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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!

Nice car, factory wind deflectors are always a good choice I spent far too much money getting some JDM ones for my accord !

Stripped the rear arms down (photo half way through the job, lots of swearing and removing of extremely rusty bolts later). One of the attachment points for the handbrake cable totally stripped so I had to drill it out and use a helicoil on it, which wasn't a brilliant idea as the insert was deeper than the hole and I had to cut the helicoil down to size with a pair of snips, hopefully it'll be ok, i'm sure I've done worse in the past... 🤪 Scrap metal anyone? Wire brushed as much of the loose rust as I could and gave them a few coats of Hammerite "direct to metal" paint, looking much better. In an ideal world the hubs could do with coming off and the whole arm being sandblasted but it's good enough for underneath the car i'm sure Next job is to press out the bushes once I have access to a press Cleaned up the brake callipers and brackets (which under the terrible paint job seemed almost brand new!) and gave them a coat of Jenolite silver brake calliper paint which came out really well

Coming along nicely - the new shifter looks like a nice bit of kit

Managed to pick up a few more MG ZS 180 bits off a car being broken - A set of disc rear trailing arms, complete with calipers (almost look new although with an unfortunate colour paint job..) There is a lot of general grot and surface rust but they should clean up well enough. The rear caliper brackets are an abolsute nightmare to find so this is a good result. It also avoids having to change my wheels/front hubs as with the MG parts I can stay with 4x100 which is a lot easier/cheaper. - Steering rack. The MB2 came with a very slow rack so this will be a nice upgrade (it might even be too fast, but we'll see) The rear arm bushes are totally gone but I have a set of Hardrace ones to replace them with along with other arms etc so hopefully none of the 20+ year old rubber should get reused. I still need to pick up a few bits like an MB6 brake master cylinder/booster and a proportioning valve but I will tackle that later, trying to get all the suspension overhaul completed for now.

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.

Thank you. Trying tidy it up abit so looks cleaner

just update on how car looking

Many thanks dr_broon 👍