Infos about H22A8 engine.

Darkam · Post by **Darkam** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 6:20 pm

The may be a part the power difference beetween H22A and H22A8 would be explained by the fact the crank is a bit heavier ?

Does anybody have ever try to fit a JDM ECU to a H22A8 to "unlock" the 20hp missing ?

Post by **Donald** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 6:32 pm

I doubt it. Purely speculative, but I think you'd need an S-Spec ECU as they are the only two with 11:1 CR (aside from the TypeS but that probably presents a ton of other problems), otherwise the map will be way off.

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 11:04 pm

Darkam wrote:The may be a part the power difference beetween H22A and H22A8 would be explained by the fact the crank is a bit heavier ?

Does anybody have ever try to fit a JDM ECU to a H22A8 to "unlock" the 20hp missing ?

No the crank has nothing to do with the power difference. Its the pistons and cams etc.

A old skool luder "Yellalude" got his h22a8 remapped on an AEM ecu and it made 220bhp in stock form.

Post by **Merlin** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 9:01 am

He had a Vibrant exhaust manifold and exhaust if I remember. One day I will get around to tuning my stock H22a8 and see what I can get out of it.

Darkam · Post by **Darkam** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 1:44 pm

So there is no way to reach "easyli" 220hp on a H22A8, erf, too beautifull to be true ... I'll deal with it

Post by **Merlin** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 1:52 pm

I think its possible to get 220bhp or at least close to it from a stock a8. Someone needs to try it though

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 3:12 pm

Darkam wrote:So there is no way to reach "easyli" 220hp on a H22A8, erf, too beautifull to be true ... I'll deal with it

As said. A simple remap will get you to 220bhp.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed Jan 07, 2015 9:52 am

jjmartin349571 wrote:I thought you could register it in France provided that you have a UK V5C? It was my understanding that this was a loophole that some use for importing older US cars into France.

I looked into doing this recently, the other way round (a french registered car into the UK - guess what car that might have been

).
It's relatively straight forward for cars that were originally sold within an EU member state (even for original EC member states prior to the EC actually existing, up to a certain date) but the Type S wasn't originally sold in the UK or France, so I can well believe those rules wouldn't apply for a JDM car being imported into France even if it had previously been registered in the UK - it was still originally only sold outside the EU, so they'd probably regard it as an (in effect) fresh import?
Obviously JDM cars are wrong hand drive for France, so I bet it isn't quite so straight forward as it is for us?

Mind you, if think that's complicated, you should look into the rigmarole and restrictions on importing cars into Australia!!!

(also very recently looked into that...)

Blista · Post by **Blista** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 12:03 pm

There's no problem (as far as legislation is concerned) with driving an RHD car in France.
There is however a major issue with trying to registrate a car which wasn't actually registered (as a new car) in EU.
It's not impossible, but it is very, very expensive, long and complicated. Some guys do it for BNR34, RX7's, Supras... but for a Prelude it would easily double the price of a very clean Type S.