Dave

Excellent, glad to see my old memory can still remember some stuff! lol The reason Honda didn't fit twin rear fog lights is MOT/ EU law required one fog light to be fitted to the offside/drivers side of the car as it was deemed twin fogs could be mistaken for brake lights. The reason for it being the drivers side is that this is the side that is positioned towards the middle of the road. If it had been nearside/pass side, in thick fog a car coming up behind could mistake the car for a motorbike/bicycle and go to over take, and hit the rear drivers side of car. TBH, that last bit is in reality crap, as if the fog is so bad you can only see the the fog light and not the car/normal tail lights, you shouldn't be overtaking! Nuts eh! So for left hand drive cars, the fog is on the left side of the rear, hence why the left light can also take a fog light bulb really easily. Makes sense when you think about it. Does still seem weird as my 96 Ford Escort mk 6 had twin rear fogs, but my 96 Honda Civic MA8 had the single fog on right side.

Nice one Rob! Did it have the holes already in it for the plastic side skirts to go back on or did you need to drill these? I'll add the link to our useful info section/parts section. Dave

I can check DD as she has the optional Pioneer cd changer in the boot. Will have a look at the plug on that when I get a chance mate and let you know if its the same as the one in your boot. Hadn't thought about the cd changer lol

Looking sweet lowered mate! Really is a tidy MB that. Regarding that plug in the boot, I've seen that one before in the past. Almost sure it is for plugging in the oem Honda towbar electrics, as Ruby had a towbar (Honda one) fitted when we got her and I removed it. I'm sure it was plugged into that plug. Hopefully someone will be able to confirm this for sure shortly.

What year was the Accord mate? Thinking they probably had similar set ups depending on the year? Its an electric rack in the fn2 isn't it? Woulod be interesting to get a measurement of the fn2 shaft and the mb/mc one to see if its possible. Would possibly even give up my retrimmed DC2 wheel if I could have the fn1/2 wheel and get the buttons working!

Did they not do an Aerodeck too? Or an MB6 to K20?

Wow! Stunning engine bay mate, really nice conversion that! Going to be a total sleeper that! Loving these K swaps into Civic M's, its almost like the tables have turned full circle! Used to be that MB6's were bought/broken for their B18's to go into other civics/cars........now TypeR's are being broken so there engines can be fitted to Civic M's! Loving it! Sooo looking forward to your build thread on this mate!

Hows the turbo holding up? These mk1's give proper giggles with a turbo fitted eh! Have seen videos of them but never been in a turbo'd mk1 yet.

Exactly as Jamie says mate, prise out the fog light switch (theres a wee gap in the bottom of it to get a small flat screwdriver in) and you'll see the screw holding the cowel to the dash. The other is behind the blank plate (or might be the dash dimmer switch depending if yours has it fitted). Drop the steering hight adjustment right down when trying to remove the cowel though as it won't come out if the steering is in high position. Looking forward to seeing this K-swap!!!

The front fogs should plug into a connector on the drivers side inner wing just up from the headlight. Think the wiring harness from the bulkhead to the plug on inner wing is standard, but when they fit them as an optional the fog light kit comes with the harness to go from switch to fusebox then bulkhead, and the wiring harness that goes from that plug on inner wing down to fogs. Hope this helps

The good old Honda equipment levels in models can be hit or miss. All depends on what the first owner optioned in a lot of cases. My pre facelift MA8 1.4i was the base model, but had been optioned with the electric pack, alloys and mica metallic paint. So basic Civic but had electric mirrors (also heated, with separate switch for this), electric tilt/slide glass sunroof, electric front windows (wind up rears). The mirrors, even though fully electric, were plain black plastic housings, not colour coded. Bumpers were only half colour coded (which looked nuts!). Bloody brilliant wee car though, never ever went wrong in the 8 years or so we owned it.

Wonder what fitment the FN1/FN2 wheel is (other than FN1/FN2 lol ) Loved that wheel in my TypeS and TypeR, would love to see that in an MB/MC! Wonder if it could be fitted and if the radio volume buttons could be wired up?

