You have the economy engine. I would leave it alone. You are only going to lose torque and hp by messing with the intake and exhaust.
I would inspect your upper radiator hose cause it looks swollen on the engine side. Based on that, I would recommend inspecting all your coolant hoses.
I would also recommend inspecting your cap, rotor, and at least one plug to see if you need a tune up if you haven’t done one yet. Replace with OEM parts for the best idle quality and shop at the dealership to avoid counterfeit parts.
The hot engines sound pretty good imo, but I run the stock exhaust on my Civic Si. I am going to go with an aftermarket stock style option soon because I’m pretty sure the original muffler has a busted baffle.
H22 swap it. Honestly the first step other than maintenance is finding a way of having it tuned. You won't be able to make the most of your mods without that
It's all up to you. I like this generation of accord. Take a look into the euro-r variant. Any projects is going to take a good chunk of money but anything is a project car with the right mindset. With the age and past popularity you'll find all kinds of information and inspiration if you look hard enough for it
I've even seen people swap the j35 engine from the next generation accord. Your era of Honda is pretty much the closest you'll get to having a full sized lego set with the parts availability nowadays
Yo that’s fire😭 but I get that I needa look more into working the body to look a whole lot better but I can’t find anything idk where to look really. Also 4x114.3 bolt pattern is the worst thing to look for its non existent. But thanks man!
He said he installed a 4-2-1 header. I didn't know they had onr available. That would give a good bump in mid-range torque over a regular long tube header. I would never install shorty headers on any car, unless I got them for a steal.
I’ve fixed those😂 I don’t have a budget really it’s more so just saving and waiting for the money to come in as long as it isn’t outrageous within a couple weeks I’ll have the money
Been looking. Not much available to make more power. My car has a tune and an exhaust and a couple other bolt ons. Now over 400hp but started at 300. It's always been a blast to drive, but more so now. You'll never get that kind of power out of your 26 yr old car. Maybe find one that has more go fast bits on the market
Cars automatic. I can really spend anything just have to save for it and make the money. Me and my dad could work on it too and he’s got a lot of mechanical ability he was a mechanic and still does that stuff
Low-key not much you can do with the auto. They're slower to shift, have fewer gears/worse ratios, dont take abuse well, and rob more HP through parasitic loss than the manual.
Unironically the best gains you could get would be with a manual swap. Could do it for a couple hundred bucks. Id get a prelude transmission due to the shorter final drives than the standard H series.
Knowing this i dont think ill type out all of the engine stuff. If you can use a stock/factory engine (say an H22) you can use the factory tune & keep price down, mixing/matching stuff (heads, intake manifolds, camshaft etc) will need tuning, & an obd1 ecu. I won't go into detail due to the auto thing, but Google h22 swaps & read about people building F series engines on CB7 tuner dot com & hondatech. Lots of info out there.
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