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Post by AutotestAddict on Feb 21, 2017 21:56:57 GMT
After an ill fated foray into the kit car world with the predecessor to the GBS chassis and a rover v8 I'm now seriously considering stripping my '5 down to throw into the newer "Mazda Zero" chassis.
Just wondered if anyone has attempted this? Slightly nervous about my poor spannering skillz and potential of losing a car and gaining a longer-than-ever-intended project.
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Post by Rickster on Feb 21, 2017 22:54:29 GMT
Don't know anything about them but I reckon that looks pretty good and fun to do
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Post by rikk on Feb 22, 2017 9:08:40 GMT
That looks like a whole lotta fun. I can see me doing something like that in a few years.
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Post by wannabe on Feb 22, 2017 11:08:39 GMT
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Post by Clem on Feb 22, 2017 14:01:34 GMT
Oooh ... soon I will have a garage ... and I already have a deathwish. Maybe a kit car is the way forward ... then sideways when the wheels fall off .. then a hedge ... then a ditch... then a coffin
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Post by AutotestAddict on Feb 22, 2017 14:11:02 GMT
Noo, the £13k is still a kit, it just has everything you need. Their cheapest built car is £20k, but none of their built options are mx5 based, defeating the whole object for me as a) already have the donor and b) all I know about cars I know about said donor. |
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Post by AutotestAddict on Feb 22, 2017 14:13:50 GMT
Oooh ... soon I will have a garage ... and I already have a deathwish. Maybe a kit car is the way forward ... then sideways when the wheels fall off .. then a hedge ... then a ditch... then a coffin I would assume my badly built v8 kit was about as bad as they could get in terms of death chariots.... and it is sublime to drive. You couldn't go wrong. Even with an open diff it went sideways beautifully, controllably, confidently, made you look like a total driving god. Not on a tight autotest though, there it was hopeless. Seriously I think these 7 style cars are a case of once you've driven one nothing else compares. If there is a remote chance I can actually build one I'm going for it. |
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Post by sandys on Feb 22, 2017 14:14:32 GMT
I'd love to do this, there is also the mnr vortx mazda which I was looking at, of course I bought the wrong mazda ad all these kits assume mk1/mk2.....doh! But being a kit car it is probably solvable.
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Post by Rickster on Feb 22, 2017 23:20:52 GMT
Why wouldn't you do it yourself - it's the obvious evolution when you finally get fed up of the sills and arch repairs - £2.5k plus your power train and a few bits and away you go!!
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Post by Horney on Feb 23, 2017 8:42:28 GMT
Your £2.5K is the starter kit, you still need £10K of other bits to finish it.
If you want cheap kit car thrills based on an MX5 you go the Exocet route.
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Post by Clem on Feb 23, 2017 9:49:35 GMT
Your £2.5K is the starter kit, you still need £10K of other bits to finish it. If you want cheap kit car thrills based on an MX5 you go the Exocet route. The Exocet is not a pretty car ... I am totally confused by the prices on this, the starter kit seemed to contain a good chunk of what you need, certainly the bits of the car that I would expect to be the expensive ones (the frame for example). Whats in the 10k bundle you talk of? I cant look now, because the website is dead. |
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Post by Rickster on Feb 23, 2017 10:28:40 GMT
Same as me - confused
If you had a complete donor car and the starter kit what else is required - you might need to modify the existing loom for ancillaries but I cant see what else you need that isnt coming off the donor car (assuming its just the donor car bodywork thats no good)?
bit of fettling maybe - but thats the fun bit!!
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Post by AutotestAddict on Feb 23, 2017 11:19:35 GMT
I too assumed that the £2.5k kit was what you need to convert the donor to the car. I thought the £10k kit was a complete kit, no donor required? If £10k is just a kit and you still need a donor its way outside similar kit car prices! I could buy a professionally built alternative for close to that.
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Post by AutotestAddict on Feb 23, 2017 11:20:58 GMT
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Post by Rickster on Feb 23, 2017 11:48:10 GMT
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le sigh