Well I would much prefer to keep you in the civic scene lol, and yeah I kinda agree with Hendo, I like the raw simplicity of my civic. No abs, no A/C, barely any sound dampening, and light as hell. Makes driving that much more fun lol. I say either try saving up for a good hatch, or buy something cheap but not modded and work your way up. Engine shouldn't matter all that much since your definitely gonna want to swap it anyway. Hell maybe you can just find a clean shell and just drop the engine from this civic into it, then part out the good parts of this civic.