Car Shopping
Saturday morning I went with a friend to 512Motors to check out a
car. It's become a regular occurence for me to go check out cars
that are posted on Craigslist. Anyways, this car was a 2001 Honda
Prelude so I was personally interested in driving the car. Having
never driven a Prelude, I was looking forward to the test drive.
The car was in pretty good shape although it was missing a hood.
The dealer said the hood was coming in next week, so for the time
being it had no hood. While that's usually a concern when buying a
car, it was great for a car's performance.
I've never driven a car without a hood either.
No hood means that you have better air flow going through the
engine bay, and better cooling for the engine. I'm sure there was
some slight performance gains while test driving the car. The
dealer was very cool about letting me thrash on the car going
through the curves. The H22 engine is pretty sweet. I see why
people like swapping it into Civics. Anyways, my friend ended up
buying it, so I'll get to drive it at least once more next week
when I go with him again to pick it up.
