Originally Posted by jskoots83
I am currently looking into doing some small things to my civic. I plan on purchasing the AEM V2 Cold Air Intake and a DC catback exhaust. I don't know too much about exhausts, but things seem to be too technical for me so if anyone can break it down for me I'd appreciate it. From what I do understand you need the casket and the pipes that lead up to the header for the catalytic convertor. I was looking at the DC sports one on ebay for my car model and make @400 and some dollars. Am I going to need a new header too? What brands should I look at and what should I stay away from?
Is intake and exhaust a good place to start? I'm not really looking to race my car, I just want to do some things to make it more unique and a little more quick. I'm thinking about purchasing the Halo Projector headlights and some black altezza tail lights as well. Maybe some neon glow for the interior and maybe an undercar streetglow kit.
Also curious about the performance chips you see on ebay that supposedly can give you up to a 20+ gain in hp...
If anyone has links to resources I can use to learn more about this stuff please pass them along.
check the sticky at the top of this forumn it has a lot of stuff.
as for the chips, they are bs its not happening. personally i hate altezza`s, it think they look really tacky and a lot of ricers have them, as for the projectors watch out , i dont have any personal xp with them but from what i hear they go out fast and arent really worth it. but go with the aem intake and dc exhaust , the couple dc exhausts ive heard are really loud and not my taste but to each his own, i can say it should be good quality