I happened to find it at a near-bye garage and what my friends make of honda's i thought i'd try one out. Everything in this is stock, nothing at all has been done to it and since i haven't done too much on cars i was wondering what i should look for damage wise. Also i heard this car's got some potential and i was wondering what i could do to it. It has about 160k miles on it, but i heard honda's last long. I'm cut down to a short budget of $1,500 and was wondering what u guys would do to it.

 

1500 is DAMN cheap for a ex coupe...

i bought mines for 3600 clean from a dealer

it has potential, i like it as a nice daily driver, it gets good mileage 30mpg and i have i/h/e ecu chip

as for looks, thats just personal preference but i got a coupe instead of an SI hatch since too many ppl have hatches

as for damages, use common sense when buying a car. any funny sounds, check oil, check water, check axles, check all electrial stuff, make sure its smogged etc...

and 160K should be nothing..since its so cheap already, u might wanna get a swap or something

 

i would do suspension 1st and since it has too many miles to turbo(some member will prob disagree)but i personally wouldnt, get a swap

 

i was thinking of swapping but i wanted to keep the original motor...

 

for what? u can keep it as a back up

 

well plus i only have $1,500 to use on this car i was hoping on suggestions how to hook up the motor instead of getting a whole new one. my friend suggested a Si motor but i'm not sure i wanna... any other ideas other than the suspension?

 

well bolt ons wont do very much to a sohc and thats alot of miles for internals unless u rebuild and an si would be a swap

 

i always heard that these motors last almost forever so i didn't figure there would be too many miles on it... but i might just end up rebuilding it then

 

they do but i wouldnt recomend doing an performance mods to them with that many miles but u can if u want. im just telling you to swap cuz theres not much u can do to these engines besides turbo to make them resonably quick, trust me i have one

 

well thanks for all of ur help but i'll just stick with the normal one for now