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[Gideon35T]

As most of you have figured out by now I go through cars rather quickly.
Right now I'm at: S60, 855, G20, 620, Escort, and ...

Poking around I found a 1986 Honda Civic Si hatch as part of an estate sale. Running and driving I bought it for a whopping ... $600, lol.
It's my first Honda product and I definitely don't like it. But, I figure $200-$250 into it and I can turn around and sell it to a local ricer kid for a nice profit. I'm getting laid off (last day is Thursday) so the extra money will be welcome. Got about $200 into it so far and only need to spend another $20 or so. Put a whole one and a half days work into it and have her running very nicely. Here's pics of where it's at so far ...







Sorry for the crappy angle garage pics. I'll get her out on the town for some better angles tomorrow hopefully. The lights, steering wheel, sticker, landscape edging front lip, intake, exhaust tip, and a bunch of misc all came from spare parts I had laying around the garage. With how much the ricers love anything labeled "Si" I figure it will be an easy sell. Took my buddy (local honda kid) for a ride today and apparently it's pretty peppy by honda kid standards (these kids are missing out big time), lol. Still can't get over the nonexistent low end torque thing :-/. She definitely isn't a car I'd keep for a bit, hahaha.

Btw - The liberal use of zip ties was strictly my cheap side kicking in. I've labeled this as "Project: Bottom Dollar" after all. And the hood pins I added because the original latch was so messed up it was beyond saving.

[cheapwagon]

Autozone must love you.

[survolvo]

Gideon35T, on 16 January 2012 - 06:05 AM, said:

Btw - The liberal use of zip ties was strictly my cheap side kicking in. I've labeled this as "Project: Bottom Dollar" after all. And the hood pins I added because the original latch was so messed up it was beyond saving.

With all those zip ties, you should be on Turbo Bricks!

[Gideon35T]

Screw Autozone ... I'm a Pepboys kinda guy ... lol --- Besides, it's a project meant to appeal to the ricers. And those kids shop at autozone and walmart for everything, haaha

[Jardim]

If that was mine it would end up like this:



I'm just a Group A fan, but most of the honda kids would recognize this from GT5 or something.

[NJGreenBudd]

id think it would look 1000 x better without the ricer crap. it looks clean except what you did to it. i dont see how that increasrs the value.

[Gideon35T]

If it were for me then it would be nicely done. These things owned the racetrack in their day. However, the goal here is to flip it as soon as possible. Therefor she is set up to appeal to the local ricers kids who are the target market. I don't like it myself but that isn't the point. With the layoff it's strictly designed to yield as much money as possible in as short of a time frame as possible. Assuming it doesn't take me forever to get a new job my next project will be a very very nice toy just for me. But for now it's a secret