I've had my 02 ap1 for over 3 weeks now, I'm hooked and want to get into tuning and modding and stuff. I've been researching things, and just joined s2ki. I don't know a whole lot, I'm learning and very eagerly. I think in the future I want to supercharge it (whenever I have the money)... based on what I've heard about it's practicallity and low maintenance compared to turbo because it's my only car (daily driver). I was first gonna go N/A from advice of a buddy of mine with a civic. supercharger just seems to be a quick an easy way of high gains. I don't know... please ask me stuff, I'll answer and ask questions back. I'm very eager to learn all I can from experienced inputs.
Should I post this in a different forum?

 

Hey. Welcome.
There is an FI(Forced Induction) forum where you should start checking out.
If you want more power FI is the way to go.
Search is down and is frequently but still lots of reading can be done just by browsing different forums on here.

 

thank you

 

hey man ive owned my s for just over a year now if i was youd id drive it for sometime and decide what you really wanna do with the car auto x it track days drag it just curise with it and build the car for what you like my cars not my dd thankfully and im building mine for track daze step by step try not to cut corners gl and welcome to the forums

Nick p

 

Don't mod just for the sake of modding. Drive it for a while, see what you like, see what you don't. Decide what you think needs improving before you start bolting things on.

 

I guess I just want a badass s2k with some power. Not insanely powerful like over 500 or something crazy, cuz there's no point to me. I don't want no body kit really. I'm thinkin I'd keep the soft top, maybe get a cheap hardtop just for seasonal purposes, (winter). I want a partial roll cage so I can take it to the track. I don't know you guys are right, I got some buddies with srt4's and subarus that got that kick of torque where this lacks, that's another reason for supercharging, i'm all about quickness and passing power, and handling, basicly a autocross type build. But I like I said, I don't know much, I need do to slow down and take my time with it figure out exactly how I want it like you guys say. Plus it's my only car right now.

 

Seeing as how you're at Ft. Hood, your first mod has got to be a TWM M1 Abrams shift knob. Other than that, mod carefully and with purpose, mistakes are expensive and gains are hard to come by with the S (Honda did it right mostly).

Oh, and welcome.

 

buddy of mind has a vtech controller in his civic. I thought that was cool, if I raced it on the strip, I can turn vtech on (all rpms) and get some more torque on the lower end. Not sure how much it is, don't think it'd be a whole lot

 

Please do not do that
You will blow your motor.

If vtec kicks in at 6k turn the vtec controller down to 5,500 NO LESS, unless you want to risk...

 

haha yeah that's not gonna happen
Lower it to 5500 or so if at all.