Hello VA people!

My name is Dan and my current car is a 95 Civic VX.

I moved to King George, VA after living in Boyertown, PA (southeast PA) for most of my life. I've spent time living in Colombia, South America and Ocean City, MD. I moved here both for a job at a school that seemed like a nice place to work (and so far it is) and to live near water since I've grown up always liking to do boating/fishing. I did want to move near a "laid-back" drag strip and luckily I recently found out that there is one near me that I will attend weekly once I acquire my next car (if I decide to get a sporty one). Otherwise I'll probably still go there about monthly since I do like watching races even if I don't participate.

In PA I did acquire and sell a lot of car parts and a car for profit. Mostly through ebay and honda-tech.com. I've never scammed anyone but have dealt with some shady people who have tried to rip me off. I've been an active member on honda-tech.com, team-integra.net, tristatetuners.com, 3geez.com, and homemadeturbo.com for a number of years, as well as other Honda forums I don't remember, so forums aren't a new thing to me.

I didn't buy the car since it was great on gas, but because it was a great deal, is my favorite car color, and was worth more than the asking price.

In around March, I got rid of my old car, a 1995 Acura Integra LS, to go with something that wouldn't be as profiled by police (I am a very safe driver, but was given a bogus ticket last September that ended up costing me $800 in the end...), and less likely to be stolen.

The car was just painted when I got it, but the body work was not done very well. I am accustomed to doing body work, so I didn't really see this as a problem, since this car is only a daily driver, and the body work is something I can fix when the current work decided to bubble and fall apart. The car had 238k miles on it when I bought it, and I could tell it had a hard life before it came into my hands. The car has Bondo work in most of the panels of the body, the interior was partially painted yellow, it had the wrong seats installed in it, it had a small electrical problem (due to a wire that rubbed through going to the front corner light), and it smoked a little bit. Luckily, much of the suspension on the car was replaced before I bought it, and the very pricey wideband 02 sensor.

After owning and driving the car for about 2 months and 4k miles, I decided I was going to replace the motor with a non-smoking one, and also fix everything else wrong with the car, along with replacing the clutch for good measure.

The mods on the car when I got it, are the same ones on it today.
These include:
Stainless Apexi WS2 Exhaust (very quiet)
Short-ram intake and K&N Filter
Performance struts and adjustable coilovers
Antenna

Overall this is a great car, and I would like to get even better gas mileage out of it. So far my best combined is 45 mpg, but I have heard of many people getting over 50 mpg with these cars.

Here´s some pictures:

New car next to my old car:


The best picture I have of the finished outside and inside product:



Cleaning the engine bay and fixing the small wiring problem:



2nd day I owned the car:



The old motor out: