H22 Prelude goes down

[MZR_47]

Sitting at the end of main street in the big boy parking lot (the local hangout for cars) although today was just douche day or something, because there was a probe with a body kit/fart can, a talon ESi with a huge aluminum wing, several other riced out vehicles, none of which had enough balls to take a determined fellow on a go-ped.

Me and torched are sitting on the far side, when a blue prelude drives by on the street in front of us. He of course guns it, over-sized exhaust blatting its horrible notes at us. He repeats this a good 3 times before we decided to leave.

Lo and behold, We are pulling out just as the lude is turning around onto main. So I get next to the guy and what does he do?

BLAAAAAARGH He guns it (if you can call it that) and lets off. 701-3kgt is in the passenger seat and we decide to see if this cocky bastard wants to race. So I pull up and my buddy yells at him and asks if he wants to run em across the bridge. The kid says sure and blats at me as he passes me and heads to the bridge. Light after light, he sits there and revs, just to hear his awful exhaust at work.

By the time I get to the bridge, my car smells like v-tec and I am fed up with this guy. We get over the bridge and we slow to 40.I honk it down and take off. Before I even shift to third I have 3 lengths on the guy pretty much instantaneously. I let off, and he gets up next to me and claims he couldnt hear my honk although he took off at the same time I did....

Oooookay....

So he honks it this time. Same result. I take off like a raped ape and he seemingly stands still. 4 lengths and I blow my shift to third, slamming it right into the 3rd/5th gear gate. In neutral for a good second, I jam it in third and get back on it. I look back, expecting him to be right next to me by that time.

3 cars back

One last time he pulls up, looking pissed off. He honks it without warning, but I drop it to 2nd in time (all of these were from 40mph) and I slam my right foot to the floor, watching the headlights drop back at an alarming rate. Put 6 to 7 lengths on him before I even hit 90...

The guy has had enough. he drops way back and turns off at the next chance he gets. I laughed a great deal afterwards, only because I put another cocky bastard in his place.

Quite a good rain going while this happened, too.. So probably not the smartest thing in the world to do but hey, came out in one piece and Im not being cocky about this, I just figured I would post it so we could laugh at another ricer.

[Chiquae07]

heh. id prob be the one in the sentra doing the same thing to you just to see how bad id get beat.

its still all fun and games, but it sounded like he was serious. what year/body style? h22 vtec preludes with a jun cam, springs, and a tune move like bats outaa hell.

[TorchedStealth]

Noice race!

It was the newest generation...not sure about the year though.

[stwatson]

at least he raced you...I would have been afraid that he would have been blasting around town, then when actually challenged would back down.

Nice (as in nice to put someone in their place) race.

[MZR_47]

Yeah, apparently this guy thought he could beat an LSJ (TorchedStealth, specifically) so he started out pretty confident. But after the first time I took off, his facial expression quickly took a turn for the worst.

And I dont know the year... and as far as I know all this guy had was a muffler and maybe an intake. No tune or anything. If he did, I would get my money back

[GForce957]

Hopefully it was a manual, I remember beating an auto last gen prelude (I guess thats h22) in an sl2 saturn

[MZR_47]

yeah it was manual, The way he dropped gears was pretty indicative of a manual. Could be wrong, slap-shifting bastard.

[madeintheshade]

good kill. i hsng out with four people that have h22s. two preludes a hatch and a regular civic. my buddys black prelude is pretty quick. he runs low 14s pretty much stock. my other buddys runs low 15s so i geuss it is the luck of the draw with them. my buddies hatch is pretty fast though.

[MZR_47]

yeah H22s are pretty good engines, but some just dont have it where it counts... I wonder if they make a non-vtec version? so all the power isnt built up in the top 1000 rpms.

Who knows. "hit and miss" pretty much sums it up

[madeintheshade]

hit and miss sums it up pretty good. there are a bunch of different kinds of h22s i think all are vtec but the power differs. the non vtec are f22s or h23s i think. not really a honda expert though

[lamehonda]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Prelude

I haven't ever been impressed with the performance of the prelude, but I would take a fifth gen anyday over an integra. I had a '99 f23 5speed accord and I used to run pretty tight with the preludes around town. I guess they are just too heavy I dunno. I really like the looks of it. BTW. remember that all preludes are getting pretty old now. newest ones are 7 years old.

The only way to get that VTACK smell out of your clothes is to burn them

[MZR_47]

what about my interior? do I have to burn the pretty blue leather too?

I have an F22 accord 5speed that could probably run with that guy. As sad as that is. And I think a prerequisite of being a Honda expert is to have no hope at all left in a normal life.

Yeah I agree that the newest preludes look the best, there is one up here that I would probably have sex with given the chance.

[lamehonda]

I would only have sex with it if honda would have made it RWD. It would be hondas answer to the corvette. RWD twin-turbo V6 Prelude. kind of like a skyline. I have dreams like this sometime and then I wake up and hondas are still really slow.

[98BlackTransAm]

Originally Posted by lamehonda

I would only have sex with it if honda would have made it RWD. It would be hondas answer to the corvette. RWD twin-turbo V6 Prelude. kind of like a skyline. I have dreams like this sometime and then I wake up and hondas are still really slow.

yeah honda def has the potential to build a sick performance vehicle. unfortunately they are more econo-oriented tho and care more about mpg than hp.

btw my girlriend is RWD

[GForce957]

Like this?

http://www.acuraworld.com/forums/f41...90hp-v8-61799/