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"May I take a moment of your time to talk to you about single cam engines?" Loving the build mate. It's the little things that sets these cars apart from each other.

After that they were rubbed down again with 1200 wet & dry and sprayed with high build white primer. All white in the sun! Then rubbed down again with 2000 grit and sprayed with 3 coats of silver. And finally 3 coats of lacquer and this is what they look like today. I have to say I'm pretty chuffed with how they've turned out considering this is the first time I've attempted a job as big as this. And it didn't all go to plan, on Thursday when I went to move the first wheel over for the 1st coat of lacquer the wheel next to it fell over face first, once I'd finished swearing it was back out with the wet and dry, filler and silver paint.

I will enter mine again this time with white wheels though Build thread: http://civic5.com/forum/index.php?/topic/6870-mazs-silver-mb2-projectupdate-270314-white-alloys-are-on/

I'm starting to doubt it's worth it. Having checked insurance, I think I could afford to run a VTI so I may just keep my eyes open for something I'll keep tarting my little MB2 up though.

bugger it, i'm gonna drop mine in. http://civic5.com/forum/index.php?/topic/5839-philgors-deckbig-update-and-i-mean-big/

Pita Baby !!! Yeh

x2, side windows are fine, rears are a pita.

Tried to do my back window with hair dryer as my hot air gun packed up (not happy made a right mess) so got a pro to do it looks loads better now.

What could possibly go wrong!?

There 16" speedlines chronos, very rare, but look awesome on a civic m. That awesome that I also have a set aswell

HA! sorry Krzys, hijacking your thread to get my 200th post

I'm not normal. But I quite like those weds on.

They're ok. Lol prefer ur original wheels like in ur sig

With a boot loaded with cheese from a impulsive makro bulk buy!

Great job mate, the wheels look stunning on the deck.

Was up on eBay for £100 or best offer posted, so threw a cheeky offer of £80 earlier. Surprised they accepted but not complaining!

Decked out with decks.

So, the list so far is; 1. Unicycling Tom MC2 deck 2. Grant-SBP MC2 deck 3. craigblight MA8 hatch 4. rover5 MB4 hatch 5. Phill1975 MB6 hatch 6. philgor MC2 deck

I did feel a noticable difference with these, pull from 2-4k was stronger than standard and felt freer at the top. Sorry

^^ well it looks fantastic in the photos dude.

Needs Nick's favourite thing after new wheels!

Nice work! I hate refurbing wheels, have got 3 sets to do soon

Nice :) :)

did you just use spray cans? looks like such a professional finish, wish I had to patience and know how for all that sanding, I started trying to rub back my steels, ran out of sand paper and got bored lol if only there was an easier way!

i think its worth the risk of throwing the stone, so some glass gets broke. Oh Well!!!!!!

Lol, glass houses dude!!

When you was young ??? did cars not have wooden wheels then mate, surely a few coats of stain and some varnish would of sorted wheels then

Absolutely, I wanted to take my time and get it right. I was talking to my mate about it the other day and we were saying when we were younger we'd have had it done in a day but they'd look sh1t and the paint would probably have fallen off by the end of the week.

ooh sounds good. look forward to seeing those wheels. man i want a set!!!!!

Long day ahead of me, starting with a nice breakfast on the seafront

How dare she!

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I am half glad you said that, took me that long to do mine! Lol.

Also love them under artificial light when it's evening/twilight

X4

There all nice its a hard choice.

Cheers guys yeah happy no oil was getting on my nerves actually. Hate seeing a leak.

x3

True, pays you back in spades when it's clean and the sun shines on it though.

more planned tomorow, sort the rear brake's out, door mirror's, head light washers, and wheel's....

x2.

It's depends on what you wanting and what sort of power and if you want to be a bit Eco on fuel . I have an MB2 too and my MB3 can do 50 mpg and still pull 128 bhp

Went to a local body shop to enquire about spraying the VTi-S kit and the lad there owned a nice MB2. So we had bit of a long chat and he said for £200 he can fit the fogs and LED DTR, repair the wheel arch scrape, driver side wing and front bumper, spray the VTi-S kit and mouldings and lastly make a custom back box to sound like a Subaru. Does anyone think £200 is fair price? He also said he can lower my car by 35mm with the Jordan wheels for £140 but if I want it more lower then I will need bigger wheels. I'm not yet bothered about lowering so might leave that to last. I've seen him around with the Subaru sounding exhaust so I know he's genuine. Some pics of his car

Mmm tasty selection on offer so far...

at the bumper corner its a 8mm self tapper, which goes into a plastic clip that opens up when tightened, or you could use a "speed" clip the second nut and bolt you mention shouldn't be there, it should be a rectangular clip, this just supports the bumper doesn't tighten up. these break easily as the plastic goes brittle.

Wow! I want that in my life so bad! Always been a massive fan of these, was in one when it was brand new! Yeah, I'm that old, but hey, I was only a nipper! I'd have it done exactly like that, those arches, those rims, that engine! Its perfection that is!

Really liking the deflectors the more i see them the more im convinced i do want them and my previous opinion on them was wrong

I think this MB needs another go as it a stunning car. Build thread http://civic5.com/fo...g-term-project/

Couple of pics in daylight I had problems with the ash tray, as I thought I might do, but not how I expected. It looks as if the rails that hold the tray in are totally different on my car vs the MG ZS tray I have. Back to the drawing board on that one. You may also notice a couple of wires hanging out of the centre console below the heater dials. These are a USB connector and an audio jack which are plugged into the back of the head unit. I have some parts coming to DIY my own USB and AUX sockets which I intend to build into the two blank buttons (between the AC and the air re-circulate). Hopefully it'll look nice and "factory" if I do it right.