I'm thinking about buying my first honda
 

I was lookin at a few crx's and a couple 91 hatches but there is this one 1997 hatch with an h22 vtec thats been up for sale for more then a month because its not street legal and the interior is stripped for about $7500. I was thinking about buying this and either making it street legal or making it a full out race car. its a little more then i wanted to pay but i figured its a good start for my first one. what ya think?

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with $7500 you can buy a CRX or even a EG hatch buy a B-series engine ...B16, B18C or LS/VTEC....sleeve it...build the bottom end lower the car get some nice rims and go OBD1 and use uberdata and be ready to put some money into a good HMT....That's what I would do with $7500

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that was the other thing i wanna to do was build a b20/vtec and put it in a crx which is what i might do because there are a lot cheaper

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Are talking about the silver one thats for sale in Nor Cal? There is a a silver HB with a H22 for sale interior completely stripped and pretty much race only. I'm sure its a nice find and a nice car, but if you end up getting it make sure you have a way to get it smogged to make the DMV people happy.

G'luck.

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yea up here in nor cal fully built head silver white rims, my dad has a smog license so im not to worried about it

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thats too pricey holmes.
Id go with whatever body style you like best if its gonna be a daily driven car.

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man dont buy a honda for 7500, mmm how about mr2 turbo.rwd beatch!

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There are plenty of nicer cars you can score for $7500. Go find you a thousand dollar fixerup honda and do what you want to do with it. ---- get a 92 prelude and build it up if you want to.

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Better yet ill sell you my ef and it already has a new suspension and a b18 with bad rings and its painted ;D

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CRX or hatch...~$2000
B20 ~$600 from ebay
vtec --buy an entire engine....take the head and sell the block...in the end...you paid ~$400
B series tranny with new clutch...~$500
motor mounts...good ones at ~$400
shift linkage ~$100
ecu ~$175

suspension (gotta have this to) ~$250

total so far.. $4,175 --thats what we have done to our(someone else pays for it, we all pimp it out-story if anyone wants to hear it) CRX and we are runnin a pretty average 14.5 on junkyard tires with no vtec and no boost yet. :'( isnt this what abaz run with there H22 hatch? then you have another 3K for all the other goodies...come on man... think about things...

think about this also...egay,you could buy the above mentioned for 4K if you didnt wanna spend the time to build it yourself, or if you dont have the know how. then start there.

thats my $.02

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find a 1g dsm awd and build it for $7500.. AWD pwns joo!

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eventually i want an evo 8 but thats 30,000 dollars i dont have right now

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remember this... when you look at buying a "race" car, that is what you are getting.

cars that are used for racing are not going to last as long as a car that was not. if you used the same amount of money and bought a car that was not modified, you could make it last longer and you would know what all is done to the car.

when you buy a modified car, and something goes wrong and then you open up the hood and find that all the wires are leading to the ecu are in a rats nest.... you wil be spending more money trying to re-do what someone else messed up.

if you really wanted the civic that already had the h22, i would make sure to go over it with a fine tooth comb.

that money could be spent elsewhere and you could get farther than just by buying a car that was "mildly" driven, when they beat the ---- out of it, and now you have a broken h22 civic... i dont want to discourage you, but just so you dont get antsy and want to believe that it is a better car than it is...