$400 4th Gen Honda Prelude Build l Time Lapse
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1995 Honda Prelude Si before and after. I bought this car for $400 and brought it back to life! It was a ton of fun finding all of the rare, OEM parts. I made many road trips and met a lot of awesome people finding these parts. I think the car turned out great!
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This is exactly the inspiration I needed to persuade me to go the route I wanted. Got a completely stock 95 Si and pulled it apart, cleaned it, and got it running like a top. Been batting myself to bring the interior into this decade, and this video and Elaborate layout has just been saved. Thank you.
Man, this makes me so happy. That's half the reason I wanted to do the video was to explain and motivate to others. Preludes are such cool cars, I hate that the rare times I see one, they're usually janky. Glad to hear you are redoing the same 95 SI! Super cool man. The interior was one of my favorite parts of the project, enjoy!!
@@TheChapMX if you got some time and an email, I’d love to pick your ear about your S200 install, and that back 6x9 cover.
@@graysondean1362 sure man, it’d be my pleasure. It’s been awhile on the 6x9 wiring but I’ll surely help anyway I can. If you go to the about tab on my channel you should be able to click a link for my email there. Let me know if you have any issues.
Same here
I owned 2 ....92 and 96 ... years a go, love ru car........👍🏴🤪
4th Gens will always selfishly be my favorite generation of Prelude!!! Thanks so much!!!!
Tastefully done! I'm not usually into modded Preludes but yours works! I also have a Ranger and a few Preludes on my channel.
Thanks for the comment and thanks for checking it out!! I'll take a look at the channel now!
Beautiful car, oh and 3:06 was hilarious 😅😂
hahah i know right, but thank you!!!
Nice car dude. Currently respraying mine
Thanks! and heck yeah, that's what I'm talking about! I know you gotta be stoked!
Very tasteful build, good job 👏🏼
Thank you! 👍
That’s a nice prelude. If I ever modify mine, I might just change the rims
Thank you! Rims make a huge difference!
It would be really hard to find a Prelude owner who had buyer's remorse, they were worth every penny and achieved extremely high buyer satisfaction rates. And the 4th gen was the absolute pinnacle of Honda quality, made in Japan vintage perfection! Ask any former Prelude owner about theirs and they will be sure to smile.
I couldn’t agree more!!! What a cool car man. I thought all the little touches they did were so neat when I got the car and then searching out all the special JDM parts showed me the coolness even more ! Thanks for checking it out!!!!
Makes me miss my 1994 Prelude Si. Such a fun car before the I had a bent piston rod. Owned and drove one for 8 years. 2005-2013. It was just too hard to find parts from and I had to donate it
Beautiful ❤️
Thanks so much Erick!!!
well this is amazing... mine is going through heavy rust repair at the moment.. I hope it ends up looking the same.
That's awesome! Good luck with it. Glad to hear you are saving another one..gotta keep 'em around!
Nice work - very sharp car!
Hey, thanks so much man!!
nice job
Thanks!!
@@TheChapMX I have to get mine looking like this lol
Excuse my language but that's f****** car p*** for you right there that is beautiful
Hahahah I'm good with it thank you!!! She was a good one!
I wish I could source these one piece headlights, they're asking nearly $600 for them in the forums. From overseas. They look so damn good though.
They are hard to find, for sure.! I had a time getting mine. They came all the way from Indonesia but they are some sweet headlights!! I can’t remember what I paid but I know it was 4 or more. Good luck, they make the front end!
Great build, any recommendations on where to get rubber seals for roof and doors etc?
Thanks, and heck yeah!! I honestly went to my local Honda dealership and got everything OEM that I could. For things that weren’t available OEM I went with rockauto. Good luck!
Very nice Prelude man! I had a 1994 Si back when you were starting to build yours, and I don't remember why I sold mine. I ended up with a 1991 JDM 4th Gen SiR VTEC 4WS a couple months ago. I really wish Honda still made cars like these, they really were special.
