03 Feb Battle Ready B18C Civic

Battle Ready B18C Civic aka Mike G’s Tank

By Aaron Gaghagen

Much like celebrity marriages, project cars seem to come and go with the seasons. They start out stock, get their own build thread, hit a couple of events and then get parted out to make room for the next one. Doesn’t anyone stay together anymore?!?

Mike G’s fifth generation Civic not the typical project car. He’s owned this ridiculously clean 1992 hatchback since 2002 and had it appear on the covers of Honda Tuning (RIP), Super Street, HCi (RIP) and Import Racer (RIP #supportprint). He’s had various iterations of TANK (or as we call it, TAAANK!) over the years and tons of different wheel setups. We caught up with Mike G on his first ever track day at Streets of Willow Springs for the Continental Tire FF Battle for Super Street to learn more about the new setup and check it out for ourselves.

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