my new daily driver

[habitat307]

sorry for the phone pics, my camera's batteries are dead

picked up my new 1997 Prelude on saturday.

- jdm h22a motor, unknown brand of lowering springs, megan header

edit: has Apexi WS catback exhaust i just realized.. im blind.

maybe i'll do a better shoot some day

i still have my hatch. i have to rebuild the b16a in it with my new block/wiseco 9:1's/eagle H's. so this is what i roll in till then

 

[habitat307]

bump for my new lude

 

[Sundown]

Nice... wish I could just pick up a lude like that...

 

[JohnS.]

Nice dd .

Whats mileage?

 

[habitat307]

the mileage is 120k. i lucked out HARDCORE on this car. to make the long story short, i'll just say the sticker price on it was $10,119 and i drove it home for $5,000 flat. i was actually planning on buying a 6th gen hatch, but after looking at it, it was in horrible shape for their asking price. so i said peace to that deal, and magically i found this prelude at a big dealership and got it for the same price as the piece of crap hatch

 

[Sundown]

the mileage is 120k. i lucked out HARDCORE on this car. to make the long story short, i'll just say the sticker price on it was $10,119 and i drove it home for $5,000 flat. i was actually planning on buying a 6th gen hatch, but after looking at it, it was in horrible shape for their asking price. so i said peace to that deal, and magically i found this prelude at a big dealership and got it for the same price as the piece of crap hatch

Damn, you got a hell of a deal...
Why was the sticker price $10,119? That's a random ass number to sell a car for...

 

[habitat307]

Damn, you got a hell of a deal...
Why was the sticker price $10,119? That's a random ass number to sell a car for...

well im kinda guessing on the price, i know it was $10,000 somethin... it was just a little over $10k. coulda been more.. cant remember. but this thing is in GREAT shape. the interior looks brand spankin new

 

[Genuine Rolla]

looks sick man, nice pick up...!

 

[Jezek]

how the hell did you get that for 5g's!?!? i'm very jealous.

 

[Svr_Civic]

theres one around here being sold for 4.... i think hes my friend on myspace lol

 

[Vitamin_EK9]

thats a badass dd

 

[habitat307]

how the hell did you get that for 5g's!?!? i'm very jealous.

dude, i'm asking myself the same question. here's the only reason i can figure out... the temp gauge didn't work..and it had a bad surging idle. went from 1k to 3k constantly when stopped. they told me some bullcrap about how i needed to buy a new computer for it to fix that problem, saying it was a $300 part, but i fixed that s**t last night in about 15 minutes. it was the fast idle air temp valve. just came unscrewed. and i put a new water temp switch in, now she purrs like a kitten and the temp gauge works. maybe they just didn't want to deal with the car anymore.. i have no idea. all i know is: i got hooked up fat dawg

 

[Jezek]

awesome man. Good for you

 

[96greencivic]

Beautiful pick up

 

[B16A2_CIVIC]

damn one hell of a pic up

 

[habitat307]

thanks thanks! i fixed my check engine light situation tonight on it. had a broken wire on the primary o2 sensor. i totally MacGuyver'ed it hard. now no check engine lights.

 

[thexperiment]

any tips on re-wiring o2 sensor problems?

 

[habitat307]

any tips on re-wiring o2 sensor problems?

mm.. well i did the thing where you get the spark plug non-fouler, wrap the tip of the o2 sensor in aluminum foil, then then screw on the non-fouler, then put it back into the exhaust pipe. all that for the secondary. for my primary, one of the heater wires broke off right at the sensor, so i had no wire left to splice it back together. so i jammed a thumbtack pin down into the little nub of a wire, then soldered the wire back onto that. now everything runs good. dunno if that helps you or not...

 

[Slept-n]

dude build that ldue up! especially with that closed deck H22 in her! perfect for boosting. my friend rocky has a 98 lude with c/f hood, c/f sunroof plug, stripped interior, xs power turbo set up, tuned on uberdata, slammed on skunk2 coils overs, ran on street tires 13.2 spinning form 2nd til the end of 3rd. trapped at 113 well i think it was 113. . but anyways that car is golden. he bought his for 7 adn that was a steal anywhre else wanted like 12K for it.

 

[habitat307]

dude build that ldue up! especially with that closed deck H22 in her! perfect for boosting. my friend rocky has a 98 lude with c/f hood, c/f sunroof plug, stripped interior, xs power turbo set up, tuned on uberdata, slammed on skunk2 coils overs, ran on street tires 13.2 spinning form 2nd til the end of 3rd. trapped at 113 well i think it was 113. . but anyways that car is golden. he bought his for 7 adn that was a steal anywhre else wanted like 12K for it.

awsome! i'd love to have 2 built hondas, but i think im gonna just keep everything relatively stock on the Lude.. i need it to be reliable and dont really wanna mess with tuning it or anything... it drives so smooth and its nice and quiet compared to my hatch, so i'll prolly keep'er that way