Rustlude build thread

[rustlude87]

This car has almost been through everything so here is the run down about it.

When I turned 15 I got this car from my Sister who got it from my aunt. It had been sitting outside for 2 years wasn't driven because it had a bad water pump (later I found out it wasn't)

Car was all stock


It was relativity clean, but I soon discovered some rust...
So I did some mods the normal cat-back exhaust, intake, relocated battery to the trunk and put a MSD coil on it.

Oh and some gay fogs (ricer stage)


Over the years I had seen other prelude owners do some autocrossing, and I was very intrigued. An old friend from preschool had been doing it so I decided to try it.

[rustlude87]

Alignment was off, car was still an auto, but I still had a blast.

So I went a little more ricer and painted my wipers red :Sylee: I have no idea what I was thinking. But I picked up a crazy cheap/legit suspension setup
- Koni sway bars Front and Rear
- KYB Gr-2's up from
- Koni reds for the rear
- Intrax lowering springs
- SS brake lines
- Some hawk HP pads

Moar Racing!




For that event I got first with an auto But the best thing was those VW rims had some falken 512's on them I picked up at u pull it. They had nasty flat spots on the tires, it was so bad they couldn't be balanced out I wish I still had a picture of them.

So I did some more racing I didn't change much on the car, used the same shitty tires though.

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Oh and it was still an auto, didn't place well at this event in Hastings, but I was proud I didn't get any DNF's on such a large course.

Next event got a first place




Did some schooling helped me out quite a bit and got some super old dot R Victoracers on the VW rims




---- Finally swapped it to a manual, I had tons of issues with parts took me 3 months to get done, but it got done.
Mounted some 3rd gen prelude seats


Made a ghetto rear sway bar mount


And a unsafe camera mount

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Rear sway bar was a tight fit, rubbed on the trunk a bit


And the interior at the time


Made a 92-95 civic cold air intake fit


Some stupid ass huge plug wires


So I did some more racing, and decided the rear springs were way to soft

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Put a shift light in there I got cheap


New brakes and brake lines


And my secret to a awesome suspension, EBAY LOWERING SPRINGS FOR $50 bones



As it sat most of the summer with shit on it, on jackstands and not getting worked on


Put a catch can on

[rustlude87]

And made some adjustable top hats to get full shock travel when lowered. This helped out a lot.



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Painted the valve cover

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Bought a header, it was pretty well smashed so I fixed it. Didn't install it because it was missing some stuff.




And some more racing

[rustlude87]

Had some issues with the rear spring holders, so I got them fixed and raced some more




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AND GOING SLIDEWAYS!
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[rustlude87]

Car got parked for the winter, pulled it out the in the spring, got a set of rotas and the first night I had them. I was taking a corner a little to fast hit a median at 50 and fucked the rota and my car

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I was kinda bummed at the damage and started to look for another prelude. I found one on a prelude forum, no rust, texas car, $500 I couldn't argue. Took my tax return and work bonus and headed to Texas

[rustlude87]

Red car was a disaster I will start a thread on that later

Removed some of the emissions

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Got the exhaust on



Then I decided to do some track racing events so I parts I placed on
- konig daylights 15x7 with some falken azenis
- ebay steering wheel
- And finally got that exhaust on






And right before ITR Expo 10...

Fuck a duck my clutch springs fell out so I replace that fucker a week before I left.

[rustlude87]

And then raced

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Issues with plugs...

[rustlude87]

Took it to the dyno finally and was very pleased
Car had intake, header, exhaust, and cam and I made 30hp at the crank on a 150,xxx mile motor

And it was running a bit rich...


And from the accident I had terrible alignment issues... so I parked it and drove my beater
Finally got it aligned the accident was much more worse than I thought...


This summer my friend from CO stopped by and we snapped some pics
Car had corbeaus, Nrg steering wheel and quick release installed

[rustlude87]

Best thing installed
Shaved the cylinder head 1.8mm
installed a b16 intake mani
62mm throttle body

[rustlude87]

Started getting poor because of school and girls, but I was able to make it to expo 10

[rustlude87]

Blew the brake line at the track Spyhunter and tell you guys all about it

Had to ghetto rig a accord brake line to get it home

[hondalude86]

I'm sure it goes without saying, but I love, Love, LOVE this car! It gets me all teary eyed to see this build. This car, my 3geez friends, is one of the most important cars in the 2nd gen community hands down. This car will always be epic win!

[87roach]

A lot has changed over the duration of your ownership. Nice build man!

[HON-DUH]

Dude....

Dude.........

awesomeness

[mushroom_toy]

I likey Dis.

[Pico]

Keep up the great work.

[gfrg88]

Sooool sick!!! Love it!!

[rustlude87]

Some stuff that has been troubling me lately

By rustlude87 at 2011-04-14

By rustlude87 at 2011-04-14

By rustlude87 at 2011-04-14


I also picked up some new parts a new fuel pump some lugs and extended studs I will take some more pictures this weekend for you guys