Just bought a '93 civic and this site is awesome

What's up everyone? First off, this site is really cool, the forum seems to have a lot of activity. I just bought a '93 civic lx sedan and this site's given me a million ideas of what to do to it (thanks).

A couple random questions though:

1) I live on the east coast and in 4 weeks i'll be making the 3,000 mile road trip out to cali to live for awhile, anything I should do specifically to prepare my honda?

2) My car has an eclipse head unit that the previous owner had in it and I'm thinkin it's broken or something. After about 30-45 minutes of playing a cd, it starts breaking in and out and sounding static-y (that's a word....honest). I've switched right away to the radio to figure out more of the problem, but the radio's fine. So I guess something wrong wtih the cd player? I also thought maybe it was the cd's getting too hot or something (they're cd-r's) but that wasn't it b/c I switched cds too and it was fine then. Any ideas??

Anyhow, just wanted to congratulate this site, it's really great. If anyone has some inexpensive things I should do to my car for starters (looks, not performance for now) let me know. It's red if that helps. (: Thanks a lot guys,

Brian