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Hey everybody, glad I could be a part of the forums now, I'd like to show you a couple pictures of my new to me MB8, it has some really nice OEM goodies too, like the wind deflectors and metal plates door sills. This is hopefully going to be a build thread for this car as I buy more stuff for it and upgrade it in the future. Hopefully you guys like it!

Fitted a Hybrid Racing shifter and gear knob over the weekend alongside some new shifter cables. The shifter feels amazing, very direct and the shift has gone from a sensation of bushes resisting the shift to feeling more like it's connected directly to the gearbox. Also looks much better in the cabin that the plastic box of the DC5 shifter that was in before. The shifter cables were a bit .. interesting. They are a cheap Chinese clone of K-tuned race cables. I eventually got them fitted but one of the connections to the shifter box had been drilled incorrectly/unfinished so it did not fit over the lug on the shifter. Luckily an 8mm drill bit fixed the issue ... you get what you pay for! Normally I would not buy knock off products but the price for the real deal K-tuned cables is absolutely insane (over £500) which I just don't have the budget for. I did look at buying Hybrid Racing cables which are a little bit more affordable but HR told me that the length is shorter than OEM (which were already a fairly tight fit) so they would not be suitable. I think this is down to the longer wheelbase of the MB platform meaning the shifter gets mounted further from the engine than a shorter wheelbase care like the Civic EG (or similar) that their cables would've been originally designed for. Currently also trying to sort an issue with a whine coming from the power steering. It sounds like there's air in the system but I have made sure it's bled with a vacuum bleeder and all the usual methods and there's no air bubbles in the reservoir which makes me think it must be something else. Weirdly, the steering actually feels OK, but the car almost sounds like it has a supercharger. I did replace an O-Ring in the power steering pump feed which I found a few references to online as it can get old and brittle and pass air but this did not help. I read that misaligned belts can cause this issue and my aux belt tensioner is slightly outside of the range indicated on it so I will try a slightly shorter belt and see if that helps. If not, the only other options seem to be that either the hose feeding the pump is too long (I mounted the reservoir on the passenger side where there is more space and the pump is on the drivers side), or the pump is broken. One is a load of hassle rerouting everything and the other is another expense so neither option seems particularly appealing. Hopefully the belt cures it (although I suspect not).

A boot full of goodies! 😎

Hadn't had much time to work on the Civic recently as I would've liked but i've been busy in the background collecting all the parts needed to finish this (the car now looks like a rolling parts department) A few bits still to arrive but very exciting times ahead..

I looked into this for my car but the short answer is you can't find anything new any more. I was tempted to buy some from another car with similar size discs and modify to fit but I haven't tried it yet The MG Rover part numbers are SMD000080 (RH) and SMD000090 (LH) - there are some on ebay but the prices can be a bit silly If yours are not totally rotted away you are probably best off removing, soaking in some evaporust, good wire brush session and then painting them yourself. I fear that due to the age of the cars they might be too far gone though (the ones on my 2010 accord are too far gone for that and that's 10 years newer!) Cars that i've found being listed as cross compatible if it helps your search: Rover 200/ 25 / MG ZR Rover 400 / 45 / MG ZS Integra DC2 CRX Del Sol EG/EK Civic Many of these cars came with rear drums which might be part of the problem. It seems like it's a lot easier to get front ones, for now at least.

Thinking doing spoiler blue blue and possibly roof to

You're succeeding as well.

Thank you. Trying tidy it up abit so looks cleaner

Looking good mate

just update on how car looking

Many thanks dr_broon 👍

Probably mg zs, but maybe 400/45 as well?

Do you know which Rover they were for ?

I think your gonna struggle. Used to be able to get them from RimmerBros for rovers. But that dried up some years ago as far as I know.

Hi - does anyone know of an aftermarket source for the rear disc guards as the rust gremlins have been eating their way through mine ! I know they aren't an issue for an MOT, it would just be nice to keep a bit more off my brakes so they don't require quite as much rebuilding/ replacing as they seem to ! Cheers in advance 😊

Hey guys, I want to replace the middle muffler (resonator) which is broken, but I can only find parts for the 1.4 and mine is a 1.8. Will there be any difference?

I know what you mean.. Duck duck go is getting my go to browser Merry Christmas to you as well mate

I clear them regularly because I have tin foil hat. So shouldn't be an issue. Merry Xmas anyway.

Thanks for your help Dave 👍 This is atually a big help. It's sad there's no oficial numbers from Honda but it will surely be around the few hundred. Just something it wasn't really clarified from your answer, were these VTiS models released exclusively the UK? I can only find genuine VTiS a right side steering wheel. All the ones I found outside the UK are in colors different from the pirate black. As for the unique parts, I'll try to find a good aluminium gear knob and a drivers side floor, which will be almost impossible probably 😅

Hi mate. There is some mystery over the actual numbers of each VTiS model made. The logbook should have made it easy to identify a genuine one, but unfortunately even that is a minefield as Honda dealerships made mistakes with them when registering the car with the UK DVLA. Some have VTiS on the logbook, some just state model as VTi. The only parts that were unique to the VTiS were drivers side floor mat which had the VTiS logo on it (the other 3 mats were just standard) the gear knob (alloy and engraved in the early VTiS, silver plastic/black leather with "VTiS" in black on it for the post 1997 ones) and the alloys (again, these differed so early ones got 15" Speedline Chronos wheels, later ones got the same as the ones in your photos which are 15" Speedline "fans"). The body kit was available in the accessory catalogue, but was standard on the VTiS. The "mid spoiler" on the aerodeck was also an accessory option. The other thing that marked out the VTiS was the pirates black paint. All VTiS came in pirates black only, so any you see that don't have pirates black are 100% not a genuine VTiS. The Aerodeck ones are a lot rarer as most were the mb6 5 door hatch. Hope this helps a little.

Hello guys 👍 As I already mentioned in a previous topic, I have been building a "fake" Aerodeck VTI-S and I would like to know a bit more about this variant. For the MB6 VTI-S I found that 500 units were released around the world, is this number correct? 🤔 Now, to answer my questions: 1) I couldn't found any official information about the number of MC2 VTI-S units that were released, does this information even exist? 2) From all these units, were all released in the UK or were also available at some other countries? 3) From the extra parts available for the VTI-S are all of those exclusive for that model or could some be selected on an standard VTI? I would assume the mats and the aluminum gear knob are exclusive on the VTI-S model, but what about the lips and mid spoiler? Could these be purchase as extra on a standard VTI? Because I see a lot of wagons that are not Pirate Black, so those should not be genuine VTI-S 🤔

Have you tried deleting cookies etc Jake?

Thanks! Sure hope so, at least it keeps me from getting bored of it ;) I could have lived without most of the snapped bolts though... :')

Just tried again. Says "unable to complete task due to low memory" same as before. Probably something my end.

Thank you