Nice one, milestone reached.

Engine start, best feeling ever. Well done!:D

sounds awesome

well spent the day doing some jobs on the front end and sorting out the wiring for headlights etc , seem to have been busy but not a lot to see, oh well just to figure out mazdas' headlight wiring now . day off tomorrow so gonna try and get headlights working and rear lights wired in and hopefully working. hopefully alloys will arrive this week and I can start on cycle wings / stays
Gary
I swear the list is getting longer not shorter ....lol

The list never gets shorter. Mines finished and there are still jobs to be done.

Thanks for that Steve , just the encouragement required :)
I know from past experiances that in my mind every job done is a step closer to using her not finishing her and truthfully the list isn't getting longer just as I do one job I see another I hadn't thought about lol . so having coffee n toast, its a buetiful day so will see how I get on today
Gary

That's ok for the encouragement. When I was building I kept on making lists of the jobs needed doing and I got there in the end. It was a great achievement when I finished.

It's not getting longer, it's getting more detailed. It means you're getting somewhere with the build. I still have 8 things on my list and I'm post IVA. And when they're done. I'll make another list, one of those things on the list will be "drive it". :D

HA HA lights working thought I was going crazy , I mean how hard can 4 wires be.................. eventually discovered I had stalks that were wired differently :) oh the joy :) and that mx5 stalk changes the earth not the feed any way got side dip main n flash now so happy.. and result got a pair of westy leather seats n runners for a bargin £, so these should be here end of the week :) so onto the indicators next...... wonder what lies ahead there lol
got the calipers and discs on today so probably need to source flexis next

just been looking back and next weekend is a year since I started her, how time flies when your having fun :D

carried on with the wiring... it is not theraphutic.... so doing a wee bit at a time interspersed with other more interesting jobs !!!
was cutting out wires and found I had no dash lights... argh, I had cut the power feed from the fuse, easy find .. phew. found the brake warning wire so now labelled and the rear fog wiring so should be able to run the permanent wiring to the back now. Just the indicator wiring to sort out cos the 03 harness and 03 switch don't match ummmm the joy..
Trina is home today so will be a short break in progress .
Gary

had a good day today got the roll bar all done bar painting , seats bolted in.. its looking like a car ,,, :)

more pictures

Very good! How did you get it to stick to the ceiling?;)

Like that colour.

Down under
 

:D All us that live in the southern hemisphere can do this trick of hanging upside down, comes from a life down under!!!:D :D :D

well despite the weather, sun, rain, hailstones, sun.... got my wing stays made today :) fixed wings on with tiger seal and will glass over once its set then prime and paint them.

well been working away on the wiring and I think im about there, gave up trying to use the mx5 switches and bought some new rdx ones, chopped out the relavant wiring and rewired as I needed as per the new switches,
got the wiring down the tunnel and in the tub finished wrapped and clipped down, used a rdx relay for the hazards as it sees normal and led bulbs so have 4x ballast resistors if anyone needs them, waiting for some bits so went out and lined the passenger side, trimmed it with some maroon leather cloth and fitted some rubber matting , looks pretty good and a shame to dump stuff in there now, it looks like a car not a toolbox :) so tomorrow going to do the drivers side and rear panel behind the seats. waiting for harnesses to come then I can get the seats back in :)
Gary

Hi , made these "arm rests" to finish off the top edge of the sides aluminium U section, cut a length of pipe lagging in half and tuck it to the ali, trimmed it to fit and then covered it in the same leathercloth that I used elsewhere, seats are out and in the living room :) as I got my harness but the wrong bolts (my fault) so waiting for bolts to arrive

well sun is shining and its warm so more switch wiring all switches working symbols light up when lights turned on but no instrument lights, after much messing around find that you have to have the instrument dimmer switch wired in, don't know why, but its in now and all instrument / switch lights working:)
Trina decided that as it was nice she would come and help....... her idea was to see how it felt and sit looking pretty...... still she is happy and doesn't mind when I disappear for hours :)

That's looking pretty damn sweet mate :)

Yup looking Great :)

TT

looking good there Gary

Very impressive :-)

just a wee update (see the thread windscreen)
windscreen fitted not permanent yet but couldn't wait and some silver trs harnesses to complement, happy bunny tonight :)

so waiting for some more bits to come so thought I would get the dash done so I can finish its wiring, trimmed in the same leathercloth as the interior

so temporay fitted the dash today couldn't resist it :) and made good the paintwork around the scuttle will have to raise the screen to fit the rubber seal when it comes and a wee bit of wiring to finish behind the dash, quite happy with how its looking so need to sort out the steering cover, waiting on a steering wheel and boss arriving.

well I guess we all have a bad day sometime............... today grrr1 my £20 angle grinder gave up , it died in a ball of smoke , how dare it its done from the start of my build to now been abused cutting chassis tubes, sheet and all manner of things, but really why now????
ok so I'll get the brakes all bled :) so enlisted swmbo to pump the pedal... nothing. popped round to my mate who has a vac bleeder . swmbo disappeared inside. so undid the m/c pipes dry as a bone, so after twisting down into the footwell m/c out pressure on 1 but not 2 of the outlets..... grr #2.
so sat in the car to contemplate the world and thought throttle pedal feels kinda vague so as I can see the t/b pushed it a few times and YES the nipple parted company with the cable grr#3 so it is now removed aswell.... if I wanted to hang upside down I would have been a bat !!!!
still its better to find these things now
so today I broke things, gave up and came inside, tomorrow is another day :)

Your lucky, I painted my chassis 2 years ago left it to dry and havent been back in there since!

