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Old 04-14-2012, 12:30 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Lean and Mean - '98 Honda Civic HX
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From just looking at the outside pics this is not a real SI. Someone simply placed a badge on it. SI's had body colored moldings, 15 inch alloy wheels, better seats, different gauge cluster, and most important they had a B16 motor which is DOHC VTEC. This motor develops 160 HP and has an 8000 RPM redline.

The chassis might be a real SI, but someone could have swapped out all the Si parts for a regular civic. Only real way to tell is to run a VIN check and see what trim it is from there.

In a regular situation I would say you got ripped off since its not an SI but since we are ecomodders you lucked out by getting the better economy motor for really cheap!
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