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Im in Essex, ive been into the classic mini scene my whole life.
A regular poster on online mini forums and my daily drive is a 1978 mini clubman saloon.
For years ive been trying to find a mint reasonably priced Triumph GT6,
(not everyones cup of tea i know!)
i must be a sucker for poorly built british rustboxes
then i stumbled across the MX250 kit..... WOW imediately i knew i have to make one of these. I've had two mx5s eunos imports before and i love the way they handle (almost as good as a mini!) the last 2 months relentless rain has caused an abundance of viable donor cars, so what better time!!
This week i took the plunge and ordered the Mx250 kit.
I have already sourced the donor car, a Manual eunos v spec with LSD, aircon power steering, tan leathers. came with plenty of sellable extras, a new tan roof fitted(with heated glass screen) 2 sets of original mazda wheels, tan torneau, a full car cover
even had full tank of petrol, MOT and 8 months Tax
all for £600
only needs some minor sill repairs, (my job for next week)
my build notes are as follows
* Im not building a ferrari replica, just a classic looking fastback coupe
* want it ready for spring 2014
* as many mod-cons as possible
* once assembled and prepped, vehicle will be vinyl wrapped
as a demonstrator for [url]www.essexvehiclewraps.com[/url] (colour undecided)
* Must be FAST
* Must be LOUD
Welcome to the group. by the sounds of it after selling all your extra parts your donor car may stand you at £0!
with regards to vinyl wrapping, what are the advantages of it?
My mate had his 911 wrapped in white and its less than a year old and its F*ckd. bubbling and peeling all over, and he got charged £2k for it and I could of had it sprayed to a A class job for that.
I've seen a few 'matt' wraps recently and it looks to be 'the future' but just wondering what the advantages of it is to getting your motor sprayed?
We vinyl wrapped our B*ntl*y GT replica for it's launch ( http://www.madabout-kitcars.com/kitcar/kitcar_news.php?shownews=129 ) because we had no time to paint it. We hadn't done wrapping before and with only 2 days before the Stoneleigh Show we had to learn fast! It looked OK from a distance but was peeling off a little on the journey home, due to no prep and a dirty workshop.
I will give you a call in a few weeks reference collection date for your kit.
Welcome to MX250 ownership .
You will enjoy it. Your donor car sounds great , and there is loads of mods you can do to the mx5 to make it even better .
I guess like with anything, practice, experience and the right tools for the job, will determine the outcome.
I know how much a quality paint job will cost, that is the no 1 reason why I'm wrapping it.(free)££££
The mx250 will be quite difficult to wrap mainly because of the curves, and the lack of panel edges.I guess the proof is in the pudding,
The vinyl available now is so much more advanced than what we used 5 years ago, especially the adhesive. I guess we will find out in 5 years time whether it lives up to its word!
Until then I should probably get on with stripping the donor,
My sill repair panel has arrived from flea bay, looking at everyone else's builds I believe all of my welding will be under the kit, still will try to get it as tidy as possible.
The donor car seems in pretty good shape mechanically, one lady owner since import
The paint is really poor, covered in tree sap but who cares, the engine is sweet, nice to drive a rwd car without traction control,
Just popped over from the Ribble Forum,
That's shocking Danny, I wouldn't have even taken delivery of that, Vinyl wrap gets a bit of a bum wrap as a lot of folk who are doing them have had no training and don't really know what they are doing.
Mac
He has the receipt to show for it with its 12 month warranty. however the cars over in Germany where we work and wont be coming back to the UK until this jobs done n about 3 years! I'd personally peal it off but hey, it looks good from a distance...
I wrapped the back of my locost using 3m glossblack. It was quite easy as no difficult curves. I would love to watch someone wrap a MX250, especially the rear panel
Before
[img]http://locostbuilders.co.uk/upload/rear panels.JPG[/img]
After
[img]http://locostbuilders.co.uk/upload/black wrap.jpg[/img]
Been cutting up the sills, i had to remove a load of previous repairs and patches. Im far from a world class welder but since the kit will be hiding much of my "handywork" i figured in was a no brainer for keeping the cost down! ive had plenty of practice on mini sills in a lot worse condition!
Since im going to be putting the best part of £2K of fibreglass on the MX5 to save a few quid i fabricated my own replacement panels for the inner sill and inner arch repairs, i fitted a replacement outer sil from ebay (door back) on the N/S, as this was shot
