So after having a tough situation buying the wrong car for an even more wrong price... Long story... I finally got back on my feet and found another car to build. Got me a '97 Civic EX coupe for DIRT money!
So here's the scoop on it to date. I bought it as a complete virgin. It was owned by a middle age woman who only drove it to school and home (School teacher) and serviced the car religiously. She sold it at 120k miles to another teacher at the school (My ex history teacher) who happened to be on the fire department with my father. Well here it is 6 years after he bought it, currently at 158k miles. Still bone stock and babied.
So now the bad news... I live in the northeast, the car has been here in the north east it's whole life... That being the case, it has a little skin cancer. More good news, the underside is under coated so the structure is absolutely flawless. The body rot... Not such a good thing. I'm working on patching it up nicely and cleaning up loose ends.
Without getting lost and rambling more... Here's the car!
First day I had it.
First thing I did (The first day I had it)... Pull out the A/C unit.
Finished up de-badging the back end.
Nice freshly painted wheels! No more rust.
As you can see, it's pretty much stock.
All I've done to it so far: Pull out the A/C system (no traces it), Change the spark plugs and the oil (e3 plugs, noticeable difference over stock, not as good as some more high end plugs though. And Royal Purple oil and K&N filter, yay high end maintenance in a beat to crap car.), did a valve adjustment with nice new top end seals, played with the ignition a little bit (try retarding it about 2 dagrees, I got a noticeable change in my car), cleaned up the wheels and just started some rust repair.
So here's the scoop on it to date. I bought it as a complete virgin. It was owned by a middle age woman who only drove it to school and home (School teacher) and serviced the car religiously. She sold it at 120k miles to another teacher at the school (My ex history teacher) who happened to be on the fire department with my father. Well here it is 6 years after he bought it, currently at 158k miles. Still bone stock and babied.
So now the bad news... I live in the northeast, the car has been here in the north east it's whole life... That being the case, it has a little skin cancer. More good news, the underside is under coated so the structure is absolutely flawless. The body rot... Not such a good thing. I'm working on patching it up nicely and cleaning up loose ends.
Without getting lost and rambling more... Here's the car!
First day I had it.
First thing I did (The first day I had it)... Pull out the A/C unit.
Finished up de-badging the back end.
Nice freshly painted wheels! No more rust.
As you can see, it's pretty much stock.
All I've done to it so far: Pull out the A/C system (no traces it), Change the spark plugs and the oil (e3 plugs, noticeable difference over stock, not as good as some more high end plugs though. And Royal Purple oil and K&N filter, yay high end maintenance in a beat to crap car.), did a valve adjustment with nice new top end seals, played with the ignition a little bit (try retarding it about 2 dagrees, I got a noticeable change in my car), cleaned up the wheels and just started some rust repair.
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. Hopefully next month... Hopefully, that may be a bit optimistic.