Good Honda site?

[goody90q45]

I know this is off-topic for our Infiniti site but my daughter hit a pole in her Honda Accord and I'm looking for the best web site (similar to NICO) where I might be able to find some used body parts. None of the local salvage yards are able to locate what I need in the color black. I don't want to do like I did when I bought my Q and be stuck on a Yahoo site for a couple of months when there might be a NICO equivalent out there .

BTW- Got the transmission gasket kit from Joe and will be doing the NICO flush this weekend.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Jesda]

http://honda-acura.net/

[goody90q45]

Thanks Jesda.

[elwesso]

i bet http://www.honda-tech.com is pretty good as well.

[orbovi]

http://www.v6p.net

pretty good site, bought parts off there before for my accord

[96Qowner]

Hm, I've been wanting to ask for feedback from NICO guys about my Accord, but not sure if it's appropriate. My experience with the Honda forums is that they're occupied by a bunch of kids interested in fart cans and coilovers. But, as long as Honda came up here, maybe I can commit a partial theadjack.

I have a 90 Accord that I bought new, with 380,000 miles on it now. It's burning a quart every 1500 miles and it needs a timing belt and several seals have been leaking for years. I've been considering dropping an H22 into it, a 200 hp Prelude motor, instead of putting any more into this one. Everything else on the car is in great condition (except the body, which I'm not sure I care about at this point).

Should I spend $3000 on an H22 swap, put another timing belt into the stock motor, or just drive it until it blows up?

[szh]

I'd say do the timing belt and fix the leaks. That should carry it long enough!

Dropping a new engine into it seems overkill to me ...

Z

[louiegz]

I use to have a 94 Accord EX with the 5 speed. I heard about the H22 swap after I got rid of it. My big complaint with the EX was a lack of power. Mine had the 145hp Vtech Engine. The 1990 has like 130hp. Am I right? That would be a nice upgrade. Just think about how much you like the Accord and if it's worth it to you to do the swap. Do you have to upgrade the transmission to handle the extra power?

I sold the EX with about 85000 miles on it. Just before it needed the timing belt needed to be done. The dealer was going to charge me over 800.00 to do it. An extra $2200.00 gets you the more powerfull engine. Maybe not a bad idea to do the swap.

[FarFetched]

get another accord engine and do the swap. Don't cloud your head with "dreams" of H22. I have a beater car Civic Wagon 2WD with 2.0 Accord swap. that was my past project. Sleeper Civic. That thing kills more civics on the road that I can count. Pretty fast. It was woth then for sake of experience, now I would n't do it even if I had time and money.I don't know how simmilar engine bays of Prelude and Accord, but Civic and Accord are two different beasts. It took me some major engine bay massaging to fit that sucker in. I use whole assembly, eng-transmission-cvs.I enjoy driving it. I couldn't compare it powerwise to Q45 I had, but it was (still is) fun to drive and watch fart-can equipped civics die in the clouds of dust left from my POS wagonIf you saw it, you would say what a POS!So, the moral is do the ORIGINAL engine R+R and put another 200-300K miles on it.Hondas are hard to kill cars - THAT'S THE FACT!Cheers!

[96Qowner]

From what I've read, the H22 into Accord is a fairly straightforward swap. You swap in the entire engine/transmission - bolts right up to the Accord cats and uses the Accord mounts and, I think, you swap in the Prelude high pressure PS line, and a little dinking around with the harnesses. Easy easy. No one has mentioned any trouble squeezing it in.

As far as simply replacing the Accord motor, with that many miles on the chassis I wouldn't want to bother with just another Accord motor - would be a similar cost . And yes, the original is 125 hp, I think. Like Louie, my only real complaint with the Accord is the lack of guts. 200 hp would solve that.
Modified by 96Qowner at 8:20 AM 6/20/2006

[louiegz]

So 96Qowner, are you going to do the swap? I wouldn't rush. Save your money for the swap until your old engine dies. I miss my Accord. I wish I still had it.

[96Qowner]

Ya, I REALLY want the H22, but it'd probably be closer to $4000 - always a few things more than a guy planned, and the body should have $1000 worth of work = $5000 = stupid. Every few months, I get all optimistic and then I return to reality. It makes NO sense, really, to put that much into a car so old, so I'll probably put off the timing belt for a few thousand miles. It's just that everything on the car works, the interior is nearly perfect, and I've owned it for 16 years - kinda got attached to it. I'm at 91,000 on this belt. I can probably get through this winter without blowing up the motor. Now that I have the Q for road trips, I only put about 7000 miles per year on the Accord.

The Q has 176,000 on this transmission, so any $3000 I happen to have laying around should go to a reman. (Although it's showing NO signs of weakness yet.)

4th Gen Accords with H22s run about 15 second quartermiles. *sigh*

Oh, and as far as the subject of the thread (sorry about the jack) superhonda is a pretty darned good site. Did a lot of reading there yesterday:

http://www.superhonda.com/forum/index.php?
Modified by 96Qowner at 8:28 AM 6/20/2006

[Fenvy]

I really don't like the 90-93 look, I say just sell it to the next person and go for 5th or 6th gen accord

h22a1 from my understanding doesn't drop into the 4th gen without some custom wiring/custom engine mount

honda tech by far the best honda board out there

[96Qowner]

4th Gen is all Accord mounts (superhonda has a great H22 FAQ - they say Accord mounts - I read elswhere that you use one Prelude mount) - harness needs a few connectors swapped, some extension of a couple wires, gottta snake 2 or 3 wires past the firewall - nothing complicated at all. Only glitch is that the cruise control doesn't hook up to the H22a throttle body. 4th Gen is all OBD1, too.

I prefer the 4th Gen body, and especially the interior - has those nice flat areas on the dash to put stuff. Did the guys who designed the Q45 interior think that people NEVER BRING ANYTHING INTO THE CAR WITH THEM? Where are you supposed to put anything? Sheesh. But remember, I'm an old fogey - I have some old fogey tastes. Besides, the problem is that I'm attached to THIS car. I bought a 92 Accord wagon to replace it last year and I hated it - not in nearly as good condition, despite having 230,000 less miles on it, so I sold it and kept the old man.