Originally Posted by pricha00

Well I will be picking up my 02 Civic SiR later today. Bone stock, owned by older couple since new and has 140K on it. I am commuting about 130k a day with it for school. I am older so I don't want to slam the car on the ground or put a fart pipe on it. I would like to make the car handle really well since that is what sold me on the car in the first place. I have owned nitrous assisted and big motored Mustangs in the past so this car will always feel relatively slow but if it corners good, stops well and gets great gas mileage I will be happy. Tires are still stock 195/60/15 on the OEM Honda alloys, should that be the first area of improvement? Any easy and cheap brake upgrades for this model Civic? Also are suspension upgrades affordable and worth the effort? Please reply in full english since I know none of the acronyms thrown around this site. I know Mustangs, not Hondas.

Thanks, Pat.