Decided to take fresh pictures

CivicHX

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Ok little background on this car, I bought it with stock bumper covers and 16" white rims on coil overs, Looked very good and I would have kept it that way but on very bad day I ended up sliding into the ditch and tore the front cover into many pieces bent my rear lower control arm and ripped the rear cover in 2 places. I found these giovanni forged light weight rims cheap 18x7.5. I am unsure of the weight on them but they are way lighter then 13" steel rims.
I bought this body kit for $200 which would have been the price for just the front cover and paint, so I decided to go with the kit. What I didn't know then what the 99-00 fronts where different. After some cursing and general yelling I got the kit on and it may not fit the best it has not come off in over a year and 40k miles. yes I did say 40,000 miles, this car is my great on gas over the road runner, till I moved to florida and it brought me here to find a house took me home and then back with my move. I did the rear disc conversion right before driving down for house hunting, replaced front spindles and rotors as well as rear, did an alignment and drove 6k miles.
Ok enough with the background here are the new pictures.










And a few things I have done with it.
4-2-1 Header
short ram intake
short throw shift
Appearance mods
Projector Halo smoked headlights with 6000k HID's Led clear tails and added a stock ex spoiler with led third brake light.
and of course the rear disc's.
 

CivicHX

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I know many things need to be done, such as refitting or better yet replacing the bumper covers, it needs body work in many places, Paint, big need of that.
However Im much more interested in great running, and mpg.
I love the 5 speed and its quickness, I know its only a HX and as such its supposed to be slow and maybe it is in comparison to many others but it does the job that I need. And as I can afford to I will do other things to improve it both visually and mechanically.
Oh and it has a full 2.5 inch exhaust from the header to the can on the back, which was there when I bought the car it works so I never replaced it.
 


4bangincivic

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I needs the bumper covers taken off imo. But to each their own..
 


CivicHX

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Night shots

Decided to take night shots, after it rained :(


Car drove by during exposure it looked cool so that was nice.

 

NIKE H34D

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When I bought a kitted car.... not quite as bad as yours... I took the kit off asap and drove around for a week with no covers until a ricer traded me for his stock ones, and I also gave the kid my ricer tails for some OEM 99-00 ones, great trade, great day haha.
 

Puma

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It's like you opened the tub of Lego's and couldn't decide what to make so you settled for



































.....ew.
 

CivicHX

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go to the junk yard n find replacement bumpers. lose headlight n taillights.
I have checked for bumper covers. The headlights are projectors, I wont run HID's without them and they have way better light output.
Locally there are none at this time, shipping is expensive on that type of part so have not even bothered with that option. I know lots dont like the aftermarket looks, but I dont care, it gets me where I am going and thats its job. I will change it as parts and money become available.
 

baller_ivy

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dudes most people on here like the bone stock look so anything you do they goin to say its ugly but it looks good to me keep doin what you got to do to make it look good for you
 

Robin...

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No comment, i might hurt someone's feelings...:mrgreen:
 

Mad-Mike

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I got the same bumpers on my em1 right now. I used to have the side skirt but bought stock ones. I really want to get rid of them but can't find stock bumpers anywhere!! What I hate is the rear bumper on mine has a nasty gap and the sides are bent out a bit. If you like and wanna keep the body kit I recommend at least getting the kit the same color as the car. But overall I will admit that kit isn't that bad compared to the other rice kits.
 


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