96 Civic DX's project
 

Whats up guys. Im gonna say right away this will not be a fast paced project because of how little money i make.
Most of the time ive owned this car i didnt have a job and couldnt find one becuase im only 17.. and becuase i have a little bit of a record. but now i found a job and i get my first pay check this friday.
I will also have ALOT of time to do things to my car now becuase i got into some trouble the other night and cant leave my house.

1996 Honda Civic DX
1.6 SOHC (D16y7)
Automatic (yea i know it sucks)
180,000 miles (still runnin strong)

What i have done to it so far
i havent done much becuase im just gettin started
it had a fart can on it when i got it

Exterior

-Painted my hubcaps black (LOL...told you i make little money)
-Painted the front honda emblem on the grille black
-Accidently put a few dents in... just very very small ones tho
-Back seat 2 windows tinted (not sure what percent)

Interior

-Made it all black, except for the pieces i painted chrome (in my ricer days)
-broke the window handle (tried fixin it a million times but my freinds keep breaking it. i have had problems with the passenger side window coming off track and gettin stuck since ive had the car)

Engine

-Cheap ebay header (nothing wrong with it and works just fine)
-Sort Ram Intake (ebay piping and im gonna buy a good filter in a couple days)
-Painted the valve cover
-cleaned it up a little (it was really nasty when i first got it)

Audio
right now i have 0 speakers in the car becuase my old wallmart ones blew (yea i used to be really bad when it came to cheaping out and ricin my car out)

-Pioneer Cd Player
-2 10" Ultimate subs
-Crappy box
-Jensen 460 watt amp

What i want to do

Exterior

-99-00 50/50 tails
-99-00 si stock spoiler
-Type R lip kit
-nice set of black rims with chrome lip. preferably 16 inch
-finish tint
-OEM headlights tinted
-headlight eye lids
-Get all dents removed
-Re paint

Suspension
i dont know much about suspension so there is only 1 thing i want to get right now.

-Tein S tech lowering springs

Interior

-Leather seats
-new carpet
-new Black headliner
-New steering wheel (its ripped)

Engine

Not much i want to do here becuase its my Daily Driver
-Swap for a B18
-CAI (ebay piping with K&N filter)
-Apexi WS2 exhaust

And MABYE... eventually a Auto to Manual conversion
im debating weither its worth it because i dont really want to turbo this car.

Now i know you all are picture whores so here you go
NONE OF THE DATES ON THESE PICTURES ARE CORRECT
Oldest to newest.
ill go take some brand new pictures once i clean it up

The week i got it

http://i41.tinypic.com/16adt1k.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/iy1pxi.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/21owsug.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/2euqu7c.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/2rlzogp.jpg


I miss the Stock interior.. too bad i ruined it
http://i39.tinypic.com/993vph.jpg



The day I put the SRI on

http://i44.tinypic.com/r016vb.jpg

Crashed into some rocks after a few weeks of havin my license

http://i39.tinypic.com/2yv7yfo.jpg

Random picture when I was painting the valve cover

http://i39.tinypic.com/259bmnd.jpg

looks much better when its cleaned up a little with the valve cover

http://i44.tinypic.com/21evpu.jpg

Then It was christmas time and i got some money so i decided to buy a header off ebay to start my exhaust conversion off
Yea its not a good name brand header but...

Out with the old

http://i42.tinypic.com/29x8ya8.jpg

In with the new

http://i44.tinypic.com/1fk85z.jpg

My old ricey interior (lol.. everytime i look at it i want to puke)

http://i40.tinypic.com/dnejow.jpg

So as most of you know... im ashamed to say. i cut my springs to make it lower.
pics of it lowerd. its back to normal now but i learned my lesson.

http://i44.tinypic.com/4zupl3.jpg
http://i40.tinypic.com/219aq78.jpg

I took a long break from doing anything to my car after that and now im gettin back into it becuase of my job

So now heres the newest pictures i have
ill get some brand new ones and more soon

http://i40.tinypic.com/2dtyz5t.jpg
http://i39.tinypic.com/nzk19z.jpg
http://i43.tinypic.com/w1eext.jpg
http://i43.tinypic.com/2saf28l.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/105sff7.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/fdedsj.jpg

The main things i need ASAP now

Left front CV driveshaft
New tires
Allignment
Intake filter

then i start buying other things... like gettin them Tein S Techs' thats top of the list

Any comments or any trash talkin or anything i dont really care. just say whats on your mind. i can take the constructive critisism... im used to it as most of you know.

Good news
I got a FREE brand new CV shaft today. How? well i go through this jobs program and they pay for things that i really need, and i work at NAPA auto parts so they just hooked me up free.
It should be here on Friday

Also Gettin new tires tomorrow and an allignment.

Then on friday im gonna get a nice filter becuase mines all burnt somehow.

Haha i remember you cutting the springs :D Can't wait till it's done right, looks pretty sick lowered :cool:

Dont feel too bad about the "rice" stuff lol. I think all of us have gone through it. The only reason my cars isn't riced out is because i had no money and i was so scared to do anything even halfway permanent to my car.....it took me like month to work up the courage to paint my tails with VHT :rolleyes: I definitely wanted to "rice it out" for a while though...

Haha yea im very, very, very, glad I didn't have a job in my rice days. My car would be destroyed.
I need to get the interior back to stock. What I have painted in the interior is.
-guage housing bezel thing
-door handle housing
-little holders in the door

Should I paint them flat black or just buy new ones?

I can't do the brake fluid trick becuase I sanded everything down before I painted it.

for those interior panels go out to a junk yard and try to find them first. i have had to go buy a few panels over the years and always pay much less than if i had to buy new.

but if that fails then just get new ones from hondaautomotiveparts.com. By the way "classy gray" is the dark gray interior.

i went through all the junk yards around here and they only have old ass hatchbacks. there arent many coupes like mine in my area

So today I took apart my whole interior becuase it needed a deep clean. There was also pieces of glass everywhere under the back seats and behind the interior panels, so im thinking this car was in an accident maybe?

I also got the goo off where it said Civic and DX. Looks much better. I used some stuff my dad brought home from work in a clear bottle saying "Cleaner"... I tested it out in the trunk to see if it would take off the paint and it didnt at all.

I didn't get any pictures of the interior becuase I don't want anyone to see it untill I get rid of all the chrome but here are before and after of the trunk.

http://i43.tinypic.com/2luetso.jpg
http://i43.tinypic.com/295r0k0.jpg
Sorry it is so dark. Ran out of sunlight. Ill try to get a better one tomorrow.

probably not an accident, it was broken into.

^ you're back!

Being broken into was my first thought too

I'm glad you're de-ricing your car and are on your way of trying clear your name abit. Keep it up, Everyone makes mistakes just please read and do your research. Take our advice and do it properly not cheaply.