Craig's Finished Exocet Turbo

[h5ngs]

Cheers for the comments, yeah it will be black frame and black panels. I've got a week off but not doing much really. After collecting the kit on tuesday i spent a couple of hours mounting and bolting the frame up so that its secure and can now start making brackets and doing all the drilling before it goes to powdercoat.

[h5ngs]

Here's some i took today just because i was excited to see how it should look















Black frame, black panels, black seats, floor covered in black rubber anti slip mat, you get the idea i plan on leaving the wheels the same colour until its built then decided on silver black, or the outrageous glow in the dark red but we'll see

[h5ngs]

Well its been a long while since i updated the thread, haven't had much time to work on the car but managed to get a couple of hours on it. I've made a new bracket and mounted the charger and made a tensioner from the power steering pump and original pump tensioner. I also managed to fit the steering column, pedal assembly, clutch master cylinder and brake servo. Today i got a few hours to make the radiator brackets and get that mounted and levelled up.










I'm hoping to get some more done this week, need to make a bracket for the lower coolant metal pipe and then decide what to tackle new

[scooby1929]

Great job with the charger. What make is it? What engine management system you going to use? I have a jackson m45 for mine with greddy emanage blue.
I take it the blue cord you have wrapped round it is just so you can work out the length of belt required.
I am not going to fit mine at this stage as i am too intrigued to see what she goes like as standard compared to my track mx5. I have never driven this type of car where your ass is about an inch of the ground so think it will be pretty mad and the speed will seem so much greater.
Great job Craig this is my favourite build of them all just love it

[h5ngs]

Sorry i replied the other day on my phone but it obviously didn't work, yeah the wire is to measure the belt length. I plan on retarding the timing and running a JR afpr for the time being until the build is done and IVA'd then think either a reduction pulley, intercooler and megasquirt 200+ bhp, or maybe turbo set-up.

Only snag I've found so far is that the charger fouls on the bonnet so will have to get round this but unsure of how yet but ill think of something, i could drop the charger on the mount or make a new mount but we'll see.
Thanks for the positive comments tho, i'd does help inspire to get more done

[h5ngs]

Well I've managed to spend a good few hours on the car this weekend. I've done the following:

made all the brake pipes and fitted to the chassis with clips,
made a dual throttle cable set-up,
installed accelerator cable,
mounted coolant overflow tank,
installed intake piping,
mounted afpr and vacuum piping,
fitted horns,
mounted mx5 seat runners to new seats,
started to play about with the dash and instruments,
fixed the non working steering lock and one side indicator wouldn't self cancel and straightened the steering wheel,

so in all its been quite busy

coolant overflow bottle







afpr and vacuum supply from standard fuel pressure regulator




horns (fitted using radiator fan mount so you cant see them in the front grill and will ease wiring)




i got my trl supercharger outlet as its a important part of the system plus it came up super cheap so couldn't say no





started on the brake flexi brackets, i did these different to others and mounted mine on the chassis instead of the subframe, drilled and rivnutted and used the two brackets which you get off the horns, and then the brake flexi normal clips. Clearance is fine with the suspension on full travel too.








Used these pipe clips which work well if anyones interested, came super quick too.
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Automec-Brake-Pipe-Chassis-Clips-For-One-3-16-Diameter-Pipe-Pack-Of-10-/270993282954?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item3f1875578a

made the front to rear brake pipe (all the pipes i made i covered in electrical heatshrink to give them a factory look, i think copper pipes look terrible.





rotated the rear brake splitter to give clearence also



dual throttle set-up for charger




started on the seats, took the origional mx5 seat runners off, bent the brackets flat in the vice, took off the joining rod as it was too long for my seats, mounted the runners on the seat the refitted and shortened the joining rod, as others have said if you mount one runner a notch further forward then you can use the full travel of the seat, im 6 foot 3 and used to have my seat fully back in the mx5 but with this i had to actually move the seat forward which is very unusual





steering wheel straight and cowls fitted, then played with the dash pod and centre console, unsure to mount the digi dash on the steering cowl close to the wheel or on the bracket for the steering column?







and finally a few full car shots






next on the to do list is to:

line up the seats and drill and bolt them to the floor,
mount the fuel tank and filter then sort out the fuel lines,
mount the handbrake and cables,
start on the exhaust,
make the supercharger inlet and mount the air filter and maf,
then unless i can think of anything else which needs doing of which there will probably be loads i can make a start on the wiring

Well ill update as i go along, its great to see it starting to look like a car and i actually managed to sit in it propperly for the first time today

[gwnwar]

Nice bit of work for the weekend.. why don't you mount the throttle body to the charger and get a dummy one for the intake manifold ..would only need one cable to mess with.. I like the gage unit mounted closer to wheel.. You must have found a sale on extra long bolts.. Like the center console unit..now you need a small hot rod heater with blower behind it for cold weather rides.

[h5ngs]

The bolts I got for nothing so just need to cut them down once all sorted so works out well, I've already got two throttle bodies and the cables so that's not a problem, it's to stop idle issues when using twin throttle bodies. The digi dash does look good close to the wheel and is in the exclusion zone for Iva too. As for a heater I've got a big coat as gloves haha

[driver]

Where did you get those seats from? I have searched ebay but cant find them

[h5ngs]

I got the link from someone on here, marleymoo was the ebay seller but when i contacted him he only had 2 sets left, of which i got one and i think he was keeping the other for himself.

[h5ngs]

Right its been a while since ive updated my build, its been a bit slow but im getting back on track now, i was finding myself messing about with the supercharger install everytime i went in the garage and was stopping me from getting anything done, so off it came in a box ready for when its all iva'd and laid up in the winter

this has now help me progress with some much needed things, ive done the following

mounted the seats with spacers to help spread the load where the bolts are,


fitted seat belts,


fitted the handbrake,


fitted the air filter and made brackets to secure it all,


fitted the bulkhead and centre console panels,






fitted gear lever and surround.










fitted the clocks (still struggling on that d**n dash pod tho as per my other thread),





So ive got a fair bit done, next up is to install the exhaust, the fuel pipes and tank, then make a start on the wiring. I'm taking a week off work to spend some time on the build so hoping to get it running soon

[gwnwar]

Nice bit of catch up work after charger put to bed.. I would finish it with the OEM gage cluster get it all working for test. What are your plans for the center console..

[h5ngs]

Well little update for the build, i've not had much time on the car recently got a week of at the end of this month to get it up and running tho and ive been ordering some parts for the build.

Ive ordered some single bottom mount dominator headlights and some front micro indicators, still undecided on what im going to do for the rear lights.

Tonight i decided to spend some time on the wiring, only took about half hour to fit the loom in place enough to get everything powered up, well would have been if the battery was charged, also need to fit the earths.

Here are some pictures so far:

[welshy1]

Remeber that point with the loom remembering where everything went and thinking why did i bother with this. Took a good 2 weeks to sort the loom out have you any luck how to mount the dash pod thing i did have one set up but flexed a lot so will have to think again.

Think there needs to be some sort of option in the kit for easy fitting of the dash pod.

[h5ngs]

Not yet I've looked at other builds but it looks like they bolt the pod onto the round bar of the frame then cut part of the bonnet to go where the curved part is, I don't really want to cut the bonnet tho but it might be the only way. I've mounted the clocks which are secure so that should be fine the wiring was easy to lay out and connect everything back up which was needed took about Hal hour, I've got the battery on the conditioner at work today as it tested low so hopefully our machine can regenerate it.