slimyroadster

An Austin Healey lookalike, using an MK HSR body on a Haynes Roadster chassis and an MX5 donor.

Tuesday, 26 August 2025

Finding my horn...

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 All the way through the wiring I couldn't tell why my horn didn't work. It was so bad that I thought I'd have to undo the loom ...
Monday, 25 August 2025

Bank holiday tasks (wiring secured, seats fitted)

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 I'm not sure what significance the bank holiday has, but I needed a page title. More tasks done off the snag list; The wiring on the bu...
Sunday, 24 August 2025

Snag list part 1

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 Yep, I'm officially on the last few steps now, and the biggest 'job' left is to go over all of the other jobs and make sure I...

Rear suspension

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 It's been a very busy week and weekend, so I think it's time for 'updates' rather than 'update'. first off, rear su...
Friday, 22 August 2025

Working pedals and injectors

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 It was another good evening yesterday, with many jobs completed. I guess the first job was the brake bleeding. As expected when I took the ...
Tuesday, 19 August 2025

Brake bleeding

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No posts for four weeks then two in two days... cue some random bus joke... So just to feel a bit more positive after the paint fiasco, I th...
Monday, 18 August 2025

Catchup, painting and 'little bits'

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 And another month gone just like that. To be fair, two weekends were taken up by being on holiday so there's not a lot I could have don...
Monday, 14 July 2025

A win and a loss

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 Another mixed bag this weekend, mainly controlled by the temperature. This weekend was ridiculously hot, even in the garage that is traditi...
Sunday, 6 July 2025

Milestone achieved: It runs!

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 This Saturday has been so successful I could actually get away with doing non-car related work on Sunday and still consider it a good weeke...
Tuesday, 24 June 2025

More arches, handbrake, seatbelt, bonnet etc

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Turns out when there's just a snag list left it gets difficult to post something on just one subject. So this is a bit of a mix of tasks...
Monday, 16 June 2025

Arches first step

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 As it turns out, sitting on the couch knowing I could be in the garage was a big incentive for me to go do stuff! Admittedly it wasn't ...
Tuesday, 10 June 2025

Halt in the work

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Every year since I've started this build, I've been able to spend Fathers day in the garage. Even if things were going really pear s...
Monday, 9 June 2025

Post sticky weekend

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 Once again a bit of a mixed bag. The rain briefly held off long enough to do some back end jobs, but not long enough to do anything proper....
Friday, 6 June 2025

A sticky weekend

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 I've just seen the weather forecast, and it looks like the engine start is postponed yet again. I do want to plan this weekend though, ...
Wednesday, 4 June 2025

Weekend update (exhaust and handbrake fix)

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 Well, more of a midweek update as I didn't really get much done on the weekend. It was the kit car show on Saturday, a great turn out a...
Monday, 26 May 2025

Handbrake

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This again is more for my own benefit and possibly for Mr IVA man. As I spotted in previous work the cable for the handbrake meets in a deli...
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Slimyroadster
I am a DIY builder in the Midlands, who always wanted to build a car ever since my first visit to Stoneleigh many (many!) years ago. I finally got my opportunity to make a start when we had our house extension built and I was able to request a garage. My ideal build would have been a Lamborghini of some kind but without the funds for one of those cars I had to look elsewhere. At one show there was a demonstrator car for an Austin Healey 3000 replica, but using a Seven-esque chassis. The body was about a grand, and I saw it as an opportunity to get a 'classic' car without the hassle or funds. Of course, as with any builds there is still hassle. Especially as the body is based on an MK rather than a Haynes Roadster. In turn, the Haynes Roadster is based on Sierra rather than MX5. So I very rapidly moved into unknown territory. The build started in February 2013, and the car passed IVA in February 2026.
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