when i gain more mechanical experience.

[jschatte]

i guess im a little slow to post but :welcome: fellow SKer! I dont wanna dissapoint you, but an efi conversion is alot of work. Anyway, go to picknpulls, youll find all the parts you need for cheap:)

[matthewk]

dont really know where that is located have been to bucks auto parts inregina with and got som disapointment with the lack of parts they have there

[matthewk]

i know i should post here but not sure exactly where to post it but i was reading a couple of the forums about dual carb setups and was wondering if you could hook up the dual carb intake from a prelude and make it work. and still get some good power from it. with out changing over to weber carbs.

[1ajs]

bucks is a hit and miss here they got jack all for hondas atm but then their yard is 90% crushed cars cause the crusher is down.

[matthewk]

i am looking for some help my brother and i are swapping the engine from the 86 accord to the 88 accord but were having a problem with the distributor for it. because the 86 was an efi and the 88 is a carb and the 88 when we bought it didnt have the distributor i was if the efi distributor will work with the carb and if it will work perfectly with it and what kinds of modifications will need to be done to the wiring.

[1ajs]

it look like this?
Hitachi
http://www.rockauto.com/ref/BeckArnley/1850315.jpg
http://www.rockauto.com/ref/Cardone/31823.jpg
or this?
TEC ones on the carbed motor
http://www.rockauto.com/ref/BeckArnley/1850451.jpg
http://www.rockauto.com/ref/Cardone/31841.jpg
tec with 2 difrent caps witch does not matter..
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/605/donerew0.jpg
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/6655/origrl2.jpg

[matthewk]

got the car up and running the other day ran good for a while thenit started pouring anitfreeze from behind the intake and we couldnt figure out what it was till we felt around on the intake and its leaking from a good sized hole in the intake and we are out of money so my brother JB welded the hole but it's not seemingly working since we tried it again this morning after letting it cure for 36 hours and it still is leaking im hoping someone can tell us what the hell could be leaking from the intake.

[snoopyloopy]

coolant. there're coolant lines that go to the intake manifold and my guess is that one of those busted. you have two options. you can either do a coolant bypass of the intake manifold or you can change the busted hose. the easier of the two is the bypass, just make sure you route the hoses correctly. because changing them is a pain, especially if the stock efi airbox is still on. (by the way, are you still running carb or did you do the efi conversion? i was too lazy to read the whole thread. if you're still running carb, then my words might be less potent.) if you decide to change them, change them all at once so you don't have to be doing it soon. because when one 20 year old hose breaks, the rest of the 20 year old hoses are soon to follow.

[Chef Boyardee]

:welcome:

[Tomisimo]

Nice man... way to go. like the ghettogeddy said that EXi is high model... the only way to know or to be sure is "if you have a disck brakes back" then you have a real EXi.

One more thing. if you want to swap trom Carb to EFi. EFi is the way to go, you'l get some extra HP to!!! a Carb A20a had 105HP the EFI is 122HP.

Oooo... allmost forgaten :welcome:

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k313/Tomisimo/3g_accord-23.jpg
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k313/Tomisimo/3g_accord-24.jpg