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Ok so my dad bought a Civic Si sedan a few months ago... I am currently a high school junior and he said he'll proabably give me the car when I go to college. For now, to get mods I can use my own money (I'd prefer not to) or I can get really good grades, do chores, etc. and wait 'til Xmas.
I was only planning to do about $5K in mods throughout the whole life of the car assuming that I'll be more or less broke most of my college life. So aside from all of the "appearance" stuff (wheels, hfp, etc.), I was only looking to get an intake/exhaust, since I heard that the stock headers are actually pretty good. Plus I'd rather the mods be something simple that I could install myself. I'm not much of a mechanic, yet.
YES, I have searched, but I couldn't exactly find the answers that I was looking for. If anything, I might get my first couple of little mods by summertime. But I'd figure I start asking questions.
First off, I wanted to keep the car classy. I am not like the typical teenager who wants an obnoxiously loud fartcan exhaust with a 5" tip. Nor do I want alteeza tailights or chrome everything or any other ricer crap. But I am a pretty aggressive driver and I do enjoy redlining it :vtec: most of the time I drive when the road is wide open (or when there's a stupid idiot going 5mph under the speed limit in the passing lane). So I want a meaner, but not necessarily that much louder sounding intake/exhaust combo. I was thinking Comptech Intake (when it comes out? or some kind of other IceBox?) and Tanabe Concept-G exhaust. Has anyone heard either of these systems? Are they aggressive but not that loud? Another question I had was how exactly will this affect my power? From what I've heard, this may give me ballpark 5-10whp, but of course this is the peak hp. Is this increase in power even noticable? And if I do the intake/exhaust with nothing else, will I noticably lose any power elsewhere in the powerband?
Also, I am pretty new to this whole modding business. I guess you could consider me a car nut, but when it comes to the nuts and bolts I am just starting. Are there any other inexpensive "performance" mods that anyone recommends? I don't want anything that could potentially cause a major (expensive) malfunction that would void the warranty and screw me over (the car was 100% paid for, not leased or financed so I can't do $#it if i lose the warranty). I would appreciate any help and/or (most) opinions on this matter. Thanks in advance.
I was only planning to do about $5K in mods throughout the whole life of the car assuming that I'll be more or less broke most of my college life. So aside from all of the "appearance" stuff (wheels, hfp, etc.), I was only looking to get an intake/exhaust, since I heard that the stock headers are actually pretty good. Plus I'd rather the mods be something simple that I could install myself. I'm not much of a mechanic, yet.
YES, I have searched, but I couldn't exactly find the answers that I was looking for. If anything, I might get my first couple of little mods by summertime. But I'd figure I start asking questions.
First off, I wanted to keep the car classy. I am not like the typical teenager who wants an obnoxiously loud fartcan exhaust with a 5" tip. Nor do I want alteeza tailights or chrome everything or any other ricer crap. But I am a pretty aggressive driver and I do enjoy redlining it :vtec: most of the time I drive when the road is wide open (or when there's a stupid idiot going 5mph under the speed limit in the passing lane). So I want a meaner, but not necessarily that much louder sounding intake/exhaust combo. I was thinking Comptech Intake (when it comes out? or some kind of other IceBox?) and Tanabe Concept-G exhaust. Has anyone heard either of these systems? Are they aggressive but not that loud? Another question I had was how exactly will this affect my power? From what I've heard, this may give me ballpark 5-10whp, but of course this is the peak hp. Is this increase in power even noticable? And if I do the intake/exhaust with nothing else, will I noticably lose any power elsewhere in the powerband?
Also, I am pretty new to this whole modding business. I guess you could consider me a car nut, but when it comes to the nuts and bolts I am just starting. Are there any other inexpensive "performance" mods that anyone recommends? I don't want anything that could potentially cause a major (expensive) malfunction that would void the warranty and screw me over (the car was 100% paid for, not leased or financed so I can't do $#it if i lose the warranty). I would appreciate any help and/or (most) opinions on this matter. Thanks in advance.