The thread I was posting in seems to have disappeared, even looked under my content and it's not there.
So about 2 months ago I noticed a brand new tear in my top, I just impulsively felt like searching my top because it has some weird texture on parts that look like it could be half way tears, but I doubt it. Anyways, I must of put it down once or twice after/when it tore. I don't want to drop $800 on a top, I'll wait until someone tries to steal my seats to drop that $800 because I figure it will happen eventually in 10 years since civics aren't going anywhere unless kids wreck them.
So I remembered reading the mr2 tutorial in one of the forums found here:
http://www.zjstech.net/SpyderTop/repair.htm
SO my theory was to leave the stitching and use some all purpose glue since it is a vinyl top. I bought the paint kit but it is going to take a lot of playing around with before I put any on my top, I tried the gunmetal grey recipe of black + white/red and ended with purple so its going to take some practicing first.
I was using like 5 year old glue at my parents house on the weekend, and it wasn't fresh glue and I had to apply it by hand so it got a bit messy, might try sanding it down or something being careful with the vinyl.
Here are the current pictures



The last one you can see the purple hue, 14 hours after it is still wet on the leather they provide, so it might quite possibly pick up dust and stuff in the drying process. You can see from the top picture my car is covered in Pollen, it got really bad in 2 days after I detailed my car haha
Endnote: The glue made the stitching very hard to notice unless you're studying it, with a thin layer of paint to blend it, it won't even matter.