Roylewaa's MB2 decision time

[Roylewaa]

Thought I would start a bio as ive got a few plans to make this motor a nice one, and a keeper

Bought the car last week, an MB2 from a family that had the car from new, genuine 2 keeper (same family), car was up for £495, managed to get her for £400

1.4 S, 115k (service history stamped up to 94k by Springfield Honda)

Factory fitted black leather (requested when ordered by 1st keeper for £200 extra apparently)

Runs well, apart from a squeaky tweetin drive belt, and the usual arb droplink knock

Pics from the ad

And the mountain of service history including the unopened red key

Had the car literally an hour before I jumped on Gumtree and bought these for £120 with good tyres as the bottle top 14" alloys just wouldn't do

Then dug this little package out of the cupboard that I bought a while ago and was keeping for a rainy day, should be enough to do front and back lights

Popped over the scrapyard the following day and nabbed some Rover 45 smoked side repeaters and grabbed the armrest console while I was there

fitted, notice the usual colour discrepancy

Needless to say the 2 screws were an absolute pig to get out, ended up braying a socket onto them to get them out and faffing with a set of molegrips for an hour and getting nowhere, why oh why they didn't use bolts there like Rover

Then I set about upgrading the front door speakers, as we all know the standard stuff is complete muffled pants

after some advice from another member, I learned the Vauxhall Astra adapter plates fit the MB with a little modification (1 new screw hole to be drilled so had these luckily unopened in the cupboard, 6.5 inch adapter plates with 5.25 adapters, lucky as the speakers I had were 5.25 Vibe components and tweeters

For reference anyone planning to do this, these are the ones you need

new hole drilled into door panel

And mounted

Then onto tweeter, attached them to the small sail panels and fed the wires up

And pretty much done, door card fitted back on fine with no fouling

sound is much better, not fantastic but will do, I don't really rate Vibe speakers, there a better ones out there for not much money, just had them already doing nowt in the cupboard

Then fitted my free scrapyard find Momo gearknob, shame the screw bezel at the bottom is missing, ordered a cheap one from ebay so hopefully the one from that will fit

And a few randoms from today

Only bit of rust on the whole car, back passengerside door

Loads of ideas so will update as things happen

[DAVEMB2]

Nice little m and few nice mods to yep keep us updated looking good

[EmZvr]

Nice car with lovely interior. I have a suggestion for the speakers, you can surround them by floor isolation for better bass. You can read more about it here: http://civic5.com/forum/index.php?/topic/3685-emzvrs-mb3/?p=95654

[crazyrob9999]

Nice car bud loving the seats and an hour before modding goodan

[NIKH25]

Good start mate, does look like a nice tidy car, shame about that little rust patch though.

[Roylewaa]

Thanks chaps

That rust is just the beginnings of surface rust

Will keep an eye on it, of its gets worse on sure it's repairable or I will just replace the door

I will look into insulation on the doors as the bass is still pretty weak

I've just picked up a pair of 6x9s from eBay, only paid a fiver for them, however are they supposed to make a graunchy noise when you push the cone up and down?

Emzvr - where did you get the floor isolation? Had a quick look on eBay but no joy

[fyfie5]

I ad the same problem with the armrest screws! ended up going underneath the car greasing the threads up and using a ratchet screwdriver!

 

have to say I prefer the 14's!

[ammarbm]

Ah nice to see your project thread mate...Lovely silver Mb2 you got...nice to have another silver one to the family of silver Ms

 

Love the mods you have done so far...looking forward to seeing those alloys on and the fly eye tint on...will improve the look greatly. 

 

Just one question where do the tweeters in the front connect to...I got some from a MB6 but don't know where to connect them to.

[Roylewaa]

The tweeters are connected to the vibe components, it's like a 2 way wire, I just fed it up the door for them

The sound is not much cop from them to be honest, I got them given off a mate and I think he thrashed them to death when they were in his bora

You could take a feed from the door speaker, that's what I would try, just tap into the wires

I've done that before on a Mondeo and it worked

[EmZvr]

Thanks chaps

That rust is just the beginnings of surface rust

Will keep an eye on it, of its gets worse on sure it's repairable or I will just replace the door

I will look into insulation on the doors as the bass is still pretty weak

I've just picked up a pair of 6x9s from eBay, only paid a fiver for them, however are they supposed to make a graunchy noise when you push the cone up and down?

Emzvr - where did you get the floor isolation? Had a quick look on eBay but no joy

 

I'm sorry but I can't help you with that, I'm not from UK. But it should be pretty easy to find one. I just went tot the local parquet shop and they had tons and it costs nothing.. I think you call this thing there "acoustic floor underlay insulation".