This partuicular civic was bought by my girlfriend at the time form one of my good friends. He replaced the motor with a lower milleage motor that was freshened up. All maintenance was done and all seals replaced. He also installed a new clutch kit along with a lightened flywheel. Eventhough this is not the fastest car out there, I don't mind since it gets great gas milleage.
The car now is in its second Iteration. After I bought it from my firend, the car was immediately modified. A plethora of carbon parts were installed just to update the look and the car was lowered on Mars full coilover suspension from my good friend Robert @ TCSportline.com. After the ride height was set, next in line was wheels. Wheels are what make or break the car so something different had to be installed. After looking, I ended up deciding on some XXR 501 wheels in 15x8 +15offset with 195 tires. I also Installed a CF backed Seat for the driver side to help when I was gonna track the car. Here is what she looked like after I was almost done with her:
This picture was taken in San Diego by Seaworld actually. Funny thing about this picture is that on the way to SD, a Dodge Neon tried to race us but we just laughed at the driver. I guess the Neon's driver's girlfriend got embarrased when she saw us laughing that she started getting mad at her boyfriend. Lol.
Sadly a couple months later, after my brother took it to school without me knowing, even with a detachable steering wheel, the car was stolen. All the aftermarket parts that was installed were gone. After all the hardwork and labor of love, the car was stipped. I had felt like I lost a member of the family.
The car was recovered thank goodness and I promply turned her back to stock in hopes of selling it since I feel like it would never be the same again.
Come 2 years later I still had the car. I guess I just couldn't let it go. Letting my brother drive it, since his turbo car wasted gas, was what it was mostly used for. Since he wasn't big of a honda fan, the car started to get neglected and parts were broken. The car also had an incident when a car not paying attention hit its rear end.
So being that it was being neglected I took it back and now am starting to modify her again.
I started off with replacing the interior front seats. My brother had installed a tenzo seat that came off an integra. Eventhought its a comfortable seat, it just sat way too high, so in turn, I tore that out and installed some DelSol seats that I bought from craiglist for $100.
Suspension work was next and I found a set of affordable Function Forms coilovers on Honda-tech that I ended up only paying $300 for. I also installed a set of Godspeed Project rear camber kit for $35.
Having the car sit at an acceptable level, I went in search of some wheels. I was thinking about getting the same XXR wheels that it had before but since I had those before, I wanted something different. I had less of a budget building the car this time so I went searching through craigslist. I found a set of Diamond Racing Wheels that were teal in color for $600 but I offered the guy $500 for it with tires and he accepted so those went on the car;
Sizing were 15x8 also but this time the offset are more aggressive than the XXR wheels with a 0 offset. In order to fit properly in the front of the car, a set of Skunk2 coilover kit set at max negative camber let the wheels sit flush with the fenders. Even with the camber kit the car still rubbed so a date with a fender roller fixed that.
I hated the wheel color so I sprayed it white:
I also installed a set of Weathertech Window Visors since its popular now. While the car was lifted on jackstands I also adjusted the ride height and removed the oem side mirrors. Why? To install a set of mirrors I've had for 4years. These went onto the fenders!
Since I haven't seen anyone stateside do it, I said F' it, why not. I also hit up my friend Rob again @TC and he hooked me up with a BYS style lip in poly/plastic. I wanted to stay away from carbon for the lip since the car is sitting a lot lower than before. Carbon lips are way too pricy to get destroyed and let alone get stolen!You can also see the OEM honda mudgaurds that I bought from work.
A Couple of days later, I hit up Mandy again from Godspeed Project and she hooked me up with a blue 6-point rollcage:
Looks kinda like Cusco without the Cusco pricing! lol ( you can also see the DelSol Seats) While i was at it I installed a set of Rallye/Wink 5 panel mirror to help get rid of the blind spots;
here she is with my friend Barry's 4door DC: HellaFast and HellaFlush with his B20GSR and Diamond Wheels:
For now I guess, Im just gonna enjoy driving her around again!
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