wuts up everybody!
im new to the site and acuras/ hondas as well.
i previouslly owned a 04 nissan 350z and an 04 Subaru STi
right now i have a 1st gen cl and its not a bad little car.
right off the batt im looking for an engine swap. do you guys have experience or knowledge of whats possible. and when i say that i mean not a million dollars in fabrication. maybe a K series swap? any input is appreciated.

 

they gonna have u search for it. so might as well start searching through the forum. but any ways h22 prelude is popular swap

 

welcome. Run a search for "engine swap" in the thread title and you'll find ~30 threads on the subject, it's been throughly discussed before. h22 is the only one done so far.

 

i dont understand how could you go from an 04 350z and an 04 sti and then end up with a first gen cl. dont get me wrong im not knocking the first gens cause i started out with a 99 3.0 cl and then upgraded to a 01.

 

maybe the CL is is DD and he upgraded his weekend car

 

Actually, there is a couple of CL's with F20b swaps and SilverCL has an H23vtec i believe.

 

well, there ya go then

 

i dont think its h23, i think he was the first ( ) to go g22 haha

 

welcome to the forum. man it must be nice to have 2 great cars prior to you owning a cl. my weekend car is my weekday car. hahhahahah.

you made a good choice. and as everyone has told you already, make the search function your best friend. . to save you some grief. hahahahah. make sure you visit the DIY section as there is SOOOOO MUCH you can do to that car. not to mention the photo gallery to see what other people are doing.

if your trying to save up for your future or trying to provide for a family. i suggest you visit this site as LITTLE as possible cause youll find that fixing up your cl will soon consume your life and your pockets. hahahah. jk

welcome brah

 

Welcome!

 

which are both pretty similar to an h22.

 

Welcome to the forums

 

welcome... J series swap maybe and pull a cocoa

 

his shit is crazy

 

I can't wait to see that thing put down numbers... I think that swap is perfect cause it stays a TRUE CL, a hybrid First/Second gen... Straight not to mention six gears to rip through

 

even better J series swap and thinjims complete turbo kit... oh and more ... there's people really taking things to another level on these forums, even from the time I joined compared to now is just crazy. a big to aziner's

 

welcome, pics of the rides

 

he took the j35 block from an odyssey though

 

thnks for the support everybody! ill deff. do the search and keep u guys updated on what i find. im going to be doing alot of research first since i dont know much about "the power of dreams" haha. and to answer your question im 19. graduated high school and made a very stupid mistake lol. twice! but it was fun for now im gonna grow my love for acura while im in college!

i wonder how many numbers ill b putting down with a h22 swap?
i always thought it would b cool to put one of the k series in the cl as long as the fab work isnt worth more than the car. from what ive read i understand there pretty fussy engines to squeeze power out of withought building, because of the i-vtec.

decisions decisions.
what have yall done with your rides so far?

 

nothing much, mine's still stock

 

thats cool so were my other cars

 

The K series is mod loving... Anything you do to that motor it will love and produce HP/TRQ

 

oh yeah that's my bad

 

haha yeah, you and cocoa's cars are both bone stock.


yeahhh..

 

nah he couldn't get the compression of all four cylinders to line up because the block and head weren't milled, so he scratched the project and went H23vtec, which was giving him issues also because it was running in limp mode for some reason, had something to do with his wiring. I wonder if he ever got the problem ironed out.

 

Welcome to the complete guide for you CL.

Keep us posted and throw up some pickshas.

 

thanks man. im gonna wait till tues. or wens. when i get the rims on to take pics. the car is basically stock with tint and bolt ons. im still monster truckin it, esp. when the 18's get put on.

 

^Well hey, you're already farther along than 30% of the members here.

 

I say H22-turbo and call it a day.

 

i kno this is my first day here but i gotta say this is the most informing and helpful forum ive found. from the site itself to the moderators down to the people. mad props!

 

h22 swap right here. got any question just PM me.

 

j35 swap + boost? ftw.

 

Welcome which engine do you have to start with?

 

what does milled mean?

 

Ya i was the first to pull off the "G", the first to scrap it and the first to swap in a h23A

but ya DaInFaMMuS1 pretty much summed it all up and as for the H23 i had to redo the whole engine harness and conversion harness cuz the shop that did it are useless as fuck and crossed acouple wires incorrectly at the computer

she's just about done..

but ya if you got some coin go 3.5 (my dream)

 

i wanna know why u scraped it

 

it pretty much cleans up the head so that it'll sit flush with the block which i didn't do and we all know how that turned out

someone could explain it in way more detail but that's the basic explanation

 

so basically it needs to be done for the swap

 

Well i picked up the car from the shop and attempted to drive it home but it ran beyond horrible, at full throttle is was just losing power, barely moved. Since i didn't have my car on the road for over a year i didn't want to deal the that BS so that's why i grabbed the H23A and it ran decent for the first month then took a turn for worse. wouldn't accelerate pass 100km/h and to make it sweeter i tried to pass a tercel on the way home from work one day and he pulled away from me. Since that day i haven't driven my car

Just the other day i ripped the G22 apart for the first time to swap over the ARP headstuds to the new motor and it was royaly fucked, melted pistons and shit, pretty much