Will any work need to be done on a dual bend shifter and will it fit my 99 civic DX SOHC 1.6L?

 

The only reason the dual bend shifter I was speaking of before needs slight modification to fit is because Buddy Club only makes DOHC dual bend shifter kits, not SOHC dual bend kits. As long as the kit says it's for SOHC it should fit... but a DOHC shifter should only require the same work I had to do to my DOHC Buddy Club shifter (filing down the spacers).

Just because your friend's eBay shifter is lasting doesn't mean yours will. One thing about those generic eBay shifters is that you never know if the one you get will last or not. They're not all made by the same manufacturer, and there's no way to tell who made them or anything. Also, due to the cheap cost of making them (caused by little-to-no research/testing/development into the design), you can't expect consistency. A high percentage of them break, and a high percentage of them don't. You're pretty much taking a 50/50 chance, or at least close to one.


Hypothetical question:
A broken shifter can potentially leave you stranded or at least cause you a huge inconvenience, and so could a dead battery...
Would you a buy a battery for your car if that particular brand/model of battery is known for randomly failing (for no good reason) for at least 25% of the people who have owned one? Or would you spend a little bit more and buy a battery that you can trust?

(this is actually a pretty well fitting hypothetical situation, considering a cheapo battery costs about the same as an ebay shifter, and a more upper-midrange battery costs around the price of a name brand shifter... so the cost savings are around the same, and the potential consequences are of the same caliber)

Better safe than sorry...

 

^ Good way to put it. I had an EG hatch that came with an ebay short shifter. It was a pain. The shift **** would never stay on because the treads were shot after the first use. It ended up breaking on my way home from work. Luckily, I was about a mile from home, but I had to drive in 1st gear the rest of the way home.

 

Ya good point I wouln't mind spending an extra $50.00 or so for better more reliable quality and since I have many years to go on this baby I might as well put the good money into it so im not replacing parts weekly.

 

Now you're talking Kingdakota. In addition to not having to worry about it breaking in the future when/if you ever decide to sell it, you are able to say quality name brand parts are on the car. That's a +1 in my book. BTW, I would suggest to keep ALL stock parts just incase you decide to return everything to stock in the future. You can then sell the name brand parts w/o a problem. I have had my short shifter installed for about a year and a half, but I still have the oem set up sitting in my storage.

 

You got it I kept my old headlights, taillights and intake set-up just because you never know what will go wrong. Ive never had many problems and id like to keep it that way so ill pay better money for my better parts.