First Car: 1992 Honda Civic LX (D15B7)

[purpej1]

its simple believe it or not i learned how to drive stick by watching people and youtube...lmfao seriously i was rusty at first but then obviously its something you get used to and learn to love. i miss stick only good thing about auto is the ability to multi task a little better other then that its whack. Theres nothing like chriping form 2nd to 3rd.

 

[Osiris19]

Hays yeah. I wanna learn except no one I know has a manual car except for s couple people

 

[pls]

The hardest part to drive stick is the Fist gear, and once you past that, its all simple......

 

[Osiris19]

My brother has that problem, and stopping on hills.

 

[TigBitties]

i bought my car without knowing stick. i learned how to on my way out on my own. its really not hard.

and i just put brand new summer performance tires on them. so like 600 lol tires were 120 a piece and put them on last weekend.

 

[IwantVtec]

I wish I knew anything about body work :[

 

[Osiris19]

Its not that hard once you get used to it. We did the whole body, and there were a lot of dings and rust.

 

[TigBitties]

yeah, honestly hardest part is getting the right ratio on bondo. then its just a matter of patience and taking your time

 

[95coupeWI]

I know what your saying about learning, my friend kinda taught me, but i had to learn on a stage 3 exedy lol god i hated it for the first month until i found the sweet spot now i dont mind it. i do like being able to squawk the tires shifting though lol

 

[Osiris19]

I forgot what we used, but we stuck a huge glop of body putty, and stuck a line of harderner and swashed it around till it was pinkish. Then we slapped it on where we were filling holes. Let it harden and then we sanded it down smooth.

 

[emerican]

auto to manual if you did the work would probably run you 700-800 dollars maybe a little more maybe a little less depedning on where you got the parts from and what you paid for them.

 

[MistahJuice]

Lookin good man. Love seeing what your doing with it. Are you keeping the cat on there or are you getting a straight pipe? Also I don't agree with the above post, I bought a wrecked GSR to get the engine swap for $1700 and parted out unnecessary things for about $1000 plus I got all the stuff for my auto to manual so I doubt it'll cost you that much for the parts for just an auto to manual conversion.

Heres a couple a part list/DIY if u need it but if you plan on doing a swap i'd just wait till then
http://www.honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=2090074
http://www.homemadeturbo.com/showthread.php?t=37335
http://www.hondacivicforum.com/forum/eg-swaps-36/eg-b-series-swap-how-17699/#post726988

 

[emerican]

If you go that route then you can get it for cheaper
But most people just get the part list they need and piece them together buying them seperate from here cl and more i have a few friends that did it that way and thats about wha they spent

 

[Osiris19]

I might keep the cat, because I don't know how it will sound with the straight pipe. Plus, in PA you need to have a cat in order to pass emissions. And, I guess if I really am motivated to do it this summer, I may do the swap because I really wanna throw some power into this hatch. I'm definitely doing a minime first, just so this auto isn't too slow lol.

 

[TigBitties]

why would you waste money on a mini me then? thats a few hundred dollars right there. save it for a swap

 

[95coupeWI]

True ^ my friend is doing that but he's getting a z6 block too i just told him why not just buy the whole z6 motor and save yourself time and money..

 

[Osiris19]

IDK. I'm not entirely sure about the auto-manual swap.

[UPDATE]
Hatch is in my driveway, and safe at its new home. Will post a build thread tomorrow.

 

[civicfan111]

dont go straight pipe, get a cat back, and if you want to take of the cat from time to time all yu need is a test pipe and it becomes a straight pipe basically. thats what i have, when its time for DEQ i drop 4 bolts and swap the test pipe for a cat pass it, come home 10 min latter and my test pipe is back on. Or do the legal thing and keep ur cat on at all times lol.

 

[Osiris19]

I have a full cat back invidia exhaust, but I was contemplating tying out a straight/test pipe to see how different it sounds.

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My friend's CRX Si and my hatch.

 

[clopezEG]

Its goin to
Sound LOUD!! Haha my old eg8 had straight pipe and wen id turn it on in the morning to warm up ALL my house windows would vibrate lol