1989 Honda Prelude Si 4WS : Regular Car Reviews 

This is definitely making me want to put mine back together. It’s been sitting for a couple years with electrical issues

Somewhere, someone with a 3rd gen is thinking "finally, I'll get more than $1500 for this thing"

Quick, get doug demuro to drive it back down!

Gordon Ronco (slowly raises hand while looking away in shame)

My first car was a 91 si five speed, probably going to get another one while my supra is down for upgrades.

TangoR34 headlights go up

@@haroldflower8008 headlights go down

Headlights go sideways

pop up headlight should be standard!! Of the child hood like the pull back sun roof and auto reverse kassett player wonderbaum and the sun shade sticker that is brown fade across wind scream!! why is 80s gonn? :(

@Chris Doseck Fick yu negativatee

“Soft-touch buttons?” Johnson, how’s a promotion sound?

2020s be like relyabiliti? Was ist daß

ノック F

Cars like this have made me realize, as a kid raised around cars with so much raw power they could launch a diff into the neighbors living room on Christmas and kill their kids, cars are not all about looks or speed. But they are about the sheer fun of them. It's not stressful to drive them. You just can.

Well, different people look at things differently at different time, same as your grandma. Don't feel so bad and find another gem.

My condolences to you good Sir.

You know you can find these cars relatively cheap right? Use one as a weekend car.

Lol

Yeah that’s why most people have it removed. It’s not like a tiny Japanese car is that hard to turn anyway!

Damn, I think I hear wallets crying from here for those trying to restore these

You get used to it.

This is incredibly late, but I did have to replace the rear upper and lower ball joints on this car 2 years ago. Finding the uppers was difficult, but luckily JC Whitney actually had them in stock.

Vasek Cekan I was waiting for him to mention it haha

Yup, and overtaking was incredibly easy and quick... All my friends couldn't believe how this thing happened to handle, even souped up cars of the day could hardly keep up with the 'lude!

Yes, you can see at 2:20 and 6:12 , the rear wheels move one way then the other.

How does that affect pulling away from the curb?

@@drippingwax ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah, I don't know how Mr. Regular managed to miss this. Any amount of basic research (or literally just watching the rear wheels) would clue you in to the fact that the rear wheels are always being steered. At a certain point they change direction.

Yup, that and calling it four wheel drive multiple times.

I noticed that the wheels were doing that. I thought that the system was wore out and not working correctly.

My dad had a 4WS for most of my childhood. Absolutely the coolest thing you can do with these cars is change lanes on the highway without the car changing it's forward direction.

Ah yes I also thought it was broken and trying to keep up. Makes sense, crazy to think that’s what MODERN Porsche’s feature currently

Thanks for sharing your Prelude with us, Chey. You have a very special piece of automotive history. Thank you for taking such good care of it and giving it the loving home it deserves. The world needs more people like you.

Chey Halye sick Lude

I got an 89 Si, non 4WS. Thanks for letting him review it, I've been wanting to see him review one of these forever.

I love your old school Honda Prelude how meany miles on it and how much did you pay for it.

The 4WS is only part of what makes this car unique. It's clean as hell! Thanks for taking care of it!

Not if it came with leather seats lol

Dude!

Des Ulv-- And while you do I'll pray for you.

I need these rhymes.

No way dude you'll be way screwed if you hydro lock, who's gonna save you?

Yas it's for high speeds all wheels turns into same way

Just like the silvergaydo, and just as useless.

pro tip: watch movies at Flixzone. Been using it for watching a lot of movies recently.

That is. CORRECT! Makes passing at high speeds (step out/lane change) easier This was my first car. (What they don’t tell you is if you manage to turn the steering enough at high speed to get the rear wheels opposite to the front wheels the damn car will want to swing out and try to kill you)

@@citysoundfm in all honesty I feel like they didnt need to tell us that.. lmao

90s were just as good if not better. The real golden age of japanese car makers.

Crx

Mitsu GTO/2000GT

R32 GT-R and Honda NSX 1989...Also S13 Silvia.

My 90 Celica GTS is still kickin' around.

728 Autos he couldn't even hold back the laughter

It's Peanut Butter lead.

pb

LEAD LEAD LEAD

It'll grow some WAMPA on your DAMPA.

SolamenteVees explain what you mean?

autoworld100 this Prelude was built/engineered in the golden age of Honda, along with the NSX, RC30, etc...

