My 86 Prelude Thread

[Hazwan]

After






Right where its supposed to be! I don't know what happened there maybe theres a difference between the linkage years? Looks like the linkage is too short/bent wrong so the lever is actually pushed forward making it look like its in 4th when its actually neutral.

Yeah I could have took the shifter out and shorten the throw but then I can't be bothered to crawl under the car to get the damn thing out so I'll just wrap the whole interior with old blankets which smells like cat piss and weld it in the car. I basically made my own dual bend shifter lol

[Hazwan]

Here are some PICS that I took weeks back





86 Lude by Hazwan Rahman, on Flickr



86 Lude by Hazwan Rahman, on Flickr



86 Lude by Hazwan Rahman, on Flickr





1986 Honda Prelude by Hazwan Rahman, on Flickr

Popup buddies!




Double Eight-sixes by Hazwan Rahman, on Flickr

You gotta excuse the mess from the wideband. And yeah I already took it off. I want one so bad

grrr!!




Mikuni BST38SS by Hazwan Rahman, on Flickr





1986 Honda Prelude by Hazwan Rahman, on Flickr





1986 Honda Prelude by Hazwan Rahman, on Flickr



1986 Honda Prelude by Hazwan Rahman, on Flickr



1986 Honda Prelude by Hazwan Rahman, on Flickr

[A18A]

ha i came to 3geez to find this thread to find some motivation and it was at the top of the list (Y)

[Dr_Snooz]

Oh crap Haz. Welding inside the car?! That's gangsta!

I'll only point out that the bare, flat space in the bezel around your tablet, the flat space to the left of the screen, is simply begging for some functional GPS type buttons.

[87roach]

Looking minty fresh Haz, nice mods! Although the car is kind of dirty in the last pics

[MessyHonda]

preludes are light cars to start with and with the mods you have you should be able to keep up with the later gens.

[Hazwan]

Oh crap Haz. Welding inside the car?! That's gangsta!

I'll only point out that the bare, flat space in the bezel around your tablet, the flat space to the left of the screen, is simply begging for some functional GPS type buttons.

I KNOW! Illuminated pretty buttons. I am so doing that except I need to find a way to interface the buttons to the tablet. And this particular tablet sucks for not allowing me to use the USB OTG and charging at the same time else I would be able to reuse my USB rcjoycon from my old carPC setup and hook up buttons to it. Or I may just use a bluetooth keyboard or remote and hack some pretty buttons to fit.

Looking minty fresh Haz, nice mods! Although the car is kind of dirty in the last pics

It kinda does I was hoping that noone would notice that

preludes are light cars to start with and with the mods you have you should be able to keep up with the later gens.

I didn't expect the car to keep up with the H swapped 3g and B swapped 2g tbh. Or maybe they wasn't even pushing it hahah

[Hazwan]

Car made a weird vibration during idle and kinda smells lean when I opened the windows. Popped the bonnet and I can see one of the many vacuum hoses are cracked open. They were brand new too. Must be some old stock or just crap no name shit. Ordered a bunch of silicone vac hoses on ebay because I can never find one locally in black. They're all blue and its ugly!!

Gotta love how I can definitely tell something is up with the car. Paranoid much?

[87roach]

Brand new hoses that cracked? Couldn't handle all that power is my guess!

I don't think you're paranoid, just in touch with the 'lude

[Boshears]

Very nice build.

[DrKnife]

I just want you to know that you are a motherfucking madman. I have been reading this thread from the beginning for the past couple of days and I am amazed at the stuff you have pulled of with this car. It gives me hope that I can still save mine.

[Hazwan]

I haven't posted anything since forever but then I barely did anything to the car recently. Been busy with work and dealing with life stuff.

Added those universal rubber lip thing to the rear bumper and replaced the hacked (and beat up) CB7 front lip






Added a backup camera. I don't even know why I did it. Just because I can?


Replaced the tablet with the older gen Nexus 7 which has way more support for car install


I can now run USB host while I charge so I could run this Sony joystick remote meant for Sony headunits hooked up to USB rcjoycon which made it possible for me to change volume, tracks and stuff without touching the screen. Touch screens are annoying to use while driving really. I wish I could use a factory steering wheel buttons but good luck finding one that doesn't look out of place in the 80s interior lol

[Hazwan]

Added a choke (enricher rather) knob from a bike. It's a bitch to start in a cold morning (yeah because it would get that cold here in Malaysia hah!)


It's well hidden under the dash. Looks factory!

Added a vacuum actuator to raise my idle when the A/C is turned on. Having it to idle at 1100rpm is getting annoying. I can now run the idle at 900 something and maintains it when the A/C is turned on




Was a bitch trying to find and make it work. I need something that would push instead of pull to simplify install.

Scored these gigantic 14CL15VN calipers for free (ITR setup - non painted) but not sure if I wanna install them. Not that I would need the extra braking power but its free. Maybe someday..


Took these 2 good pics

[conozo]

Great stuff

Over the top as usual.

[Dr_Snooz]

Car is sick, as always.

