someone might want to trade me a 93 honda civic with a b18 swap, and a bunch of other mods, for my white VG and a laptop..........someone shoot me?

 

sorry.. This woudl make you not worth the bullet.

Maybe if you had a ebat up VG .. but if that is your ca rin your sig.....

 

no no, the car in my sig is going NOWHERE anytime soon, don't worry about that.....the car i was thinking about trading was my decent condition, all stock white 91 VG

 

I would do it. I don't know about throwing in the laptop. It kind of depends on the Honda mods.

Properly swapped and modded Hondas make good race cars. Just make sure you have no wing, no stickers and no body kit on it.

which b18 is it?

coupe or hatch? If it's a 4 door, than forget about it.

There's not much use having two of the same car (Maxima) you might as well get a toy to beat up at the track and keep your Maxima from getting abuse.

 

did you decide to fix your Max?

 

Depends on how much hes put into the Honda compared to what your VG sells for.

 

oh... then maybe

be nice if it was a second gen CRX .. like stated above depends on the condition and how well you knwo the guy if the car has been abused and such. parts are cheap thoguh for them hondas

 

http://nashville.craigslist.org/car/147311421.html

thats teh listing of the civic......hes removed the wheels and taillights to lower the price....he seems to have alot of money in it, he tells me hes got about 11 grand in the car. doesnt seem liek a bad deal.

and the laptop is years old....like from 1998 or 99, with a pentium 3 in it. no loss as it was free to me for work.

also, i did decide to fix up the black max, i cant lose my baby, i love love love it, even with the damage <3 only need a windshield, fender, front door, side skirt (stillen), both taillights, and a rear quarter panel! (Seems like alot, but really it isnt, in my opinion.

 

and my VG sells for $2,330 KBB private party value in good condition. i paid 1500 for it, so this honda would be profit all the way, for sure....and i need a car for my girl to drive, since her beater saturn is in california and wouldnt make it here for long.

 

Dude, forget it -- that car is a rice mobile.



If you had a clean hatch rolling chassis, maybe the engine, tranny and coilovers would be OK, but otherwise that thing is fugly.

 

lol, ur call dude,


but i think most of us here would laugh their asses off

 

yeah, most likely, but as for my girl havin a good car to drive, and slightly modded, i dont think she can complain...and no matter how ricey it is, its almost a steal with all the mods and the swap, IMHO.

 

pull the wing off and set it back up to normal height and it's fine.
but ditch the wing

 

Owning a Honda isn't bad, per se... but if you get that honda, you will be the laughing stock of the neighborhood for decades to come.

 

my friend just bought a civic, and he says he can beat my maxima... well as of right now he can because of my tranny, but i just wanna blow him away with his little intake and SWEET 2000W stereo system

 

meh.. who cares? there's always a faster car... sometimes it's even a honda.

then again, my honda will never be winning any races... you can measure 0-60 times on this thing in decades.

 

i like the idea of getting the honda, because.....since i hate them so much, i thought i would give it a chance in my heart <3.....just kidding. but i do like how theyre cheap to mod, and also because im getting a deal out of this one....

still havent heard back form the guy, maybe someone else bought it

 

please hope someone else bought it. If you buy that rice machine, I'm going to see to it that you never reproduce.

 

YOUR honda?

 

Yeah, he has the NSX..

 

Yeah.. I bought the wife an '06 Element last Friday.

 

Could be what

 

UGH ly

 

I like the Element. A friend of mine has had two now (the first year and now an 06) and they are excellent vehicles. He has an AWD EX (both were the same) The reason he bought the new one was because it has the painted fenders. He said he never really liked the plastic look, although he did like the fact that it didn't show any rock chips. They are extremely utilitarian and well thought out, IMO, and they still get decent mpg. Much better than my Infiniti QX4 and essentially, it provides much of the same things.

 

buy some stock bumpers if you buy it. Id drive it home with the body kit IN the car. and the wing in the trunk as well. Modded hondas are decent cars when they are derice-ified.

~Alex

 

That's your opinion and you're entitled to it. My wife likes it and I bought it for her. It's reliable as hell, gets decent gas mileage (same as her Altima), and will haul a lot more crap than the Alty even thought about.
Utility and usefulness >> looks

 

same excuse as the aztek

 

but the aztek was a POS pontiac product that was 10x uglier than the element.

 

The Element looks like a plastic fridge Just pullin your strings Matt, take it easy..

 

The seller's including the stock bumpers too. I dont think its too bad of a deal if you take that "big" spoiler off car, put stock bumpers on, and get some nice 15's. You could sell the rice **** on ebay

 

hey, the element is a close second to the Scion xB for the box on wheels award! just kidding matt, i like the positive aspects of the element, and the Consumer Reports review showed the elemt as one of the top reliable and useful vehicles, rating wise.

don't take me seriously about the box on wheels man, just jerkin ya around....plus, remember that im the one getting the ricer civic!

 

yay0, true. he has all stock parts for everything hes ever switched out from the alternator, to the gauge cluster, to the bumpers, to the ECU

hell, the ECU he has in it right now is a Spoon ECU. one of the perks.

 

80k on the swap!!! Dude how many ricer burn out, red-line revving $hitty races are on the motor??? Sounds like dude knows it's about to blow.

 

guy seems well educated on it all, and im coming out on the deal anyways....if the engine blew, i can go to pull a part and get another one

 

I agree with with CyMax..he knows something is def wrong and wants to get rid of it soon..I mean c'mon he probs gets better MPG than the Max even with all those mods, why would he wanna trade? its up to you but I know Honda from personal experience and if they're abused they'll leak oil from everywhere although they're still very reliable.

And for those talking about the Element being fugly..its not my type of car or whatever its considered but hey I think it looks wayyy better than that scion box with wheels..

 

he was originally selling it for 4800, then went down to 3500 after a month or so, then dropped down to 2600 after taking some things off of it. he put the stuff back on when i included the pace setter exhaust, and an amp ;x

but FYI it was pretty hard to get him to do this deal with me, because he needs cash. He wanted to get the money from the honda, and buy a bigger import so he could mod it out and still fit his kids in it (3 of them)

im not worried about it though, ill check everything out before i seal the deal

 

sounds like he's trying to dump it to me.. if he needed room for the kids, he'd be taking his time and selling it for more in order to buy a better car for them.

 

It does sound like he's trying to dump the car, but hey, at that price you could probably resell it in a year at a profit.
I really hope that wing isn't stayin on

 

so....i went and did the trade tonight. heres the scoop:

i traded my white auto 91 max with the pace setter complete exhaust, an old laptop i didnt pay anything for, an amp i was probably never gonna use, plus 800 bucks.

with all the mods on this thing, i do believe i got my moneys worth...it runs good, no smoke, no strange noises other than the one bad motor mount, which he gave me a new one to put in. it has its problems, but all are minor, just like the max i traded.

one of the worst problems is the maaco paint job...they painted EVERYTHING, but he got alot of the excess off. they even painted over the stickers on the hood that were there before, instead of taking them off.

all in all, im satisfied. will post pics tomorrow or sometime

 

Alright, since you already went and did the trade I suggest you do an oil change ASAP to make sure he didnt put in any additives to stop it from smoking while he had it for sale. damn I still cant believe you threw in 800 bucks too..I hope it really was worth it.

lmao...painted over stickers...too funny. And I was gonna take mine to maaco but **** that! I'm not gonna do any body work to my car as it prob not worth spending bodywork money on.