I'm thinking about buying my first honda
06-23-2004, 06:53 AM
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Re:I'm thinking about buying my first honda
Originally Posted by youngbuckfab
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
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
06-24-2004, 04:27 PM
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Re:I'm thinking about buying my first honda
Originally Posted by sccaeg
Originally Posted by youngbuckfab
thats what we have done to our(someone else pays for it, we all pimp it out-story if anyone wants to hear it)
06-24-2004, 09:10 PM
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Re:I'm thinking about buying my first honda
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...
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...
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