Just got into the car game with the Vic
 

Just got into the car game with the civic, Used to have a 1999 toyota tacoma that I bought stock and redid completely, now I'm just trying to make my civic look good.
It doesnt have much done to it now, I'll upload some pics. The only pics I have are a couple of weeks old, BUT, I have a set of 17x7.5 Focal X's with tires that will get here today from tirerack so I will take more pics later, also I have had my windows tinted 35 on doors and 20 on the rest, so tinted windows arent in the pics either. Enjoy
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Welcome to the Honda world :wavey:

Nice truck

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i miss it, sorry, didnt mention that i sold it... lol
Just want a nice DD

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Awesome :)
High five for Fiji Blue Civics!

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Thanks man, I didnt research civics a whole lot until after i bought this one... glad i ended up with it, super clean interior with 5 spd, pretty clean exterior, and i love the color

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Nicest colour, nicest wheels, nicest year, nicest fog lights. Off to a pretty good start if you ask me. Lower it, fix those tails (can't tell if they're tinted oem or aftermarket), tint the windows and call it a day.

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Love the color man, looks great. Yellow fogs FTW!

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I love that color. I would say immediately swap that interior out for black interior.

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Just put my wheels on a couple of hours ago... crappy cell phone pic AND dirty car from freakin POLLEN..... but yeah this has my tinted windows
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...01502657_o.jpg

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Nice, man. Now it's time to drop it. Lol.

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I cant afford coilovers :/ paying back loans for college and mess... but im ordering eibach prokit tomorrow, thats better than nothing lol

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I know your pain, my civic is very similar to yours, even more so when I get my fog lights and 17" rims installed. I'm not ready to spend another $400 or so to drop it. I'm also clueless and afraid I'll break something if I did it myself. On top of all that, I still have parents nagging over my shoulder about how low my (stock ride height) car is... I also might have to fabricate a new mid-pipe because the one on my catback hangs too low. :(

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dude what the hell... my parents said that exact same shit to me....but I bought the car... bought every part thats on it.. so if I'm buying everything I'll do what I want, along with me paying my cell phone bill, car insurance.............
And I'm ordering Eibach pro-kit today, just lowers it 1" all the way around for just over2 $200

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Only picture snapped of my car on the way to the meet I went to today... shouldve taken some more though.. had it cleaner than the dealer i bought it from did a few months ago... lol, but lowering springs are in, lip comes in wednesday, and got a guy who will do my springs and alignment for free, saves me the headache and $300 :D, so they should be on not this friday but next friday, april 13th
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net...53537626_n.jpg

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What lip did you order?

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Cheap one, just thought it would go good with the look of my car though, got it off ebay, heres the link :)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/3903943 9780...84.m1497.l2648

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Looks nice, man! :tup:
I will be getting my rims and lowering my car in about a month or two t o look awesome like yours :)

And most lips are pretty cheap, but they all do the same job so it doesn't matter which one you get.

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lol true that, and i appreciate it man, just wish i had your mileage :D lol, and most likely your paintjob haha, my car has to have all highway miles... front bumper and hood look sort of ashey, but oh well i love my civic... even though i followed my buds on their two cobalt ss's that were stock.. but also two srt-4s, one pushing just over 400 and the other pushing around 475 whp.... lol ive known em for a while.. they older, have a house, married, have a daily driver.. and drop 20 grand in their srt4s.. lol wish i had another dd, id do a k20a2 swap in mine and turbo it.. but oh well good to have Dreams i guess lol

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haha, we all have dream cars we wish to go crazy and mod everything on. I really want a Saab 9-2x with a full Subaru STi engine and drive train swap but that would cost a fortune and take a lot of knowledge to build correctly...

And I hate Dodge Neons in general, but SRT-4s are actually quite frightening little things...

