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What are engine swap possibilitys for 3rd gen prelude?

Old 02-02-2004, 12:10 AM
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Default What are engine swap possibilitys for 3rd gen prelude?

Maybe someone could like suggest me something because now I have two choices: 1) TURBO or 2) engine swap
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only swaps are the jdm b20a which is same power and all....or the H22
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throw a vtec head, if its a b20
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the older b20a are slightly different from the newer b20b and b20z...i dought the bseries vtec head may work on it
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ls_vtec_crx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> throw a vtec head, if its a b20</TD></TR></TABLE>


brrrt - wrong answer dude!

its a b20a not a b20b
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yea this isnt the b20 your thinkin of...although Tom Coleman (Was a 3rd gen lude specialist) did manage to get a b16a vtec head to work on this block....it was a lot of work and not really worth in the end...
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Default Re: What are engine swap possibilitys for 3rd gen prelude? (jdmgeorge)

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jdmgeorge &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">yea this isnt the b20 your thinkin of...although Tom Coleman (Was a 3rd gen lude specialist) did manage to get a b16a vtec head to work on this block....it was a lot of work and not really worth in the end...</TD></TR></TABLE>

ie you are unable to "throw" a VTEC head on it...

but yeah Tom tried pretty hard to get it to work...
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