Quote Originally Posted by Sport20
celica is a 1.8 that makes 180 stock, the prelude has 400 cc on it, depending on the year prelude you are talking ab (ill give you the latest) 220 stock (am i right)....yet the celica with its 1.8 straight owns the prelude on a track...hmm. plus the 2zz is one of the lightest motors toyota has ever built. its quite a motor. not really built for straight line speed(which im sure you'll argue).but now take that same motor which is in the lotus elise/exige, which would take a prelude easy in a straight line/corner..... the is300 in stock form is a dog. but you cant even come close to comparing it to a prelude. its a detuned NA 2jz....it has potential the prelude will never know. and stock for stock the IS wins. or if you mean the Altezza (same car diff motor) with its 2.0 liter 3SGE with VVTi it makes 210 stock which is pretty close to the lude and if yer comparing cars (i was comparing the motors) the altezza would beat the pants off of it.
speaking from personal experience I've walked both the celica and the is300. I'm well aware of what the first celica gts can do becuase it can be pushed well into redline unlike the ones that came out after 01' (am I right)... So that car will run high mid 14s on the track. (Thats if the driver knows what he is doing and understand that you have to push that car well into redline...) other wise he will struggle with a 99 civic si lol

Since you bring up a the altezza which is indeed 210hp and about 150ishft/tq let me bring in the j-spec h22 type-s 220hp and 161ft/tq..... I sure they weigh in at about the same so thats a drivers race. Same goes for the celica and the is300 as well... you have numbers on your side becuase the celica indeed runs a faster time than usdm prelude. I've got my exprience on my side; I've yet to see what a prelude type-s runs in the 1/4. My educated guess would be mid to high 14s.