has anyone done one in your prelude and what speed did you get
done on the track obviously

Ive done it on a private airfield before, but ive never reached a top speed and looked down at the clocks!

I did look down at full tilt once, that was sat at the 145mph mark.
Not a speed i want to do again, even without cars and stuff in your way, its bloody scary seeing birds flying out of your way, half a mile infront, and still nearly hitting them

i havent done it in mine yet but will do if i get the chance, i have done it in the skyline though.......... reason i ask is i hear of people saying they get close to 160 in theirs but i'm sure mine would do knowhere near that... my old 2.3 lude did just over 140 but ran out of puff after that

Yeah 160 is abit optimistic i think, i don't believe the gearbox can handle it.

Maybe im wrong...

I think when i did that top speed, it was revving at around 7-7.5K, so it really couldn't do much more without gearbox work i doubt....

yes most prob, i find the gearing is good for fast starts up to 100 then slows down a bit after that.... i havent been on the track yet with mine but am really looking foreward to it

1995 UK spec BB1 with 4WS and all the toys, plus mugen suspension and a rusty fartcan mugen-lookalike exhaust: 149mph on a TomTom with the speedo needle on 150mph and the tach in the red, and probably within about 750rpm of the limiter.

Also, same car but with a new custom downpipe-back exhaust, but loaded to the roof with luggage:
152mph on TomTom and I don't know how many revs because I had to move the hell out of the way of a 911 turbo that was approaching from behind, while travelling slightly ahead of his own sound shockwave


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First one was at RAF Marham on the mile long straight they set up as part of the circuit on charity trackdays.

Second one was on a derestricted section of German Autobahn, so stick that in your pipe and choke on it.

not a bad result wonder what the difference would be with head work and cams ??

i have got 146 out off my lude at 7000rpm, while i was over in germany

but that was just indicated speed, it was more like 136 as they over read at higher speeds

my engine wasnt very well so dint want to take it into the red

so if i derestricted my type s what could i expect?

150ish unless you change your final drive ratio or take off the rev limiter....it'll be limited by the gearing ultimately, and that's why I never believe a word from people who claim to have taken lightly modded ITRs and Preludes over 155.

The difference between my car doing 149 and 152 was about 5 miles of road At Marham I had to brake but in Germany I could just let it go, and those last 3mph ticked by achingly slowly. At that rate of acceleration you'd run out of fuel before 160

right. i fancy it some time. my rev limiter co,es in at 8200 so i will report.

Word of warning - my ex girlfriend was from Cheltenham which I see is your location. She got banned for 3 months after being caught speeding somewhere around there in her MR2 at about 135 Do it in Germany, or a suitable trackday if you value your licence
Or pm me for a suggestion if you want one

i hit 160 on the clocks in my bb4, flat ground but it had 17"s which i guess made a differenct to the speedo reading, couldnt be amazingly far out though

I've had mine up to 180, the needle was right at the end of the speedo.


That's in kph, it's still Jap spec'.