Your car looks very clean as in beautiful paint and wax job...I really like the color.

First Id pay off the $1,000 on it, before anything else...

Then as you mentioned, put back in the stock rear lights...maybe theres a local civic club near your place, and someone is selling them for cheap so it would be less than $100 for sure...I could have gotten 2 mint seats for my EX for 100, so who knows how cheap if a deal comes along...

Id also delete thesticker and the pin-stripe...I dont think its that hard, either you peel off with a hair-dryer, or a rubberspin disk attachement (best left to pros)...be careful the paint underneathhas not faded...so maybe leave the stripe on...or test in a real small area...

Yeah, and why would you ditch the car if it doesnt pass e-test ? In my area if you pay $300 to fix it they pass you for 2 years, even if it passes or not...and some garages do a pre-test for you for a small fee so you can see if it would pass before it takes the official test...

Keep the car and enjoy it if it runs fine, e-tests are pretty stupid...

 

And your maxi in the background is pretty nice, they areawesome cars...

 

I've made the attempt countless times
It all started when I got a straight pipe
I then 6 months later bought a hi flow cat
didnt solve the problem
so I drilled a holy 1.5 feet back and put the new bung there
no difference
I then replaced the o2 sensor
still no difference, i'm at a loss at how to fix it :/

As for lowering, how much are a good set of springs and any links?

the gas lid is actually transparent

 

1 have you tried an OEM exhaust system???

2 and some of that... erm i forget what its called but you feed a cup full into the engine, then it konks out you wait a while and then start her up and a load of white smoke comes out

3 Tear **** the car around, give it absolute death before you go for the test, that should also help[:-]

 

1.) Oem cat?
2.) Seafoam, but that actually caused more trouble in my car than it did helping
3.) lol

I like "TheInternet's" response, maybe I should pay it off first etc. before worrying about what to do with it

 

yeh, good idea to pay for the car first...