My termostat went out in my 1993 honda prelude and my car keep over heating, but the termostat was dirt cheap.
My stock 1993 honda prelude with the 2.2 Liter vtech motor is one quick car, that's very rarely seen much anymore its all about civics now for people who want a quick tuner, but in my opinion a prelude is much faster handles better and is a much better car then the civic. I was goin down the road the other day and a 2007 honda civic 5-speed came on my right side of my 1993 automatic honda prelude wantin to race, he tried to take off on me, he didn't get far, he got about 100ft and I ran him right down and flew past him and left him in the dust, you could tell he was droping gears just to try to keep up. Over all it way faster then a civic and just a bad ass car.that's not all its ran down so far, its ran down civics, mustangs, ponitiac grand am gt, audi, and ran down a trans am in top end. the fastest I ve got my prelude is 147mph and it was wanten more I just ran out of road.
Don't get a civic get a prelude, but make sure it's a vtech motor.
If you think you're going fast with a four banger.. try a late mustang, camaro, firebird with their v-8 or a corvette.. then you'll be talking about going really fast... And you'll have to put many goodies and lots of dollars to have the same power and thrill.. on the good side your prelude is surely more reliable and that would be enough,, right!