slimyroadster

Well, that's the uprights finally finished. This cold weather was making painting very challenging, the hammerite was drying but stay...

The hubs are coming along nicely, a couple of coats of red oxide and then gold top coat (yep, sticking with the iron man colour combo!)...

It is with regret that I must announce the passing of the brake disc shields. I did all I can to save them but they were too far gone... T...

Yes I know, audio options are not exactly top of the list when it comes to kit cars. However, the MX5 donor seats come with speakers in the ...

The next bit of cleaning is the front and rear hubs. These came from the donor MX5, and while they were in usable condition, a few years of ...

Well, I think they came out quite nice. All seals and rubbers replaced, I reused the pistons and sliders because despite them looking pre...

The cleaning is going well, although it's proper back breaking work!! This is the result of a weekends hard slog. Turns out the best ...

One of the things I've yet to do is clean up the donor parts. In this case it's mainly the brakes. The ones that came off the car we...

Quite a productive hour today; The clutch pedal has been straightened and welded up so it sits in between the brake pedal and the tra...

Well, there you go. Two pedals mounted on the back plate... So a few things spring to mind. The plates were a good choice, the thing is...

OK, a quick review of previous posts shows that the clutch pedal is actually offset to the right. This was to avoid the transmission tunnel ...

I've been allocating an hour each day after the little one is in bed, to get into the garage and do stuff. The first couple of evenings ...

Wow, I've just noticed it's been more than a year since I posted on here, and therefore even more than that since I worked on the ca...

I want to get a decent lookalike for a real Healey, but I've always been concerned about the amount of chrome and other 'posh' b...

Time for surgery on the clutch and brake pedals. The originals are designed to fit around a brake servo, hydraulic clutch and a small footwe...

I've said from day one that I want to use as much of the donor as possible. The pedals were one place I wanted to keep the MX5 ones. Par...

Now the seats are in, I can put the steering wheel where I want. The MX5 design is very similar to the Sierra one, but the MX5 column isn...

Time for a big update I think. It's been some time since I last updated this blog, and rather unsurprisingly I've not actually done ...

Well, I came to do the seat mounts, turned out it's going to use a fair bit more metal than I thought. It's amazing how such short l...

Time to take stock of where I am and plan the next stage. So far, I have; A basic chassis from square section Front suspension mounts...