Humble as it may be…
As you may have gathered from recent entries, I’m sick of working on cars. It wasn’t so bad when I had a garage, but I don;t anymore. With a garage, I can work on a car from the moment I get home up till 2 in the morning or whenever I need to. even on a weekday. I can get jobs done on demand and spread the work over a couple days. Without these sorts of facilities, I can’t keep a $2000 car going.
So today I put a deposit on a 2005 civic coupe. Looking at a 5speed in black. Talked them to around $14,800. I’m waiting to hear back from the financing people, but hopefully I will be picking it up tomorrow. w00t. not the coolest or sportiest car in the world, but it’t not all that bad looking IMO. and it will do the pointA-pointB thing reliably. and with crazy good gas milage. I don;t really have any complaints. now if only that call would come in.
it’s cheap and that’s all you really need. can be turned into a good auto-x car and hell, we know that ice racing doesn’t take huge amounts of power
good luck
speed safely
I’m already thinking about ice racing it =D. I’ll definitely get it out there for the first event where there aren’t really snowbanks. I’m a little wary of putting the nose into a snow wall though. but I guess it’s better that than a phone poll. I really think of ice racing as education more than sport. looking forward to it. If Mackey can do it in his little hatch, I can do it in this piece =P. actually wish I had the CRX working to race with. that thing was mean on the ice.
the 7th gen civics may be severely underpowered, but with proper suspension tuning, can handle with the best of them. And that’s good, because power-wise, the civic just can’t afford to slow down. Here’s a ricer site
http://www.7thgencivic.com/
being underpowered is a good thing for this car =P. with a car like the SVX around, modding something like a civic seems futile. which is a good thing. I may do a few free mods like grounding and bypassing the TB coolant, but I won’t be touching the engine much. a few people have suggested suspension. we’ll have to see how the funds hold up.
Tuning suspension on Civics. . . easy, VERY effective, inexpensive (all things considered), and it makes the car much more fun to drive.
yea, a suspension is what I was thinking when I was talking about a “good auto-x” car.
that’s how I look at the SVT- futile to mod (though not really) while I have the supra
speed safely
This be mine!!!! (Isn’t she just adorable!!!???) 😛
I thought you were looking for a 2dr 2.5 RS? Would have been much cooler, but I guess the Civic is Ok, atleast it’s a coupe and a 5 speed, thats all that really matters in my book.
I looked at a couple. They’re hard to come by in the first place. all the ones I either didn;t like because of their condition. or.. I knew the previous owner of the car =x (which is even worse). one of the perils of being in Nabisco.