schwett

a colleague of mine's fiance has a prelude S. i think it's a 92.

her tranny blew, and he replaced it with one from a junkyard that was a couple hundred bucks....... he believes is was from another S/F22 prelude, but now he complains that his gearing is significantly shorter.

he talked to somebody (the dealer?) who claims that, yes, it is an S tranny, but it's a 95, and the 95 had much shorter gears than the 92 S.

i think this sounds like BS; i know the si and si/vtec have progressively shorter gears than an S.... but i can't buy a 95 S having shorter gears than a 92. his recollection is that the car used to be at about 4000RPM at 100mph in 5th gear, and now it's at 5200RPM. 5200 more or less matches what an si tranny would be, so i'm thinking he got an SI tranny.

thanks very much for any help on this.

influx

i think my si is right around there.
does he have a tranny code?

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brendon2k

I agree with influx. The 5th gears seems about right to be a si tranny. The code of the tranny would be the easiest way to find out.

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Satan_SRV

S: M2L5
Si/SR: M2S4
VTEC/SR-V: M2F4

The code is right on the tranny

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Joel
Dirty Supra Turbo Hardtop

schwett

THANK YOU.

It's an Si tranny. He thought the code was "M254," not "M2S4," and honda couldn't connect the dots.

Now he gets to go wreck shop on the yard that sold it to him as an "S" tranny!

Satan_SRV

Wouldn't the tranny be better? I mean the car would be faster...but it would rev much higher on highway driving..

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Joel
Dirty Supra Turbo Hardtop

schwett

the s isn't really a performance vehicle in any way... so the mileage, noise, wear, etc are bigger factors. he said that it is faster, but the high revs ont he highway bothers him, especially since the torque peak is relatively low (compared to an h23 or h22)

in any case, he wants the S tranny back.

Scalifludesi

Just tell him to get a h23 or h22 longblock instead of putting back the S tranny.

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94 Prelude VTEC (Sold 2/2/06) 06 Nissan 350Z 6MT (Born 2/10/06)

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Yea that swap is a big change. But from what I found, noone knows anything about prelude transmissions. There all stupid, even the people at the race shops. They all kept telling me that the vtec and Si trans were exactly the same gearing. I still have yet to see that there is actually a difference but everyone says there is. I got my S trans still, im going to rebuild it eventually. When i have a chance. Its a good trans, 3rd just barely started to grind.

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