Chris's new build of an MX5 based car

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Here are those covers. Fit like a glove.



Side are also all buttoned up too now.

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Got the rear bonnet catches done the other day.They come with IVA covers from caterham and are reasonably priced they hold the bonnet down really tight.



Also got my pedal removable cover sorted out with a nice little hole for the speedo cable

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ECU is now solidly mounted to the inside of the scuttle. I'm starting to sort out under the dash.I've put it off long enough.

[onedayTM]

hi chris just been looking at your build, really great job but I noticed that you lowered your floor which is something I am looking at doing as I'm quite tall and would like to sit abit lower in the car. Can you tell me how much you lowered by and what thickness steel you used.
cheers
tony

[TalonMotorFabrication]

You could just swap BR1-12 and the bottom of the front frame for 50x25mm ERW, then just build as usual to keep every thing easy to work out. Obviously you'd be looking at custom side panels and you'd need to rework the bottom of the nose.

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As the engine needed dropping 40mm below the bottom rails, I decided to drop the floor 40mm as well as I felt like I was sitting on top of the car. I used 3mm thick 50mm x 50mm angle iron stitch welded to the bottom rail, this added 12.75kg to the weight. The angle was welded to the inside of all the bottom rails of the drivers side but to the outer rails of the drivers side tunnel so I could run brake and fuel lines along it. A 2mm steel floor was used. On the pass side I just wanted the seat height to match. So I just lowered where the seat bolted in.

If I was doing it again. I would buy 2mm steel sheet, mark out where I wanted it bent and have the local steel yard bend it as this would save some weight, but not much. And it would be a better job I might imagine.

Seats bolt straight to the floor.

Hope that helps.

[onedayTM]

ok thanks chris.