Hi everyone. My name is Patrick. I am new to the forum and to tuning. I picked up a 2000 civic from a granny in ft lauderdale florida with 40k miles. Condo car is what we call it down here.....Oh yeah paid 3500.

I have had a quite a few civics and accords. This one is my favorite. So I did the newbie thing order ebay headers and test pipe. Oops Yah trick yah. I am searching the forum and have message a rep for a highly recomended rep for a board recomended supplier of the the best racing header and asked for his insight.

I would like to ask all of you her are willing to respond to newb. My primary directive is best bang for the buck. Headers exhaust system intake and a quallity bang for the buck turbo. After that I want to focus on making the car as light as possible.

I will appreciate all insight given and accept all flames.

thx

 

you're all over the place...and I will flame you if this is for a d-series engine putting money into that is the exact opposite of bang for buck. a little info on the car helps too what's your budget ?

 

If he rebuilds it those d series are badass.

 

If it's a y7 turbo it... Correct me if I'm wrong anyone, but people tell me the the gearing in the y7 trans is better suited for a turbo being the gears are longer and that the compression the motor makes is safer.

 

eeesh. y7 is dog crap, plain and simple. has cat on manifold as well, so a header is out of the question for you unless you plan to have a cat welded under car. don't waste your money on bolt ons. z6/y8 trans will make the car much more fun to drive than any bolt on.

 

longer gearing is not better.

 

On a turbo it is, kiddo. Otherwise you jam up against the limiter too soon because you ran out of RPM.

OP I would say don't cheap out on the header, but don't bother wasting big stacks on it either. I'd say a DC Sports or Skunk2 header would suffice. As for an intake, Spectre would be alright, but a no-name intake on ebay with a wet/dry filter will be exactly the same performance wise. Just buy one of those and put a AEM decal on it (like i did)

 

Wrong.

Jamming it up against the limiter is a traction issue.

 

The "best race header" will cost $1k or more and takes a few months to build. By itself, it will make maybe 5hp. You will then not be able to use it if you go turbo.

Bang for your buck mod on a Y7 would be a trans from a Y8 or Z6. HUGE improvement for like $250.

Turboing this motor without a good amount of knowledge will require you to blow it up 5-6 times, get annoyed, and end up buying a subaru or something. In that order. Every single time.

Research a lot first. Buy good quality parts. It'll run for a long time with minimal downtime.

 

Please browse the FAQs sticky for threads about how to make your car faster. Read those threads carefully so that you can return with specific tech questions.

 

Thanks for all the responses. I do not mind gettin flamed at all(Imanoob). I will continue to search the threads. I really like this hatch and just want get a bit more performance for my daily driver. I was just about to order a dc ceramic and did a search and it lead me to this board. Glad it did....

 

on a stock engine, you can actually lose hp adding a header. don't forget, your cat is on your oe manifold.