Alright, so here is to reviving a really old thread.
The civic has been gone for a while, finally got sick of it and sold the whole thing (during my senior year of mechanical engineering I had no time to work on it).
Since then I've owned a '97 Impreza Outback sport, then I bought a '97 Prelude. The '97 impreza was sold and back in december I hit a curb sideways at about 50mph in the prelude and bent the frame. So I bought a '98 Prelude with a bad motor. My original plan was to swap my motor in, but when I sent the bad motor down to my brother (he works at a shop) to mess around with, he found it was cheap enough to just rebuild that motor. The kid looks like he broke the timing belt, installed a new one totally wrong, and tried to start it. The timing was way off and the valves were bent. Well the motor is done now.
So this weekend is install weekend. The only problem is my brother lives with my parents down in NC. So my dad left at like 4 am this morning with a trailer and is coming to pick me and my shell up and we will drive back down to NC this afternoon. Tomorrow we will install the motor and I will drive back up here to NJ on Sunday so I can still get to work on Monday. I am so excited to have a prelude again. Although I have been enjoying driving a '97 Tacoma 4x4 this winter.
I'll get some pictures up as soon as I can and track the progress this weekend. Hopefully I won't have to buy a flight Sunday night haha.
Wrecked Prelude:
Video of Car (although I removed most of the interior now):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_aEQZpBj5o