Check out the latest updates on all our project cars.
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Goodbye Project S2000, hello Project S2200.
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Project Civic Vs. Project Nsx - Tech
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Part 1: Valves, retainers, valvesprings and a three-angle valve job
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There are three people responsible for my roll bar obsession. They are Bob Falfa of Modesto, California and Bo and Luke Duke of Hazzard County, Georgia. If it wasn't for these three men, I never would have called Art Morrison (www.artmorrison.com) and ordered up one of its bolt-in four-point bars fo
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Project CRX has been in hibernation. Originally we planned to build it into an all-purpose streetcar that could tear up a mountain road, blast down a dragstrip, and zip around Southern California's freeways. We started with a tired, old beater, dropped it off
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Our Project Honda Civic Si began life back in 1999 when I worked for Popular Mechanics magazine. I was given the assignment of modifying the car for that year's SEMA show. The editor of the magazine wanted the car to be a modern interpretation of the classic h
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Little black boxes. Little black boxes lying to each other and to the ECU, tricking the system into thinking everything's OK and you need a little less timing or a lot more fuel.
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At the end of their quest, most used-car shoppers emerge a bit bamboozled, slightly scathed, and definitely poorer. I wish I could say we did better. Holding well-worn Honda keys high, we return as victorious, but tired, hunters from the urban used-car jungle.
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Sitting pretty, carving lanes and braking late, Project Civic was still poseur slow. Rather than try to squeeze horribly uninteresting and meager power out of the stock engine, we chose the ubiquitous B16 for its low price, ease of installation and Chevy 350-l
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The EG Civic, available from the 1992 through the 1995 model year, was offered in three body styles (two-door, four-door, hatchback) and five trim levels, for a total of nine different possible combinations. For simplicity's sake, we are going to focus on the
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With Project Civic looking mean and clean, we desperately needed to address the suspension and brakes. Tired shocks suspended in sagging springs bounced the hatchback down the freeway like a basketball, while offering practically zero roll control-- factory an
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Long-time readers of Sport Compact Car may recall the introduction to our Project CRX Hybrid. Actually, it wasn't that long ago, only seven months. Yes, this is part two of a series that debuted in the December 2000 issue. So where has the car been all this ti
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We bought, we researched, we built. Or maybe we haggled poorly, prayed for proper fitment, and bled and swore profusely. Whatever we did, our Civic now kicks ass. In the last installment of Project EG Civic (SCC, Dec. '01), you saw the little blue Raggedy Ann
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There are a few things that are always true with cars. More power is always better, for example. Less weight, however, is even more important. All horsepower can do is get you into trouble faster. Light weight, however, helps handling, braking and acceleration
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At the end of their quest, most used-car shoppers emerge a bit bamboozled, slightly scathed, and definitely poorer. I wish I could say we did better. Holding well-worn Honda keys high, we return as victorious, but tired, hunters from the urban used-car jungle.
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Long-time readers of Sport Compact Car may recall the introduction to our Project CRX Hybrid. Actually, it wasn't that long ago, only seven months. Yes, this is part two of a series that debuted in the December 2000 issue. So where has the car been all this time? The answer is a very long way of exp
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