2006 Honda Civic EX Coupe, What Should I Do To Improve The Cars Performance/Looks?

I Just Got The Car, Its Manuel, And Black

I Don't Want To Drop The Car, I just Want Want To Improve It's Fuel efficiency, Cooling, Stability,

I Also Want To Change The Stock Rims, And Install A Carbon Fiber Hood.

Any Recommendation and Suggestions Would Be Great

I'm A 20 year Old College Student So I have A Budget

So basically you want to rice out the car. Why would you waste 700 on a carbon fiber hood? Rims are easy go to ricer zone they'll hook you up! Tell them Johnny tran sent you.

Skip the wannabe racer hood.

Invest that $700 into better shocks/struts/tires.

A carbon hood is cool if you are trying to shave a thousandth of a second on your quarter mile time. Other that, you are just throwing money away.

You want a Civic that is unique and stylish?

Keep it bone stock. That's right… You see an unmodified Civic EX manual out there… And it is like WOW… I've never seen one of those without stickers and gaudy rims and cheap tint and a massive spoiler before!

Why do you want fuel efficiency? Not to save the environment. But to save money! So why would you spend money on things that won't even pay for themselves in CLAIMED fuel savings over the life of the car? Cold air intake? It's already got one… Just like every other fuel injected car made since 1987. Exhaust? Back pressure keeps the explosion in the cylinder to generate power. Rather than blowing it out the back. Big rims and tires reduce performance and fuel economy by adding weight… And usually add too much unsprung weight to be of any use for increasing lateral grip with a stock suspension setup and on anything but a glass smooth track.

And guess what will happen when you go to sell that car with all of those mods you spent all of that money on? Of course, you are investing in your car, so it should be worth more, right? WRONG. It will actually be worth less… Because most mods are tasteless, don't age as well as the vehicle, and imply that the owner probably abused the car. A bone-stock car in clean condition will always fetch the highest price… Even if the next owner plans on butchering it simply because they'd rather have a clean sheet to work with.

Just detail it and put some nice rims on it with tires that have the correct back-spacing and width to fill up the wheel well better. Tint the windows and it'l be tight. I wouldnt dump a bunch of money into a hood and bolt on garbage under the hood. Waste of time. Won't look better or run better.