Hello,
Let me start by thanking you for reading this post! That being said, I know very little about tuning cars, and I am asking for help for a present for my fiance.

My fiance used to drive around and race a tuned out S2000. It was really fast I don't know the specs of his ride I just know he loved the car almost as much as he loves me and spent alot of money working on it.

He knows a ton about working on cars. Well, he was tboned in the S2000 by a drunk guy in a F-350. He barely survived and the car was totally destroyed.

He hasn't been much for driving since and still has no car.

His bday is coming up and well I want to get him something great. Between his family and I we purchased a 2002 civic si, or an EP3 i guess thats what you call them, its in good condition but wimpy since its all stock.

I read that you can swap out the engine pretty easily for a new one, but have no clue what to buy besides a K20A2, they are a little hard to find, at least for me.

My budget for his present is about 30K. Already spent 8500 on the EP3.
I know many will give me crap for buying that car but really we just want my fiance to start working on cars again as it truly made him happy and he sort of lost his spark 3 years ago after the accident.

Please advise and try not to blast me too hard, like I said its a present so I figured I'd try and find the closest thing to experts I can.

Thank you all for your time and God bless!

 

Sounds sweet.
https://honda-tech.com/forums/acura-rsx-dc5-honda-civic-ep3-32/

 

Thank you so much! I will look around and ask on that section of the forum!