Search results

That's the car up and running, daily driving it to work and absolutely loving it! Made a few flashy cars look a little sluggish, had it weighed recently and it comes out at 1025kg with half a tank of fuel, not bad at all. Just building a proper plated Kaaz diff for it now seeing as the standard...

That's the car on the truck off to the tuner. He told me the alternator will need a voltage regulator putting on as the MX5 one doesn't have one. If that's the only teething problem ill be laughing! Just waiting for him to let me know its running. Lets hope the scrap yard engine is ok. Once its...

Endless amount of pipework and plenty of wiring all sorted, just needs connected up to the new Link ecu now.

Carpet fitted back in, used the boot carpet to cover the tunnel and got another from a scrap yard. Refitted all the interior plastics etc so its all looking pretty much standard.

Got the hidden exhaust made up, 2.5 inch stainless all the way from the turbo with a V band for easy removal

Stripped everything back down and got the engine bay / floor painted up. Fitted up the good sized MX5 alloy radiator and universal intercooler

Forgot about this for a while but heres an update anyway. I got the manifold made up with an external wastegate

The progress from now on is going to be more fiddly and tedious seeing as the big fabrication work is more or less done. Next few jobs on the list- Get the other seat mounted up Get the brake servo mounted up, bit awkward since there's little space but don't fancy not having it Go to an...

Also set the brake and throttle pedal in to see how much space id have for the clutch seeing as the foot well is a bit smaller now, seems ok and the gearlever isn't that badly far back, will just put a kink forward in it.

The real progress over the last few days is the tunnel, its shaping up rightly now. Also got the seat positioned back in and mounts welded on to the tunnel, just need to finish the other seat. Had an engineering place bend me some steel to get a nice round edge.

I work in a bodyshop which has been has a bit slow lately so I got a painter with nothing to do to fill the bulkhead and chassis legs for me, bit early since ill need to weld more brackets in place but sure.

The subframe also has a couple of mounts further down the car underneath the floor so I cut these mounts off the MX5, tacked them onto my floor and again filled in the gaps with sheet steel. Now just need to finish the other side to match and then I can finish making the tunnel up

The answer I came up with was to get a heavy big lump of box iron and cut a strip about 45cms long to leave a flat bit of steel with 2 round edges that matches the chassis legs profile perfectly. i then bent this flat strip to go from the underside of the chassis leg to the bulk head and curl...

Much slower progress now obviously but here's the last Saturday and a couple of evenings progress. Picture shows the subframe bolted onto the chassis leg and the upper and lower suspension wishbones. You can see where the new chassis leg meets the bulk head there is a gap underneath, this needs...

:)

With 250hp

No just a road car, I would have done a brave few things differently if it was for the track. Hunting down civic type r's with silly exhausts will be its main persuit!

I'm new to forums but I didn't think that was normal lol

26 hours later and still waiting for a moderator?! I may move this thread over to a different forum at this rate

That's seriously condensing down the work that's gone in obviously but that's about as far as i've got to date, i thought if anyone would appreciate this project it might be some of you fellow Micra boys lol