Would modding the prelude be worth my time? Im looking for about a low 13, 12 sec car out of this. If I can do this without forced induction, Im all for it, whats a good way to go about modding? Thanks for any help. Im thus far liking the car, but only when Vtec is engaged, is there anyway I can get the Vtec to run from lets say 4k instead of 5?

 

you can get the v-tech to kick in faster but you need a program and a laptop to do it i am not sure of the program try doing a search

 

wow you are way wrong............in order to get a 12 sec car, you are gonna have to run a turbo.

and its vtec

and he doesnt have to have a laptop to adjust vtec.

 

yea way true he doesnt not need a labtop to adjust vtec.......just get a vafc

 

u need a turbo to hit 12 seconds? since when? regardless, ur not gonna hit 12 seconds without spending ~10 grand

 

On a 5th gen lude? Good luck. First of all the car is a pig and an h22 doesnt gain much from mods. No you dont need a laptop to make pick a vtec engagement point and no changing your vtec from 5200 to 4000 rpm isnt going to help you. Infact you'll probably slow down your car even more. Is it possible to run 12's in a 5th gen all motor lude? Nothings impossible but its not very realistic or worth the time and money to do so.


Modified by PDM at 1:01 AM 3/17/2005

 

Wrong car for 12 seconds, unless you like spending hella dough. Check out the oaks racing prelude.

 

its basically pointless to set vtec engagement before 4500, and you're not getting a 12 sec prelude unless you're gonna spend wellll over 10k

 

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not worth it dude unless you got the dough

 

lets see i got about 20K and im just hoping for 12.0 pass

 

theres a guy on superhonda... preludedriver99 i believe.. I would talk to him if you want to get into the 12's all motor.. i believe he is very close ... needs traction! but yeah his motor has around 9k in it

 

well almost 9k. When he gets AEM he will be right around 9k. He just doesnt have the cam setup for 12's. But if he were to get the next profile up and get AEM i think he could run mid-low 13's.

 

Ok so say I resort to turbo's, then what? More ideal? Your making sound like modding the car isnt worth it.

 

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It's worth it. But the prelude isn't a drag car. No FWD honda is. Personally, i'd grab a JRSC, i/h/e/tuning, and call power-related mods finished. Get some coilovers, lightweight rims, good tires, and remove unneccessary systems from the car.

If you want a 12 second car, you've picked the wrong car to work with.

 

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h22's arent exactly turbo friendly

 

Well its not so much I want to resort to turbo's and whatnot, I just want a car that is decently fast, but if this is about as good as Im gonna get then what can I do to the car? Make it a track car? Even then Im going to want power, and it doesnt seem like all motor is gonna get me much **** horse. Also the supercharger is going to kill my H22, turbos are better, regardless of affordability with the JRSC

 

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What the **** are you talking about? The JRSC is a TON better than a turbo for the H22. In order to properly turbo the H22 (by properly I mean so that it lasts longer than an hour) you need to resleeve the block, get new pistons, rods, etc. You can run the JRSC on a stock H22 block. If you want "decently fast", the JRSC is the way to go.

 

Lol, superchargers are known to kill engine life. They produce power at a cost Im not willing to pay : reliability. Id rather spend the money, get turbos and resleeve and upgrade if I know it'll be safer than the SC

 

Pretty much anything you do to your car can do one of two things:

1. You do it properly, the car is reliable
2. You do a shitty job of it, the car breaks

Works the same way for everything. Not trying to bash you for trying to turbo the car, but FWD has its limits, especially for street driving. IMO the JRSC brings it close enough to those limits.

 

"you gotta pay to play"

if you dont believe that statement then you dont need to be modding cars.

 

the reason why superchargers kills motors are because it doesn't have a good tune on it, they're plenty of people making lots of power on stock blocks and lasting, its just when you go cheap on tuning, and you get mad that it ***** up

 

lol, ok find me someone who can claim the JRSC is well worth the money. I can see myself using it, but Ill be installing/uninstalling it alot. I just feel safer with turbos over the SC

 

ummm

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why?

also, why would we need to prove to you that JRSC is better for the car than turbo......u are making yourself seem like an idiot when you need to read up on some **** or listen to some people who know what the **** they are talking about. Why the hell would you install/uninstall a damn supercharger all the time, thats like saying, hey im gonna change my timing belt every week

JRSC h22's run 13's without going into the motor.

 

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even when you perfectly install a turbo, its still going to hurt reliablity hence the name FORCED induction