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Hello to everyone. my name is George and I come from Greece. Happy to be in here, looking forward to find some useful infos. I hope forum is still alive I can understand that M's are very old and rare nowadays. Special thanks to Dave for approving my registration! After 20 years of owning an 99 EK Civic 1.6 Vti, I had an accident, an unlucky event I would say and decided to buy something different. So I bought a CIvic MA9 1.5. I always said that these Civics are unique and different from others! So I'm an old newbie we can say! My new Civic is not in good condition, until now many problems in the interior, some on the engine bay and on the chassis...but I will try to do my best to maintain the car. Here are some photos Thanks for the hospitality!

Might have to give that a try myself... Mine vibrates at motorway speed, and I've got stiff bushings too

Wanted to give a small update on that particular issue. If albeit a late one. Just in case someone else reads through this thread at some point and encounters the same issue with any other kind of short shifter. As it turned out, the vibrations came from the uniball joint of the shifter itself, just as I suspected. By design, uniball joints always have a little bit of play in them and that created the rattle noise. But the harder bushings definitely were a major factor here, as well. I dribbled a bit of chain/machine oil into the base and after two or three applications the rattling completely stopped! :D You know, the kind that's very thin and oily at the start but quickly gets more sticky and viscous as it reacts with the air? That stuff also makes great chain lube for motorcycles, btw. ;)

Thank you guys. I'll try to make a topic of the work in the car I've made so far and all the work I want to do. @SirPaperbag The fog lights are not factory ones but some cheep chinese. I found the originals , bought them but I think the front bumber is an aftermarket bumber so I have to cut the whole thing in there to fit the original factory fog lights. Lots of work has to be made generally and have no time. Nevermind whenever I find some free time I will do it. The grille is handmade, I tried to fit the H emblem from my previous EK civic, but it's too big :( Only the small H emblem of the pre-facelift fits. By the way the car was imported from Germany, as the user manual of the car is in German :D

You've basically got yourself a unicorn right there. Pre-facelift MA Metallic grey color Factory fog lights Factory spoiler without a third brake light in the rear window And that badgeless grille looks pretty sweet! Had a pretty similar idea a while ago, just didn't get around actually doing it yet... Welcome to the club! :D

Hi George, welcome along. That's a nice looking MA I don't think I've seen one that colour before.. Really like it.

Edit... Just found that speed factory do one but it's about 150 notes. https://www.tegiwa.com/products/speedfactory-racing-obd1-obd2a-ecu-jumper-harness

Finally made a bit of progress with an ecu.. Found a p28 with hondata s300 already installed on ebay for a few hundred quid and snapped it up. Didn't clock though at the time that it's been adapted (by hondata by the look of it) to have. Obd2a connectors on it 🤦 Of course, it should look like this.. Now I don't seem to be able to find a conversion harness the right way around, probably because noone would have a need to fit an odb2 ecu into an odb1 car... So I'm back to needing someone to do some electronic wizardry with a soldering iron, but this time to swap the connector from my dead p28 to this new one. 🤔