Newbie from Peterborough here

[james3004]

Hi and welcome

John (Skov) beat me to it... we now have 3 builders in this area Whoop!

As Skov Said I'm using the sierra donor (a J reg 2.0 ghia estate) but putting the ZVH turbo in it which is probably gonna be far from straight forwards

[poshguy]

james nice to see people in the area. it would be nice to see some of these cars to se what im letting myself in for lol.

james where you a novice when you started or did you know alot about it before hand

im watching this any advice on whether its suitable to use.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1992-FORD-...item3a688adfc2

cheers
Craig

[skov]

That one looks too good to break!

[poshguy]

ill be honest there dont appear to be that many floating about.

how much would you expect to pay for that car.

would that fit the bill for a roadster build ok

[skov]

They are getting pretty rare now, which is partly why there is so much interest in using MX5's.
I don't know too much about Sierras, but I would have thought that would be ideal. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong?
Again, not too sure on price, but I would have thought £300-ish.

[poshguy]

the only other 1 i can see is
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

i would love to go down the mx5 route but i fear im not confident enough to weld the chassis and and fabricate the bits i would need to change and fear i would always be bugging people for help etc.

being new to this and never havin seen one of these either being built or fully built im slowly building up my courage as this will be only me building it as i have no1 into cars to help or assist etc (apart from this very good forum)

[poshguy]

who ever knew it would be so difficult to decide bewteen sierra and mx5 donors.

i was previously thinking sierra but am now thinking mx5 and am awaiting the plans which are due shortly

[james3004]

I wouldn't say I was a novice when I started, I knew my way around cars a fair bit, and had helped out a mate who owned a garage quite alot, and I'm a Welder by tradeso have a good engineering background . But having said that I have learnt during the building process.

[james3004]

Both of those sierra look good to me, I paid £400 for my donor from a garage in bedford

[poshguy]

thanks james, the welding bit is the bit that is slowing me down on choices at the mo but hopefully ill overcome that.

just need to chose a donor now but that is proving difficult at the first hurdle lol