1st post and I've already started the build!
Inspired to build a seven type kit car some time during 2005 after seeing a colleague's freshly
SVA'd black
MNR Vortx blade
House purchased late 2005 hence slow progress to date
Sierra donor vehicle purchased from
eBay and stripped for parts 2007
Joined the
Locost Builders website and started reading......
Started cleaning up donor parts
Spent the rest of 2007 deciding whether I wanted
BEC or
CECSept 2008 won a 1994 2.0L
silvertop Zetec engine from
eBayEscort water pump purchased and fitted along with a new cam belt and
tensionersLate 2008 engine cleaned up and cam cover sprayed met blue. Block painted with black enamel.
Early 2009, got some
GSXR600 throttle bodies
MK Indy ordered on May 3rd 2009 at
Stoneleigh Kit Car Show. The options I went for are:
- Standard Indy chassis
- Rear drum brakes,
- Powder coated chassis
- Ultramarine blue bodywork (RAL5002)
- Roll bar with extra bracing
May 4
th realised build area/garage was full of fencing and misc other tat.
The following two weekends spent putting up a fence
Garage then given fresh coat of floor paint
Collected Kit from MK on June 4
th 2009
Resumed cleaning up donor parts....
6
th June spent cutting out the aluminium floor and drilling holes ready for 4.8mm large flange rivets @ 60mm spacing. A bead of
sikaflex was
sandwiched between the floor and the chassis rails before inserting rivets
Chassis turned upright.
Polybushes inserted into wishbones with a generous amount of copper grease.
Wishbones trial fitted to chassis to check fit
Bought some
POR15 paint from Frost for the drive shafts, prop, steering rack extensions , extended steering rack
UJ etc...
CVH sump which was removed from the donor vehicle given to a friend to shorten the sump height.
Steering rack fitted with new gaiters, painted then fitted to the chassis
Drive shafts taken into work and shot blasted. CV boots then replaced using slide-a-boot stretchy boots which were purchased via
eBay
Master cylinder fitted, reservoir turned through 180° so not to foul the firewall
23rd June started routing the copper brake pipes
Discover that
POR15
doesn't wash off very easily
3.92 Differential fitted