Update June 15: I sold the car for $6,700. Now I bought a 1997 Honda Hatchback CX and I'm putting a H22 in it. It's all stripped out and I'm building a custom fiberglass dash for it. Also some of my other plans are: bodywork, a paint job, engine swap, aftermarket breaks, suspencion, audio, etc. It's going to be a good dailly driver (good on gas too), good loooking, and good for racing. Also agian I'm going to do all the work my self. I'll take some pics towards the end of summer and make a page for it.
Hi I'm Mike, I am 17 years old, and this is my 96 civic. I did all the work on it myself with the help of my grandpa, and one of my best friends Dan. I'm not rich and my parents didn't help me at all with money with this car. I have saved since I was about 10 for a car and I also have a job that's how I got my money for this car. A streetracer told me "it doesn't matter how much money you put in your car but whether you do it right or wrong. If you do it right people will see that and respect it" So I've been trying to do everything right and I think it came out really well. Feel free to check for yourself and please don't forget to rate my ride.
As you can tell the car was really crapy when I first got it. Here's a list of things we had to do just to repair it:
Change engine rings(it's a big job we to tair engine apart, it took more work/time then doing a engine swap)
Fix tac
Re wire some
body work
paint (We even painted the car our self)
transmission/cluch
ball joints
brakes/E-brake
exhaust
suspension
I would estimate it took us 9 months about 300 man hours with both of us (me and my grandpa) working on it just to repair it.
Here's some pictures of the plexiglass subwoofer box I built. I don't have any of the pictures of it in my car because I am re-doing the trunk right now. The kid who owned the car before me stripped the trunk out so I'm working on putting the trunk interior back in.
Upgrades on Car:
low pros (not on car now putting on in spring)
full body kit
two tone exterior
two tone interio
k&n air intake
crome headers
exhaust 2 1/2" plus smaller cat for little better air flow
custom built muffler
drag racing tac with light
dash that lights up blue and you can switch to green
engine dressed up
Dynex 10" subwoofer
Dual 580 watt amp
insignia CD player
carbon fiber side mirrors
carbon fiber shift nob
short throw shifter
Custom body work
Shaved logos
aftermarket fenders
Custom trunk layout
gage cluster
Underglow
Interior lights
sway bar
Custom Paint tone (they don't make this color for stock hondas)
Total cost of aftermarket parts- $10,000 plus
