I would go with a 92-95 civic, so many damn options, GSR, LS, LS/Vtec,B16, all those swaps would give you hp from like 125 whp (b16), to like 165 whp (gsr), plus all of them are between 2000 - 4000 to swap. b16 being cheapest, and gsr being the most. If you want to go forced induction like turbo...