Fefelarue's 3rd gen Honda Prelude

[royalife]

Not a Honda guy but i absolutely love this Prelude.

[Loaf31]

looking mad clean bro! I would have done the floor mats in the same color as the sun visors, but thats just me. Looking good man, keep up the hard work!

[fefelarue]

I daily drive a clean, totally stock 91 Prelude SI. While I have no intention of modding it (have too many other car projects) you have me really wanting to. Sweet Prelude man! Really liking it.

Do it dude!

I commute in this 80 miles every day, it's still comfy as hell even at this height!

Thanks everyone

[cblock406]

I daily drive a clean, totally stock 91 Prelude SI. While I have no intention of modding it (have too many other car projects) you have me really wanting to. Sweet Prelude man! Really liking it.

[BShort]

Wow good job on the interior looks mint! The red might be loud but you gotta admit it makes the interior pop real nice.

[fefelarue]

Hello!

After the lowering and new wheels I had a weird feeling that I was 100% happy with my car, and didn't want to do any more mods.

The next day I thought screw that, the interior sucks balls so it was time for a re-vamp.

Also, there was a wet patch on the rear seat, so that needed investigating...

So I stripped the entire interior out. Yay no rust!



And found the back seat had done a wee:



And it kept on weeing in my garage:



I couldn't find any evidence of water flowing behind any of the panels, but what's that up there??



FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUU



Here's the damage:




Rust removed and treated:



And here's the repair:




It's not pretty, but it's watertight And yes I have removed the drain pipe altogether, because it has 3 others, and also there's no way I could get a smooth entrance to a pipe in that corner, so water would have accumulated in the crevasses. This way its a solid water barrier, and easier for the water to flow away and drain down one of the other holes.

Then I got to work on the roof lining, before:



Got some of this:



Glued on some suede:



All done:




And did the sunroof while it was off:



Then I wanted to cover up those horrible plastic speaker pods in the doors:



Both my front speakers had stopped working ages ago, so I got some crappy halfords ones:



They're a bit "bling," so I sueded them up as well:




I also did all the pillars in suede, though no photos of them off the car

The heater knob snapped off ages ago:



But since I've got a couple of 3D printers at work, I decided to print myself one:






Then it was time to tackle the carpet, which was a horrible faded grey blue green colour

Got some of this (I don't recommend using this particular one if you are going to do this):



And one of these:



Then did this:





(Also did the door cards, but no pics of them off the car)

Nice and black, all in:




The old gaiter and knob were looking a bit sorry for themselves:



But since I am a professional door knob designer (seriously), I took a nice one from the scrap bin at work It's over £100 new, and made from CNCd and polished stainless steel, and best of all, it fits perfectly on the end of the gear stick, and has a grub screw at the bottom to tighten it into place!



Also made up a new gaiter using the old wire framework. Mad sewing skills:



Then I got some garishly red carpets, and put it all back together:










HERE COME THE RED CARPET ******! I realise it's a bit "loud" haha.

Thanks for reading

[fefelarue]

thanks everyone

Fraid not earl, I sold them when I got the coilies.

[Earl]

Will those Azevs be coming back? With the current height, or a touch lower, they would look splendid=)

[TWM Performance]

Ohhhh boy does it ever look good on those BBS reps!

- Renato

[anti.engineered]

Ohhh yes this just got legit

I came along at the right time. Good determination young padawan

[Nagah]

I think this mesh style wheels are not really flowing with the car's design.

[fefelarue]

Thanks guys

And JHermes - I already scrape pretty badly on the driveway going into work haha, we'll see..

[JHermes]

its amazing man, the ammount of effort you put in to it is amazing. love the whole build! Keep it up!
also for a daily grind, it can still go a bit lower

[Loaf31]

Love everything so far! Keep up the good work! Love that two-tone wrap.

[fefelarue]

Bought some new wheels!

BBS RS reps, 16" 9J & 8J









Whatcha think?