Just bought an old 86 prelude 2.0SI for next to nothing. The reason it
was next to nothing was that this is Southern Louisiana and the A/C is
gone. The compressor is still there but I just got off the horn with
the mechanic and he says that when old honda a/c's went bad they fouled
up the whole system. He says a new compressor will only fail again as
it'll get gunked up with the crap from the first failed compressor. He
also says Honda used to put out a kit to do the repairs but that
all-told it was going to be around 2K to fix. That's 4 times what I
PAID for the car and so I'm wondering if anyone here knows of any other
cheaper options.

Other than no a/c it's a lovely car and I like the hell out of it.

Thanks,
Bill