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Hey, just joined this site because I got a new Honda Civic =D (wouldn't call it new). I'm mostly into computers, but I like DIYing everything, so I thought I'd join here to get help and learn more about cars.

My Car: 2000 Honda Civic DX
Cost for me: $0 (Found it at a junk yard, everything works and is fine, odometer only has about 100,000 miles 0_0)
Fixing to do: Entire front bumper is mangled and the two fenders are broken T_T
Other than that, it works fine =D add some mods to it and it'll be my future car =D

PS: I'm only about 15, so I got about 6 months until I can actually drive T_T, so I got 6 months to make this car mine

 
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Welcome to the forums. Learn how to drive first before really going off the wall with mods and stuff. No street racing and please do not rice it out.

 
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Yea I won't mod out like major stuff that affects the car heavily. I mean just little performance and maintenance stuff.
Also, I'm asian, so if I pour some rice on my car it'll be a ricer =D
Also, Also, (lol) there are like no street races where I live, only people who like to rev their car really loud at night to **** everyone off.

 
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K thats good and just so you know if you did street race it is, prohibited to talk bout it here and most people on this site do not do it.

 
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Would this be the right place to ask like "Oh how would I change this" and yada yada. Cause I have no idea how to do anything really XD

 
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What do you need changed

 
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I wouldn't say so much "prohibited" as much as I'd say "highly frowned upon." But in any case, you would catch a lot of **** if you started bragging about street racing.

My thing about it is there's a big difference between spirited driving and street racing. I like to drive spirited on occasion, but I usually maintain no more than 5-10 above the limit. I'm Asian, too, and I drive a modded civic. People stereotype it until they see/hear it, then they usually say something like "Well, it's a rice rocket, but it's a nice rice rocket. I approve!" lol

Anyways, with your car, since you found it in a junkyard, you may wanna get it checked to see if the frame is straight. It sounds like it was in some sort of front-end accident and the insurance prolly didn't wanna cover the cost of straightening the frame. It sounds like it'd be a good project car though, whether it be a quick street car or restoring it to full functioning daily driving use, with prolly some extras to make it a tid bit better.

In any case, and welcome to the forums. Feel free to abuse the search button, and if you get sick of it, go ahead and post up some questions. There are quite a few good people left of this forum that are more than willing to provide a little bit of information to steer you straight. myself, 02civicsi02, gearbox, tbohar (if he ever gets his *** back on these forums.. lol), electric130, and sdaidoji just to name a few that still frequent these forums.

 
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yea, I went to a mechanic that I know and they said that the car is perfectly fine besides the two little mishaps. It isn't that it crashed I think because half of the front bumper is gone, but not all and the fenders are dented a little inward.

#1 thing I gotta find
Where to get parts. like an online store.

 
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for OEM stuff
hondapartscheap.com (South Bay Honda)
hondaautomotiveparts.com (Majestic Honda)
You can usually get stuff for about half of what the dealerships charge. Only downfall is they usually charge a good amount for shipping. It's still cheaper than getting ripped off at the dealership though. I was able to get a set of 4 coil packs for my '02 for $200 plus shipping instead of $100/coil pack plus tax at majestic honda

For aftermarket, I go to thmotorsports.com or dezod.com. I'm sure you can talk to Paul at dezod to see if you can get stuff for a '00 though. His website only sells stuff for 01-05 civics (plus universal stuff).