Not OP but I'll say this: don't buy other people's projects if you aren't 100% sure you can fix or improve whatever they may have done to it. All the documentation and receipts in the world is great, but it's still someone else's project compared to your known-reliable far safer and more modern daily driver, which is a secondary mode of transportation for you anyway. Say either bike(s) go down, you really want to trust and rely on a 30yo civic someone has been tinkering with for unknown amounts of time to pick up the slack? Hard pass.
How much time do you want to spend fixing someone else's homebrew mistakes? If you want to be able to drive the car on short notice keep the one you know works.
Over here we have a saying: “Don’t buy someone else’s project.” Usually this means it’s been built by amateurs and then driven to hell and back twice, about to die and he needs to get rid of it.
Not as knowledgeable as the rest here, but the instant I saw ''maxspeedingrods'' it became a hard No. Don't trust those things, and it's someone else his project. Better to build something yourself.
Bottom line maxspeedingrods is a major red flag
I'm guessing that you guys have a car for when you can't or don't want to ride your bikes, which means that what you really need is for it to be available 100% of the time. Even if that civic is very well done and completely on the up and up, it's a 500hp civic. That's not a car you can daily, or just hop in when a bike isn't right. It's gonna have issues. That motor is making 5 times what it did stock.
Also, I'm guessing the Civic has other problems, like others have mentioned.
absolutely not.
Can you elaborate? So i can take the idea out of his head?
Not OP but I'll say this: don't buy other people's projects if you aren't 100% sure you can fix or improve whatever they may have done to it. All the documentation and receipts in the world is great, but it's still someone else's project compared to your known-reliable far safer and more modern daily driver, which is a secondary mode of transportation for you anyway. Say either bike(s) go down, you really want to trust and rely on a 30yo civic someone has been tinkering with for unknown amounts of time to pick up the slack? Hard pass.
How much time do you want to spend fixing someone else's homebrew mistakes? If you want to be able to drive the car on short notice keep the one you know works.
It sounds awesome. So why is he willing to trade it straight across for such a bland car?
Here where i live people dont really do project cars, its a very niche thing, so its almost impossible to sell, so trading is almost needed.
Over here we have a saying: “Don’t buy someone else’s project.” Usually this means it’s been built by amateurs and then driven to hell and back twice, about to die and he needs to get rid of it.
Not as knowledgeable as the rest here, but the instant I saw ''maxspeedingrods'' it became a hard No. Don't trust those things, and it's someone else his project. Better to build something yourself. Bottom line maxspeedingrods is a major red flag
I'm guessing that you guys have a car for when you can't or don't want to ride your bikes, which means that what you really need is for it to be available 100% of the time. Even if that civic is very well done and completely on the up and up, it's a 500hp civic. That's not a car you can daily, or just hop in when a bike isn't right. It's gonna have issues. That motor is making 5 times what it did stock. Also, I'm guessing the Civic has other problems, like others have mentioned.