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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 !

Thanks mate! I like the silver but I really want to repaint the car Pirates Black when I get the money, she's a keeper so I couldn't care less about money. I've been hunting for an Aerodeck for the longest time and I've finally bought one.

Arms look much better mate.. Should keep them right for years to come

Ooohh... Mb8. Pretty rare car even back in the day. Looks tidy. Always think the aerodeck looks classy in silver

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