Some of us might consider investing with you if the numbers pan-out. Are you familiar with online "crowdfunding" or crowd-financing"? Small amounts of money from large groups of people. Here is an example site, in case you have not seen this before:
GoFundMe: The OFFICIAL Home of Crowdfunding >>
Also, I have a 1998 DX and have long been interested in this, but I have too few skills, and Hondata makes it too difficult. If you do any work with the more common ECUs that were in the 6th gen LX and DX Civics, and I could swap plug-n-play, I'd be a potential customer too. (And your potential market would grow, since there were so many more of these trim Civics sold.)
james