Miyagi inspired me to do this thread after seeing his attempt to get a build of his car going for a magazine feature. Mine is just to show everyone the transformation of my car from when i first got it to now. I have met a lot of people through the years and made a lot of friends along the way. Here are pictures of my car from past years when I first got it and the changes the car has taken since I have owned it. I bought the car in late November of 1995 used from Bud Smail Acrua with 11,XXX miles on it. The car caught my eye because it was black had a spoiler and a moonroof, these are the 3 reasons I bought it. At the time there were no real aftermarket stuff for the car and I didnt have any interest until I picked up an issue of hotrod honda and saw a red Civic EX coupe with a Erebuni bodykit and I got hooked. The pictures I have right now are all after I started modifying it. I will have to scan pictures of the car when it was stock right when i got it and the few things I did before I got consumed by the scene.
1996-1999: Here are pics of the car when I was at World Of Wheels for the first time ever.
1996-1999: The custom stereo system I had in it. If look close on the trunk lid I had the Honda logo protruding out of the panel
There were a few different stereo setups that I had but this was the final setup. Shortly after getting the stereo to this point I heard of a local guy that wanted to see my car he had just bought a Civic Ex wrecked from an auction and needed to get all the front components for it and wanted to check my Denji projectors out because he was thinking of getting a set. This is when I met Eric Starenchak.
1999-2002: Eric and I started hanging out and soon I got all wrapped up in performance and going fast at this point I knew nothing about mechanics and had no interest either my car was sounding sweet looking good and sitting on 17's hahaha. Once he got his car on the road shortly after he did a GSR swap in his Civic EX this thing ripped he was the first in our area to do any kind of "hybrid" swap. After he got it done I was sold, I wanted to go fast but my car was an automatic and this was the first swap around it still wasn't a common thing to put a B-series into a Civic. Magazines were just begining to do a how to on putting a B-series into a civic and wasnt real clear on the ins and outs yet. So doing the auto-stick conversion was a steer in the dark. I got my swap from import autosalvage here are some the pics of when we did the swap I did the rear disc changeover at this time as well.
World of Wheels 2000:
Hot Import Days York, PA
When I first got rid of the bodykit this is the only picture of the car like this I hated the wheels and the corner lenses I was so pissed it was ugly as hell.
2001-2002: First turbo setup
This is World of wheels when I first changed the color and the engine was still the original swap I bought.
I will post more later since I maxxed out my pic allowance.
This is right after the 1.8 liter build. The Type R beside me later got my built 1.8 bottom end I got his bottom end and built my current 2.0 liter engine.
Eric and I at Zelienople flashlight drags:
The car in its current state sorry for the garbage pics
I just wanted to share some of the story on my car.
nice progress. i plan on doing a photo album this year thats something like this only will have it with me at meets and stuf showing the progress my car has made over the past 2 1/2 years i've had it. My car isnt ment for shows but its allways nice to see how much has been put into something especially since alot of us spend alot of our time/money to make our cars look the way they do.