@@autoworld100 it still functions and hasnt broke becuase it was built well

Built well and the only thing that really could go wrong is the rear rack/pinion leaking oil.

My 91 Accord after a new starter, alternator, timing belt, water pump, distributor, spark plugs/wires, valve cover gasket, new injectors, transmission rebuild, all aluminum radiator, thermostat, will probably outlive me once I Rhino line the underside. Has 55k original miles and I will see that it hits 500k I'm cheap but I make Corvette owner $

tobi maru with some less dated seat swaps I think it’d be a pretty nice interior, mine came completely navy in colour, which aged way better than that imo

My dad had a jacket in that color and we all referred to it as the poop jacket.

And I love it lol

Brown is always better

80's baby. *cues the vapor wave*

stoeger 2 ah don’t worry it’s ff you won’t lose it

My buddy had one of these and did that at 85mph while racing a Camaro sadly he's not a good driver and lost it but only ran the side of it down the barrier he still has it and is rebuilding it

I think he means mechanically driven 4 wheel steering and in the heat of the moment turns into bleah..... 4 wheel drive... Still love him tho.

He should have re-recorded that. My love for Mr Regular is tainted from this video. IASEAGLE5 - you are too kind to try and defend his obvious fuck ups. It is all in the detail, you see. The sum of small things add up to a cluster fuck.

4-wheel drive? 4-WHEEL TRIPE

Mr regular is human. Im not faulting him.

He leaves the mistakes in. I kinda like that.

Nah, have to disagree. I had one of these, with an autobox and it was very responsive.

Jon Godfrey Na you didn’t

I own a 1990 4WS Auto, and it actually really is a good automatic, one of the first “complex” autos where you can shift through the gears. Hangs in the revs super well, throttle response is excellent too. In fact, I’d say it shifts faster than most modern cars (although I did have mine rebuilt)

@@jco5254 yes i do

@@JonnyJayJonson them automatic transmissions on Preludes would go out all the time. Stick shift was more reliable. I drove a 1990 white Prelude automatic, & I remember yes it was very responsive, the engine sure had a nice sound, & the interior was absolutely mint. This was at a racing school when I was 11 years old. I am still trying to look for that exact prelude, because it would be cool to see the exact car again I once drove, & see the mileage, Vin number, etc, I just want to find it again. Boy did it handle the rainy weather extraordinarily well on the track

Wouldn’t sure lockers would be a great idea in this, especially with the 4WS

Had an '89 4WS. Lived in ID, AZ, CO, and MO. Both AZ and CO required a new title when I got the licence there, and both screwed up the title by calling it 'Prelude 4WD SI'.🤡

He also called it "four-wheel drive steering and just "4wd" by the end of the video. Are you going to call it one of those options?

@@MikeyRB77 yeah that wasnt his brightest moments but I cant bash the guy for that for all the right things he says he's gonna slip with some BS sooner or later

His entire description of the system was...just...wrong. The steering wheel runs the steering shaft, the shaft runs the pinion, the pinion runs the rack and the front tie rods. The rack runs a second pinion, which runs the transfer shaft, which runs a complex eccentric gear in the rear housing which runs the rear tie rods. No driveshaft, no differential, no half shaft.... Of course he massacred Honda’s engines of that period as well, so I guess we shouldn’t be surprised.

Psychoboyaw. Nobody cares.

OhighO Skater-- Yeah man, they were always part of my well balanced breakfast in asbestos bowls and covered in freshly squeezed milk I harvested from my cat, Booger, every morning before school! Bruh, I sure miss that cat!

@@urdaddywingnut7820 That sounds like the perfect breakfast to start off a great day!

As a resident of cincinati I appreciate this comment more than you'll ever know

THE BRAIN SPECIALIST But they also go down.

UP DOWN UP DOWN!

THE BRAIN SPECIALIST name checks out

PANTS GO DOWN

iEat Crayons Sempur Fidels Marin

Jason Spencer trust me, you don't want to drive this car if you care about safety. Even in low speed accidents, the passenger cabin will crumple up like a tin can. People just don't care about safety until they're in a hospital with disfiguring lifelong injuries or worse...

Legionnaire i guess you could say the same thing for most cars then..

BIG J I know you're a better gentleman than this, sir

TRY to HELP you, That's a Centurion.

Its coming for you !

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one that noticed

Joe The Barbarian lol I know rigjht

ok!

