Besides the money issue, what would have to be done to convert a 4th gen to rwd?

 

Get a S2000 engine and do some modification.

 

I heard a rumor about a CR-V drivetrain-powered Integra somewhere. I'm assuming it could be applied to a Prelude, but that would be AWD...

As for RWD, I know I've seen a drag car with an H22 powered Prelude, so with that you'd need custom drive shaft, rear end, etc...

This threads probably going to get flamed, but if someone has the money I'd like to see it done myself.

Edit: There's a few posts on this already in the archives. A search might help.

 

it seems like alot of work

but there is alot of information on honda-tech
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=981613
there is more out there

different car but alot of info

 

Remember the chassis was designed to be FWD from teh factory so the car will probably not be all that good as a rear wheel drive platform. That's the only reason I can think off not to do it. If you had hours and hours of time to build a suspension that would make the car perform correctly after converting it then it would be worth it otherwise I wouldn't do it. It would be easy to make rear drive but to make the car worth a **** would be hard. My $.02

 

i have honestly always thought the prelude looked like a front engine, rear wheels drive car. it has such a long hood, and look like it could be 240sx/silvia competition if honda had made it a rwd. as for converting a prelude to rwd (with limitless $ of course), here's what i would do:

- buy s2000 motor, trans, ecu, rear differential
- buy custom driveshaft and axles
- have custom motor mounts, trans mounts, and differential mounts made
- cut out firewall and make a new one to accomidate a s200 transmission, driveshaft, and exhaust
- cut out spare tire area and fabricate trunk area to accomidate a rear differential, axles, exhaust, and sway bar
- like the rwd h22 integra in the post above, put front suspension in the rear
- fabricate custom intake, header, and exhaust
- put a 10 gallon fuel cell in the trunk, with custom lines and a new pump
- you would probably have to redo the rear brake lines that run under the car
- s2000 gauge cluster would be bad-***
- more stuff that i can't think of right now...

if you put the engine in the front, one very important thing to keep in mind is the position of the shift lever. if you want to keep the stock center console, provided you would fabricate a way to mount it still, you would have to line up the shift lever with the center console's shift lever hole. and then, after you figure out where to position the motor so the shift lever is reach-able, will the motor be too far and hit the hood when it closes? will the weight of the motor be in the front of the front axles? or will the motor sit in a mid-engine position? how will the motor's weight shift affect handling? but in the end, thats what makes this kind of hybrid so hard for most; not knowing if it will work until you have all the parts in front of you, until you have hacked up the car to the point of no return, and still being able to make it look like a clean, good install and not some POS hack job. the guy doing the h22 rwd integra is a honda hybrid god IMO. his hybrid is so clean and well designed and thought through. if that kind of swap can look that good, then i think my idea is also possible. but who here has that kind of time and money to just throw into a project of this magnitude? i would love to see it done! wow i didn't mean to write so much...