Does onyone have problems beating 80s preludes. I had a jump on a couple of them and they still pulled away.
It's bullshit, i thought those things were slow.

 

They weren't nicknamed the qualude because they were fast.

 

What?? 80's preludes? If that is happening you've gotta do something about it!

What mods have already you done to your car?

 

the 2.0 Si ran low 16's stock... they have like 145 hp stock...

 

I was dead even in first and second with a Acura CL Type-S and then I pulled about a half car ahead in third gear.

You need some upgrades if you're having troubles with a Prelude...

 

I raced a 94 prelude VTEC, my friends.

It had a injen intake, DC sports stuff from the block to the tailpipe, No cat, and a fuel pressure reg.

It was powerfull but he had a lousy tranny in that thing.

We raced all the time. I would almost always win.

 

Its an 81 stock.
And i can usually beat anything with around 150hp.
I kept up with a new RSX, not a type-S.
I don't know they just always start to pull away when im in 2nd.

 

An '81 prelude? You should easily be able to beat that. I think those had the 1.8L engine with around 90hp???

 

I was thinking that was pretty impressive until I saw your sig! You better take any prelude with that.

 

Haha, ditto .

~T.J.

 

I raced my friend's '86 prelude with my '84 GSL-SE and pulled away from him. Remember the fb's were not originally ment to be fast cars, just quick and fun to drive.

 

Check out this web site. The 80 Qualude is an 11.5 second car, that's to 60!

http://home.fuse.net/camaro396/times.html

 

I'm gonna get yelled at for this but our cars aren't that fast. you guys do realize that right? we have a 9-10 second 0-60 and like a 17-18 second quarter mile. Those numbers ain't nothing to brag about. If I cared about dragging I definatly wouldn't have this car, handling is where its at.

 

So GSLs are 9-10 second cars, base models will do 60 in the upper eights. The cool thing is, it doesn't take much to improve that considerably.

 

Agreed, these cars are a good base to start with but to get serious times takes quite a chunk of money.

 

Just do your exhaust, get a new intake canister, get a port job, and set up mech secondaries these cars will fly like the wind

 

~T.J.

 

the 1.8L preludes had dual carbs 110 hp cvcc engine's trust me i was a for real honda guy for a long time... had me 3 civics 2 '84's and one 85

 

I've raced a few late model Prelude's and never had any trouble, usually they're extremely embarassed that their riced out car they've sunk much $$$ into just got beat by a 20 year old car lol.

 

Did it look like this?



That's mine, and with a lumpy cam, and a straight-through exhaust, and only weighing around 2400 lbs, and the mag rims , I think it'd be a good run for the money against my '79 RX-7 GS... and it costs less to run.. gets 28mpg And yes, it's a CVCC engine, but it only has one carb... but the carb's a 3-bbl go figure... it's an old honda....


Jeff

 

Jeff,
You are trying to put one over on us. You know that the third venturi is the size of a pencil, don't you.

Whatever you do, never unscrew the auxiliary valves. You will never get them to seal again.

Cheapie

 

It's doing a 0-60 run IN THIS PICTURE!

 

shhh.... no one will ever know

but yeah, it goes pretty good. it was when they started making them into luxury cars that they went wrong... they got heavier, and heavier, and the displacement only went up by like 400cc.... not enough... haha

the first gen prelude can be a pretty snappy car though with very little $$$ invested. But yeah, stock for stock, an RX-7 should take any prelude.

 

Is that 3 barrel carb the same one used on the Civic from 1985 and before... I have one on my wagon, with it's 12 Valve engine... It's got primary, secondary, and what's Auxillary???

I understand how Primary and secondary work from the RX-7.. I dunno what the other one is for.

 

why hasn't anyone asked what mods the Prelude in question has? also, unless i misunderstood, and you're talking about a 1980 Prelude, the 80's Preludes spanned 3 Generations ... so which car is it? I know the '88-'91 cars can be made into real sleepers ... more details ...