The first step in his Civic’s transformation was to get rid of the existing Tsunami kit. Luckily for him, King Motorsports was around and supplied him with all that he needed to satisfy his appetite for all things Mugen. It actually took Kyle over six years to collect everything for his EJ8. “He showed me what Mugen was, and I’ve been collecting everything Mugen for my ride ever since.” Becoming the owner of a large chunk of the Mugen catalog is no small feat. “Meyers was the one who introduced me to all things JDM when it was still underground on the east coast,” he says. One would assume that having a kit named after a natural disaster and a robot would be enough for anyone’s build, but a chance meeting with Burke Meyers of Meyer’s Motorsports would change Kyle’s view of modifying Hondas forever. Kyle knew he had to come correct after the drop, so he went out and purchased a Tsunami T2000 kit. Fiberglass body kits were the weapon of choice and the bigger they were, the better. The term “JDM” was seldom uttered during those days out west, and was mostly unheard of in parts of the east, especially in Kyle’s hometown of Morgantown, PA. “Once I got the wheels, I knew I had to lower it like everyone else.” If you’re not familiar with the trends that were popular during the early 2000s, once you had the wheels and a drop, you had to get the body kit. Everybody goes into it thinking they’re going to do a little something here and there-then the tuning bug gets them. “All I really wanted were some wheels, a head unit, and maybe some nice speakers.” Of course everyone in this community has heard that once, or maybe a few thousand times.
“I bought my Civic from a Honda dealership back in 1999 with no real intentions to do anything to it,” Sharp recalls. Kyle Sharp had no idea that he would end up with the car that graces these pages when his journey began.
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