they offered me 9k. i turned it down. my friends 01 prelude revs up to 8k stock, he rarely does it. but he showed me the other day.

ya my buddy has a 01 lude that i drove it the other day and 8k comes fast

a stock cam'd h22 doesnt see any gains past 7400, 7500 would have been best. but 8k works just dont take it that high. Heres a dyno graph of a h22 with i/h/e
http://img76.imageshack.us/my.php?im...dvstockuw9.png

thanks man.

so yea me and my boy did my H23 manual tensioner today, and it looks like we did everything right.

this is what we did.
http://www.collectiveracing.net/crfo....php?topic=9.0

Awesome man, looks like a pain, was the compressor all you needed?

compressor?

i put my motor back on my friends dads truck and we brought it to my dealership to get the crank bolt off, if thats what your talking about.

i wish i worked at a dealership.. i would've done the swap at work!

nah there really busy over there, and i dont think they would be able to do the wiring.

the wiring looks like a spaghetti dinner of cut wires. i have no idea how im gonna be able to do it. im definitly putting my car on a flatbed and sending it to my performance garage for that.

so answer me again Matt you got inserts for $140 or the whole mount?

whole mount dude.

heres what we did so far today. doesnt look like much but it is. right after the picture we just took the header off. basically all we have to do is disconnect the axles from the hubs, and take out the engine/trans mount bolts and that thing is coming right out.

PB Blaster, good stuff. good luck with everything man

your doing it the hard way, are you gonna be using a cherry picker/engine hoist?

are you gonna part out the f22?

yea were using a hoist. what am i doing wrong? the only thing we fucked up on was the header, by not taking off the bolts from the header itself to the downpipe.

and AzN im not sure about that yet. ill definitly be selling my dc sport header though and my straight pipe. the new headers downpipe is so long that it delete's straight pipes/cats alltogether.

all i did was remove the radiator, disconnect the engine harness from the passenger side shock tower, disconnect all vacumm lines, remove axles, disconnected the header from the cat extension, remove ac lines, removed the battery and various grounds that connected the motor to the car and finally put it on the hoist and removed all the mounts.me and my friend had it out in an less then two hours including draining the ac lines. I didnt mean to imply you were doing anything wrong, just maybe more work then needed..oh and best way to get it all out was to tilt the motor at an extreme angle with the engine side up and trans down and slowly bring it up watching for the map sensor, it loves to break lol
gl

well unforunately for me ive given up on doing it myself. i ran into too many issues with tools and working a full time job and working overtime everynight. i also made my nightlife somewhat of a priority aswell. i need the swap done, so tommorow morning its going on a flatbed to my performance shop.

im really bummed i couldnt complete the swap myself. but i have absolutely no time, and all my friends schedule's conflict. at least i saved a few hours in labor for the techs. doing it.

thanks for all the advice and comments fellas.

Yea, I can feel your defeat... not that its happened to me so I can't empathize... but sympathy is here....

ahh its my own fault, poor planning, and for some reason i feel the need to go out every signle night.

Sucks you couldn't do it yourself matt, hope the shop gets it done quick I can't wait to see that h-twinkie in there

yea im pretty bummed, but im currently drowning my sorrows as im having a banger at my house. even as im having a party i still gotta check my "subscribed threads list". lol

True dedication. sorry things didnt work out right

well so yea party is over, i got work at 9. and then the ghost is going a flatbed to E-Shift Perforamnce.

^^^ yea pretty much lol. damn work sucks right about now.

hehe, h-twinkie power!!!

Dont feel defeated u work ur ass off to afford the swap, so still feel satisfied damnit. u wont care the second u drive it!

First time I ever pulled an engine out, took me 3 hours (89 crx). Damn, 2 hours is good. Good enough to run a chop shop, lol.

Anyways, great job on the swap, coming along nicely.

If You Need Help. Let Me Know. I Just Recently Swapped My 2.2 Last Month. Automatic To 5 Speed Conversion Done Also. Completed The Swap In 3 1/2 Days.
Didn't Take Any Pictures But I Can Tell You What You Need To Know. I Also Work At The Honda Dealership Down Here In Hawaii And Can Get A Lot Of Technicall Info That You May Need. This Was My First H Swap. I'm Used To Doing B Series And This Is Basically The Same But The H22 Bakes A B18 Look Mini-me Status. Hahhahaha.
Good Luck On An Awesome Swap.

damn, i had my keyboard on caps lock......

thanks for the offer, but im a defeated man, and at this point im willing to shell out the money to get it installed professionally.

and also and this was the kicker. if you read the fine print for the warranty of the motor. the warranty is voided if the motor isnt installed professionally. which means if i was sold a fucked up motor. then im beat.

your fine, how the fuk do they know its not professionally installed.

i guess. ill have to have the mechanic talk to the place, or provide paperwork of some kind.

so heres the story with the swap. pretty much i bought a motor that has a blown head. the valves are bent, and the cam gears are off by 3 teeth. so on friday im going back to the motor place to exchange it for another one. when i did the tensioner i notced a bolt that snapped from the motor itself, and i didnt like it and neither did my mechanic. this snapped bolt is allegedely caused the head to blow.



sooo long F22!!!

Damn, that engine was jacked up. Hope they exchange it for ya with no problems.

sucks man, hopefully they'll give you another with no hassels

yea im getting another one with no hassels, its just an inconvience on me and my friends dad, cuz we've been using his truck to lug the motor around.

tell them that u want to pick one, go around and look at the year stamps and try getting a newer one.

That sucks about the first motor. hope everything goes smoothly with the second, good luck man

p.s. ETA?

the ETA is that im getting the new motor tommorow, and my mechanic is gonna hopefully drop in it afterwards, and start wiring on monday.

Damn man, that sucks. Keep us updated!