Which prelude is the fastest one

The ride is firm but not harsh, and there's far more refinement overall than we expected of a year-old car. The Prelude feels as if it was assembled with precision. Its panel gaps are tight, and most of its interior is soft to the touch. Its front seats are shaped well enough, but the chaise lounge seating position is dreadful, and the thick velour upholstery is like sitting on bath towels.

The Prelude's tight chassis feels impressively solid despite the car's large greenhouse and thin roof pillars. Among the fifth-gen Prelude's body-stiffening measures over its predecessor are a reinforced rear bulkhead, additional crossmembers, and a steering-column support stretching between the A-pillars.

We once called the Prelude's chassis unflappable and said that it had Formula 1—like steering. Today, the Honda's helm feels slower than we'd like, and its That said, the Prelude's steering is so precise and its feedback so organic that it should be used as a reference for steering engineers all over the world.

The Prelude's brakes also are extremely communicative and easy to modulate, although our test car's foot stop from 70 mph is significantly longer than what we've previously recorded for the Type SH. Honda gave the Prelude a light refresh in , which included a new exhaust header and revised valve timing that bumped the output of the "big block" 2. The gearbox is geared extremely short to keep the four-banger on boil. While there's not much grunt to be found below rpm, there's meat in the engine's midrange, and the Prelude can reach 60 mph in second gear.

Things start happening above rpm. The engine feels as if it's hard-mounted to the chassis, and you can adjust the Prelude's cornering line with small throttle adjustments.

With the engine spinning at revs at a mph cruise, passing maneuvers on the highway rarely require a downshift. When you want real power, however, you have to rev the big four-cylinder past rpm, when Honda's VTEC variable valve timing and lift system finally kicks in and switches to its higher-lift cam profile to unleash the engine's full lb-ft of torque. Horsepower peaks at rpm and redline is at , but the engine will spin up to its rpm fuel cutoff if you keep your foot in it.

Worked hard, the Prelude can feel like a poor man's first-generation NSX, and it sounds like one, too. The Honda Prelude had the right lines. We're not saying it was always that way; it had to loosen up and unboxify a bit from those early generations, but by the 4th and 5th gens. The sportscar's silhouette is not terribly dissimilar from those of other long-nosed GT-styled coupes, except the Prelude was undeniably a more modern take. We can understand why it earned and still earns such a cult following and why great builds continue to pop up even today.

With Jeremy Allgier's Prelude Si recently piquing everyone's curiosity, we decided to fire up the web traffic machine and see if we could figure out which Honda Prelude builds all of our fans gravitated to. While we've only compiled a few dozen Prelude features over the years, there were five in particular that pulled away from the rest of the pack, starting with a wild K-swapped 3rd. We've had a lot of great builds emerge from Thailand in recent years thanks to shooter-at-large Streetmetal, and Satit Suwantong's third-gen.

I just got a 99 lude. The first day, drove good, had power, went home. Woke up the next morning and omw to work it started to sputter and buck like crazy and engine light came on. So I pulled codes and got a p and p Well I replaced the egr valve, which was "faulty" by the code definition p which also showed vtec soleniod problem. When i replaced the egr I reset the ecu and everything was going fine, no sputtering etc..

Well omw home from work I was wanting to see if the vtec showed up as a possible problem got fixed by replacing the egr since the obd light still hadnt came on. Any Ideas? Could this be caused by a bad vtec solenoid since they usually open at around ?

Or would my Catalytic converter or something else be the more reasonable culprit? I'm stuck. Btw when it sputtered and stalled the obd light started flashing till i let off of the gas. I pulled over and cut the car off. So I'm a little stumped. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike Would you be able to put a h22a4 motor in my prelude that supposed to have a h23a1 motor in it. Jonathon answered 2 years ago. David answered about a year ago.

If you want fast buy a Mustang.. However since this thread was written 10 yrs ago you probably know this by now. Glad to help! Not the fastest, but perfect for what it is. Stiffer feel. These cars are one of the funnest to drive ever. Chris answered 8 months ago.

I was just challenged about a craigslist listing- I'm selling a prelude si, and a person responded that it couldn't be a due to the color. Whats up guys ok i bought a honda prelude i was just wondering do they all take forever to shift?

Its a base modle automatic. Our ancient minivan is dying, and the children for whom we bought it are both drivers.

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