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Originally Posted by mahout
Everything is fine unless you do it regularly. Follow break-in rules but especially don't drive long at same rpm, don't take many short trips *<5 mi), and do accelerate easily up to 6000 rpm ocasionally and briefly to keep cylinder walls smooth.
good luck.
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Uh Oh I might have caused some issues then. I commute about 40 miles daily and have to take the freeway. Now at times it's bumper to bumper traffic so it's constantly 1st to 2nd gear. I have yet to take it past 4k RPM and when I am actually cruising at speed it's around 3k RPM. I occasionally take the speed up to 70 MPH and let off the throttle and let the RPM drop down and the MPH drop down to about 60 MPH and then get on the gas again and take it up to 70 MPH to vary the RPM, but once again I have yet to take it past 4k RPM. When I'm moving in the freeway the RPM hovers around 3k RPM. Has this been harmful?
I actually just broke 200 miles and as per the owners manual been making sure I don't make quick and full throttle acceleration and no sudden braking.
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Originally Posted by Fitcious
Sup ZXRider,
I went to UC Irvine..u go to school there? I used to have a 99 5spd pearl white prelude as well...it was such a fun and slick car...esp when it it vtec....and i still think that design of the prelude was timeless...looks sooo goood...but i had like 126k on it and there were leaks EVERYWHERE. haha.
i have a white fit sport m/t as well...ppl on the forum actually says although the clutch on the fit is light, the manual is actually quite hard to drive. there isnt a distinct sweet spot on the clutch..more like a distance than a spot.
what i noticed when i got into hte fit is u dont need to add a lot of gas for these car to release the clutch and MAKE SURE YOU FULLY STEP ON THE CLUTCH ALL THE WAY before you change gears from 1-2...because a lot of ppl complain that the stick "pops" out from 1st to 2nd..but in reality it's just you're pulling the stick faster than ur foot depresssed the clutch.
and yes, this car is easy on the traffic...with the light clutch. my old IS300's clutch was a PAIN!
enjoy!
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I wish I could have attended UCI, but sadly because of the budget cuts they did not have anymore room in the Mechanical Engineering and I did not want to wait another year, so I transferred to CSUF instead. I commute from Irvine to Fullerton daily.
My Prelude is a 1998 Base MT Milano Red and currently it has 186,110 miles on it. I have actually replaced a lot of things on it but I could not justify spending anymore money on it. It's a fun car but the 2.2 liter H22 really needs to be revved up high to get the heavy body moving and I just did not want to rev the thing that high in fear of spinning a bearing.
Also, I own a 1994 Twin Turbo 300ZX, and the Prelude is no where near as fast as the Z. The Prelude was my daily driver for the past 3 years but now because of the high miles, the bad gas mileage and the crammped interior space I ended up moving onto the Fit. Hopefully I can sell the Prelude in the near future.