Newbie from Basingstoke Hampshire

[geoff]

Hey everyone.

I have been considering a build for a year or so, I have been tinkering with a 1987 Porsche 924s for the last few years, and wanted to move on to my next challenge. I bought the Porsche for a grand and spent hours bringing it all back to life, resulting in a car that can be used and enjoyed, not like new, not show standard!

So this week I received my MX5 donor, a 2003 1.8 2.5 with only 60k miles, very cheap because it is rotten, sills and front chassis rails... everything is standard, it only had two owners.

So I think I am off to a good start, Exocet will be ordered at some point, but I will going OCD on the skateboard to wire brush everything and paint it all, yes paint, this will be a budget build! 

The fun starts this weekend, I have around 6 hours spare every weekend so not expecting to get the body separated for a month or 2!

Geoff

[hutchey]

Hi Geoff, welcome aboard.
You can get the body off in under 6hrs (2 bits of kit most needed are an angle grinder and a hoist)
The rest my 10yr old did in under a day with not much help.

Label EVERYTHING so it can be read in a year or two and not faded.
Save the VIN and cut it out of the donor
If in doubt, keep everything too, rubber trim, etc.

Read as many of the build stories on here as you can and print out pages you might need.
If you got the build guide, print that off too

[phaeton]

I think there is a decent waiting list for kits. potentially into double figure week wait, so you may want to factor that in & not be in a waiting game waiting for it to arrive.

[hutchey]

Yeah, I heard orders went a bit mad due to lockdown.

[Stewart]

You’re telling me! We were past 3 months at one point but it’s coming down now thankfully. Need a quiet month just to catch up on everything

[phaeton]

Apr 18, 2021 19:54:09 GMT Stewart said:

You’re telling me! We were past 3 months at one point but it’s coming down now thankfully. Need a quiet month just to catch up on everything

Never, never wish for that, that's like the kiss of death