st.peter

hello everyone i have a general integra question.

i just sold my 1997 prelude (loved it except i was burning like a quart of oil every 200 miles). i am now looking to get a 1995-2001 integra ls, gs, or gsr, i have heard that preludes have oil burning issues, would you guys say that integras are better in this regard? im a little concerned beacause im probably going to end up getting an integra with like 110,000-to 160,000 miles and i dont want to run into that oil problem again.

thanks for any help or opinions

TOO MUCH TORQUE

its a hit or miss, buy a car from someone who drives it gingerly..
you really wont be able to tell if it burns oil or not until you own it for a week or two, unleess you do a leakdown test, so inspect it carefully. One way to tell is to see if the exhaust tips have any oily residue...For honda, if the exhaust tip is rather clean(very little carbon), it probably means it was driven gently....

KILLAB17VTEC

integra are reliable.i drove my gsr for 250 miles distances and hittin vtec i gotta add about 1quart oil..if i dont hit vtec i dont need to add oil.it's quick and save gas too.

KILLAB17VTEC

thats why i say vtec is like turbo it intakes oil.

aquito

my old 93 prelude si vtec with the original h22a1 had 188k and it still pulled hard and it didnt burn any oil, and i use to take it to the 1/8 track like twice a month...

ek-g6

I think its all about the people who take care of the car, skimp out of regular maintenance and car will be less reliable, but if your on top of it it will be, but when getting the car from someone else, that you dont know, it like stated above a hit or miss. When you do get it, just take care of it, you dont have to baby it so much, but routine and regular maintenance would be good for the motor.

ALLxMOTOR EG

Both are good cars , its just how you maintain it.

1998_4dr_gsr

my gs-r with 212k miles burns less then 1 quart per 3-5k miles..

MilanoRedDashR

Like everyone says... It all comes down to how its been maintained and taken care of over the course of its life.

nordic97mist

yeah it all depends on how the car was maintained. i have a prelude and the previous owners took awsome care of it. 167k miles on it and doesnt burn much oil at all. only thing wrong was an automatic tranny that broke almost two months ago lol

S2Integra

I hear the H-series has issues with timing tensioner, when modified, but other than that I wouldn't know. I will swear by the B-series for quality, not power. No personal experince with H. I'm sure there is a way around any problems as such, since the H will make better power with a good quality build and tune.

st.peter

thanks for the help everyone. i guess its all how the car was taken care of, i guess my prelude must have been beat on before i got it. seriously l mean a quart for every 400 miles or so sucks (and i had roughly 145,000 on the car). i am probably leaning toward the integra gsr though just have heard better things about that series of engines in the integra (b) vs. the h22