DILEMMA!!! Options

[jshawn96]

Ok. My first car was a 95 VTECH Honda Prelude and I loved it, but wrecked it. Then I got my 96 Celica ST and have just about finished a $4000 dollar 3sgte engine swap. But I just found a local seller that is selling a 2000 Prelude with 72,000 miles on it for $4000. My dilemma is: Should I sell my newly swapped celica for 6-8 thousand and get the prelude, or keep the celica?

[NaderG]

keep the celi , you have more power than the prelude with the 3sgte under the hood , also i think the 97+( or 96) preludes are ugly , but thas me

[DSToyo]

idk, i like the looks of the newer preludes, and it is a little newer... is it the type sh or whatever? idk what you could sell the celi for either tho.

This post has been edited by DSToyo: Jun 26, 2007 - 2:23 PM

[jjbenzo]

I had bought a two year old Prelude Type SH back in 1999. The car had only 18,000 miles on it. It was the biggest piece of crap I have owned to date. After just one week of owning it the whole bottom end had to be replaced (by Honda) and thereafter the car was in the shop on a monthly basis. I finally sold it back in 2002 with about 42,000 miles on it. The car was junk. I would stick with the Celica if those are your only two options.

[jshawn96]

The only other option i saw was a 2001 IS 300 for $7000. I've driven the prelude before and it handles better than my celica. As for the power its a toss up. My celica has 225 turbo charged and the prelude has 220 stock, but with a turbo could easily hit 260. The IS 300 has some mods done to it and is putting 320hp to the ground, but its more expensive and insurance sucks.

[coldbluesteel]

IS 300 is my vote. 2jzge... enough said.

[coldbluesteel]

No wait I take that back you should not get the IS300, rather you should tell me where it is so I can.

[tomazws]

The only other option i saw was a 2001 IS 300 for $7000. I've driven the prelude before and it handles better than my celica. As for the power its a toss up. My celica has 225 turbo charged and the prelude has 220 stock, but with a turbo could easily hit 260. The IS 300 has some mods done to it and is putting 320hp to the ground, but its more expensive and insurance sucks.

Where the heck did you find all these cheap cars? (What I meant is cars with such awesome price)

[coldbluesteel]

The only other option i saw was a 2001 IS 300 for $7000. I've driven the prelude before and it handles better than my celica. As for the power its a toss up. My celica has 225 turbo charged and the prelude has 220 stock, but with a turbo could easily hit 260. The IS 300 has some mods done to it and is putting 320hp to the ground, but its more expensive and insurance sucks.

Where the heck did you find all these cheap cars? (What I meant is cars with such awesome price)

He's in GA... they don't like foreign cars much there . At least from what I saw on my visits.
I'll probably get hammered for saying something dumb like this.

[tin_foil]

I'd be hesitate to buy that prelude for that cheap. Doesn't sound right. Or is there just something that needs to be done on it that you didn't mention?

Either way my vote is for the celica. If you hadn't done a 3s swap, I'd say the prelude all the way, but now you should just spend money making the celica even more of a beast.

Second option: take out a small loan, and buy the prelude, and keep both cars. That's what I'd do if I found a prelude for that price.

[jjbenzo]

The only other option i saw was a 2001 IS 300 for $7000. I've driven the prelude before and it handles better than my celica. As for the power its a toss up. My celica has 225 turbo charged and the prelude has 220 stock, but with a turbo could easily hit 260. The IS 300 has some mods done to it and is putting 320hp to the ground, but its more expensive and insurance sucks.

The USDM Prelude has the H22 VTEC making only 200 hp, not 220. Its decently quick...stock 0-60 is about 7.2 seconds. Where did you find an IS for only $7000?

[Remy]

I say the celi since you have the swap completed already ?? The prelude SH is ok but when I'm in my friends prelude it feels like I'm rolling in a tank.

[CelicaST_CALI]

id say celica jsut cause its rareness,at least in sac i see preludes left and right and ive on seen 5 6gcs in 8 years.Plus u already put the $ into the celica for the swap.

[jshawn96]

The IS is from a friend of mine and the prelude is from some old lady who's sun moved to Europe and she's stupid and selling it for cheap. It has an intake on it which is why I guesstimate 220. And the price is what is making it tempting.

