Some of you need to go back to your 1st grade Honda class......

The Acura CL is a gussied up Accord, nowhere near an equivalent of a Prelude. It's more luxurious and all but the 1996-98s came with V6 engines standard.

A Prelude, while built on a modified Accord chassis, is not comparable to a CL in any way.

If you could put an H22A into a CL (which would be near impossible for any 1999-2003 CL), why would you want to? They came with the 3.2 VTEC V6 and had anywhere from 230-260 hp, blowing away the Prelude. Combine the fact that all 99-03 automatics were 5 speed and the 2002-03 CL Type-S was a 6 speed manual, they were certainly personal luxury coupes designed to be BMW 3 series fighters more than just sporty coupes.

I almost bought a 2003 CL Type-S. I raced one once. He left me in the dust off the line. On the freeway, that car can pass almost anything on the road without even down shifting out of 6th. And if you do, you can hang with anything short of a Corvette.