I'm not flaming him for putting money into a Civic, I'm just stating that I don't see why you would want to drop that much cash into a new Civic when you could have bought something better to start with. Most people that buy new Civics buy them because they are practical or because they are in their price range. I put and ass load of money in my Civic because it was paid off and because it was more practical than buying something that was out at the time. Now days there are plenty of factory performance cars including the new SI so why buy an LX? That's all I'm saying is that this swap is not cost effective the way a b series is cost effective to put in a 5th or 6th gen.