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If you were Head of Design on your series Prelude...

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If you were Head of Design on your series Prelude...

Post by simonc » Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:54 am

Okay, off to la-la land with this one, but I just wondered what design changes, modifications or tweaks you’d have made to your series Prelude, if you were the Design Chief at Honda?

To indulge my fantasies, here’s what I’d have done with my sharpened pencil. I should also add that obviously, I’m no engineer but I’m trying to keep my modifications in period, so no swanky fly by wire crap or any other 2018 tech come to mention it.

A clamshell front end, a la Jaguar E-type. This could have been a signature item for the entire Prelude series.
Stainless steel window surrounds.
Move the electric window switches off the door to a place on the centre console.
A better looking clock.
Twin exhausts, one on the left, one on the right.
A moving gauge that shows you’re approaching and are in VTEC.
Stainless steel kick plates, backlit of course, as a standard fitment.
A ‘fading’ interior light as well as foot well lighting.
A recess on the front bumper to hold a long, horizontal number plate.
A pair of sexy side vents on the front wings with a stainless horizontal bar bisecting the vent, like those on the Aston Martin.
Move the ski hatch to the passenger side.
Retain and upgrade the mechanical 4WS of the 3rd Gen.
Higher quality plastics on the dash and console.
Single wiper blade.
Mesh radiator grille.
Fog/spot lights that echo the oblong shape of the headlights.

To take this a stage further, as it’s the 90’s and the NSX is out there, proving the genius of Honda, I’d task my design team to create a mid-engined Prelude taking the best bits of the NSX, to create a mile eating, but oh so elegant monster, to cement the company’s radical engineering prowess even more. Imagine that? A three litre engine behind the seats, discreetly flared arches with subtle but purposeful scoops, flared arches, wider wheels and tyres of course, and a frontal aspect that’d scare the bejeezus out of anyone unlucky enough to have it in their rear view mirror. Et voila, the Honda PSX limited edition.

Anyway, there’s my little tweaks, I’d love to hear how you guys would wield your pencils on the Prelude drawing boards of yore. ;)
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Post by JEBB4 » Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:45 am

Welllllll........

4g would have to have been FR, still similar engines throughout the range but all rear wheel drive..
A type R version would have had to be made, mimicking the upgrades the NSX R of the time had, so Kevlar 1 piece recaro, stripped of all sound deadening, rear seats deleted with option of a half cage instead, Red seat belts, carbon fibre door inserts and trims around the dash and centre console, No ABS, No TCS, mechanical 4WS as an option, big 4 or 6 pot brakes up front, twin pot rears, more aggressive front end similar to JUN front lip, mild side skirts but colour coded, subtle rear defuser, slightly bulged arches and much lower suspension with NSX R style wheels, optional Carbon rear wing, twin exhausts at rear..
Type R engine would be a H24A, so larger displacement H series, strictly naturally aspirated, Individual Throttle Bodies are a must, with some aggressive cams and sky high compression it would make about 250bhp very easily and reliably for a production car..

So that's about it, I'm sure I could add more if I really thought about it but it's annoying me enough thinking what could have been :lol:
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Post by lewd lude lover » Tue Feb 06, 2018 10:06 am

5th gen

bad boy headlights
rwd
2.5 straight six
6th gen Prelude please Mr Honda. RWD 2.4 turbo lude.

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Post by Drax » Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:36 am

lewd lude lover wrote:5th gen

bad boy headlights
rwd
2.5 straight six
:lol: :lol: even though your signature says "6th gen Prelude please Mr Honda. RWD 2.4 turbo lude."
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Post by Drax » Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:44 am

if i were to redesign the 4g from it's period, i think the only change i'd do is to move the bloody interior door pull handles to somewhere they wont give me pain for leaning my arm on :lol: :lol:
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Post by norks27 » Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:28 pm

Hmmm....
Rocket launchers
Submarine mode and VTOL
Trans Warp drive and a couple of rear mounted photon torpedoes.
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Post by lewd lude lover » Tue Feb 06, 2018 1:21 pm

@drax: My sig is for a 6th gen..... not the 5th gen :P :o :P i think the 5th should have had a sixpot rwd NA while the 6th gen would have to nod towards econonsense and would probs be a 4pot turdbo..... :lol:
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Post by Drax » Tue Feb 06, 2018 1:35 pm

lewd lude lover wrote:@drax: My sig is for a 6th gen..... not the 5th gen :P :o :P i think the 5th should have had a sixpot rwd NA while the 6th gen would have to nod towards econonsense and would probs be a 4pot turdbo..... :lol:
:roll: of course, i missed the "your series Prelude" bit at the top, it thought it was about a new 6th series lude....DOH!!

ill edit my previous section then...
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Post by nitin_s1 » Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:06 pm

I think the 5G S-Spec and Type-S don’t need any changes as they are perfect. :)

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Post by lewd lude lover » Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:35 pm

nitin_s1 wrote:I think the 5G S-Spec and Type-S don’t need any changes as they are perfect. :)

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: mate. Bless.
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