Excellent car! My grandparents had one of these in the early 90s, and it was a great car. I do like to see a Canadian spec car for AC, as I live in Ontario so it is nice and familiar. I think that once you make the improvements you plan on doing, as well as some CSP integration with blinkers, radio and such it will be one of the best old Honda's available.
(*On a side not if you need recordings for custom sounds I have a 2002 SiR Civic 2.0L that I can record. It isn't the same 2.0L as this but it would be close.)