Honda Prelude UK

JDM-BB4 · Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:35 am Post subject:

Good work!
The ride height is much better and the brakes look great!
The time spent painting really is worth it.

One tip is to grease the threads on your coilovers.
They arent designed for salty roads to will seize up and you will struggle to free them off in future. Wink

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Merlin · Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:50 am Post subject:

JDM-BB4 wrote:

One tip is to grease the threads on your coilovers.
They arent designed for salty roads to will seize up and you will struggle to free them off in future. Wink

Cheers! Is there any type of grease you recommend? I have silicone grease and copper grease, will either of them do the job?

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1997 Black 2.2 VTI – Sold

Salazar · Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:24 am Post subject:

I'd say copper grease will do the job perfectly bud.

What sort of mods were made to the headlights then?

EDIT : What sort of mods were made to Lude_Dude's headlights? I'm intrigued.

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5th Gen R reg 2.2vti, Knightrider Black

MaDMaXX · Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:35 am Post subject:

Careful with the grease as crap will stick to it like flies Sad

Not sure on copper grease, i'd use silicone if anything.

What i'd use would be BH Ferrosol due to it's suitability for this kind of job.

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Gat · Lude Hero Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 1314

nitin_s1 wrote:

I love your leather seats and the ability to heat them.. Evil or Very Mad

Im jealous.. Very Happy

One thing i would change is the walnut dash.. I like you interior but the walnut stands out too much.. Maybe get a CF one if one comes up cheap.. Idea

You can buy a heated seat kit from ebay to have you're seats heated.

Those lights look the business Merlin, although I think they'll look better on my car.
What projectors are they?

Salazar · Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:47 am Post subject:

I say copper grease as that's what I use on my brake discs, hubs and battery terminals to stop rust and sticking, and that's engineer recommended for the job. But hey, suspension may be a different ball game but wouldn't have thought so

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5th Gen R reg 2.2vti, Knightrider Black

nitin_s1 · Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:49 am Post subject:

Gat wrote:

nitin_s1 wrote:

I love your leather seats and the ability to heat them.. Evil or Very Mad

Im jealous.. Very Happy

One thing i would change is the walnut dash.. I like you interior but the walnut stands out too much.. Maybe get a CF one if one comes up cheap.. Idea

You can buy a heated seat kit from ebay to have you're seats heated.
Those lights look the business Merlin, although I think they'll look better on my car.
What projectors are they?

Now i have SiR leather seats..... hate-cool

will upload some pictures on my profile when i get the car back... Twisted Evil

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MaDMaXX · Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:59 am Post subject:

It's probably fine Sal, the only issue being is that copper grease dries out.

Oh, and i truly hope you don't use it on the calipers?

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Salazar · Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:16 pm Post subject:

MaDMaXX wrote:

It's probably fine Sal, the only issue being is that copper grease dries out.

Oh, and i truly hope you don't use it on the calipers?

Haha! Yeah, I smear it all over the calipers, pads and brake discs to give me super slick stopping power!!! Laughing

Nah, I put a tiny bit on the shims to stop 'em sticking to the pads but other than that, keep grease the hell away from braking surfaces! hate-rip

And trust me, for the places that I am using the copper grease, it's the exact type of use that the product is made for. Great stuff Wink

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MaDMaXX · Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:53 pm Post subject:

I was getting at using it in the sliders Razz

What ever you do, don't do that, it's so wrong and they'll be sticking again in no time.

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Merlin · Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:24 am Post subject:

Salazar wrote:

What sort of mods were made to the headlights then?

EDIT : What sort of mods were made to Lude_Dude's headlights? I'm intrigued.

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Gat wrote:

Those lights look the business Merlin, although I think they'll look better on my car.
What projectors are they?

ha ha, they are Anzo Projectors I think.

Mattblack_lude wrote:

That looks great dude, seriously good.
Its incredible, what difference lowering the ride height on a car makes. Im guessing you've dropped it around 40, maybe 50mm?

I have no idea how much it is lowered by, it does look to be in that range. The instructions said to initially set the suspension 25mm up from the bottom of the thread, and thats the result. It doesnt look too differnt a drop in comparison with my old car that had springs only:

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1997 Black 2.2 VTI – Sold

EFFX · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 2:15 pm Post subject:

Nice lights Smile

See I told you they would be easy to fit Smile

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mercutio · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 5:25 pm Post subject:

brilliant work matey looks really good

Lude-Dude · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 7:48 pm Post subject:

Salazar pm'd hope it helps

working on headlights is a bit fiddly, but hella projectors are a nicer beam

they are the best looking lights IMO of the ebay headlights just its a right bastard that the plate is curved inside of the projector

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98 Prelude 2.2 Vti 5g
UKDM - H22a5

Salazar · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:03 pm Post subject:

Nice one, thanks Lude-dude, I'm going to look into modding them Very Happy

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5th Gen R reg 2.2vti, Knightrider Black