Something to pass the time...

[Kruizer]

... while I wait for the RX8 to come back. Kieran a mate of mine wanted a hand with his MK2 MX5 so I said why not, started off with simple plans so here are the pic's :

The base, 14" alloys, coilovers and splitter :

Decided to clean up the headlights :


And get her into the garage to roll the arches at the rear :




Next up was flush out the reflectors, boot lock using fibreglass matting, 50/50 mix of filler / fibreglass and then filler for the final coat :






And the licence plate holder :

Then decided to fit electric leather RX8 seats to the car :

[galway joey]

them seats look way nicer then the standard ones for when the roof is down....

whats the end result for this going to be?

[Kruizer]

Got bored with that so finished off the bumper and primed it :




And got a pic of the wheels off Kieran :

Cool centre cap :

Adapters on to fit the 4x114.3 :

This will be tight :

Yep, too tight on crap tires, time for new tires before I roll teh arch anymore :


Car has got fangs but looking cool all the same :


Time to wire the seats, balls :



Time to do a little more bodywork, flush the wings, prime them and the boot lock flush :




Repair the splitter :

Paint the fangs red outta boredom LoL

[Kruizer]

Cleaned up the front panel to see how good the paint was under the grit :

So while I was waiting on tires I decided to piss about with the centres :






Even Romeo had an auld gander :

So a quick text to Kieran and it was decided to expand the build a little :



Some MK1 arches that will need to be modified to fit properly :


And out with the grinder to give another 3" of clearance :








Well thats all for now, cut down on the pic's, more on the fb page if anyone is interested, will update the thread for Kieran next week...

[skinnynphats200]

Cool little project! Will look good when finished no doubt

[Kruizer]

them seats look way nicer then the standard ones for when the roof is down....

whats the end result for this going to be?

They are a very tight fit, if I was to do it again I'd use the cloth version...

Dunno about the end result as plans keep changing everytime he sees the car LoL

Cool little project! Will look good when finished no doubt

Ah ya he has some good ideas and I needed something to do otherwise I would have both another bloody project and the RX8 wouldn't be finished until next year...

[Greg]

Good to see you expanding your skill set trying new stuff. I'll drop down my Chaser sometime.

[Williek]

she going to look like a go kart on steroids!

[Kruizer]

Good to see you expanding your skill set trying new stuff. I'll drop down my Chaser sometime.

Cheers Greg, ah just something a bit different, since I had the garage all painted up it'd be a shame not to use it

she going to look like a go kart on steroids!

You should see it in person, camber is way to aggressive on the rear, will definitely need something changed there...

[Hachi]

Good decision to arch me thinks Nice going so far, look forward to seeing the finished product as I always thought the mk2's were a bit ugly, so it would be nice to see one come out looking good