First off out there i dont intend to put down, trash talk, or bad mouth any lude drivers or anyone rolling in a lude-powered car, but frankly i am tired of seeing h22 turbo motors. Yeah i know they can be great motors but you read this whole thread and if by the end of it you still want one you should kick yourself in he ass.the potential of a h23 Frankenstein stroker motor is unbelievable if and i will say this again IF DONE THE RIGHT WAY WHICH SHOULD BE THE ONLY WAY OTHERWISE IT IS DISGRACE TO EVERYONE!

I bought 93 lude Si two years ago. i did not want to be part of the crowd, thats why most of us lude drivers drive preludes in the first place. we take pride in the rarity of our cars. I begin doing research and after 3 months i was totally convinced that i could built the baddest prelude motor ever. i bought a h22 out of a wrecked 98 prelude SH and began my build. the reason i bought the entire motor is b/c you will need certain pulleys and other stuff from the h22a block. I did not try myself to do this b/c complexity of the build. if i would had this link though i might have b/c it completely ligit and recommended if you are planning this swap. www.mad-psi.com/index2.html
in my town there is a huge import scence and at given time a dozen or so civics,tegs,crxs,etc.. that roll in the 12s and countless ones damn close. Unless they were built by the owner of the car,one man did the work,Randy Beals of Preumium Automotive Paducah, KY 270-441-7006.
i went to him and togther we built the first and only one h23 frankenstein in my area. after 3 months of vtec problems, check engine lights, bugs i got it just perfect. The 1st race i had with was a spoiled rich kid in a s2000. after about 60 ft i was gone and all he seen was carbon fiber altezzas and my bright ass shift light. the next week i took it too beach bend drag strip and ran out 13.4 quarter mile on street tires. the final cost of my swap about $6000 but i sold my left over parts for almost $2000 when it was all said and done. motor specs
i rebuilt my h23 motor, put a laser cut custom spec crank in it, and balanced and blueprinted the block. i ran a external 7/8'' oil line directly to the head which i ported,polished, and gasket matched to intake and jdm 4-2-1 heat-wrapped header. Exhaust was 2 1/2'' with no cat and dynomax single chamber muffler/tip. The fuel sytem was setup with skunk2 chipped ecu feeding accel 395cc injectors adjustable by a B&M fuel pressure regulator.
i used AEM V2 cold air with a helix throttle body spacer and bbk oversized throttle body. the timing was slighty advanced and used NGK plugs and wires.
the tranny really was not 100% so i rebuilt it with heavy-duty sychros, ACT extreme stage 2 clutch & pressure plate with a fidanza 8lb flywheel and DC short shifter. then just two weeks ago i was ran off the road and car was totalled by insurance b/c the cost to fix it was almost the valve of the car to them.
u say though well thats not the baddest motor ever though right, well i was not finished. my future plans were to:
bore and sleeve h23 block to 2.6 liters (YEAH)
install Larry Endyn 11:5 compression pistons and his rods
Endyn custom ground cams and valvetrain and carbon fiber intake manifold
Kamakaize 4 to 1 oversized header
200 shot of the juice
cam gears of some type
Endyn gave me a spec sheet claiming when dynotuned it would be in excess of 475hp to the wheel not including the juice.
his website is www.theoldone.com
check out his website and you will find out he is the real deal.
well sorry this thread is so long but i wanted to show everyone how serious i am and how passionate i am about this. ok maybe you still want your turboed lude and thats ok but i bet you while your spooling i am eating up my gobs of torque and rolling to 10,000 rpms in vtec, naturally aspirated with help of Endyn customs. DARE TO BE DIFFERENT! THANKS FOR UR PATEINCE

 

its cool to see someone went the N/a route. I give you props dude

 

Now THAT is what I'm talkin about. Nice to see someone else wants to stroke a 2.3.

cwood, nice car!

 

You must poop money bro. Have fun trying to put a 200 shot to 11.5 to 1 pistons!!!! You'll have hours and hours of tuning it! I myself just had my h22a4 sleeved and built by Golden Eagle and I used the same piston compression as you. I'm excited that I chose all motor instead of low compression and a turbo you have to tune to run right all the time. You know a lot I can tell just by the mods you listed. I myself would like to go back to nitrous, I pulled a 13.88 at 102.33 mph on just a 75 shot and basic mods in a SH. I had my head fully built by portflow with stage 2 crowers and upgraded portflow valvetrain. I spoke extensively to Golden eagle today as a matter of fact and I explained everything I'm having done to the head. I said honestly man what type of hp should I expect and he said don't be surprised if you see 300 plus with a standalone at the crank. I'm putting the target at 230 to the wheels for now. Time will tell!

 

nice as well. so how many people are wanting to go with a n/a build

 

I like what you have done with your prelude, I myself am not lazy but wanted to start out at the top and build from there...so I bought a EVO......But I give you props for doing more than just a intake and exhaust like so many other imports do.

 

ur a mad man! haha thats going pretty far

Endyn gave me a spec sheet claiming when dynotuned it would be in excess of 475hp to the wheel not including the juice. LOL thats a non turbo non forced induction car with that much power ummm how do you get so much power out of a 4cylinder with no forced induction

 

i dont know but u could call Endyn motorsports at 817-924-9334 and tell them u have h23/h22 motor and a unlimited bank roll and u wnat it to be n/a an i bet he will build the baddest honda motor conceviable since he been making milestones in the peformance world since 1959. just check out his website to see all of his inventions,creations,innovations,advances, and developments. u got enough cash u can make damn near anything happen.

 

I was gonna turbo my H22, but then I read a thread on H-T where a guy ran 13.741 with full interior and stock internals and I just said "damn". So I'm gonna swap out my H22 (auto) with an Accord Euro R H22 (I can get a good deal), and go N/A. I figure this would be a great base for an N/A car because it starts off with 30 more crank hp than my current motor, and the tranny is 5 spd and has wayy better gearing than other trannies that bolt right up to the H-series.

 

yeah plus your internals are built a little stronger in the euro-r motor as well