Craig's Finished Exocet Turbo

[h5ngs]

Well the rear sub frame is nearly complete now, spent monday night and a little time on it tonight, all the parts have been cleaned up with a wire wheel attachment on the grinder then painted. Also fitted the rear spacers and tested the new wheels and wheel nuts looking gooooood












also got the last parts from powder coating so fitted the bushes and got the arms on the front subframe, i will tackle that once the rear is done.

All that's left is to fit the passenger side caliper carrier, caliper, and pads. Then i can fit the wheels and its complete

[freshlikesushi]

I do have to say, the spacers you guys use scare me

Granted, im sure they are completely safe, ive just never seen something like it

[Stewart]

They're one of the cheaper ones available.
We make them from machined aluminium with new studs. I much prefer them that way as I've had the cheaper ones crack on me when tightening up the wheels before.
Like this:

[samuelt]

I have just taken delivery of thefreaks spacers and they are fantastic quality and fit absolutely perfictly. Well worth the money.

[freshlikesushi]

I use the bolt on type the freak posted. ive used the same pair on 3 differnet race cars for almost 4 years and never had a problem.

Ive just never seen one in that design before. totally crazy how it looks.

[h5ngs]

To be honest I might not use them and order a kit with the Wing stays for standard wheel offset, I have a set of hubcentric spaces that are 25mm and they bolt to the hubs and the wheels bolt to the spacers which is a much better idea but cannot use them with my new wheels because I want the red nuts on them, but I will have to see later on. can't be as bad as seeing some o the mr2 Ferrari kits with 65mm + spacers on now they scare me ...

[freshlikesushi]

why cant you have the red nuts on the bolt on spacers?
if they are a differnet thread pitch ,just hammer out the old studs, put new ones in and tq em on.

[h5ngs]

The spaces dont have studs in them they bolt to the origional hub and then have wheel studs that bolt the wheel to the spacer

[freshlikesushi]

weird

[h5ngs]

Ill post a picture of the spacers to show you

[h5ngs]

Heres the spacers i was on about, think im going to order the kit for no spacers, keep the mazda set-up.




Bit of a problem with the passanger side rear caliper carrier, it was seized solid and i could remove the caliper from the caliper slide, and in the process of removing it i snapped the slide, i had to take it to work and heat it up to get the spare slide out and had to drill and use an easy out to remove the snapped stud.





managed to get some done the other day, got the other side caliper cleaned and painted




once that was sorted and all painted i put the rear together fully






then dropped off the wooden box, on its wheels for the first time




and tucked out of the way



i then started on the front and put that on the box to start building it up and left it there





Today i managed to get a couple of hours to get the front parts cleaned painted and refitted











Tomorrow ill get another couple of hours as the mrs is out so ill get the pads in and calipers back on, wheels on and on its wheels

I plan on taking the gearbox to work to brake clean and jetwash off and degrease it ready for paint. Then that just leaves the engine to do. I plan on placing my deposit down on the kit in the next couple of weeks. Anyone know the waiting time for the kit? I'm also unsure on which front nose cone to go for as someone posted up there are 4 different kinds?

[red5]

run is around 4 weeks buddy so i reckon your well ahead of the game, put the order in sooner or you will have a massive pause in proceedings

[h5ngs]

Update time, managed a few hours on sunday night and an hour tonight.

Subframes all done







I then moved on to stripping the engine down





today i took the gearbox into work and cleaned off all the oil from where the rear crank oil seals been leaking

this is my spare gearbox but it was even worse than this one



now all clean, oil drained and flushed, release bearing oiled and refitted



i popped to halfrauds and got some hammerite smooth silver to do the engine and gearbox, should look nice, then painted the gearbox.





ill give it a secong coat when i get chance and ill be doing to the same with the engine, clean degrease and paint. I need to give stuart a ring now and place an order for my kit.

[h9]

Looking good, nice write up of your progress so far. Let's hope you don't have to wait to long for your kit .

[h5ngs]

Cheers, i plan on making my build into a build guide once fully complete to help others and also to go with my car for if i sell it to show how its been built. I've contacted stuart and should be placing my deposit tomorrow, he said its 6 weeks at the moment for the kit so will give me plenty of time to get the engine rebuilt and ready, tonight ive gave the gearbox a second coat and also painted up the slave cylinder. ill rebuild the parts on the gearbox tomorrow and then all thats left is spend a good couple of hours on the engine, i plan to fit a new head set but ill take pictures as i go