problem with friends car - Honda Prelude Forum

sporttheimport · 11-27-2002, 02:15 AM

ok we went out playing tonight and when we pulled up to where we were going his car started sounding hollow like the exhaust had broke. Didn't think anything of it so he raced me when he shifted into fourth (or what he thought was fourth) it went to reverse and the rpms went through the roof and the car idled down and died. It started back up and runs but when he pushes in the clutch its wanting to drop to 100-300k rpm and then back up to 900rpm and it also is rocking the car pretty heavily. Any ideas on what happened?

jgprelude · 11-27-2002, 05:01 PM

sounds like some bent valves. Do a compression test.

sporttheimport · 11-27-2002, 06:54 PM

how much is it to replace bent valves?

mciampag · 11-27-2002, 08:41 PM

Off the top of my head, I'd say a whole helluva lot.

VTEC Shore Lude · 11-27-2002, 10:51 PM

if you bent the valves ur just better off buying a newer and better engine. Labor alone on valves is approx $1,000.

sporttheimport · 11-28-2002, 10:21 AM

can you buy something to check the compression at like autozone or anything

Brady92/4WS · 11-28-2002, 11:02 AM

that sucks i almost did that once, but it grinded like hell when i tried to put it into reverse and i never let out the clutch, im impressed that your friend powered through all that and got it into reverse.

sporttheimport · 11-28-2002, 11:07 PM

he shifts very strong, has a problem with pulling gears (bye bye synchros) but he is a very good driver so im not sure what happened

fourthgeneration · 11-29-2002, 12:11 AM

i had 16 bent valves. timing belt broke. 16 new valves from honda are ~475. i did my headgasket and everything else. parts.. tools.. I spent about 1k a little more. did the labor myself so I didnt have to pay for that