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Originally Posted by 2legit2quit
Yeah, I'd have to say the CL is Acura's equivilant if there was one. Very similar chassis...you can easily swap the H22 in the CL as well.
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Originally Posted by fastball
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.
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.
And yes, you could put an H22 into the first gen CL's, as it was built on the 5th gen Accord platform. The Prelude, however, was not build on a modified Accord platform, which is common misconception.
If you want a real screamer you could put a J32A from the CL Type S with the 6-speed transmission into the much lighter 1st gen CL (since it already can accept the nearly identical J30). THAT would scream.
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Originally Posted by AF
1st gen, yes, you can do an H22 swap into. And that's because it was the same platform as the 5th gen Accord, but the Prelude did not share that platform and in no way do I think the CL is anywhere close to the Prelude in any generation.
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Originally Posted by SP00NFed
i think you should learn how to shut off the caps button before you learn about vtec 
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h:OH, NICE AVATAR BY THE WAY!
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Originally Posted by beier
This is a great site that explains everything:
http://www.leecao.com/honda/vtec/whatsvtec.html
http://www.leecao.com/honda/vtec/whatsvtec.html
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if your talking 92-96 ludes i would say the accord was close to it. alot of accord parts fit the prelude.lot's of parts engines are about the same just less hp on the accord. prelude leather accord leather-lude h22/h23-accord f23
lug patterns is also the same.brakes alot of things are the almost the same or are the same...
lug patterns is also the same.brakes alot of things are the almost the same or are the same...