I popped out to the garage last night with the intention of spending 20 minutes or so playing with the steering wheel position.
I may have got side tracked, and emerged a couple of hours later with my build looking like this:
I'd been speaking to Spud earlier that day about moving the whole steering column above the top rails and he made the very good point that I need to be careful about the shaft interfering with the alternator and engine mount.
So I thought I'd better stick the engine in there!
If anyone is wondering:
Yes - you can put the MX5 engine on the table, then drop the chassis over it.
No - I would NOT recommend doing it that way! Particularly if you're short on space to manoeuvre, and don't have anyone to help...
It did go over the engine
just, but involved a lot of faffing, swearing, grunting, sweating, and removing bits off the engine with one hand whilst holding up the chassis with the other
Hopefully I'll have time to fabricate the engine mounts, then finalise my steering system over the next few days.
All the recent MX5 talk on the forum is really getting my enthusiasm going
