Yea thats what im talking about live2rice. I was under the impression that a prelude engine (I forgot what year) would "bolt right in" with minimal amount of modifying. Like I said, this is going to be about a year from now and believe me I will be on here with questions galore I can see it now.

Crispin, that write up looks extremely helpful and just scanning over it looks like its exactly what im wanting to do. Glad im not crazy and it is possible to do!

 

Yes the engine will, and a manual or automatic transmission from one would more or less bolt in, but the triptronic one would require a whole lot of wiring.

 

Question: What is the benefit of running a quart through with the drain open? Seems akin to just pouring it on the ground.

 

I suppose it was to rinse a little more crud out of the transmission, but I doubt it was enough to be worth the cost of a bottle of fluid.

 

It wasnt poured on the ground (obviously).
Running a quart through the system got alot more of the old oil out then it would have if it was just drained because it was being 'helped'. It was well worth the money considering It took about 3/4ths of a quart to get the draining oil to look clean. (Meaning there was 3/4ths of a quart of dirty oil still in there. Defeating my purpose)

I personally always run about 1/2 a quart of oil when I do my regular oil changes through the system to push as much of the old oil out as I can without putting diesel in the system and flushing it like that. Its just quick and easy and it all depends on how well you want to get the job done for you car. My car absolutely needed it considering it hasnt been changed in 7 years.

 

Simply pouring a quart of oil in the fill hole, it will take the shortest route possible to the drain hole, passing through a very small portion of the internals. IMO the oil will carry very little with it on the way down. Unless you can pick the engine/transmission up, and shake it, sloshing the oil around inside, the percentage of gunk it will pick up is less than 1 percent of the gunk inside the engine/transmission. If the quart of oil came out dirty, just running it straight through, there is an awful lot of sludge/crud still inside that engine/transmission, and your attempts at rinsing it out are futile. But, hey, it's your oil, and your car, so do whatever you think works.

 

The car would not be running, so the fresh quart of fluid poured in would not have went through the "system".

 

It got the rest of the fluid that was sitting at the bottom out. You know what I meant.

 

I would just like to say from my experience as a gear head of sorts.

If you allow fluid in a Automatic Transmission to become old and black, do not ever change it or ever drain it. I have been trying to explain this to other mechanics that I have worked with over the years, and they agree once the transmission goes out after about 6 months or so.

I like Honda's manual transmission fluid, and I like Castrol but when it comes to Castrol you have to make sure that it is the right fluid. You can't just go by dexron I or II etc.

Using Genuine Honda Fluid is much better to do. Believe it or not there is a difference between Honda fluids and other fluids even though the store products say that they meet manufactures quality, because they don't.

 

Well two late now. We will see in 6 months whether or not the tranny lasts. Either way im planning on dropping it but dont really think ill have the money in 6 months. Who knows maybe things will change?