Thanks! I can't wait to actually get to work, end result should be AT LEAST 350 whp. Buying injectors rated for 380-425 hp just in case.
Andy's surprisingly gets their stuff shipped out pretty quickly, I only buy used parts locally, makes it easier to... settle.. a disbute if something isn't quite what they said it was. As far as new, I'm willing to wait to get a slightly lower price, the shops around here usually take a cut off the top, of course, how else would they make money. But like I said, cosmetic upgrades and minor bolt on type stuff, Andy's is an awesome place to get that kinda thing. And their customer service is pretty good too.

Well I had my block inspected today.
My guy said it looked totally fine, and that the small chips would get taken care of when I have the cylinders bored. So it looks like I'll be looking into all my boring before I start buying all my new parts. Gonna bore the valve cylinders over either .5 or 1mm. Same for the piston cylinders, .5 or 1mm, haven't decided yet. Once I have that done I'll start piecing everything together and buy all of the little missing pieces, which shouldn't be much. And then comes time to order the parts, which adds up to about 3,000 dollars. I'm getting tired of just looking at it and not being able to do anything with it, so I'm thinking about painting the valve cover and getting the green paint off the head. Might do that tomorrow, I'll post pics if I do.
Well that's all for now, will update when I have more info.

it is always good to hear that someone is getting to work on something. I have been broke for as long as I can remember and just get to work on my car every now and again. Sounds like it's gonna be awesome.

Yeah that 3000 dollar price tag doesnt include any cosmetic accessories, or any of the turbo kit. So... I've got some more saving to do. But I'm glad that I know it's alright to go on with the project, I was waiting until I could get the block inspected before buying anything, if it was wrecked, I was just gonna abandon the project, sell the lude, and buy a hatch. But.. it looks like I'm stickin to it.

thats good that you can still go with it, but a hatch would have awesome too, i love my hatch.

Yeah, I kinda wanted to go with a hatch, but everyone around here has them, the prelude is way heavier, but I wanna build this one to be able to put all the hatch's in their place around here haha. And most people look at the Prelude as the red headed step child of honda. I always have a thing for the underdog.

I have always liked the Prelude also but I just love my hatch. All Hondas are good I don't care what anyone says.

Yep, I don't discriminate against any Hondas, or Nissans or Toyota's for that matter, funny how the Nissan fans HATE us though. Oh well. But I'd definitely say that the lude and the ek hatch are my favorite hondas

The main thing I don't like about Hondas is that they're too common, Everyone's done something to them, Honda skimped in the performance department, and they never really attracted me. I like the Prelude to an extent, but I'd rather have my Eclipse or a 3000GT VR4. Keep up the work man.

Hondas being too common is kind of a bad thing since it makes all of us enthusiasts look bad for owning one. I have always liked Honda regardless of what some the other people have done to bring down the Honda name.

I hope y'all dont think i'm bashing Honda's. I can always appreciate a well built one. To me, honda tuners look like they're following a crowd. Not always a bad thing, but where's the individuality? It's the ones who convert to RHD, swap an S2000 motor and drivetrain or even a V8 that grab my attention. But, I am a sucker for a good build.

I mean, I'm the first to admit that 90% of Honda owners are complete douche bags.. but.. I do kinda disagree that all of us follow a trend, because if you really look at all the different scenes.. they all have a specific style, almost every s14 looks basically the same to me and nobody claims that the 240 owners follow a "trend". It's just a style that follows a community of like minded enthusiasts. No we're not dropping v8's or super dramatic swaps in, but there's definitely alot of honda projects out there that get overlooked. If you've got any time, go check out Ryan from Rywire.com's integra type R build on stickydiljoe.com. It's gnarly.
Honda didn't really skimp on the performance, it just wasn't their main concern at the time. The k20a holds the land speed record for fastest 4 cylinder motor. It's just that their main concern was fuel economy. The type S and type R lines in Japan were based on performance, and on an auto cross track the Civic type R kept up with an audi r8.. of course the r8 left it in the straight aways stock for stock, but that's the difference in 50 grand or whatever the price difference is.
I love all kinds of differnt cars, but my main goal for this is just to build something that people will hate on. I'm just going to make all the corvette owners around here question themselves as to why they spent 70,000 dollars on a car just to get smoked by a 4 banger...
Nobody really knows what I've got planned for this car, aside from the parts list I have posted, but thats nothing compared to what the finished product will consist of. I'm working on some stuff right now, about to send the head out for some more work, got a couple cosmetic upgrades for extremely cheap the other day that i'll be posting up on monday or tuesday.
This is gonna be pretty slow here at the start, but once I get moved into my new house and buy a daily driver the lude will be parked and stripped. All the paint, interior, motor, brake lines, suspension, everything's coming off for its transformation. So just bare with me and there will be plenty of updates to come. Once I really get started I'll be starting a build thread on Honda-Tech aswell but you guys will still get all the updates first.

Nicely put, Looking forward to all your build threads to come but secrets? come on we wanna know, lol. I love my Honda and yes I do have and plan to have many upgrades that may follow a certain trend but in no way do i consider myself a trend follower, like you said it is just a large group of people who happen to like the same ideas.

Well, some plans for the car have changed and are likely to change again so I don't wanna jump the gun. But it'll all be out in the open once I park the car at my new place and buy a daily driver so I can start buying parts. And I do agree there's alot of people that follow trends, or do something just because other people do it, but to say everyone that modifies a honda is a conformist, well that's just profiling haha. But like I said in the first post this is my build and anybody who doesn't like it is entitled to their opinion, and it's not going to hurt my feelings if somebody bashes my car. This won't be RHD, it won't be s2000 swapped, it'll still have an H series motor in it, but that's to prove a point. There's so much hate for the h series from b series fanatics around my area, literally nobody I personally know or have talked to in the last..5 or so years, has done anything to a motor other than a B series. I'm going to be doing an h23vtec build, which is an h series block, h23 crank, h22 vtec head, and then basically I'll be doing custom pistons and a crower/ferrea valve train. Obviously bore the block,haven't decided what sleeves to go with yet, porting, etc. I'll be tucking and shaving the entire bay including the brake lines, so no matter what, nobody will say it doesn't have a massive amount of effort put into it. When it's done it's basically going to be garaged.. I know people hate when good builds just sit, but with what I'm doing, it won't be a practical daily, so it'll be a weekend tracker, and meet/show car. I'm going to keep the color scheme and interior ideas a secret until I actually get them started. That's basically all I've got so far. And ironically, my next DD is likely to be a 240 s13 hatch.. haha.. I'm a Honda Junkie, but sometimes you need some RwD drift action in your life..

sounds pretty awesome so far. I don't mind the H series it is a very good platform and I'm still rocking my D series lol. The whole idea on having a garaged car is cool it gives you something to look forward to when track day or a meet comes up. And hey driving a 240 is not a bad thing would love to pick me up a S14 someday even though I love my Hondas.