Does anyone have any good ideas about cheap ways to increase horsepower for a Honda Prelude.?

Question

I've been looking at trying to increase horsepower. I'm willing to spend $1000 dollars. I see turbo kits on ebay but I don't know if thats the route I want to go.

Answer 1

Of course this depends on the year. But first and foremost, get a plan. If you change your mind..it will cost if you change your setup. Then start with air and exhaust. If you make it breathe, you will notice a small increase. Dont expect big gains unless you go supercharged, turbo, or nitrous. Good luck

Answer 2

go with an intake and an exhaust. It wont do much because is a four banger. no offense i have one myself so i kinda know. An intake will do good for you. It depends what you are willing to do. If you do want to go the turbo kit route, then dont put one in from ebay. You will have to get a good one that will last you a while and that will be good and get it tuned properly. Also, if you are getting that then you have to upgrade to racing cams, lifters, injectors, maybe even pulleys and once the engine mods are all done, then you have to put in the whole exhaust system which sustains headers and a cat back. If you just put a turbo in the engine jhust like that, you might blow it. Its an H22 i believe. In that engine, it is powerful but whith all engines, if you excede the power, then you will blow it. you might have to go as far as getting better pistons and rings.

if you are going to put it a grand then go with snap on first and do everything but the turbo because if you throw in a turbo now without doin any mods, you will f up ur engine and maybe even ur tranny wont be able to handle it. do some reaserch first and find ou what you will need exacly for that eninge and tranny to put in a hardcore mod.

Good luck, nice car, i like it alot.

Answer 3

Let's start with the basic before you consider a turbo kit.
-Get a good exhaust system. Fujitsubo,Mugen etc.
-Upgrade your intake air filter.Preferably those with cold air intake trunkings.
-Get a electronic gadget like Apexi VAFC & fine tune your engine parameters.
-Install a voltage stabilizer & grounding wire kit to improve your throttle response
-Change your crank pulley to a lightweight aluminium crank pulley.

It's no use putting in a turbo kit without a good exhaust system & a upgraded fuel delivery system. These are a few basic tuning options for light tuning. You won't want to have a sudden increase of 150BHP without knowing how to handle your souped up beast machine.

Answer 4

i normally come in this category to diss hondas, but the prelude is the one honda i give props to, and the only one i would ever consider buying(used, of course). i would recommend getting intake and exhaust first, that will help any other upgrades, and then find a nice turbo kit. this will make a huge difference, but you will also need a performance chip to increase fuel input to the combustion chambers. more air needs more fuel.

Answer 5

The easiest and cheapest way it to increase air flow...get a high performance air intake system (K and N makes very good products) and then a good high flow exhaust (Flowmaster, etc.). You can also purchase a plug in chip that can change your engine dynamics. They can get a little pricy but it is easy to install. Other than that, you are looking at major dollars for what you want. Turbos, superchargers, etc. can boost performance but you are looking at a lot of money.

Answer 6

Simple way to increase some power is bigger exhaust, and a cold air intake, with a super chip. All that would probly be under $1,000. If you want a temp. power gain, try racing fuel.

Answer 7

Try Summit Racing for some ideas (www.summitracing.com).
Depending on the year of your Prelude, they have exhaust, computer programmers, cold air intakes, headers, etc.

Good luck.

Answer 8

turbo and or larger injectors but dont get your turbo from ebay find a good tuning shop or jc whitney .com

Answer 9

Webber side-draft carb (tuned properly).
exhaust upgrade (Borla system)