l have a 96 Honda Civic and l was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to make it faster w/ out spending gobs of money and without using a turbo.

have your friend steal another one..

i'd start with a K&N cold air intake. Also i'd get a new exhaust.

Have to spend money to make things go fast. For instance, first thing would be like getting a K&N Filter. Boosts HP and gas milage.but, your spending probably around $50-$60 for a filter! Sell the car and buy a American car!

Dude forget about speed. Rules for racing these days are so strict that if you get caught the cops can smash your ride to pieces and you can not do anything about it. Just focus on making your car look nice. l suggest you get some rims, suspension to lower your car, make sure it has a nice paint job, add like a jdm lip or something like a carbon fiber hood and wallah you got yourself a clean ass civic.

you cant make a Jap car faster only stupider, if you want a faster car go with American muscle like a Z28 Chevy Camaro you can get them for about 3 grand, use craigslist you can find plenty of them on there some for even less than 3 grand too

By selling it.

You said u do not want to spend gobs of money.

How much is gobs?

Would u consider $1500 to be gobs?

Because 1500$ will get u intake, header, & exhaust.

Which will give u 3-4 horsepower, over ur normal driving power band.


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800$ for the exhaust, gets u 14 peak horsepower, which is great if u intend to drive around 6500 rpm, all the time.

For ur normal acceleration, etc, 1-2 horsepower.

So, 1500$ will get u around 3-4 horsepower. The car wo not be faster. You can not even notice that amount of gain. You could swap out the pistons, & some other stuff, but then u will gain around 20-30 horsepower, & cost another 2000 or so.

And it gets worse from there.

Man lots of rude esp. country girl.y would he want a craparo.fuckin things are garbage. l suggest checkin out clubcivic.com or honda-tech.com

Start with a Intake, Header, Exhaust. See how you like that then start thinking about more.