D Griff

X2.

imbest123

my thoughts exactly. i could care less for a grounding kit. this is why we jsut do the big 3 with 0/1 gauge wiring and call it a day

markspan6243

not jealous, but good job dude

B18C5-EH2

Oh boy...

I bought a Honda Civic for $1.00 - true story.

It had a broken timing belt, and the owner didn't even feel like messing with the prospect of bent valves. So he offered to GIVE me the car, but I insisted upon $1.00 to make it a legal transaction in the state of Georgia. I spent $150.00 on all parts total (all Genuine Honda) and replaced a schrader valve on an A/C fitting, and the car drove like a top. I had co workers at my shop begging me to sell it to them, family members inquiring about my "$1.00 Civic" because this is what I ended up with:











I sold the car for $2,500.00 and bought a motorcycle with my tidy little $2,350.00 worth of pure profit.

See now THAT is a deal that I'd bet everyone here would be jealous of. 100%.

You need to sell that kit to someone else who hasn't been told that it's a waste of effort to even install a grounding kit. Someone would be just as excited to own something, ANYTHING Spoon!!!!! that he might pay close to the going rate for that kit, whatever it might be.

If I saw a Civic with its hood popped and the only Spoon thing on it was a grounding kit I'd think the owner was ignorant. I'm just being dead honest here my man. It is a 100% worthless mod, and for some reason the fact that it is Spoon makes it so much ricier in my opinion. Yes I just said a Spoon product would make your car ricey.

I'm keeping my eye on this one. The only thing that even loosely ties it to this forum is that you're trying to retrofit it to a 94 Civic, but dude that's a stretch.

B18C5-EH2

I can't help myself. Sorry.

I've got too many "you'll be so jealous" stories to share them all, but here's a few more:

1. Bought a GS-R swap for $3,600.00. Drove it and sold it for $4,000.00 and bought a legit 36K mile complete totalled ITR from a local friend for $4,000.00 (back in 1999-2000 when the swap alone cost $6,500.00). Sold off the 5 lug, dash, etc. for about $2,000.00 total after I took the swap out of it.

So basically I upgraded from a B18C1 to B18C5 AND pocketed $2,000.00 in the process!

2. Got a call from a good friend who ran a local Honda dealership's part department that had been trying to sell JDM parts with little success. He asks me "you know anybody who would want three Spoon wheels?" and proceeds to tell me one of his former employees sold a single wheel to someone - big mistake seeing that Spoon only sold the SW388s in a box with TWO wheels, and singles were very hard to find.

I got three Spoon wheels for $150.00 each, and found a single wheel with the first phone call I made and paid $325.00 for it, totalling just $775.00 or so. 100% legit, no shady deal whatsoever.

Spoon SW388s were selling for $385.00 EACH at that time!!!

The wheels:





...and on the car:



Jealous much? lol!

raidacaipo

Wow. Hell yeah

lsvtechatchy

nothing wrong with buying something worthless for yourself and making some money on it. There is always someone out there you can doop. make some money man.

hoffmanb16

you got some wires...... cool..... barf

Koopa Troopa

Not yet,

I got a full Toda B16A for 315,000 yen.

Came with 305 degree Toda VTEC killer cams and all the parts required to use them, Toda 1.8L stroker kit, Mugen oil pan, A-Sports ITB's (Toda copy) and Power FC


However, great deal on those Spoon Desmonds.

B18C5-EH2

PSSST!!! How am I supposed to be jealous if I have no idea how much 315,000 yen is!



Help a moron out man!

forcefedferio

i'm not even a little jealous. more dissapointed than anything. your post does not deliver.

96honda_EK

Hahaha what a pointless thread!! Here's the title: You're Gonna be SO JEALOUS 100% SURE OF IT!!! And i open it and its a picture of wires?? Hahaha man you gotta be shitting me

Koopa Troopa

It used to be like 2500 till our economy took a ****, now it's 3,440.37 USD @ 91 yen to the dollar.

Man, I wish they made the Spoon wheels in a more aggressive offset like a +32... I might just spray paint my Desmond Evo's black....

cityslicker1606

YOU ARE ONE LUCKY S.O.B

Deetz

lol, there are deals like that all of the time, i have probably done it myself 20 times

dumpster

lmfao

just put that **** on ebay and go buy something for your car that is going to do something

B18C5-EH2

I don't know man. I've been working at my current shop for 10 years now, and before that I'd been at 3 different Honda/Acura dealerships, and in all that time I'd never seen another deal like this. A $1.00 car that only needed $150.00 worth of parts to literally be a perfectly running, clean driver. Selling for $2,500.00 for a $2,350.00 pure profit?

If you've done it 20 times than that would mean you'd have made about:

$47,000.00

Also:

Where I live in GA there are no rusty cars except for those that came from out of state in rustbelt areas. I'm guessing Canada might have more rusty cars, thus the higher likelihood or giving rust buckets away. The red sedan pictured was immaculate except for a few very minor dings. I would have kept and driven the car had I not already had a nice built daily driver.

austinkli