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Looks absolutely sweet dude. Love the stance and those 5-spoke rims... Did your car come with fog lights stock or just the plastic covers?

Awesome build, cant wait to see whats next lad.

Welcome MB9 brother. Let's get this deck cleaned up.

Thanks for the heads up but that wasn't the case. I ran out of foil on my first roll so used two different rolls on the rear window. Going to retint next week. A problem I'm having is that whenever i fuel up the tank stops accepting fuel even though it's only filled up for about 80%. I ran the tank pretty low but only 35 litres could be filled up which should be almost 45-50 litres..

Been busy past month finishing up on college for this year. Nonetheless had some updates on the car as well. I got some generic 6.5x16 alloys for the car and put some Toyo Proxes CF2's on them. Looking great for the money and the tires are superb. I mounted some chinese HID's, they're not bad and I'll see how long they hold up. Also tinted the back windows but later discovered there is a small difference in tint from using 2 rolls. So they are going to be redone in the next weeks. I have some other new stuff going to be mounted in and on the car soon. Update will be in the next few weeks!

Hi Jeroen, I added a couple useful pages from the manual. The manual is somewhere on this forum as well. To pass the immobiliser system perhaps you can insert a spare key into the lock and tuck the ignition switch under the dash. The ignition switch needs a correct key in it to work. If you tap into the wires of the ignition key and wire them to your button panel i think it will work. This does make for a theft sensitive approach.

Today I painted the side bottom moldings black again, looking fresh and clean. I also got around to installing the pod filter. If I have some time I'll try to cut another filter housing up to fit a bit around the filter and flow as much cool air as possible. With the new pod filter the car makes lovely sounds though. Different muffler coming in this week, hoping it fits and will mount it as soon as I get the chance. Also I've bought some cheap tint film which might be worth a shot before i buy better film. I've tinted windows before (quality film) with good results so hoping the cheap film will do the trick.

I noticed a ticking sound in the engine last week so I decided to check and adjust valve clearances. It was a pleasant surprise the D15Z8 was nice and clean upon opening her up. At first I thought I was doing something wrong as all clearances were off. Where clearances of around 0.18-0.22 mm were required there was only 0.02 mm. I had to adjust every valve. It was a fun learning experience. After making sure the engine spun without hitting valves I started her up and she runs smooth as butter now. Received some new exhaust gaskets so I can seal her up better. Next things I'm going to tackle; converting all interior lights to LED ones, paint the plastic side bottom molding black. Probably going to paint my valve cover and fuel rail and cleaning / testing the injectors.

Thanks for your comments. Good catch dr_broon, going to look into that soon! So today was header day. Picked it up this afternoon and spent some time installing it. Main problem was i couldn't get my lambda off the old manifold so i had to cut the wires in order to use my ring wrench. Even had to race to the hardware store because my toolbox has wrenches up to 19 but the lambda was a 22. After some struggling installing it in the driveway i took it for a testdrive. First test there was a leak and now ive got it all fixed up. Only now its really clear the rear part of the exhaust leaks causing an annoying sound. But thats no problem as I'm going to replace the rest of the exhausy anyway sometime soon. The guy who sold me the header also gave me a pod filter with it. Im going to clean it up and fab a little bit of a cold air intake from another airfilter housing i'll pick up at a junkyard.

What an awesome project! Will be following this one for sure. Good luck with the build mate!

Thanks mate. I'm surely enjoying the experience. The MGZS suspension had some rust on the bottom coils and the tops. Scuffed it up and painted them. Probably will chip off in a couple weeks but I hope the lowest rings will stay protected. Update: 2 months later no chips on the paint and still drive great. On the left is the painted suspension from the MGZS. On the right you see the comparison between MGZS vs stock shocks/coils. I've installed the MGZS suspension yesterday and I'm loving it. The deck used to handle like a boat. With the new suspension she's planted on the road. Finished up the lip and installed that one while the wheels were off for the suspension install. At first I thought there wasn't that much difference in height. But after a day maybe the suspension has settled a little and the stance is pretty good. Might like an inch or two lower, especially the front. But the car is already scraping on the steep driveway of the missus' parking lot. Here's some pictures of the beast on the MG ZS suspension with the added lip. Tomorrow is going to be an exciting day. I'm going to pick up a stainless steel header. After that i'm headed for the junkyard looking for a lambda and maybe a twin pipe muffler off an accord. When I have some free time me and a mate are going to fab up a full exhaust.

Thanks everyone! I feel like I'm making good progress indeed. Googled the Meisterr and daaaaamn those are expensive. Talking about MGZS suspension.. picked up a set yesterday. Fixing up some surface rust on the coils in the next days and slapping them on in the coming week. Hoping for a little low while maintaining functionality. Now I gotta save a while for wheels and an alignment so I think progress will be a bit slow for the next month or two. Thinking of buying some Japan racing wheels as they're not too expensive and I'm a bit worried second hand rims might be bad/crooked or bent. One question for you fellas, my car had real s**tty door window moldings that should keep rain from pouring into my doors. I've replaced mine with junkyard ones but cant get them to fit snugly like they used to.. any advice or know where to get those online?

Hi Dave, Thanks for the warm welcome and tip for the MGZS suspension. I will look into those. Would MGZS supsension from a 2007 model fit the vic? Yesterday I also picked up a lip from a Laguna. I'll figure out how i'm going to fit it to the bumper in the next weeks. First the interior needs a good cleaning. I'm going to try and get as much stains out of the roof and rear seats. The previous owner had a dog who liked mud a lot.

Nice ride. Looks sweet lowered on those coils, too bad it won't pass APK with them. What muffler are you using?

Hi all, My name is Twan, 26 years old. I'm an automotive student. I've bought this Aerodeck a month ago and i'm having fun working on it. Wondering if this forum is still active and if there are perhaps other Dutch members. Glad I found the forum though, it has already proved helpful in a few research occasions. When I started studying I sold my car (used to own a BMW 3-series) because I was sure I wouldn't be able to afford that car anymore. Soon enough though my hands were itching and I wanted a car that was easy to work on and parts should be inexpensive and readily available. Hello Honda! As a tall person I wasn't digging the EK's but the 5 door hatchbacks seemed more my thing. My aim is to learn about the car and to have a more practical approach to some of the classes I study at school. I like the engineering part but I also love getting my hands dirty. I bought myself an Aerodeck with around 220.000 km on the D15Z8. It had a little work to be done and I've made pretty good progress in the past month. First thing was thorough inspection and treatment of rust. The car has little to no rust in the rear, just some surface spots up front. The underside had a couple small holes in it which I cut out and welded some new material in place. Upon removing left front panel there was a tonne of dirt coming out which made me wonder if the previous owner was into offroading. The wiring harness from car to door was also unfortunately cut by one of the previous owners. After the rust was taken care of I gave the car a brakes refresh front and back. Last but not least all fluids and filters were refreshed. I looked into the engine through the spark plug holes with an endoscope and the cylinder and walls looked pretty good. I've also managed to rearrange some of the wiring in my door to get the speaker to work again, the central locking mechanism for the drivers side seems stuck so I'll have to fix that. Only other thing to find out is a humming/droning noise i hear when driving 70-120 km/h so I suspect a wheel bearing might be going out. Today I found some OEM rear roof speakers for the car and installed those and I've replaced the door moldings which should keep as much water as possible out of my doors. If the car proves to be trustworthy I'm going to save up for some coilovers, rims and alignment. In the meantime there is enough crap the previous owners messed up that I'm planning to fix and clean the inside of the car thoroughly.