Post by R2S on Aug 20, 2013 12:25:07 GMT
Just placed my order, purchased my donor, and sorted the workshop so thought it might be a good idea to put something on the forum asking for others to give me the benefit of their experience.
I have no doubt that many of you will have gone through the pain that I am likely to suffer, IVA, DVLA, and the various problems associated with construction (although it was the simplicity of the kit that drew my attention) and as such would ask you to be sympathetic to questions the answers to which may appear obvious to you.
In respect of a bit of info about myself, I am a recently retired Structural Engineer who in my teens and early 20s messed about with various cars, spent most of my adult life paying others to repair, service, modify my cars but now have the time, and desire, to do this myself.
I am located in the NW of the Peak District National Park and am particularly interested in making contact with anyone building a MEV Replicar.
I have ordered my car in a (non standard) light green to make the spraying of the Aston Martin metallic top coat easier and am keen to establish what the correct paint colour code is ---- Does anyone out there know?
Should say the donor is a 1.8 Mk 2 MX5 with 5 speed box.
Potential moves away from the demonstrator, other than colour, include roll bar/s (twin hoops?), and bigger brakes and i'm still not convinced by the back end though understand IVA drives the straightening of the curves. I'd also like to run the exhaust through the near side sill and out in front of the rear wheel but will look at this more closely when the kit arrives.
Starting to ramble a little so probably time to end this post.
Looking forward to hearing from others.
Gary T