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Old Apr 21, 2005 | 03:20 PM
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Default Just got my 03 Civic LX...

...and I'm thinking about doing some cosmetic and slight performance enhancing mods to it.

First off, I'd like to say I've never worked on cars or anything, I've built my own computers and helped friends with theres, and thats about it for my engineering skills. So cars are "new" to me so I'm kinda obsessed with them latley.

Cosmeticly I might want to tint the windows, replace the taillights with euro altezza's, replace the headlights with angel eyes, and then add some foglights. That stuff shouldn't be too hard should it? I did read one of the DIYs on swaping headlights, and it did look pretty ruff, softening the silicon to get the frame out and painting the new one them putting that in... I would probly keep the chrome on my lights though.

For performance I dont want to do anything to significantly reduce the life of my engine, and keep it under warranty. So I was thinking cold air intake, exaust, new computer/chip (not sure which would be good for all around performance increase without a leap in fuel consumption), and possibly new cat converter. Most if not all I can do myself (I hope), but should I need "professional" installation, any idea how much it would cost, or just not even worth it if I needed professional help?

I've thought about new wheels/suspension and lower it a bit, but that might be going too far ... well I might get new wheels... but thats pretty expensive.

But, I'd like not to do anything that would be extremely difficult or expensive to reverse, so I can resell in a few years (I might just keep it forever though).

Also I checked prices on most of this stuff from e-bay, any other good places I can get this stuff from?

Anyways, any help on this stuff appritiated, thanks alot guys!

-Sko

Last edited by sko; Apr 21, 2005 at 03:23 PM. Reason: doh, tried to insert pics...
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