Exocet kit cars using mx5 as a donor

Curly · Postby **Curly** » Thu Aug 22, 2013 1:58 pm

So has anyone gone any further with these Exocet kits? I'm pretty keen to have a crack at one.

PaulF · Postby **PaulF** » Thu Aug 22, 2013 2:57 pm

An Australian distributor has recently opened up, based in Newcastle actually: http://exocet.com.au/

16bit · Postby **16bit** » Thu Aug 22, 2013 4:34 pm

my goal is to do this in the next 5 years!

plus aero body.

16bit · Postby **16bit** » Thu Aug 22, 2013 5:04 pm

the amount of money you would spend making a car turbo and reliable might be a very similar cost to this.

if it passes crash tests and you can road register it, its great value.

deviant · Postby **deviant** » Thu Aug 22, 2013 10:19 pm

You can do better for your money...

http://www.redbackmotorsport.com/index. ... ts/mnr-mx5

www.greatbritishsportscars.co.uk

etc etc

Postby **NitroDann** » Thu Aug 22, 2013 10:25 pm

I've been chatting with him, he's local to me.

It would be good with 300whp, thats for SURE.

Ferrari embarrassment central basically.

Dann

16bit · Postby **16bit** » Thu Aug 22, 2013 10:49 pm

deviant wrote:You can do better for your money...

http://www.redbackmotorsport.com/index. ... ts/mnr-mx5

http://www.greatbritishsportscars.co.uk

etc etc

seems like they are way more work and more expensive.

exocet wins.

Postby **Okibi** » Thu Aug 22, 2013 11:45 pm

NitroDann wrote:I've been chatting with him, he's local to me....

When I saw their location I was hoping you'd get involved with this product somehow.

Postby **NitroDann** » Thu Aug 22, 2013 11:56 pm

We will see how it goes, but I may be quite involved.. We will see.

Hes a nice young bloke who's ambitious and has the skillset to pull it off, I reckon, he might need a hand however.

Dann

Apu · Postby **Apu** » Thu Aug 22, 2013 11:58 pm

I've mentioned this to a number of people previously - one of the reasons I bought an MX5 was that if anything should happen, I would hopefully have enough of the car left to build a kit car.

As time went on, I realised that building a clubman didn't necessarily make all that much more sense...mainly because they are painfully impractical cars.

I figured that I could go partway there by really stripping out my car. Dann should be credited for that, after I drove his first gutted out NA...and that car also had a hardtop!

So rather than build a kit car and struggle to register it, why not strip out your car and get most of the way to a kit car anyway?

Of course, if you want to get extreme...

16bit · Postby **16bit** » Fri Aug 23, 2013 11:25 am

could be a good income stream dann.

if you could figure out a way of doing builds in 40 hours you could easily charge 4 grand for that and i would think that is a bargin.

Suspense · Postby **Suspense** » Fri Aug 23, 2013 11:44 am

16bit wrote:if you could figure out a way of doing builds in 40 hours you could easily charge 4 grand for that and i would think that is a bargin.

Or 4 mins

Postby **NitroDann** » Fri Aug 23, 2013 11:47 am

Lol, I doubt there is a position for a second person building them, the guy importing will be doing it, however he is an MX5 noobie, and I can build 200whp setups in a week that you cannot kill. So between us we could build some pretty amazing things.

Dann