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Yeah that Saab would be nasty, havent thought of that one.. lol, and yeah one of them got beside on the highway and i floored my car at a 55 mph roll in 3rd.. and he just pushed the gas pedal in some in 5th gear and still left me.. poor civics .. too slow.. my dad has a 2003 ford focus svt... that thing is sick too, but i did a little photoshoot tonight of my car on my CRAPPY CELL PHONE CAMERA... lol, low beam HIDs are a little bright in the last picture though.. lol, shouldve turned Hi beams on at th same time.. haha
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net...76736327_o.jpghttps://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net...35453655_o.jpghttps://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net...53032563_o.jpghttps://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net...30066683_o.jpghttps://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net...55925907_o.jpg

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Looks killer! I can't wait to get some new shoes on my car and drop it :)

Were those fog lights installed when you bought the car? I have an OEM set that is painfully confusing to install... Do you have any idea how yours is wired up?

Heck yeah... SAABaru! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvAtxUbvyU0

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Lol, no, i bought the car december 2011 BONE STOCK from used car dealer, an older woman owned it.. haha, so ive done everything to it, and i just ordered the ones off of ebay, put them in, ran the wiring up towards the battery, connected the yellow trip wire to my parking lights and the relay to the battery and grounded it off with the black wired. TONS MORE SIMPLE than doing it the long way lol, so whenever i lock or unlock my car my foglights blink, and NO they dont blink with my turning signals haha

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Make sure you have a fuse on the wire going to the battery. Dont want an electrical fire ruining the car.

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Sweet that sounds much easier than tearing apart the whole thing for some silly fog lights...
I'm having my Wyotech graduate neighbor install them so it shouldn't be too hard to figure out. Thanks for the tip! :rofl:

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Lol really idk jack about stuff like that but it was pretty easy to do since i did it that way, oh and my lip came in today, still planning the lowering on april 13th
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net...94714648_o.jpg

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Dude, nice! What lip is that? When I lower my car I will be wanting one so I don't scratch up the stock bumper.
(You posted a link before, but the sale is ended so I can't see it, lol)

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lol i didnt see the fuse comment, but yes i have a fuse, ALL the wiring came with the ones i ordered so its good, havent had a single problem with anything so far :)
and heres a new link to the lip
http://www.ebay.com/itm/04-05-Civic-...item5ae551c470

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I don't like black wheels with that color. A set of silver or bronze wheels compliment the car better. Not digging the tinted tails either.

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Guess you dont like the black housing headlights either huh?

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Should i still switch to the black interior since im making everything else pretty much black? or are you ging to decide a no on that one now?

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I considered blacking out my interior too, but it's very expensive and complicated. I have the tan/brown combo which is disgusting in my opinion... (The tan is okay, but the brown doesn't amke any sense)
Dying the interior black is a painstaking process and costs a lot, and replaceing everythign with another EM2 interior is no walk in the park either. It takes extreme dedication and professional appolstery work to accomplish that task. I'd even love to switch my dash from brown to black if possibe, but there's a lot of deconstruction involved. :shake:

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Black wheels with the color just doesn't agree with me Blacked out tails look like crap, no matter what car they are on. I hate the "murdered out" crap, just my opinion.

Black headlights normally look good because they bring some contrast out. So I like the headlights and fogs.

If you were to do black interior, finding a parts car would be best and not dying anything.

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Or just find someone who wants a tan interior and trade... lol
might be going to an event called cars and coffee saturday, if my girl can come with me.. lol, its like an hour away from me, supposed to be lamborghinis, ferraris, and all sorts of mess like that, nice to look at when you live in north carolina... only things i ever see like that are MAYBE around VIR (virginia international raceway) considering I live so close to it.

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If you find someone who does, ask them if they want 2 tan interiors!
Y'know... just in case they need an extra...

At some point i think I'd rather drive in a lawn chair on bare steel flooring than look at my puke brown/tan combo anymore :susp:

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lol, i just deal with it, it doesnt really bother me, i like tan interior's, yeah i wish it was black to get rid of the poop brown.. but then again black interior would be a whole lot hotter, my dads red 03 SVT focus has black interior.. hot as hell

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I'd be happy to take the stock wheels off your hands, lol.