Deffo the DC2/EG boss kits for our civics as I have the DC2 steering wheel fitted to DD, and it was straight forward plug/play. I had issues getting a boss previously for my MA8 civic, bought the eg/dc2 one wich would go on, but the srs clock spool or whatever they call it got in the way and prevented it from fitting. Found out from supplier at the time (Funkypower.co.uk) that there was also an airbag kit version, but they didnt have it in stock so I never did get that wheel fitted.

Yes both the front and the rear mgzs roll bars are thicker than mb6/mc2 has so be a good idea to fit both front and rear if you can get them.

I would think the holes should already be threaded mate. Was the left side one threaded when you got it? These should just be bolt and play, shouldn't have to thread them

Loving the new photos,she looks amazing mate. Sweet aerodeck that!

this is sounding good mate!

Regarding the seatbelt bolt. It might need a lot of heat on it to free it up. By the sounds of it, its on route to shear. Not good hearing that crackly rusty sound though, always freaks me out! Id get your welder chap to really give that area a good check to see whats all needed.

They look ok, only thing that kinda gets me in the description is where it says for models "EU" then mb/mc. The 5 door EP style Civic was I think designated the model code "EU" , so not sure if that stands for Europe in this case or if it's for the EU Civics aswell. There sills will almost certainly be different to ours. The year tallys with ours though. For £20 mate you really can't go wrong and if that is the correct ones, let us know. I'll be ordering a pair up (DD's Sills are fine) as I want to start stocking up on what parts we can still get for them for the future.

Yeah Rich and the guys at Dynodaze know their stuff. Rich especially so when it comes to civic M's, his own one was a stunner as was his brother Keiths.

Kudos to you for taking her on the track in the wet mate, I panic on a track in the dry in case someone crashes into me! Looking forward to the next part of the build, and whoever buys her current heart will be getting one hell of a motor!

As Simon says, be great to see your Aerodeck bud. MGZS anti-roll bars are a common choice too as they are thicker than ours

Yeah, maybe we should have been buying up the rusty ones and stripping them so we have a stock of spares a few years back when they were going for buttons. I didn't have the time nor space back then, although probably got enough space now although think Gayle would have a fit if i was to buy in cars and strip em in the garden. Would like to get a hold of some spares though, maybe i'll see if its possible to try and do something with the carport next to the garage. It needs to come down anyways and I was gonna build a new one, maybe I'll see if i can store some spares in that.

@dr_broon Not really sure tbh mate. Because our cars have a very small fan base, manufacturers will see that as a reason for not doing it. For the amount of tooling etc that goes into making parts fit a car the cost would outweigh what they would make back. This is even more so for body panels as the tooling for that is probably no longer available. Sure, as time goes on and these do get fully recognized as modern classics (which they should be by now), we might see some parts being re-manufactured, but again, with the limited market, those parts are gonna be pretty expensive. We did have MeisterR making coilover susupension specific to our Civic M's, but we had more fans interested in buying them a while back. They don't even offer group buy discounts now, which puts me right off them as having them as traders they were supposed to offer some discount to members, but they won't. Hence the traders section has been removed from the forum. If traders/companies want to advertise on here, they need to offer our members something in return. We won't let them use our site for advertising free of charge, has to be something in it for the members. On the MeisterRs, I suppose there wasn't much tooling involved as they had a ready made product. All they had to do was make the top mounts and add a set of springs that were rated for our cars and job done. No point contacting Honda again as we've had nada from them in the past, and they wont want to be seen supporting "polluting cars" when they are trying to move forward on the EV front. Expressed panels, we could see if they would start remaking pattern panels (although we all know how pattern panels fit!) but again will depend on tooling. Tough times for our civics indeed, but if anyone has any suggestions on companies they think might be interested in helping us out please let us know. (wish I'd bought those new old stock complete rear side panels/arches (included the area around rear side window all the way up to the roof!) for the aerodecks. There were loads of them on ebay for like £120 a panel...........would love to have a stock of those sitting waiting i can tell you!

Perfect, ta mate! Just what I'm looking for!