And coldbluesteel was right. 98% of georgia hates japanese cars but I live in Peachtree City. Its a rich persons little town built for Delta pilots. A few years ago it was on the top ten places to live in the country (Dont ask me why). In PTC you will find brand new BMW 6 series, brand new porsche 911's, brand new mercedes sl 6's. We've got ferrari's and lambo's. PEACHTREE CITY is not a southern town.

Plus I'm from newport beach in cali originally so I LIKE ME MY IMPORTS

[tomazws]

The IS is from a friend of mine and the prelude is from some old lady who's sun moved to Europe and she's stupid and selling it for cheap. It has an intake on it which is why I guesstimate 220. And the price is what is making it tempting.

And coldbluesteel was right. 98% of georgia hates japanese cars but I live in Peachtree City. Its a rich persons little town built for Delta pilots. A few years ago it was on the top ten places to live in the country (Dont ask me why). In PTC you will find brand new BMW 6 series, brand new porsche 911's, brand new mercedes sl 6's. We've got ferrari's and lambo's. PEACHTREE CITY is not a southern town.

Plus I'm from newport beach in cali originally so I LIKE ME MY IMPORTS

Since they're so cheap, just buy it, don't like it? sell it for higher!

[jason]

keep the celica, take the emblems off, get projectors and keep it from being ricey and try and make i elegant then, you'll deff fit in with nicer cars then as opposed to a honda.... but try n get the prelude as well.. from my experiences.... there are honda parts & cars... then there are prelude's and their parts.... not the most reliable, "mod" tolerable cars out there, they rank up there with dsms in my mind

[coldbluesteel]

The IS is from a friend of mine and the prelude is from some old lady who's sun moved to Europe and she's stupid and selling it for cheap. It has an intake on it which is why I guesstimate 220. And the price is what is making it tempting.

And coldbluesteel was right. 98% of georgia hates japanese cars but I live in Peachtree City. Its a rich persons little town built for Delta pilots. A few years ago it was on the top ten places to live in the country (Dont ask me why). In PTC you will find brand new BMW 6 series, brand new porsche 911's, brand new mercedes sl 6's. We've got ferrari's and lambo's. PEACHTREE CITY is not a southern town.

Plus I'm from newport beach in cali originally so I LIKE ME MY IMPORTS

Told ya...
Just kiddin. You will find Euro's mostly as far as your foreign cars in the south. I get hated on here in NC with both my Toys... especially when I make theirs look bad.

But seriously keep the Celica, they are beautiful and when done right will be right at home with all the Euro's you mentioned. I wouldn't ever want to part with mine.

Oh yeah, how do I speak to this friend of yours?

This post has been edited by coldbluesteel: Jun 26, 2007 - 10:00 PM

[jshawn96]

So you want the IS? Well here's the deal. I have the money to get all three but I'm saving up for the 08/09 supra that might be coming out. I have too many options. I'll probably end up buying the prelude, selling it for more and then buy the IS (if I can do that all in a month). And when the supra comes out, sell my celica and the IS and buy that bad boy.

[coldbluesteel]

So you want the IS? Well here's the deal. I have the money to get all three but I'm saving up for the 08/09 supra that might be coming out. I have too many options. I'll probably end up buying the prelude, selling it for more and then buy the IS (if I can do that all in a month). And when the supra comes out, sell my celica and the IS and buy that bad boy.

So... did you get the IS?

[celicaST]

The IS is from a friend of mine and the prelude is from some old lady who's sun moved to Europe and she's stupid and selling it for cheap. It has an intake on it which is why I guesstimate 220. And the price is what is making it tempting.

And coldbluesteel was right. 98% of georgia hates japanese cars but I live in Peachtree City. Its a rich persons little town built for Delta pilots. A few years ago it was on the top ten places to live in the country (Dont ask me why). In PTC you will find brand new BMW 6 series, brand new porsche 911's, brand new mercedes sl 6's. We've got ferrari's and lambo's. PEACHTREE CITY is not a southern town.

Plus I'm from newport beach in cali originally so I LIKE ME MY IMPORTS

whoa small world, i used to live there. golf carts ftw! great place, but now i live in fort collins, colorado, which was voted #1 place to live in the us