[Kiasu34]

Bro.. watsapp aku. Zul Accord Hatchback
Bintulu Sarawak
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[Tdurr]

looks like alot of game in here

[Hazwan]

I haven't done much to the car in the past few months. Been dealing with life crap and all but I'd rather not bore you with the details so here are some pics of what I've been doing since last week.

I hated the stock cluster so much. I wanted the Si cluster but they're nearly impossible to find here and they're not that good looking either. Digital cluster is out because good luck finding them LOL.

Been playing around and looking at what cluster that I would fit but the choice are pretty limited because of the cluster hood shape being too small and I'm limited to cable speedos. Been playing with the idea of making my own cluster with LCDs and stuff but they just won't look as good as OEM.

Went on eBay and I accidentally found this cheap ass 5th gen cluster so I bought it. I knew it wouldn't fit and I would need to figure out the electronic VSS but I didn't care. I do what I do best, buy first, think about if it fits second LOL

Here's the stock cluster we're all familiar with. So ugly. So 80s. The yellow lettering looked good at first but then it just screams EW


I took the combination switch for another project which kinda failed so I had to scratch that idea. Basically trying to get rid of all the yellow lettering stuff in the car hahah


It fits! Wait no not even close


Some minor trimming later. We might have a different definition for minor but yeah




Wiring mess. Testing it out and see if it even works so don't worry about the mess


Woah it works!





Everything works. My temp reads perfectly. Fuel reads the same as before. Tach works. All warning light works. Except for the speedo of course

Wired the CEL for lols. I need my efi swap now!

[Hazwan]

I love the lighted needles


Messed around with it. I need to cover up the gear selector as it reminds me of how much I hated the car being an auto. Sucks that I couldn't find a manual cluster for cheap but oh well I can't complain with the price I'm paying






I do have a cool idea of making the gear selector spot to be a bar LED for AFR gauge maybe?


Hacked up cluster surround. I had to cut off the bottom part where the old warning lights were (sooo 80s) and the top part. My life would be so much easier if I have the SI surround


'minor' cutting


Extended the top part just a little by plastic welding the old part

[Hazwan]

Made 2 brackets to hold the cluster to the dash




Cleaned up wiring after making sure that everything works


I'll redo the whole dash wiring eventually but this will do for now



Alu piece as a base for my fiberglassing work for the curve on the sides


I didn't get many pics of the fiberglassing work but you get the idea. This is after hours of sanding and body filler


Ready for filler primer


Primed




Fixing some low spots and pinholes

[Hazwan]

Done












I'm rather annoyed at this fitment issue but hey considering what had to be done to get it even close to factory fitment, I can't complain! Wish that I have the 5g surround else it would make my life 9000x easier!


This looks as factory as it can get so I can't complain


I'm still waiting for my VSS to get here. I have some ideas on how to make it work.

I've tried the stock 2g VSS inside the old cluster but I guess it gave a different signal or something as it reads wayyyyy too fast. Might be doable if I could alter the signal or something but I'd rather get rid of that stupid cable altogether. More updates as I get the VSS soon!

[Hazwan]

Also decided to fix my non functional low fuel warning light. It annoyed me knowing that there's something that doesn't work like it should but I just can't be bothered to do anything about it since it requires dropping the tank to replace the thermistor in it. I had everything tested and everything works so I know it has to be the thermistor.

Trying to drop the tank


Its out




Sender assembly. Notice the silver thing with the wire attached sitting next to the pickup screen. That's the culprit. It works independently from the actual fuel gauge float, just in case your float or gauge decided to die and you'll still have some sort of warning before you ran out of fuel.




Thermistor sensor housing removed from the float assembly


Old thermistor next to the new one I got


Soldered in place and everything is put back together. Which is a pain trying to align and lift the tank back into the car. Draining the tank before removal is a pain as well.


Did it work? Yeah it comes on when I have less than 10 liters of petrol and goes off when I added another 3-4 liters like it should from the factory.

Here's the spec of the thermistor I used:

1K NTC Thermistor

Manufacturer: AVX
Manufacturer Part No: ND03J00102K
Description: THERMISTOR, NTC, 1K, 3.5MM Body diameter, 3480K Beta Value

I have no idea what the stock value is but this works just fine

[Hazwan]

I really like the stock amber glow on the 5g cluster. Matches the rest of the interior lights pretty well but I needed a change so I converted the lights to red LEDs



Red LED strips and a couple of LEDs added to minimize the hotspots and making sure the needles stay illuminated. Sucks that I couldn't get the needles off as its too risky and I'd rather not ruin it but I could have added a couple of LEDs right under the needles to get that modern glowing needle look found on newer cars


Looks kinda orange but it is deep red irl








Had to scrape the coating behind the faces and it wasnt easy to do without taking the face off the gauges


Shit pics but the needles do glow pretty well. Better than stock and definitely better than the stock 2g gauges

[POS carb]

You never cease to amaze...

[2oodoor]

You never cease to amaze...

X2 great ingenuity Hazman