97 Civic HX best front bumper??
 

Picked up a 1997 Civic HX that will need fenders, hood, and a front bumper cover. I'll be doing light-medium hyper-miling. No big mods, mainly driving habits.
Should I just put a stock one on or is there a better model/year that will be better aero? I just want to be able to bolt it on without modifications if possible. I'll be adding garden edging dam as well.

I just thought maybe there was a better than stock option possibility and knew if it existed, this was the place to ask. Thanks

Oh, also want to make sure this is actually a leanburn engine.
HX badge on the back of the 2 door coupe could have been added. Interestingly it currently is upside down and says XH.

I had a hard time reading the block identification looking for the D16Y5 The first 4 are legible but the last looks more like a 6 than a 5, is that even a possible combination? Seems like the top of a five (the straight horizontal bar) but the bottom more resembles a 6. It does have an EGR and a 5 wire O2 sensor. It does NOT say Vtec on the valve cover. Is that a problem?

I do not know why anyone would pretend a car was an HX, instead of an SiR, since nobody outside of our community seems to know what it is or care.

This is the engine of my "HX."
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This is one of my rims:
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Thanks for the engine pic. I just thought I remembered hearing that it would say vtec on the rocker cover. At close to $4/gal and likely higher the way things are going I could see hx badges being stuck on old civics at sale time. I think more people than from this forum know what kind of fuel economy is expected from an hf/hx/xfi/etc.
I'm intrigued with the extra bit of mileage available on a few cars and like to see how well I can do with them. I had no interest in this car if it was not an hx. The last two saturns I owned were the SL model, not the SL1 they were advertised as. The SL did not have power steering and was the car I wanted. My CRX was a HF. I would not have bought it if it was an Si.

Looks like I'll just buy a stock factory bumper cover unless advised different before I get to it.

Honestly, you probably have people faking that one. I am not positive, but I believe that Honda started writing VTEC on the engine in 2,001.

I'd be looking for the parts as a package, in a color that doesn't clash with the rest of your car. Then do your thermostatic flaps and such in mill-finished aluminum.

I decided, despite the possibility of 50 mpg, to let the HX go because I found another (bigger, think kids) good gas mileage car. I put it in the classifieds.
Thanks guys.
dave