I just completed a cruise with the Prelude Australia.com club. It was meant to be just that, a cruise. But things got fast, very fast when we reach a section of road in Victoria called the Black and Reefton spur. The fast cars were 3 5th gens a 4th, a 1997 turboed Integra (non-Vtec) and a S15 Silvia Spec R.
The Spec R was told to go into the lead (fast driver in a fast car), then it was the teg followed by the 5th gens, a 3rd gen a CRX then my 3rd gen.
The pace was really quick. Very twistie roads, 2nd and 3rd gear mainly. And guess what? The curves are the great equaliser. Without the room to stretch their legs, the higher powered cars didn't break away from me at all. I hung on to them easily. I think I brake later than them, but that's probably just driver. So my 15yo car aquited itself well.
Thats great. Third gens woot woot. I had the same thing on the way to LFW with my caravan. We were racing through traffic uphill and I stayed with them the whole time. Needless to say they were pretty impressed.
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So, if you could take a b20 and turbo it to put down about 250 - 300 horses to the ground... it would probably stomp on a lot of cars then on the track..
My 3g does just fine auto-xing. The only car in my class that it can't compete with are the 89 civics, but then, no other cars seem to be able to compete with them either!
Whenever a 3g come through my honda place, I always try and go the extra mile for them. Although I never tell them.
I'm going to try an make sure I'm nearer to the front of the pack next time. I would have prefered to have pushed harder.
I'm really happy with my 3g in its current state. Lowered (for handling not looks), poly bushes, strut brace, good shocks, good tires, headers.
It is sooo much fun to drive through the twisties. There is another cruise coming up in the Halls Gap area (Grampians) in Victoria (Australia). Lots of twisties there too.
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I you no longer go for a gap that exist, you're no longer a racing driver" Ayrton Senna.
Strut tower braces really tighten up these cars. I have the Cusco ones. Major bling, but it's also the only one I found that was welded instead of bolted together.
my friend in high school had a 3rd . we loved that car . very nice cars indeed. there was a guy on base selling a beautiful white 3rd gen. i wanted it so bad. but the wife said three cars in hawaii is a bit much, and she was right.
lol ya, several 3rd gens did pretty good at NPM. The chassis is the weak point I say for autox though, as the power band really doesn't make as big of a diff.
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