Okay, New to the forum, I have a 1995 Honda Civic EX 2dr. I've seen especially in the K Vs B Series Article mentioned in the Super Street Mag [Btw, saw you guys mentioned in Super Street Mag, ftmfw!], and I've seen what Civics can do. NYCE'S1 has some pretty good Civic, especially a '93 Civic with about 900whp which was insane to me.

Now, looking at my Civic, which has plenty of sentimental value passed down from my brother in College who he and I worked day & night on just to get it running. Well, right before he leaves, he gets into fender bender. Screws the whole car up. The other day, I find out that the Head Casket is cracked, which is the reason that it smokes, and that my brother half-assed the suspension tune-up. He bought some cheap *** coil overs [Drop Zone] and nothing else! In conclusion, I love my Civic to death, but it bugs the **** outta me that I'm so far away from many Civics that are what I want mine to look like.

Screw my life story but to the question, Has anyone built their Civic ground up but when they got it, was a piece of ****? Thanks for your time!

 

Just look at the build up threads. Lots of then started from basically an empty shell.

 

The majority of people on HT have started with stock or cars that have been screwed up by the previous owner. Just have to do it gradually. Start with the saftey items first, tune up, brakes, tires, hoses, ball joints, tie rods etc. Once its mechanially sound you can upgrade. Just go slow, do a lot of research, and remember you get what you pay for. Stick to quality names. Buy OEM as much as possible unless youre upgrading.

 

Going through it right now, got my second civic 3 months ago and after a week @$$hole hit me with no insurance, finally replace everything he broke, and tuesday night this week she just died on me, have a swap scheduled for Feb. 2010, its hard to wait and take it slow when you love doing this but like Alphalanos said almost all of us have or are goin through this.

 

I totally agree with you bro. It's hard to wait repairs and tune-ups when you have a huge passion for racing. I see so much potential in my Civic that no one else sees.

 

Search up "courtneys rags to riches del sol" the guy bought it from a junkyard for $200

Or "purple coupe build" or something like that

Thers a lot just snoop around

 

Coupe has an E. just lettin you know...

 

We're pretty much all rebuilding our cars. Mine started out as running and being swapped, but it wasn't done right and had some underlying issues. There are tons of different situations, and you're not alone.

 

man you guys dont even know.... have a 99' si and bought this @$tch from a 65 year old woman that i know and it was cherry no dents dings nothing bought it two yrs ago now and went to college and wham bam in the wal-mart parkin lot... a mexi in his P.O.S lowrider wanna be chevy truck w/ no insurance... right up my ****..... fu#$%d my shiz up bad.... car had to be towed.... anyways of course illegal imm... from mexico bailed soon after nvr again seen that m-fer long story short i fixed it 2,5hundy later shes straight and perty but i had the money asid for misc. parts but.... now im still rollin stock plenty of potential but NO MONEY!!!!
moral of the story stay far away from wal-mart and my father always told me that you must fail before you become sucessful and man let me tell you im a broke m-fer nickle and dime'n shiz for bullshiz parts but may 2010 complete over haul motor eveyting.... caint wait...
BUMP!!!!

 

REstore whats it's all about! do it the way you want it to be!

 

Yah i would say starting from where it is now and getting it to exactly how you want it just tops it off. More pride and love for the ride bro. patience with these kinda issues is hard because you have that picture of what you want it to be but time, money and other sh*t makes is frustrating. but all worth it IMO

 

I agree man. I think we gotta go through all the bad **** before we can have a beastin' car. Thanks you guys for your input and feedback. It's really getting me through these rough times. Hope that sometime maybe i'll see you guys on the track, laughin' at all the Ricers. ^_^

 

**** bro, that's pretty rough story. I would get on top of my car and cry on it, especially Si's. Sorry for your lost man.

 

tell you this much man shes goodlookin now but i cant wait till the spring im tellin you hers a recent pic after the **** that happened its bout 2 months old but i fixed that **** bout almost 4 months now and..... and in this pic i also got second place in this car show..... no shizzzz

 

mines the black one i swear.....

 

i have. check my build thread if you're curious. I know it's not an eg or an ek but when i bought my car a year ago everything was ghetto rigged, broken, miss aligned or hacked. my **** wasnt even running when i got it, i had to fight with so many electrical gremlins first. but i think it's worth it, because if you stick with it, in the end you have something that's better than if you bought a new car