Finally started, kind of
 

Well after years of watching, wishing and waiting I feel I am now underway. Got a donor. 1991 MX5 1.6. As you can see there is very little left but all that I need, I hope, and I think a bargain at £200 delivered to my drive it have 4 space saver wheels on now and I drove it onto my drive and must say the engine seems very sweet and tight.
Will be stripping it in a couple of weeks. I am planning to order a flatpck chassis in a week or so once I can get the payment below the wife's radar. Build table will then be built, welder will be fired up, beers will be cooled down.

Welcome to the mad house.
And goodluck

Thanks. I will need all the help you good lot can give me.

Good luck with your build.....best bit of advice I was ever given......if you have a question, no matter how daft it may seem.....ask away......someone else will have already asked it!!!!

Russ

Just wait for the daft questions, you may well regrets that statement

Been there, done it :D

Hi Dave,
You sound at about the same stage as me. I have started stripping my donor, a 1.6 eunos roadster.
Also have talons flat plack chassis kit in the corner of the garage waiting for the space so I can start welding it together.

How you going with the strip? I'm still torn between removing the body off the sub frames or just strip with it joined. I'm leaning towards removing the body, not only for ease of stripping but I can also take the shell to the scrapers and all the other parts in stages, on my motorcycle trailer but the whole car would be too heavy.

I have a very rusty donor so some bits have been a pain to remove, had to bin a few bits that where in to bad a state to sell on!
I have decided to remove the body, like you I'm thinking it will be easier for access to remove the engine, gearbox etc.
It isn't to far off of lifting the shell off now.
Plus I can send the shell to the scrappys and have a bit more space!

Sounds like we have the same idea, i will be starting probably a week tomorrow and plan to have it all stripped with the shell and sub frames weighed in within a week or so as I have 2 weeks off when the kids are at school. Got a nice pile of cutting disks for my grinder as I am going down the 'if you can't undo it,grind it' route. There is not much left on mine to sell but it stands me at very little so if I don't get anything back I'm not overly bothered.