i'm sure your getting alot of people who look at your car and then look at the auto tranny and go "oh, an auto.." As far as respect goes, if you just drive your auto LS integra w/o 1 upgrade, everyone will see you as stock (score of 5).

After your first upgrade, people's opinions will change, some will rate your car a 10 some a 1. Bascially if you put a body kit on, all the ricers will give you higher scores (respect) and the car enthusiest will give you a 1 ( i feel like a video game giving "respect" points).

basically what i'm trying to get at is you can't please everyone no matter what you do but you play the ratio.

Anyways, enough non-sense typeing. How old are you? What's the life situation?

I'd definantly spend alot of time searching and learning about what kinda of car you want, what you'll be doing and what sort of power you'll be doing. Basically Knowing Exactly what your future goals are. After that, make your decision.

If it were me? i'd sell that low millage ls and buy another ls with more millage and go turbo.