Almost every morning on my way to work, I run into the same late model Prelude, and we ususally get to have some fun on the empty highway. On the highway, I can run on him all day. But this morning, we got stopped at a light. Light turns green and he got a small jump and pulled right through 2nd. In 3rd, I gained some back, but he still beat me. He's got exhaust (looks like Comptech) and intake (can't miss the sound), but I wonder what else he's got under hood. The Ludes are nice, but I hate losing to one!

 

how the fuck did you lose to a prelude????

 

The Prelude probably had a supercharger.

 

I have no idea!!! I'm not happy about it. I've got to hunt him down and see what he's got under the hood. My engine temp was cold (just running for 5 or 10 min on a 25 degree morning), so I'm sure this didn't help. I definately don't plan on making a habit out running WOT on a cold engine...can't be good

 

my car is ALWAYS faster when its ice cold, i always WOT on a cold engine, it makes me feel like i drive a LS1 vette ....well at least till it warms up and then the tires stop chriping in the 2-3 shift

 

he could of been spraying he might have just put it in that night or the weekend before

 

when the engine's cold its faster, so that helped. And a prelude....tsk tsk...

 

it never good though to run ur motor hard when it is cold there is hardly any oil in the car and the tranny is cold

 

i never push my car when cold any mechanic will tell you that its good to warm the fluids up so everything can be lubricated

 

How much faster is the auto CL-S over a 5G Prelude 5sp?

From what I've seen at the track, they're relatively even performancewise (provided the Lude driver can drive).

 

I raced my homeboy's 97 5-speed Prelude several times. He have only intake and header. I beat him 5/10 and he also beat me 5/10. Therefore, i am guessing his car runs like mine, and probably with a better driver, his prelude could win me.

I don't know how Haus lose to that prelude (must me heavily soup up).

 

You guys are funny, do you think that the cl-s is like god or something, its NOT a fast car, the prelude is just as fast as our cars, you put intake and exhaust and it can be faster than a stock cl-s, sh*t it can beat a fully modded cl-s on the street, anything can happen on the streets.

 

no the CL-S is slow,there's no denying that...but anyway , i think a prelude I/E and a stock cl is gonna come down to the driver from a stop/with the advantage to a prelude if the driver can launch

 

a sh prelude runs stock between 15.2 and 15.6
the older Si's were only 10 hp less
a cl-s runs 14.8-15.2 there are guys that have run lower just like the preludes. every manufactor has the monday freak car.

add i/e to the prelude he'll now run 14.6-14.8 cl terriorty
add headers the stock cl will see tail lights.

my cousin has a manaul 2000 with i/e and headers and i still walk on him everytime.

 

I agree with the last two post, but i just dont understand why would people say, well it must of been supercharged, like the cl-s cant lose to a prelude, the cars are so close in speed it come down to the driver.

An just for reference the SH preludes are a tad slower than the regular preludes.

 

i thought the SH was just suspension and handling upgrades...what makes that a "tad" slower

 

The SH pakage is just handling and suspension but it adds more weight to the car, maybe not a significant amount, but weight is still weight.

As I already posted I raced my best friends 98 prelude 5spd with i/h/e a few weeks ago. Now, we never did catch a light, we both had the heat on (it was cold, forgot to turn it off), and we both had a passenger with us. We both dropped second at about 35-40. All the way through second it was dead even. As soon as my stock CL-S hit third i got almost a car length when we stopped at about 100. Ive seen his prelude smoke many a V8 and I know he can drive, there wasn't much skill involved in going from 40 so that took the driver effect out of it...and he hits the 2-3 shift as well as he does the 1-2 shift. I'll being seeing him on Saturday in Tampa, and I know he'll have no problems going out and finding a light with me. I'll let you know the outcome.

 

No, i do not think the CL-S is god and i also do not think prelude would be either. It's just that i have an Av6 and CL-S should be faster than my ride. Have you ever raced a prelude before? I have raced it many times and the outcome was very close. That is why i think stock CL-S with stock 5-speed prelude would be a close one, depending on the prelude driver.

 

the differance between the cars is :

2001
Exterior Dimensions Coupe Type SH
Curb Weight - Manual (lb.) 2954 3042
2.2L 195 hp I4 2.2L 200 hp I4

the type sh gains 88 pounds but adds the 5 hp.

making the coupe at 15.32
the sh at 15.34

not much differance between the two models

the 1998 models were a bit lighter making them a little quicker at 15.2

 

Yes i have raced preludes before, my roomate has one with I/H/E, i haven't raced one with my cl-s but with my celica we were basically dead even, it all depended on who got the jump. At the track i have gotten identical times with my two cars so i know the cl-s and prelude is a drivers race. The other night i rode in my roomates car, its been a while, and it felt pretty quick, handled better than my car too, but he has suspension mods and better tires and sway bars.

 

I have beaten many Preludes, including type-SH ones.

They are quick though. Last type-SH I raced which was lightly mod'd I took 5-6 cars on it.

H/I smaller tires on my ride.