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Originally posted by pdiggitydogg
a car like that, with that kind of price was probably beat on quite a bit
(I wouldnt buy a used "tuner" car)
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Yeah I totally agree with pdigg here. Even if you do plan on beating on it, I honestly wouldn't want something that was previously beat on. I would rather have that much more time to beat on the thing instead of not knowing how much more of a beating this car could take. Honda makes great engines but they aren't indestructable and I've seen people destroy some nice cars like car ruining was their job.
About this 95 DX, I haven't stayed all that current on used car prices but that does seem a bit cheap. And a lot of things that sound too good to be true usually are. Try to find out why they are getting rid of it, find out who did the engine swap, and test drive it. If you can't tell if the thing feels quite right you can probably find another civic to test drive to compare. AndrewGTR86, I'm sure you're excited about it, there is a chance that it could be a very good car still and hopefully that is the case. Hopefully I'm not being too discouraging. Good luck with it.
As far as performance goes, this is off the top of my head so anyone correct me if I'm wrong, the b16 in the si coupe did 0-60 in somewhere in the neighborhood of 7-7.5 sec and the quarter mile in the high 15's. I don't know how much the automatic slows down a civic since I've never driven a manual civic or ridden in one. The hatchback does weigh less so I would imagine performance numbers in the neighborhood of what the coupe did with the auto. But I don't know how much the auto slows down the car and I don't know about the engine wear either.