MadaboutKitcars

Any updates matey? You should be nearly finished by now :-D

Not quite finished yet! When i say ive got 3 weeks off, thats because ive just been away working for 5 weeks and my wife feels i should spend time with her and the kids before i start my build! Shes gave me a free day to start it on thursday so i should have an update for you friday...

Front stripped, wings cut etc.





Front dry fitted.

Time for some lunch, then to start the back....

Rear stripped and internal bits mounted...

Back sort of on! Needs a lot of tweeking

Busy day but still had time to pick my wheels up from being chrome/powder coated ...

Playing about with tyre sizes....

Does anyone have a link or know where to get the front indicator fitting? and also ive been looking through the threads to find it because im sure ive seen it somewhere but, what car is the rear screen from? cheers

How much to get the wheels powder coated?

I have a set of poorly painted wires that I would like to have stripped and powder coated either black or titanium grey.

I would like them stripped back and made good but a LARGE bill on my modern has delayed that idea. Still interested in what you paid. PM me if you don't want the wife to see ;-)

Haha these where a tad rusty when i got them but i had them sand blasted, primed and chrome powdercoated for £150 for all 4. The finish is perfect, i cant fault them. Had them done at RS alloy refurbs in Hartlepool.

Bit of guess work this morning for my spacers, going to see if i can get away with 30mm spacers on the front (think this is the minimum i can go because of the thread of the hubs) and 65mm on the back. - In-put apreciated here guys! Need to get the measurements off to my pal whos going to machine them from 4 stud mx5 to 5 stud 'whatever car they came off'!

Very nice. The wire wheels look so good, glad I invested in some.

Im happy with them but strugling to get the spacers to work trying to match the 4 mx5 bolts and lining up the 5 holes on the wheels! I may have to get the back off the alloys milled down 15mm or so

Hi, I had the same problem fitting the genuine wheels they were 5x108 and the Mx5 is 4x100 PCD, if you go back through my build I had split adapters mas in the US, I used a company called 42 Draft Designs not that expensive either

Just had a look, realy helpful! I was strugling to get my head round how to do it with that 1 stud always catching a hole for the new wheels! Do you have a drawing for them?

Also just remembered about these...


Il get them posted in the morning!

Cheers for that, no drawings but if you measure the distance between the centre of the holes on your wire wheels thats the PCDx5 the mazda is 100x4 this was all the company needed, I alsobought spigot ring adaptors from ebay 54.1 to 57.1 for the centres these were from the uk for about £10, got taxed £40 on the import from the Us but still cheap!

Cheers tony, ive just PM'd you

Rear lights in, on to the front...

Done away with having 2 boots...

Bonding of the roof

What happened to gel coat on lights picture above? Looks like it got dropped!

I had the kit delivered and thats how it arrived as it was resting on the rear lip during transport, I need to speak to chris about it as the fiber glass doesnt go all the way into the lip so there is a void between the gel coat and the fiber glass, will make it brittle so may have to get my body shop guy to re-do the full lip. Im using colourtechs workshop to do my work and they are going to finish it off for me so it shouldnd be too difficult for them (they built Andys ford RS for him that tribute made the moalds from).

Sides riveted.....



I tapped the sides of the wings in to pull the kit in further to make it easyer to blend in.

Went looking for some center caps at my pals scrap yard today and came across these little beauties....