The carbon fibre time attack/superlap MX5 NB twins blog

fattima · Postby **fattima** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 11:43 am

Nice!
Spoke to them last weekend and checked the cars out. They have me booked in, time to start stripping the car

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 11:56 am

I talked to them about doing your cage. If anyone else is intersted now is a good time as they are all set up for doing mx5's as the have had a few in there in the last fortnight. Tell them i sent you and they will give you a good price.

little decks · Postby **little decks** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 2:46 pm

Not a bad looking cage.

who are you getting to do them?

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 4:34 pm

Meridian motorsport did them. They are great guys, very friendly and able to work out what we need with us. So the cage is a combination of both our ideas.

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 10:31 pm

I got a start on the widebody tonight.

It's about 40-45mm wider.

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:37 pm

I have bought the car home to work on it here. That way i can do little bits when the baby is asleep. And i started on the widebody and when i went in to the shop both guards flares where knocked off (he likes to park cars close together).

Pic of when i got it home.

I stripped the car further, painted the cage. Decided i didn't like the colour, so i bought the gt3 rs orange colour. I will be painting it again as well as the engine bay. So the car will have mostly black c.f panels and highlights of bright orange, with a dark grey interior. (like the gt3 rs)

I also got me some dry ice and removed the sound deadening. While i was at it i removed all the seam sealer too.

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:48 pm

I cut out a little bit of the boot floor and some metal that went behind the 1/4 panels as well as under the panel in front of the boot and the inner panel that the boot latch goes onto. All up i managed to pull about 35kg's from the car from when i first stripped it. That includes more bolts not needed, the a.b.s and wiper too. I cut off all bolts and brackets i don't need. I am trying to offset the 50 - 60kg's from the cage.

Engine bay prepped and ready for paint. I have to get the engine bay painted so i can put the driveline in as i need the floor space to make some hardtops.

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:01 am

Painted the engine bay, but for some reason the pics come out looking pink. The colour is actually bright orange.

Regie · Postby **Regie** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:20 am

sweeeeet

good use for the gas heater also

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:36 pm

How do you like the hat on it? I lost the original and used all my talent to make a replacement from some left over alloy.

bruce · Postby **bruce** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:40 pm

Any concerns with losing metal from the back of the car in case of an accident (less crumple zone)?

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:08 pm

bruce wrote:Any concerns with losing metal from the back of the car in case of an accident (less crumple zone)?

Well i am protected by the cage, and you can't build a car and worry about damaging it in an accident. You would end up with a heavy car too.

Painted the cage today. Just have to paint the interior, and then i can assemble it.