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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 10:20 AM
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I got $2000 back from my tax returs that i can drop on my car, what should i do with it?

i dont know much about my car, i bought it last week, so no difficult ?s please.
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by nateb22
I got $2000 back from my tax returs that i can drop on my car, what should i do with it?

i dont know much about my car, i bought it last week, so no difficult ?s please.
What year make and model is your car...that would help.
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 10:38 AM
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94 civic del sol si with a v-tec engine and auto tranny
custom intake/exauste
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 10:45 AM
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I would think that a manual transmission swap would be a big improvement.
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 10:49 AM
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sry i forgot to mention, 2000 after the tranny swap
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 10:55 AM
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tranny swap , and if ur car is low mileage home built turbo set up. or if you jsut want a decent daily new suspension and tires and a full tune up brakes, head gasket water pump plugs wires etc
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 10:58 AM
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up to you, you can do nice suspension, wheels and tires or look into boosting it.
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 11:14 AM
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Figure out what you want from your car and build a setup to meet your goals...its really that easy. I dont understand the point of asking other people what YOU want
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 11:16 AM
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Suspension and transmission swap. Don't throw money away at that engine until you make it manual. Honda automatic transmissions can't reliably hold any kind of meaningful power increase.

Then turbo it.

Or swap it to manual B series. I bet you could piece together a B20 swap for under 1500.
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 11:18 AM
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suspension or turbo.
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 11:19 AM
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suspension and tires and a tune up
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 11:37 AM
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Manual trans and suspension.
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Schister66
Figure out what you want from your car and build a setup to meet your goals...its really that easy. I dont understand the point of asking other people what YOU want
I dont know what I want, thats the reason of asking others, Im just getting ideas.

but since it has 200k miles on it now, Ill try to figure out what to do with the engine side of it.

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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 12:53 PM
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coils- converted to manual might as well swap the engine with a b18b1 you can pic it up for 500 or so at car-parts.com an you still have money to play with...dont forget the beers while you doing it.......
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 12:56 PM
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more than just beer
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 01:04 PM
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more than just beer

hell yea...lil bit of chronic!!
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 01:09 PM
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hell yea...lil bit of chronic!!
chronic? kush..
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 01:14 PM
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i like my homegrown stuff, **** buying it from someone,
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by nateb22
sry i forgot to mention, 2000 after the tranny swap
so you already got a 5spd convo?
gc's and koni, then some performance stuff.
daily driver or no?
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by blueg6
chronic? kush..


kush purp etc. as long as i get stoned. i could not work on a car while buzzed/drunk.

but for the OP...if its your daily then def get it running good...major tune up/swap??? thats my .02...my first car i blew all my money on susp. exhaust. etc. and 2 mths later i was stuck with a blow engine.
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 01:26 PM
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so you already got a 5spd convo?
gc's and koni, then some performance stuff.
daily driver or no?
yes daily and i no i havent got the tranny but i should have a lil over 2k after that
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 01:31 PM
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do nothing save your money @@
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 01:46 PM
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good suspension and put the rest into performance.
maube swap a b series in it.
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 02:06 PM
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does a rear wing help at all with mpg, keeping my *** end on the ground, or anything?

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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 02:29 PM
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For the love of God no wing. I would say do a swap but I assume you might not be comfortable doing it yourself. I would get suspension, wheels, and good tires if I were you. Then learn how to drive you car by doing some autoX and going to a track.
Google Hallett. Its a track not too far from you and it is awesome. I'm from AR and have friends that race there all the time.
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