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OK, here's a quick little write up.

I need to mention that I have a CARBON FIBER hood, not a stock hood. I don't think these are strong enough for a stock Prelude hood. The Accord dampers might be though.

There may or may not be other styles of hood damper that fit better, but I just took a chance and got the 96-00 Civic 4-door hood dampers from ebay. The brand was Godspeed and they were about $50. Pretty good quality overall.

The mods I had to do to make this fit on my Prelude were these:

-The supplied threaded rod was too short, so I got some 3" 12mm bolts from Home Depot with a M8 thread just like the supplied threaded rod. I cut the heads off with my angle grinder and they work great.
-The supplied bracket to bolt the damper to the hood obviously won't fit, but if you look at it you can see what needs to be cut.



Other than this it was bolt it.



The dampers hold the hood open perfectly and let it down really easy. Plus it makes a cool psshhhh sound when you open the hood.







Modified by Hawkze_2.3 at 10:21 PM 11/12/2006

 

Hawkze your a pimp

 

I wonder if the accord dampers would work better? Maybe I will give them a shot. Which seller did you buy from?

 

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I believe the seller was SakuraIndustry. I bet the Accords would work better.

 

I'm almost willing to bet that the Accord would be a bolt on affair

 

Your the man! I was looking into these a while back and there is a seller on here that charges like $120 but I wasn't gonna spend that kind of money. This I will do though. Thanks!

 

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Hawze is my hero

 

hmmm, i lost my hood prop

 

damn, those were cheap. i paid 130 for some for a lude from the projectludesir guy, i've yet to see if they fit tho

 

^^ Those are the ones I found when I was doing my search. I couldn't get myself to spend that much on them though. Now I am happy I didn't!

 

is the bracket for the rod that attaches to the hood hinge, between the hinge and the hood? Doesn't that effect the height of the hood?

 

Thats awesome, definitely going to look up some for my lude.

 

awesome!!! so going to do this =DD
how much are the accord ones and what years should fit?

 

do you happen to have pics with the hood closed?

 

Couldn't get the weight of a Civic hood, but a '98 Integra stock hood weighs 32lbs, and a stock 4th gen hood weighs 42lbs, so perhaps this kit would work with the stock hood. It's also the same dampers they package with the RSX kit (so it should lift 30ish lbs). I couldn't find the similar style kit for Accords (didn't have that bolt piece you replaced)

 

dude you did it again.. i was hoping i'd get to post this one up but you beat me to it.. where did you order you dampers

never mind i should have read more carefully.. but there was someone selling dampers on here designed for preludes.. i'll post link when i find it


Modified by Kagelude at 2:10 PM 9/12/2006

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...10265

There I found the ones he bought. Look at the buyer name!!

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...wItem

I notice that in the description that it says TEIN Damper?

Are they made by TEIN?


Modified by MadCityLude at 4:38 PM 9/12/2006

 

no, but tein does make them for other cars. i had a set on my old hatch

 

yeah i'm not gonna post that link here
forget that link i saw the price for his set-up

like 150$
180$ carbon

direct bolt on sound really good but i'm cheap so i'll go with the extra work just to save some cash

 

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woot! rep home depot! lol i work there.
but yeah i wanna do this so bad. i hate the stock prelude hood prop. well mines a lil broke so mine sux *****

 

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x2

 

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woot! rep home depot! lol i work there.
but yeah i wanna do this so bad. i hate the stock prelude hood prop. well mines a lil broke so mine sux *****</TD></TR></TABLE>

yea the plastic thing broke off mine too once i get some extra cash i'll try this with some accord dampers

 

Just curious... but there are no problems with the hood closing? I'm guessing no... but I can't see how the damper's wont get in the way with the hood closing?

 

One thing I noticed is Hawkze isn't using the cover deal up by the wipers. Was it in the way? Or do you just not use it?