Here we go! This is my CL!
Please, be nice, i got it today so i did not had time to fix some stuff, clean it, and other things.
So, its a 2.0CL 1997, 5 speeds.
2.0 because i have a F20B JDM with a T2T4 LSD tranny on it! :twisted:








So like i said, sorry, its really dirty



And this is the interior!

This is tonight, when i changed the wheel with L3G10N for my summer wheel i already had.
The car is.... kind of.... way too low lol
Anyway, its sweet!
Better pics comming tomorrow or another day.. it was really dark outside :P


So, what you think for a 2.4kCND$ CL? :P

 

its not low enough!

but i like it a lot. whats up with the line across the hood?
looking nice with the wheels

 

very very nice, i think you got an awesome deal.
but that huge gash in the front is

 

Well, its a kind of tape that is supposed to "protect" the pain but... yeah lol
L3G10N have the same thing on is 6thgen. I am not sure how to get it off ...
I suppose if i try it will just broke in billions of pieces and i will have glue everywhere on the hood and.. i dont know if i want to try lol s... well...
I have in mind to get a Carbon hood anyway and this is going to be my "winter" hood.
We will see

And, if you look on the last 2 pics, my "mudflap" is realy close from the road so... i cant really go lower lol

 

97 FTW

Need to change that steering wheel and airbag, but other than that it's immaculate otherwise

 

Sorry, the color on the picture is kind of weird.
The steering is really dirty

 

nice tow package!!

 

good start,good deal. The rim's make her even sexier!

 

it's definitely in okay shape, the rust is the usual honda/acura stuff.
i'd remove those stickers on the skirts, do a trunk debadge and degrease the engine bay.

but DOHC VTEC ftw.

 

what is it about the f20 that gives it less torque than the H?

 

less displacement. but it revs higher.

 

looks pretty good, def a good pickup
only things i would change would be, get rid of the decals, debage, tint, and obviously clean everything real good
and the rust isn't too bad on yours, pretty even from side to side too. My car had a rust hole in the passenger side QP and it was from Mississauga.
Goodluck and keep us updated with your car... and possibly take some new pics when it's clean

 

<3 the tow hitch

 

lol @ "mudflap too low"

i think at this point i have almost no mud flaps left.

definitely need to be lower but i know how quebec roads are. not practical at all.

 

ur low on gas.

 

I like it, looks good. Like it even more with a DOHC VTEC motor in it, that is definitely FTW lol. What model of prelude does the t2t4 come off of?

 

u wouldn happen to know the ecu youre using would u?

 

the T2T4 come from the Accord SiR-T, not from prelude. It is the ultimate short gear tranny for H/F series. The tranny was created to give F20B a chance toward H22A

As for the ECU, this is the MAJOR question I want to know. Next day off without rain, this is what I am planning to check.

 

 

Nice car, and nice stance. You need to do something with that shifter though. Other than that great pick up, I hope it's good to you.

 

Not too low at all. Just take your mudflaps off

I always forget that the Canadian CL's speedos are in kph instead of mph, freaked me out for a second.

 

LOL SAME i was like holy shit that thing goes up to...220? WTF

if your going to take off your mudflaps, send em to me

 

Ok! i've clean the exterior of my car today!
So, there we go!
Look better now, without all the stickers, no? :P She look awesome with my wheels!





I've tried to get rid of the tape on my hood and its not really easy lol
My hand hurt a lot now :bangh:
I did the rear quarter and the 2 front quarter.
Next sunny day, if i do not work, i will get the hood one out!




For the mudflaps, well... sorry... i will keep them

 

damn i like the white on black in your car.. never knew how it looked before that.. and its ok lol i do need to get me some of them..

 

it looks a lot better without the stickers, and the rims don't look too bad either, not my style, but i don't find them ugly at all
and the white kinda goes with your headlights and clear corners.

 

if you slammed your car a bit more, those white wheels would = sex loving it!

 

It cleaned up really well. Now the interior and engine bay need some attention.

How does it drive with the 2.0? I find the F22 to be gutless and too small for a 3,000 lb car. Does the transmission of the F20 make up for it?

 

nice pickup. a bag of dirt explode in your interior?

 

sexy, i like the stance. it makes me wonder though, you have about the same wheel gap that i had with my cl.....but i thought mine was stock suspension wise........now im starting to think it wasnt....

 

thanks you for all the comments!

I can't go lower then that. In quebec, its already way too low. I can't go by any speed bump, a lot of "hole" (chicken ness lol) on the asphalt, i need to "evade" them all or the mudflaps and under the car touch the road. So, i am thinking about get it up a lil bit. But i like the look she have right now so.... i dont know lol

I have a lil trouble with my F20B right now.
When i got the car, the guy told me the Check Engine was a missing O2 sensor. But today when i get to the garage for my exhaust line, we realise that i do not miss a O2 at all. So, we think that maybe the ECU is not the good one so the fuelmap is not good either. We already know something was wrong but now we are more sure about the ECU. The guy probably installed the OEM ECU on the F20B and that is why i have a VTEC controler in the engine bay and its probably with i have a check engine. But anyway, we will know soon. Next sunny day, we will check this out! I want this to be repair before the CanAm ride. A T2T4 tranny with a Check Engine = Bad mix for saving gas!
But, the car move pretty nicely! I was on the highway the other day, following L3G10N, and when i've passed a truck, i didn't needed to downshift, so it nice! BUT.... at 110k/hr (around 65 miles/hour) i rev at 3000RPM.... and the VTEC start at 4500.... lol

For the interior, yeah... its pretty dirty. I did my best today, but i've spend more time on the exterior. Next step, interior, after that i will clean the engine bay. But the steering wheel i think i will need to change it, When i've tried to clean it up a bit, it started to "peel" so i've stop but.... well.. its still dirty. But its nicer, i've cleaned the door interior, doors sills, etc so its kind of better for now lol

If i have a lot of wheel housing its kind of because my tire are too small. I had these tire on my Hyundai Accent, but the tire only have 1 summer left so i did not wanted to buy new one and throw away these one when they are still good. Anyway, when they will be done i will get the right size.

 

damn nice...smoke the tail lights and smack some tints on those windows...damn i wish i hadda black CL, i would done sooo much crap to it...but yeah

 

Oh really??? Sounds exactly like me lol. But i dont know exactly what tranny mine came with, the sticker was off when i got it. But i know i dont have LSD...then again never tested it.

 

Maybe the M2A4. Almost same gearing and no-LSD.

 

Those wer stickers? I thought they were scratches.

 

It's a little difficult to know if you have an OEM LSD on a Honda. I've seen plenty of stock Civic's (non LSD) do burnouts and leave two strips. Other people have said to jack the car up in the air and turn one of the tires towards the front of the car. If the other tire is moving in the same direction, that supposedly means you have an LSD (my GSR tranny w/ LSD does this). A lot people have also said this is false, but I don't know for sure.

The only accurate way to tell is to remove both axels from the tranny. If you can see straight through the differential, that means you have an LSD. If there's a pin sitting vertically through the middle, then it's an open differential.

Taking your car to an auto-x event is also a good way to tell. If your inside tires spins like crazy while exiting a tight corner, you have no LSD. The OEM Honda LSD is meant for corners anyways. It doesn't help that much for drag racing.

 

I could have SWORN i read something in the n00b guide about our cars having LSD's but now i cant seem to find it. weird.

 

^nope i wish tho

 

Damn.. your car revs as high as my Prelude does

 

lol 8k is pretty fun!

 

huh? a b21a goes to 8k?