Dude that’s awesome!!! Everything happens for a reason man that’s how you ended up with the ‘91. I couldn’t agree more that the 90s Japanese car styles were so cool and innovative. I would imagine that your ‘91 4ws is mechanical vs electric right?? Man the mechanical 4ws was awesome!! Such cool cars ahead of their time! Thanks for checking out the video!!
Nice job 👍
Thank you !!
What is the wheel/tire size set up you got?
These wheels were 16x8 and 16x7 up front. The offset was +25 on all 4. 205/45r-16 Nitto Neo Gen tires. The fit was great! I wanted a functional flush look, no poke or anything. Worked great for me and I didn’t have to roll any of the fenders at all. Let me know if I can help with anything else. Thanks for checking it out.
Best ever!
Thank you!!
Nice!!!! Do you mind sharing the Volk Wheel Specs? They look super clean!
Yes, absolutely!! I did so much research man, hard to find definite answers. These wheels were 16x8 and 16x7 up front. The offset was +25 on all 4. The fit was great! I wanted a functional flush look, no poke or anything. Worked great for me and I didn’t have to roll any of the fenders at all. Let me know if I can help with anything else. Thanks for checking it out.
I know this is a year ago so I don’t expect a reply 😂 that fitment is perfect!! What is the tyre size, I’m looking for the same style wheels for my prelude too
1:10 what size tires i like the fitment👌
I did so much research man, hard to find definite answers. These wheels were 16x8 and 16x7 up front. The offset was +25 on all 4. The fit was great! I wanted a functional flush look, no poke or anything. Worked great for me and I didn’t have to roll any of the fenders at all. I gotta go back to be sure but if I remember right the tires were 205/45-16s. Let me know if I can help with anything else. Thanks for checking it out.
A prelude of this gen in australia is around 4000 dollars :(
Dang, I hear ya! I’ve always heard things are more expensive there. Keep your eye out for a deal!!!
That is about €2500. Is importing them from Japan an option?
Try $10,000 now. Hey covid
I have one ill sale for 10000 lol
I need some advice guys. So in highschool my mother bought me a 92 prelude vtec, the car has been out of commision for over 10 years! plus plus since 2005. I still have the car it has been garaged, zero rust but there hwas bondo work done prior to my ownership. Right now the car is at my friends shop waiting on me to buy an engine and start fixing it or should I just sell it. Just a shell at the moment all the interior I would give a raiting 8 out of 10, body 9 out of 10. I need a new motor. What should I DO? and are these cars starting to go up in value for rareity ?
Preludes are great cars to restore. You don't see many in good shape so when you get it right, it really stands out. There are lots of places to get motors from. I would personally look for the H23A JDM motor. Its a great motor with a lot of low end torque. Everyone preaches H22A but the H23A JDM is solid. Sounds like its in good shape, I say go for it!
Hey man loveee the Lude!! 😍😍 Any idea where I can find some one piece headlights for mine??
Thanks so much!!! You gotta watch ebay and the forums like a hawk and they turn up every now and again. Took me awhile to find a solid set!
Here is a link to a set on eBay but that are chrome. Keep a watch on there and make sure you always search for OEM JDM!! Half the fun is the tracking down of parts, as frustrating as that can become sometimes. Good luck!!
VA Is when I am from
Heck yeah!
5:57 I jizzed
Glad we had the same reaction 🤣🤣
what wheels and tires are those
They are Nitto Neo Gens on Volk Group A’s
Sick build bro. Where did you get the fog lights? I’ve been looking for some for mine
Thanks man, you gotta search them out and jump on ‘em when you find them. I found those on preludepower.com, a Prelude forum. Ebay and forums are your friends! Good luck
Well this car in my country was priced around 9k Becuz my country is was A LOT OF HONDA FAN AND 9k is high u think But is was the lowest car price in my country and my country is a lot of honda fanboy to
Wow that's crazy! Sounds like there is a lot of Honda love over there!!
Hehe
Great looking car, what are your favourite changes, and what was the idea with the roof rack?
