Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Honda CRX 16-valve Message-ID: <549@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 19:54:44 EST Article-I.D.: eneevax.549 Posted: Mon Mar 3 19:54:44 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 5-Mar-86 06:39:59 EST References: <12082@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <462@polaris.UUCP> Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Distribution: net.auto Organization: Imperial Widget Research Center, Kingdom of Maryland Lines: 35 In article <462@polaris.UUCP> herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong) writes: >In article <12082@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> m55al@brahms.UUCP (Deepak Munjal) writes: >>I just heard a rumor that a 16-valve 1.6 liter Honda CRX >>is due in showrooms sometime this year. Has anyone heard >>something similar. I know the car is out in Japan and it >>is supposed to put out about 135 hp. If this is true, I >>can't wait to try one and see how Fiero's and MR-2's look >>through the the rear-view mirror. :-) > >the Japanese Prelude Si has the 135HP 16-valve 2.0L engine. the >16-valve CRX engine produces less horsepower (105 rings a bell). > >Herb Chong... > I've lost the article, but Motor Trend did a piece on the 16-valve CRX about a year ago, courtesy of an importer who wanted something around 14k apiece (and he didn't even change it over from right-hand-drive...) Anyhow, I remember the quoted figure for the 16-valve 1.6L engine as 135 hp JIS, 0-60 time in the mid-7's. Oh, and the reviewer claimed about 30mpg during hard acceleration testing, higher for normal use. "Faster than a Z-28" was one of the quotes bandied about. The American Prelude Si, like previous Preludes, uses a 12-valve head, and is only rated for 110bhp, while the not-here-yet Prelude Si 2.0-16 is rated at 137bhp. -dave -- David Hsu Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 hsu@eneevax.umd.edu {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu "Godzilla has been spotted in Sector 5!"