TalenGryphon I was excited too when they reviewed a prelude. I myself daily a base 5th gen.

TalenGryphon I have one too, a ‘91 with the B21 2.1 engine, it’s not fast compared to my JDM twin turbo Subaru Legacy, but it’s more fun to drive stupidly

I'd love to hear Mr. Regular's thoughts of a 5th gen.

I really hope he review's a 4th Gen prelude soon. He could've reviewed my 93' Si VTEC when he came to New Zealand but it was out of action 😔

Now honda cares more about lane keeping assist, rear view cameras, automatic parking brakes, push button automatic transmission interfaces and other “safety” systems that like to disobey the driver, and overheating over-styled r-type civics that are plastered with fake carbon fiber. I am disappointed.

Those are the Centurion Van Truck guys, from the videos about said vehicles

I love how poorly this comment aged.

@@trikelyfe6090 Snarky millenials think Boomers drove Preludes? Lol

@Michael Saint Arch most millennials are in their mid 20s to mid 30s. How about you guys start bashing gen z

No one likes their generation anyway!

Marty McFly If you’re upset by my comment you haven’t been paying attention to the narrator of these videos.

The Honda that can really shake it’s ass.

10/10 most underrated comment here

I feel sorry that your dad was a jerk, but I can understand because when I was a kid and talk of the dodo get viper or the Honda fast cars my dad was a jerk to saying,” you could get the same speed and same gear set for less if you get a Chevy Silverado.” I just stopped and stared at him, didn’t say anything and was thinking in my head,” do you know how damn stupid you sound right now. Do you ?” But he never liked any other car that was not a Chevy masterpiece to him. Oh well, I still like fast Honda cars that can whoop Chevy ass in any street race from games set in Tokyo or anywhere else that was not North America, until Honda still whooped Chevy ass just because they could. Hope your having a better mood and understand that not everyone you talk to about cars may not like the same brand, even if they don’t get it, why this car calls to you. That’s fine just tell yourself this is my love and my joy, so to hell with anyone else who is just being a jerk just to be a jerk. I hope your in a better mood, really I hope your are okay. Best wishes, a fellow human being who understands feelings who know what it like to love something.

@@quinnflorence i don't think his dad was being a jerk, I think he just calls it 4 wheel drive steering because dad

Sir topham hatt saw it all happen With a BONER!!!

Now I won't be able to take off that image out of my imagination

@@hankhill5622 neither that image as well

**Thomas**

The Wakz I noticed that bit of a flick back and forth when they did the still shots of turning the wheel click to click

Mediocre upper middle class types without any real personality beyond an object they've put their soul (read: nostalgia and spare money) into.

Insufferable boomers fetishizing 1950s Winga Dinga culture.

Acc0rd79 the upside is...retrofitting your car with all the 4WS stuff is simple!

When you can find it.

John smif the Prelude boards generally have someone parting one out. Everything packs into two good size boxes.

I have the same model in blue!

I had a 1987 Si and always wanted a 1990 - 91 and deeply wanted a 4WS!

It's my own personal mix tape; gotta have that 80s sound in the 80s car!

I'm the same way. Mostly 80s hair metal in my car as well. 70s and 90s too. Rush, Boston, Floyd, Jim Croce, Journey, Metallica (old metallica), Guns N Roses, Ozzy, Whitesnake (self titled album), nirvana, Def Leppard (Hysteria), among others. I have a whole like cassette drawer full of cassettes. The ones I listed are just the ones I carry with me.

Yes, Roman excelled in making fuck ups in this video.

You've obviously never heard of the Prelude curse. You could put all the money in the world into completely overhauling every single piece of a Prelude so that its better than factory fresh, and it'll still break down on you. The only Prelude that can be considered "mint" is a show car that is trailered everywhere and never has to be reliable. Even at that, the clock cover will be broken and the seatbelt warning lights won't work.

IDK, mine is in pretty good shape, and I daily it. Only thing that doesn't work on it is the power antenna. The only curse I've ever heard of was the "yellow curse", in that Honda cars painted Barbados yellow were more prone to problems and freak accidents.

SIR TOPPEMHAT SAW IT ALL HAPPEN... WITH A BONER

Best line ever

Great car and horrible commentary. I couldnt watch past 3 min.

Bomberguy it's the best thing ever. I love twilight drives in my 1990 4ws. Such a shame there's not many of these beautiful cars around.

