NPOCP: 2003 Honda Civic Si

Kinja'd!!! "TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
02/01/2015 at 12:23 • Filed to: npocp

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Found this on my local CL. For $5700, you can get a manual hatchback with a revvy 4-cylinder engine.

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DISCUSSION (23)


Kinja'd!!! Decay buys too many beaters > TheHondaBro
02/01/2015 at 12:28

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WTF is going on around the back wheel in this picture?

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Kinja'd!!! kincai28 > TheHondaBro
02/01/2015 at 12:28

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I'd be thinking more around $4500 for that.


Kinja'd!!! TheHondaBro > Decay buys too many beaters
02/01/2015 at 12:30

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Illuminati.


Kinja'd!!! djmt1 > TheHondaBro
02/01/2015 at 12:31

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That's alot of money. Are EP3's rare stateside or something, maybe they are just cheap in Blighty.


Kinja'd!!! TheHondaBro > djmt1
02/01/2015 at 12:32

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Well, I never knew it existed as an Si until recently.


Kinja'd!!! djmt1 > TheHondaBro
02/01/2015 at 12:33

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Well if it is even half as good as the Type R I say buy it since that car is one of the best cars Honda have ever built.


Kinja'd!!! TheHondaBro > djmt1
02/01/2015 at 12:35

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I'm not buying anything, I'm a college student.

Also, what about the S2000 and the NSX? Aren't those also good Hondas?


Kinja'd!!! Decay buys too many beaters > TheHondaBro
02/01/2015 at 12:35

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I'd take it for about a thousand less.

As with ANY car with coil-overs, check the undercarriage. To many slam-bros out there totally destroying the underside by driving around with approximately a pubic hair's width ground clearance.


Kinja'd!!! djmt1 > TheHondaBro
02/01/2015 at 12:39

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I just finished so I get that. I current weighing up buying an EP3 Type R (against a Honda based MG) since at £2000 they are relatively cheap and thanks to VTEC they avoid the insurance company's turbo tax.


Kinja'd!!! djmt1 > TheHondaBro
02/01/2015 at 12:41

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Yeah of course they are but it just shows how good the EP3 Type R is.


Kinja'd!!! BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather > djmt1
02/01/2015 at 12:58

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It's not. It's got the 160hp, valve deactivation version of VTEC from the base RSX...


Kinja'd!!! chuck07 > TheHondaBro
02/01/2015 at 13:29

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> Full synthetic change every 1500 miles.

Who would do that?


Kinja'd!!! KirkyV > djmt1
02/01/2015 at 13:53

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From what I've heard, it's more Type S than Type R—and I haven't heard many good things about the Type S.


Kinja'd!!! KirkyV > djmt1
02/01/2015 at 13:56

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Dooooo it. You'd have a practical-ish, reliable, reasonably modern car, that's also widely seen as one of the best hot hatches in history. I'm insane, so I'd spend the money on a creaky old 205, but you don't have to be like me.


Kinja'd!!! djmt1 > KirkyV
02/01/2015 at 14:04

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The thing is on track it is briliant, I loved revving it out but on a daily basis especially where I live with stop start traffic, I'm not sure I can live with that and there is the longbridge born elephant in the room that is the MG ZS 180.


Kinja'd!!! djmt1 > KirkyV
02/01/2015 at 14:12

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Also nothing insane about the 205 it is Chris Harris approved.

£250 banger race - Chris Harris vs Steve Sutcliffe vs Colin Goodwin vs A...:


Kinja'd!!! KirkyV > djmt1
02/01/2015 at 14:17

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Well, it's up to you, I suppose. I'm constantly revving like mad anyway—them's the joys of 1.1 litre motoring.


Kinja'd!!! promoted by the color red > TheHondaBro
02/01/2015 at 14:31

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A hair too pricey. You could toss on another $1000-$2000 and buy yourself a Civic Si from the following generation that comes with extra power, a 6th gear, and an LSD.


Kinja'd!!! TheHondaBro > promoted by the color red
02/01/2015 at 14:35

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LSD you say?

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Kinja'd!!! Kat Callahan > promoted by the color red
02/01/2015 at 15:54

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But can I get all that in an EP3 or an EK9 body style? If not, pass .


Kinja'd!!! promoted by the color red > Kat Callahan
02/01/2015 at 16:08

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Yes. The Japanese-market EP3 Type-R came with all those things and that same drivetrain can fit into an EK9 with some minor finessing.


Kinja'd!!! Kat Callahan > promoted by the color red
02/01/2015 at 16:14

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Rhetorical question. Sorry, should have been clearer.

This EP3 has been badly abused.


Kinja'd!!! BlurpleToyotaDishwasher > djmt1
02/03/2015 at 09:10

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I miss the days when cool cars like that cost £250 :(