Mostly young and dumb 😆 in my mind I wanted to have a car I could do everything with so I took it snowboarding as well as surfing. It didn’t work too great for either hahah but I tried. As far as the sticker fairing goes…I don’t even begin to have an answer lol but it was short lived.
@@TheChapMX, I could imagine that its a bit low to be much use off a sealed road. I took my AW11 MR2 to a skifield once - it could drift the hairpins better than the four wheel drives, but not so quick over the ruts.
What about the changes you made, which do you think made the biggest difference to it - in appearance, and in the way it drives?
Haha oh you would be 100% correct!! It was great heading up and down the mountain through the turns but soon as the asphalt turned to rocks and snow it wasn’t so good!!!
Man I bet the MR2 was a BLAST!! I love those cars. Always wanted to drive one!
That is tough to determine what was my favorite but it would be between the combination of paint/shaved emblems/authentic JDM parts (headlights, fog lights) and the wheels. I feel the clean look of no emblems and paint and the wheels totally set the car apart from the others.
The interior was a very huge part of the project as well but i didn’t totally finish it off the way I wanted so I can’t say that was the best part.
@@TheChapMX the MR2 still is a blast! It is a lovely car to drive. The best mods on it have been coil over suspension and Toyo tyres. It could do with a respray and a new interior, but in the meantime its still pretty clean.
I feel the same about the Prelude, I'd love to drive one.
I agree that the style of the Mk4 really suits the smooth debadged look - I thought the single piece JDM headlights were a big part of that.
I'm really impressed with what you did, it was a great looking car to start with and you made it significantly better!
How much did the vibrant muffler cost and how did it sound
Hey man, it was $129.95. This is the specific one here...
vibrantperformance.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=1527_1032_1109&products_id=49&osCsid=ccec157fb357adc98ce7c8bf524510a5
It had a really good tone. You could hear it for sure, but absolutely no decel pop or anything. Very smooth tone. I wish I had a video but I can’t seem to find one. I would highly recommend it.
How much horsepower does each of them stickers add ?
Hahah -25 per sticker. It didn’t stay on for long
what drl kit did you use?
I pieced together my own. Being they were JDM one pieces, that inner light bulb is an H11, if I remember correctly. So I got those H11 bulbs, an OEM Honda switch to go into one of the center console slots, and then I used a simple 5 pole relay. Very simple and it worked great. Only issue was the fact I had them wired hot all the time where I should’ve have had them wired to accessory so they’d cut off when the car was off. May have killed my battery a time or two by leaving them on 🤣
@@TheChapMX thanks so much for the response back. and I see what you did. So basically you did almost like a foglight setup with the highbeams then? nice! thanks again
Yeah man that’s the basic idea! I did it that way because the JDM headlights use an H4 bulb for the outer lights so that outer low beam becomes a hi/low beam. I had to rewrite the headlight harness to make all that work. So that leaves the inner light to do what you want with it ! Hope that helps.
How much did those 1 piece headlights run you ?the 4th gen should have came 1 piece from factory
I had to track those down used and I paid around $400 for them. I got really lucky as they were in amazing shape! I have seen quite a few listings on eBay. Good luck! I agree completely, I don't know why the USDM Preludes didn't come with 1 piece headlights.
@@TheChapMX I've been looking for a few months and nothing so far..I love them but hard to get ahold of for reasonable price
I’m sure as time has gone on it’s gotten harder and harder man. I saw some on eBay this morning but I don’t think they were in the shape I’d want.
Keep a close eye on the forums too.
@@TheChapMX oh most definitely gone up in price,ive been watching the forums mostly in Hope's of finding some nice ones..thanks man
How much do you think the whole project was priced at in total? I have a 96 I’m wanting to do some cool shit to mine
Shew, man, that's tough to calculate. Right off the top of my head I would say somewhere between 5-7k. That's just a huge approximation but the wheels and paint was a good amount on their own. That's prob. close.
@@TheChapMX okay thank you man that’s something ima get into thanks for the reply
Do it for sure!!!
