Buying a "new" car.

[theunchosen]

. . .Where did you get a prelude weighing 1400 lbs?
they weigh 2250 lbs at their lightest. The later models are even heavier. . .

[MadisonMPG]

Originally Posted by theunchosen

. . .Where did you get a prelude weighing 1400 lbs?
they weigh 2250 lbs at their lightest. The later models are even heavier. . .

Well the guy said it did, but I guess not, I would have checked before I bought anyway.

[MadisonMPG]

Hell i'm tired of guessing what car to buy. Gas is going up, and I need to get one before CRX's start selling for 5/6k again.

Tell me what to do! Someone here has a CRX HF transmission for 75 bucks, should I just snag that and wait for a CRX Si or something to come along?

[wyatt]

Originally Posted by MadisonMPG

He said 1300 was a reasonable offer, he would accept trades so I probably can't get it for 1k and some stuff. I would get a geo but there are none for sale around here.

So are you saying that he would take $1300 for the CRX? That's really not too bad of a price unless the car is in really bad shape. You said you were worried about the aero with the dinged door, but that can be replaced or beaten back into shape.

[MadisonMPG]

Originally Posted by wyatt

So are you saying that he would take $1300 for the CRX? That's really not too bad of a price unless the car is in really bad shape. You said you were worried about the aero with the dinged door, but that can be replaced or beaten back into shape.

I think he sold it, it's not on Craigslist anymore.

Glad to see another Alabama member here.

[theunchosen]

The HF trans is not that useful to you. The thing thats amazing about the HF is it has lean burn mode. Which allows it to produce more power on less fuel.

Dropping the hf trans in an SI or whatever gives it longer gears which is very helpful. . .but it won't get you to hf mpg..

An acura Integra, A Honda Del Sol, A civic DX,VX, CX are the Honda cars I recommend. Other manufacturers I am not anywher near as familiar with so I'll let others say.

[MadisonMPG]

Originally Posted by theunchosen

The HF trans is not that useful to you. The thing thats amazing about the HF is it has lean burn mode. Which allows it to produce more power on less fuel.

Dropping the hf trans in an SI or whatever gives it longer gears which is very helpful. . .but it won't get you to hf mpg..

An acura Integra, A Honda Del Sol, A civic DX,VX, CX are the Honda cars I recommend. Other manufacturers I am not anywher near as familiar with so I'll let others say.

Could you tell me how lean burn works?

[theunchosen]

Yeah sure.

your engine burns 14.7 grams of air for every gram of gas, usually.

Lean burn just steps in and tells the injectors to only squirt a gram of gas for say 16 grams of air. The idea is you get to burn the extra air for free, while using the same amount of fuel. The advantage is you get a little more fuel into the cylinder(by fuel I mean oxygen and gasoline combined) that you don't pay for.

The HF kicks into lean burn mode under certain circumstances. There is a lean burn guide around here somewhere for the HF but I don't have it stickyed.

[MetroMPG]

theunchosen: I'm no Honda expert, but I didn't think that the CRX ever had a lean burn engine. (SVOboy's VX-equipped MPG monster notwithstanding.)

I found this list (wikipedia) of Hondas that have used lean burn:

• 1992–95 Civic VX
• 1996–2000 Civic Hx
• 2001-05 Civic Hx
• 2002–05 Civic Hybrid
• 2000–06 Insight Manual transmission only

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_bu...n_burn_systems

The HF got its good fuel economy the old fashioned way: light weight, relatively good aero, small conventional engine & tall gearing.

[theunchosen]

I don't have one but I'm pretty sure it was one of the first gassers to debut lean burn on a production model.