I like the headlights, where did you get them? I'm over refinishing mine every year and might just buy new ones and have em clear coated.

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stock wheels and tires are gone.. lol
and i got the headlights off of ebay, they werent but like $80 shipped

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I was looking at a white EM2 when I was looking for a car. But I couldn't find one with black interior. That tan is such a combo breaker for me lol. I love that blue and I also love white, but both came with that dreaded tan interior.

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At least I've got nice dark window tint to hide the interior color from outside so it doesn't clash with the blue so bad...
And for the right price, I'd be willing to give up my EX SE/Acura EL 15-spoke rims to a happy new owner. There's gotta be someone who wnats 'em :)

Quick question about the lip... it just mounts up to those little holes under the front bumper, right? With little pins to hold it on?

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Lol, nope... had 9 holes in the lip and had to drill into the bumper :( but it looks good
and the day i got my new wheels and tires i had someone offer me 400 cash for the wheels and tires i had on my car, oh and looks like itll be even longer before i lower my car... the day the guy was going to do it i have to work... so i cant have it done.
Im really about to just say F it and ima go rent a spring compressor from auto zone and do it myself.. but then I have to pay for an alignment :(

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diy of this install? i was looking at the same exact one but i didnt know how to install it and i wanted to know what i was getting my self in to

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also ive seen in it on this color and i liked the look of it but a black gas cap cover looks cool and if you have some cash maybe a carbon fiber vinyl wrap of the hood roof trunk and maybe wing i might do it to my car you can get the wrap off ebay for relatively cheap and do you have any work under the hood? pics of the bay!:rockon:

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You shouldn't need a spring compressor if you're careful. Stand on the spring with one foot or have someone else do this while you slowly remove the cap nut. It also helps to do this in grass or butted up against a brick wall to add resistance and keep the spring from blowing parts all over the place...

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Lol.. you must be a crazy ass dude, and what exhaust did you get for your car? Mine is all custom from a local exhaust shop, thinking about going with something different, but idk, because mine is loud af.... haha

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Nah, I'm pretty sane. This is a good DIY that show how you can do it safely:
https://www.civicforums.com/forums/4...fo-pics-9.html

I have an ebay exhaust, a Spec-D Tuning catback. Its cheap ($120) and easy to install. Sounds nice and deep! It drones a bit going up hills, but otherwise it is actually failry quiet. It's silent when cruising along, and loud when you floor it :)

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i have a WONDERFUL local exhaust shop, that did what i have now, which i put my header on myself, still have stock downpipe and cat, but 2.5" pipe from cat to the back of the car with a one chamber muffler with a 4 inch tip the reason he is so wonderful.. is because he cut the pipe off the 3 bolt flange and welded the new piece onto the new pipe so i can take off what he did and put that kit on and have 2 different bolt on exhausts, one made for it, and the other custom lol, but my car is HELLA loud... fairly quiet just cruising.. but when i get into it jesus
that white truck i used to have was worse.. lol, it had a stock exhaust manifold, put a cherry bomb where the cat Used to be and had 3 inch pipe going into a one chamber muffler, with dual 3 inch pipes running into two 5" stainless diesel truck tips, one coming out behind each rear tire, thing sounded NASTY for a 4cyl toyota haha, alot of people thought it was a v6 xD
but with a honda... theyre annoying when loud haha

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decided to let yall take a look at the ther car toy thats in my family lol.. and im not even "allowed" to drive it.. haha
http://i42.tinypic.com/214e89z.jpg
http://i43.tinypic.com/2wc05n4.jpg

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whats done to it?

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Pretty nice Focus! I'm not a fan of that hood scoop... but that exhaust is sweeeeet

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pretty much everything but a turbo, last thing he did was SCT tune to go along with his mods, hes pulling around 215 to 220 hp, alot more than my civic.. lol, and the hoodscoop is off a roush focus i think, the lip came from a mach 1 mustang, and that exhaust... thanks to our amazing local exhaust shop as i mentioned before haha