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Civic Duty: The Ultimate Guide to the World's Most Popular Sport Compact Car - The Honda Civic [Paperback]

Alan Paradise (Author)
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0837602157 978-0837602158 October 2000 1
The Honda Civic--it's been called the '55 Chevy of the Nineties and recognized as the leader of the import sport compact car phenomena that is sweeping the country. If you dream of owning a tricked out Honda or already have a Honda Civic, CR-X, or del Sol and want to make it fly or just look like it can, Civic Duty is for you!

Civic Duty covers every aspect of Honda Civic modification from the mechanical to the artistic with chapters on: -Suspension modifications for street, strip, or track-springs, shocks, bushings, anti-roll bars, strut tower bars, wheels and tires. -Bolt-on performance-air induction systems, cam timing and overdrive pulleys, headers, exhaust systems, ignition, and ECU technology. -Hard core engine modification-complete engine swap information that tells you which are the best and easiest swaps and which are the ones to avoid, pistons, head work, cams, engine building tricks, supercharging vs. turbocharging, and nitrous. -Exterior/ interior styling - exterior styling components (including rear deck wings), a chapter on exterior graphics and interior design-seats, door panels, gauges, and cages. -Performance driving-road racing and autocross, drag racing, and driving schools.

Written by Alan Paradise, the import performance pioneer and creator and original editor of Sport Compact Car magazine, Civic Duty gives you all the answers! In addition to providing the specs and costs involved in building the ultimate sport compact, Alan lays out his unique "build by subtraction" method of intelligently deciding how to select and build the right Honda for you-the one that will give you the most satisfaction with the least amount of pain to your bank account.


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Product Details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Bentley Publishers; 1 edition (October 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0837602157
  • ISBN-13: 978-0837602158
  • Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.8 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #557,582 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great for beginners, August 6, 2001
This review is from: Civic Duty: The Ultimate Guide to the World's Most Popular Sport Compact Car - The Honda Civic (Paperback)
This book is excellent if you are just starting out with a Civic/CRX. The author suggests the smart ways to go about upgrading your car, not just sinking money into parts you won't need later. He covers every major topic, from bolt-on performance to interior and exterior styling, and is thankfully not biased either way.

The author does make a few comments which are 100% false, for instance, about limited slip differentials which he says "are not available as an aftermarket performance product, therefore your only option is to locate a factory unit..." WRONG, Quaife has been making LSD's for Civics for years. This is just one example of the author making off the wall statements even novices know are false.

He is also extremely biased towards the B18 series of engines, giving the workhorse B16A (which is much more suited to Civic/CRX's) a passing mention. Even the H22 prelude motor, which is totally unsuitable for Civics unless you want a drag-only car, gets more mention than the B16A.

For beginners, this book is great. It's a good introduction to the Honda world, and presents logical, money saving methods and advice for modifying your Honda. Don't take everything written as 100% gospel though.

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good actually, October 22, 2001
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This book would help you to get to know your honda civic engine even more. Good book for beginners. It would tell you which mods are worth buying or not and what kind of power to expect. It tells you what kind of HP gains you can expect from your engine when modified from "don't even bother" to "mild" to the "best". The only thing I think it didn't cover is the auto tranny which some has... it mostly concentrated on the D16Z6 SOHC and B16A DOHC Si engines and manual tranny. All in all get this book if you wanna learn more about civics and it would help you get on the right track.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Front to Back, April 14, 2001
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This Book is Great. Even though it is focused on the Civic, CRX, and del Sol; this book is great for any Import Fan. It covers all aspects of the car from wheels & tires to customized interiors. I bought the book and read it from cover to cover in two days. This book also explains a lot of the Bolt-on parts that are available for many cars. And how they work and how to tell if they will really do what they say they will. I recomend this book for any one who is into the import scene. From strip to street this book covers it all.
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