Honda Car Forum

Hi everybody, thanks for your attention.i own a 05 honda civic ex, and id like to give it some speed and some look! and still be legal in U.S, what do you guys recommand?i dont wanna spend too much money, i stick to less than 1grand.

50 shot of N.O.S.K&N cold air system

This is a list of most bang for the buck:Well first off adress your intake you can either swiss cheese your airbox or buy a cheap open airfilter online. If you swiss chees your box get a K&N as paper filters dont like any more moisture tha they see.Your exhaust go with 2.25 piping and stay away from a straight through exhaust. For your engine that will be a bigger loss in back pressure than youw ill need. With major loss in back pressure your only gains are minimal and at very high end 7-8k RPM!Consider you wheel weight 1lb of rolling weight lost is like 3hp roughly. Rolling weight is wheels,tires,gears,flywheel etc. Rolling weight is much better to get rid of than standing weight.Ok now I cant remember everything about this next subject so if your intereste dyou must do some research. If you lower your overall diamater of your wheel/tires you will have more lower end speed (as in 1000rpm through 3000) that is an example I am not sure the peak gain in rpm is but it is low. If you go and increase your wheel/tire diam you will only see it higher. So in everyday driving I would lower it. So if you 195/85/16 drop to a 195/35/16 just for an example. Again calulations are needed to see optimum gain.Short shifter will help in race only situations.For looks I would go with the nicest light weight wheel there is. Many aftermarket wheels are pigs.Ground effects are tough I am very picky and not familar with what is out for hondas.The biggest problem with hondas is lack of lower end! Consider this with your mods. I had a car with all top end and it sucked leaving from every stoplight I was always behind the pack and would have to get high in RPMs just to keep up. Just be careful if you buy a camshaft/s. YOu get something big and your doomed for street.

A cold air system and a cat back system. Both will cost under a grand.

I like tela's 'logic' lol. Those are some great ricer excuses for a slow car. After test driving one, I can confidently say nothing short of a turbo setup is going to make that car much faster(if at all) If you wanted a fast car you picked one of the worst cars for that. The motor in your car doesn't produce enough power to utilize an exhaust system so thats pretty much money down the shitter. Just enjoy driving your car in unmolested grace from point A to point B. If you want a quick car, I would look at something else or keep it and get something on the side. You will look like a goon if you put rims and expensive tires on a car that struggles past 100mph. And don't get me started on the exhaust! Also your car will be worth more when you go to sell it when it is bone stock without rediculous 'mods'.

well i would personally drive it into a tree then buy a car worth tunning.

I don't know what you can do with under a grand to make it faster unless you can find a cheap b-series swap, which is possible, but unlikely. You can: 1. Spend a grand getting the intake, header, exhaust, and spark plug wires done (doing it yourself). 140 hp tops.Or: 2. Go with a Hondata ECU, that'll give you roughly the same if not more power than all that work done for cheaper, then just be sure to buy a d-series Vtec head. 140 - 160 hp tops with a good program mapped on the ECU.That's just for speed, which still wouldn't be that much. And those numbers are estimates, not solid. 1 grand isn't going to get you a whole lot, and those figures would be luck. Outside of speed, skip the looks and throw a grand into the suspension or audio.