<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Immortal69:
Is there a big difference? Im in the market for a prelude but the Vtec ones are pretty hard to find. Can anyone give me some advice? I heard the h23 is faster when u Mod it rather then the h22. Any advice would help out a lot.
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It took me 6 whole months to find mine. It's not exactly what I wanted, but I settled anyways (it was red, I wanted black, new paint job soon). The interior feels so much nicer than my friend's SI. You get leather and a map light. The map light is very useful. As for power, you will see the SI jump on the start. But once the VTEC lude hits around 4k then onto VTEC, it'll pull from the SI. My car feels like crap under 2k though.
As for oil consumption, the reason why the VTEC may burn more oil is because it's higher revving. I barely burn any oil, VTEC at least once a day. My friend's SI burn much more oil than my VTEC.
Although my car has been running pretty crappy lately, and my gas mileage sucks, I still get better gas mileage than my friend's SI. And the VTEC have bigger brakes than the SI. I thik 11.4" in the front? I'm not so sure.
But, if you plan on going turbo later, you should get an SI, because of the lower compression. VTEC + turbo isn't the best combo. Get the VTEC if you want a very capable street car and can still tear it up on track. It'll be worth the little extra money you pay for it. Keep searching until you find one.