5th gear grind is true all yah have ta do is be carefull, honda eat up the punishmeant you can put on them but their still a machine plain and simple and all machines eventually have problems if you mistreet them. Honda's are top of the line in the import market in my mind and besides the NSX and the 2000 i always thought of the prelude as hondas muscle car, big front end big engine loads of tourque. I always thought of it like, that i would love to swap an accord v6, change the car to rear wheel drive and mold an old corvette 427 hood to fit, i think it would be hillarious. Buy the lude the third greatest car in hondas b and h series lineup