The Cap and Rotor needed replacing after about 190,000 miles, But that's really it besides the normal wear ant tear. Pretty good in my book.
I am 100% in love with this car.
I bought it with high miles, and was amazed at the durability and handling.
It makes awesome horsepower for a mere 1.7L, and it red lines at 8,000 rpm, you can't beat that!
VTEC (Variable Timing Electronic Control) is an very wonderful thing.
I will be a Honda fan for life now after owning such a dream machine.
I am currently working on a turbo kit for this car, and I feel it has tons of potential. It is my belief that this car will never die, I will keep it forever.
Good idea on the turbo, but. I once owned a 1992.5 GS-R, and it was fairly strong and I researched a turbo system w/
inter-cooler and it would work. You MUST inter-cool it because it is all alloy block and head, heat will kill this
motor. You have very little room for an inter-cooler and external wastegate, so internal is your only option. This
motor (B17A1,2) was Honda's least reliable DOHC VTEC ever built. So low boost is key unless you do a fully modified rebuild (titanium, cold-forged steel, etc.). So my recommendation is, a B20 hybrid. It will fit, you have the second best head to put on top (vs. C16 head). Go to http://www.crvtec.net and research further. You can get a long block B20 (from a CR-V or 92-96 non-vtec Prelude) around $1400. Then, sell the head and your bottom end and get a port and polish and a weekend set aside and you'll be pushing 220hp and about 180-190 ft-lb's of torque or a mid 13 second car, all-motor honda hybrid, honda reliability and fairly inexpensive. I feel this is the optimum choice.
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