You just described every Saturday evening in my Prelude. XD

Listening to Resonance by Home as the sun is going down on a summer evening. Pure bliss.

I have done this and it was great.

Oh yes 80'S ,i used to do that in my 87 nissan rz-1 !

Cars Simplified same you could do some really crazy stuff

I tried making the rear steering 1-1 with the front and it turned sharp but it kept wanting to tip over on me

Kavin You should make videos about it I'd love to watch

Cars Simplified not a good idea. Honda engineered it just right.

make it turn on a dime, or crab.. so many possibilities!

Song at the end was beautiful

sounded like the intro to a Baroness album

Up next, Roman's Gregorian chant!

Zzyzx Wolfe they know what ya want and how a likeit

UPDOWNUPDOWNUPDOWN

Evrybodies jast jailous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cool storie bruuuuh!!

@@VoxSweden cool, have a great day

I just.... Just had to reply. Words taken from my mouth, I still drive mine today. (The SC) That car rocked the world when it was dropped. Everything else was a box.

And since then all cars are bubbly an bulbous and not square. I’d give anything to have cars that didn’t look like they came from the 90’s

'70s and '80s, not 70's and 80's

The one and only Ｕ．Ｓ．Ｓ． ＢＲＯＷＮ Ｃ． ＳＴＥＮＮＩＳ

Slicer Vorzakh 8 0 s m a k e m e c u m

Future review?

Oh yea me too i can relate

Now that you got all that u-tube money you can afford a 30 year old car too!

I've been waiting too. I've been hoping for a 4WS Prelude on this channel for so long, and it's so nice to finally get it. Also, it's cool to see you here. I had a feeling you were a fellow fan of RCR. Big fan of yours, btw

Sheeeeeeeiittt skeptic watches RCR

Armoured Skeptic I’d do really disgusting things to have this car.

No just no

'87, not 87'

Nick Caesar *40s *your

*nobody *except *you *gives *a *flying *fuck

My very first car was a 1987 Prelude Si in all its manual glory.

I had an '88 and it was glorious. You could redline that sucker and it would still only be doing 40 in second gear.

Do you only poop once every Monday before dawn

I was waiting for that. At least they sort of showed it.

That sounds like a dented rear quarter panel waiting to happen.

How does that work with a fully mechanical system though? Does that steering gearbox on the rear axle shift into reverse via vacuum line?

I had a Silverado with quadrasteer. If memory serves correctly under 10-15 mph the rears would be capable of their full travel in opposite direction of the front tires giving you the shortest turning radius. In the 15-45 mph range the degrees that the tears would turn in the opposite direction were limited. Above that mph range and into “highway” speed the rears had limited degrees of steering and changed direction to turn with the front tires. At higher speeds the truck felt extremely stable, more so in my option than a truck without 4WS. 4WS was great and I truly believe that truck was the best I have ever had in terms of ride comfort and stability. The only time 4WS wasn’t desirable to me was in slushy snow conditions as it made counter steer corrections feel unnatural.

yeah that lane changing mechanical crab-drive feature is pretty cool

Or the simple 12v 2nd gen before it started the upward spiral of bloat, price, and mostly useless feature. In the VTEC era... the Prelude you want is called the Integra GS-R.

Bartonovich52 prelude vtec 4th gen kills the GSR in every Measurements of performance.

The 1991 Si 4WS had the B21A1 which up to that day was the largest 4cl Honda has made, made some great torque for a 4cyl, unfortunately that was also their first venture into FRM cylinder wall sleeves and the damn things are piston rings like crazy. It did however out handle most any car on the road, even newer cars. I had guys in corvettes and Porsche’s struggle to keep up with me on the twisties.

In certain countries you could have both VTEC and 4WS. What I found weird was in Japan they stopped using thinner molding, making the Prelude a luxury car!

Not so but depending on where you live. In Japan where it is tight or in the city this is useful. But like yourself many want more power and the focus was just on power and this feature is not valued by those wanting power. But guess what, after decades European super cars are only just getting the Four Wheel Steering feature in Super Cars and expensive cars. Mercedes first 4ws is the top of the line AMG GT, Porsche is the top of the line 911 and Lamborghini Centenario. Who is behind now and looks like it was not just a Gimmick afterall.

Pls, someone tell him to crossover

There's no apostrophe in 1900s.

cptnoremac Can you get any more technical?