Hey man, was the s2000 seats really an exact fit lol, did it need any modification?
Hey man, they are, but with the proper steps. It's not a ton of fun, but its not impossible. You have to not only swap the rails but also the entire pan assembly. So..that involves pulling all of the hog rings from the seat bottom and disassembling everything to be able to use your Prelude seat rails AND pans. They do fit after that but you lose a little bit of the bolster effect you get with the S2000 pans because those have a side rail welded on to the pan for extra strength. Also, I felt the S2000 seats sat a little higher than the Prelude seats. The Prelude OEM seats are really laid down in there. I'm about 5'11" and it didn't bother me at all but if you are much taller than that, its something to consider. I'll see if I can find the DIY thread that I used to do the seat swapping. It was quite awhile ago so IDK if its still out there or not.
Good luck.
This is the thread, but unfortunately it looks like Photobucket may have claimed another solid DIY thread of pictures.
www.preludepower.com/threads/how-to-install-s2k-seats.351345/
how do Americans get cars so cheap? not even in worse condition than this, could I get one for $600 usd equivalent.
I don't know that this was a routine deal. I basically caught it as it was about to head to the junkyard. It sounds like things are more expensive though in your neck of the woods which sucks!
@@TheChapMX it sure does suck. I saw one of these that was in rough condition. Price would almost be $1300 usd.
I can believe it! Sometimes you just have to wait for that right project to come across your lap!
Beautiful job I am going through the same stage with mine 96 Si
Dude that’s awesome !!! They are super fun cars to build!
oye wacho, te lo compro pasame tu cuenta
400? would be atleast 5k in my country
She was in rough shape!
Va ls are in 17”??
They were 16s
awesome build
Thank you!!
4th gen all day ♥
It was the best!!!! 💙💙💙
Is the car for sale
She's sold!
What are the wheels?
Hey man, they were Volk Group A’s. Old school man, from around ‘92 or so.
stanceworks.com/forums/showthread.php?19752-*RARE*-VOLK-RAYS-Group-A-Evo-I-Mesh-4x114-100-16x8-25-16x7-25-Mirror-Lips
Brand of roof rack?
Just a regular ole' Yakima!
Why didn't you like the carbon fiber hood
Unfortunately the fit wasn't all that great. The finish was pretty rough even though I polished it all I could. It was pretty "flappy" at speed. It really needed to be drilled out and fitted with hood clips. Something I just wasn't interested in doing to make it work.
@@TheChapMX do you remember what brand it was ? Seibon or VIS?
@@jamesstewart1794 It was a Seibon! Let me be clear though, I did get it used. It was in good shape but I'm sure that's a hard comparison to getting it new.
Wow..
Thanks Optima!!!!
@@TheChapMX always liked this gen but they don't like snow. Oddly I wonder what Dayton's would look like on it. Great job keep it up
awesome build, love the seat swap. very clean. i had a 95 vtec for a long time, miss that car, now got a awd bmw 335 with the n54 motor 🚗
Thanks man!! I really searched hard for a long time for the right set of those seats. Had to drive a good ways to get them but they were in great shape. Got lucky! I bet that BMW is sweet!!! I've been thinking about trying to find an E36 project. I'd love to build a track car.
@@TheChapMX i had a e36 for about a decade they are my fave chassis ever. deftly recommend it.
@@dawud_guts9277 Man thanks for the info! I'm trying to do some research. Seems like a great choice to go with. Ain't never enough projects!
where you get the oem seats at
After lots of forum and Craig's List searching I found them on Craig's List in another state.
You sold it?
Yeah....she moved on down to road to another happy owner
Yessir
Hellllllll yeuhhh
Question, what size tire were you on with the oem wheels?
Oh man, that's a good question. I'll have to do some digging to be sure but I am almost certain that they were 205/55r15s.
The Chap appreciate that!
Hey man, I checked. They were 205/55r15s for sure. I was always surprised of the 55 aspect ratio but that’s them.
The Chap thanks again!
Absolutely man