If you want to figure out how a Civic 1200 would do look up the Yugo GTV's that have run in past challenges they are real close to a civic 1200 in terms of performance.

By Jonathan (66.252.173.251) on Thursday, November 13, 2003 - 05:25 am:

The rules for the $2004 challenge say that donated parts have to be taken into account at full market value, and you can't make a profit in parting out a car you bought. In other words, buy a $200 car, you can only sell $200 in parts off it. Also, I think the maximum you can get back by selling off parts is $1002. Not that this is going to stop cheating, though. Transportation costs have to be figured into the budget too, otherwise I would have bought Ted's orange '76 hybrid. If I can find a cheap enough way of getting it home, I still may make him an offer . That would probably be one of the more competitive cars in the competition.

http://www.grmotorsports.com/2004rules.html

By John S. (205.188.209.107) on Thursday, November 13, 2003 - 02:59 am:

I'e been watching those for several years. All I can say is it kind of reminds me of Jesses "MonsterGarage", they spend up to the amount allowed, then someone "donates" a new motor, or they buy a clapped out MG, and "part it out" for 1500.00, if you get my drift.

By Ted (63.224.195.169) on Friday, November 07, 2003 - 02:32 pm:

Eric, all I can say is that most of the faster cars in the past GRM challenges have done motor swaps using V8's in a light import shell.

For easy and hopefully cheap swaps, keep reading through the archives.

By Eric Mckinnon (66.185.84.207) on Friday, November 07, 2003 - 07:54 am:

Hi, I'am located in the Ottawa area. I currently have the intention of building up a 1978 civic, waiting to collect the car. Need to find some info on perfromance bits and cheap swaps. Any info would be apprecaited.

Eric
racerboy000@hotmail.com