ever heard of a prelude SSR?

dbebesi · 12-02-2003, 09:52 PM

I own a '93 Prelude, and it is listed on the title as being an SSR. The person I bought it off of had looked into it and told me that he found that the SSR's were a short lived Canada-only Prelude (about 300 produced) with loaded options (6 disc changer, leather, keyless), and one option i found odd, it has a positraction front differential. I know for a fact it has a positrac trans, but i didn't know if the rest was true or not. Can anyone verify one way or the other for me?

flylwsi · 12-03-2003, 06:02 PM

surprise.
canada had some oddball cars.
they've got sir's, and sr's, etc.
nothing different than what we've got.

SiGNAL748 · 12-03-2003, 07:16 PM

you know...that sounds like its the equivalent to the USDM Prelude "SE"

dunno about the whole differential thing though...

km23honda · 12-03-2003, 09:05 PM

I don't know a big difference but i know the Sir has heated seat i wounder what eles they got

car_boy_16 · 12-03-2003, 11:24 PM

Whoever posted it probably just pressed the "S" one too many times...Im sure its a 1993 Prelude SR

SiGNAL748 · 12-03-2003, 11:29 PM

afaik canada has:

S (US Equiv. S)
SR (US Equiv. Si)
SR-V (US Equiv. VTEC)

Prelewd · 12-04-2003, 02:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SiGNAL748

you know...that sounds like its the equivalent to the USDM Prelude "SE"

...

That sounds familiar for some reason.

dbebesi · 12-04-2003, 05:23 PM

i don't know why i didn't think to do this before... I ran the vin and it showed up as an SR. So I guess someone just goofed at the title office. Oh well. Still doesn't explain the locking differential. As far as I knew that was never an option. It may just be a Canada thing, b/c of all the snow, or they all have them.

93accordEX · 12-05-2003, 08:45 AM

how do you know it has a locking differential? If it does it must be swapped in, not from the factory.

SiGNAL748 · 12-05-2003, 05:33 PM

yeah...i was wondering that too

dbebesi · 12-05-2003, 07:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 93accordEX

how do you know it has a locking differential? If it does it must be swapped in, not from the factory.

I know for a fact it is locking for two reasons: 1-when on the snow, the front wheels will both always spin. if one looses traction, the other will still hook up or will also spin. unlike a non-locking, which will spin one tire and let the other one set. 2-I put new axles on a couple of weeks ago and i was wondering how the locking dif worked, so i droped out the trans (note: hope to never do that again, it wasn't as easy as I had hoped) and I gutted some of it out. it actually has a centrifical clutch lookin deal that i imagine grabs under increased rpm/reduced traction. well just like "realtime 4 wheel" drive stuff works. also, it is a honda trans. I am unsure if it is the trans that it came from the factory with, but it is a honda genuine part. I called my local Honda shop, and they didn't know what i was talking about. Kinda a mystery. Oh well, I hope it never goes bad... the damn thing hooks up like hell :o)

SiGNAL748 · 12-05-2003, 11:22 PM

maybe the jdm lsd tranny somehow sneaked its way into your car

you're lucky though...weird incident...but lucky

dbebesi · 12-06-2003, 10:05 AM

I was looking more into the anomoly, and I think it could be possible someone put an lsd in the factory trans. I haven't seen any for sale for a lude, but they sell them for rsx's

Prelewd · 12-06-2003, 01:57 PM

Quaife sells them for the lude. It's a clutch type LSD. Not too uncommon.

SiGNAL748 · 12-06-2003, 08:07 PM

cusco sells an lsd too

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