shmarkham09
New Member
Hello everyone, I am new to all this so please bear with me. I am thinking of doing an engine swap in my 2003 civic dx. Everything on the car is stock, I bought the car brand new in '03 and just hit 111k. It is a 5 spd. The reason I am thinking of an engine swap is that I would like to get a little more power out of it, also the tranny is starting to give me issues. I believe the reason for this is, is that my fiance, love her as I do, does not drive a stick as well as she thinks she does. I have been driving one for 20 yrs and still have not perfected it. Her idea of downshifting is throwing it in neutral and jamming on the brakes. Pardon me, I digress, admittedly I know just enough about engines to fill a matchbook written in grease pencil. Any and all reasonable suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Personally if money were not an object I would just buy another Civic in a 2 door and make it a project car, but I think I will leave that as a pipe dream until I win my millions in the lottery...lol