slimyroadster

The rear mount will be a lot easier than the fronts. It's basically taking the place of an existing bracket that bolts to the bottom of ...

Only a short update as the previous one contained the main information. Here's the engine mounts mostly welded; I'm not o...

Well, I managed to get to a point where I can get some metal cut. I still don't know whether I'll be able to get some welding gas, s...

Well, this is certainly a strange time. Normally I'd be glad to be suck at home with nothing to do, I could get into the garage and make...

As I was cutting the car panels, it did occur to me that my target of beautifully clean corners and edges had the unfortunate side effect of...

The next step was to put together the engine mounts, and all I had was the MX5 mount that I wanted to reuse; Rather than weld some meta...

Just a quick one for now, the gearbox bush. After trying to figure out what words to google in order to find something suitable, I finally m...

The other side of getting the engine in is to see how much clearance around the engine is available. This is quite critical as I don't w...

The main reason for getting the engine in is to sort out the engine mounting. I couldn't find much information for reusing the standard ...

OK, I did say the next job was brakes, but the stars aligned for probably the last time in the year. A free Saturday, sunny weather forecast...

Time to crack on with the brakes. It's reusing the split system in the original MX5. This is a three outlet design, with the two fronts ...

I don't like doing these as it makes me realise how much work is still to go, but it's got to be done. In no particular order; F...

Well, that's a huge chunk of work now done. I've spent god knows how many days just on these panels, mainly because this ...

Well, now that all the fun and games of summer is done, I can finally get the car back on track. First thing, figure out where I was; T...

Today's tasks were; Engine trial fit Bodywork trial fit Engine first. Well, it was meant to be, turns out someone up there deci...

A short update as I have a spare few minutes. The side panels have been cut in line with the back panel, and folded to allow a 20mm section ...

Whilst I've been doing the panels, I have come across a few things that I need to remember for later. Side panels. The GRP bodywork do...