Lopes101

Hey everyone, Im new to the forums. I drive a 2002 civic coupe DX, i will upload pictures of her today. Im from Canada, and i am slowly making this car mine.

Things i have done so far:

put in new headunit
changed wiper blades (i know not a big deal, but it did happen)
tinted my taillights
and been keeping up on regular maintenance (self oil changes etc.)


Things that are going to happen:

Just purchased 4 new struts
purchased 4 Eibach 1.4" lowering springs
purchased 4 new sway links (back left is broken)

I love my car, and i hope to learn a lot from you guys around here, and ya. so hello!

Brian1037

Welcome!! Good to see another Canadian around here. Where in Canada are you from? Pictures!!!

sl33pyriceboi

iTrader: (3)

Welcome. Pictures!

Ln2e

Hi Nice!! Pictures!!

intrance9

woooo! Canada!! =)

welcome!
excited for pictures!

Lopes101

Thanks for the welcoming everyone! I am 20 minutes west of Ottawa, small town called Almonte (Ontario for anyone who doesn't know!), where are you from Brian? and intrance, also from up north?

I got a bit busy today everyone so i apologize about not putting up pictures yet, got home and it was dark already and haven't taken pictures since tinting my taillights and do not want to put up pictures without that! Tomorrow morning, and i promise that


EDIT: just read your signature Brian / sidebar you are from Quebec, GO HABS GO

Shift-E

I'm in Kanata, not too far from you Welcome to the site! It's awesome. Everyone is so helpful and you'll learn tons from them. Just remember to use the sites search function before posting a question, because a lot of the time similar questions are asked.
Once you familiarize yourself with the site and it's members you're going to like it a lot

HG-2003Civvy

wooo Almonte! they finally got a timmies lol. Gotta love dwyer hill road, now there's a place to test your car on all those s style turns. Not too far down the road from you. Welcome!

MindBomber

Welcome

DarkSouljur

Lol i when i read you were from canada i was like wouldn't it be funny if he was from ottawa? It would be sweet. And SURE enough, you were lol. Thats awesome, another person who can come to possible future meetings

Me and Shift-E are cousins and both live in Kanata.

Pics of your car btw, and welcome to the site!

Lopes101

wow I never thought how many guys would be so close! thats awesome, I have always wanted to jump into some meetings since i got my civic. I dont feel its worthy yet, but she will get there. anyways, heres some pics! she is a WIP, saving up for a body job whenever i can. Probably next spring.

As you can see, i have a crack in the bumper, there are also a few nicks here and there from peoples doors... She is HIGH km, but the engine was swapped for another D17A about 150,000km ago. The hood has some rust circles, i want to paint the hood myself, but i am a bit scared.. we will see how it goes.

SUSPENSION update: Springs and sway links have been shipped, waiting for struts to be shipped. then pop em all in there.

Lopes101

I washed her 2 days ago living in the country with do that to her!

intrance9

I'm from Calgary so North, but West!
nice looking car man! i really like the look of the Tail lights..
i should definitely do that.
i need to get some pics of my car up on here haha.

i think im ordering a short ram air intake this weekend.. maybe...

Muirsy

welcome to the site. nice to see another canadian member!

Brian1037

370,000 km!! Very nice. I'm only at 120,000km and I feel like my Civic is getting old haha. Seeing your odometer makes me very happy about owning a Civic

Lopes101

Absolutely! it has a lot of km, its a lot of Hockey driving right there. The civic has been owned by a Lopes since new, my parents bought it when i was 12, and when my mother decided to buy a new 2010, i decided it was best i lay down my Dodge dakota, and pick up that civic!i have had her for about 8 months now, and 20,000 km. I love it, and believe me, she runs as if it only has 120,000 km. Runs awesome. It is getting to the point where i need to replace parts that are, in my opinion, rightfully worn out. aka im putting all new suspension and sway links. passenger headlight is cracked and all fogged up. couple dings here and there from hit and runs over the years. but i have fallen in love with it.

Brian1037

Lopes101

Yep, well i feel that thats enough for my welcome thread :P so ill see you guys around the forums! and hopefully whenever there is a meet in good ol' ottawa / kanata ill be in the loop and ill be there.

MindBomber

Onto serious to business lol,

What kind of struts did you order?

Lopes101

OK.... well I'm not going to lie I'm extremely embarrassed to even say it.. I'll start with the springs.. so I bought eibach 1.4" lowering springs for it, (they are pretty and red) and I was GOING to buy tokico blues... BUT this is the embarrassing part.. Whilest searching the good ol' internet I came across LoTek struts.. and don't freak out! I have good reasoning I think for why I went with these cheap hopefully not to crappy struts.. I did a search and found, I'm pretty sure on here, that somebody did also buy these extremely cheap struts ($200 for a set of 4) and he said they are doing just fine.

Thus, I purchased LoTek struts... My reasoning is for that price they are definitely worth taking the bargain and seeing what happens..If they crap out really soon, to bad so sad im out 200 beans, but if they are good, I just saved $300. please do not be afraid to comment and chirp the purchase, I will accept all criticism :P

DarkSouljur

You have the exact same deck that i want to buy! How do you like it??

PS, i think i might have seen you driving before :P

I like the tails, and i'm planning on doing the same thing, did you do them or did you buy the car like that?

Lopes101

I like the deck a lot, the ONLY thing i hate about it, is its very difficult to select things. It is hard to press the **** down to select songs, etc. takes at least two fingers to support both sides to press down. other than that, you can select ANY colour for the screen, and buttons its pretty cool. Its a great deck though and I am happy with it, but for $250 I would like to be able to select things easier. But I just use my ipod usually.


the taillights, well, I am not going to lie, im very proud of them :P I Painted them with VHT Night shades transparent paint. Cost about 12.99 at CTire, I put about 2 to 3 coats on them, and a little clear coat. I get compliments everyday on them. i just did my hub caps, check out my build thread!