Sometimes it's better to walk away! 2 years is a bit long though! Get back in there. I think I abandoned mine for about 5 months after painting though!

Get your finger out Steve !:p

well finally made some head way with the brakes... I NOW HAVE BRAKES :)
after a lot of frustration with the braking system I took Silvains' advice (some one elses thread ) and mounted a remote reservoir on the bulkhead with a couple of pipes to some steel reducers at the mx5 m/c with the brake pedal back in place a few pumps had fluid through each corner, bled them all, checked pipework for leaks = none and a solid pedal too . Just need to redo the fluid level wiring and its done
measured the prop so its off on Monday to be shortened .
Hopefully I can get a bit done tomorrow as well
Gary

so today its b###### y freezing up here, even the sand on the beach has frost on it all day !!! oh well on with the wooly hat :)
so having the brakes sorted out it was the clutch next I wasn't happy as it was stiff and the original geometry meant the pedal instead of pushing the m/c all the way , it was going "over the top" thus losing some travel and feel. So took it out and redrilled a hole immediately under the original to improve feel, extended the rod bringing the pedal closer to me thus improving the geometry of the pedal and pushrod now it feels a lot better and pushes all the way :)
next it was the new throttle cable and throttle pedal stop straight forward with no problems . so with the light starting to go and a need for some internal heating ( coffee ) it was time to tidy up and head inside :)

so I nipped up to the local engineers and turns out his son is building a seven as well so hope fully will catch up with him over the hols. and see what he's up to :)

today sorted out rear camber / toe settings went for -1 on camber we'll see how that goes and 0 toe in, had to do the nearside twice as first time round did +1 deg duhh , put on new hub nuts and spacers to fill out the arches. looks a lot better :) finished off the heater screen ducting not a great amount of air but enough to show demisting
Hopefully I'll get my prop back Tuesday then I can get that in and the g/box , turret oils in and checked.
The handbrake is doing my head in at the moment but I'll get there.
ordered some rack stops and gland covers for the steering arms and top drag links, prop catchers (just in case ) and a wideband o2 kit
still need a connector plug for a focus brake reservoir with some wire on ,if anyone has one.....
so after a brain dead exercise I have 2 pairs of LARGE rear hub nuts (mx5) if anyone needs them , (yes I did it twice for some reason unknown to mankind ) think these are the mk1 size nuts.
so a list of jobs to do at work... ahem.... bend handbrake brackets, shorten front hand brake actuater and cut out boot lid, I made the template and marked the ali out today, that should keep me busy for a few days over the hols.
also started to sort out invoices and paperwork as hoping to be ready to apply for my iva before long

well got a few hours outside today, cold yes but took coffee and a wooly hat :)
I got my propshaft back and after a scare about it being very tight going into the gearbox, I gave the tail a real good clean (as in scale and polish) oiled and in it went :) started getting the handbrake back together. I must say I'm really not happy with the big curves over the diff , to me it looks untidy , still there in .
My list of jobs IS getting smaller :) I will have to do Christmas and then I'll get back to it, next job is to do the rear tub cover so I will give that some thought while eating turkey, then fit the wideband , and set the frontend up with rack stops and gland covers.

merry Christmas everyone

well its cold but nae wooly hat cold so.... out I went fastened down the rear handbrake cables so they don't touch anything .
Then made the boot lid a bit of a faff about but I'm happy with it and it looks a lot better than a gaping hole, at some point I will make an inner box for a few odds and ends.

and a few more pictures

gale force winds and rain so didn't go out till lunchtime stripped front n/s and rebuilt with lock stop in the steering rack ( will remove after iva as it really has restricted the lock but nothing is stressed or touching) and gland covers over the track rod nuts and drag link nuts. Doesn't sound much but took a couple of hours, so other side tomorrow :)

well it was dry and not windy but very cold, snow forcast for the hills tonight :) any way got the other front side done lock stop in gaiters and gland covers on and all put back together, put the battery back in and it aint starting not even turning over so I will have to trace that next,
one step forward and one back.... lol.....
anyway happy new year to everyone and hope you all have a good one

well spent ages with checking all the fuses, fuel pump priming, everything else working lights, blower indicators etc, could here the relay clicking but no turnover .... so check battery volts = good, check + at starter = good, grabbed a passing young lad and asked him to hit the key while I checked the solenoid + = good ...., so after sqeezing a torch and mirror underneath the heavy wire from the solenoid to the starter is corroded so pulled it out and just bought a 2nd hand one so hopefully once its here we will be sorted.
after that malarkey I trimmed the wishbone/ rack openings in the side panels, that's it for today :)

I'm thinking of either putting a turbo or a charger on mine after IVA but not sure yet but where has your charger came from?

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