All great things have a beginning

[Grant Monkhouse]

Drilled the bushing out, kept the steel sleeve insert as this will give me the correct width for THE HDPE bushings to be made.

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[Grant Monkhouse]

If anyone knows how to get this out then I'm all ears, that mofo is stuck in there good

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[Mr Spiller]

Drill
Cut off flush then drill through
Only way if she's stuck
'It's only soft metal


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I had the other day like that..i hammered a wedge into it. Blasted it with heat and keep hitting the side with a hammer...an hour it took.

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[Grant Monkhouse]

Subframe

Sending all suspension arms to blasters, tried rust remover and its just baba, stripped the hubs down too, removed the crudded up dust shields, discs and calipers.

Going to clean them all up and just give them a lick of spray paint.

Painted hubs and calipers should be good for 50hp increase

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[Grant Monkhouse]

Before

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[Grant Monkhouse]

After.

Car now has 75 hp and the engine doesn't even run

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[Mr Spiller]

That'll look quite nice I think


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[Grant Monkhouse]

Iv just drawn up the piece for mounting the radiator and the fuel cell and dropped them at my mates to be made up, along with some straps for the fuel cell etc.

No point me making it when he has all the tools to make it better than me. Plasma cutter, welder, and folder etc.

Got sick of looking at the pieces I had left from the battery box mount in the engine bay so spent ages drilling out the spot weld, swearing, cutting myself and beating it with a hammer but they're now out. Sloshed on some black spray paint I had in the garage

Looks tidy now.

Fuel pump has been ordered hence why I have drawn up the front mounting panel as that will allow me to make up lines for fuel and coolant lines etc

Saw an interesting setup on a drag car recently where it had a mechanical fuel pump but to help get the car started it used an electric fuel pump which then switched off as the mechanical one got pumping.

Sometimes mechanical pumps can be a ball ache to start so going to look into this, see how it works, but if its not really simple then I won't bother.

I will be used a 16 volt battery anyway so should have enough oomph to get it started and do a run, without having an alternator. We shall see, I just like seeing how people approach things differently

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[Grant Monkhouse]

Found this little beauty nugget of info for the mx5 rx8 swap bits

https://youtu.be/88inyRpBa0o

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[Grant Monkhouse]

6mm mounting plate to bolt seat too

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[Grant Monkhouse]

Got bored sitting in the house so decided to make the car a convertless, man those roofs aren't exactly light weight are they?!

Only other places I'm going to lose weight in now will be the structural part of the doors... However I don't want them going all floppy if I cut the side impact bar out

Probably leave that until after the cage is all done.

Iv taken the passenger side glass out also, few kilos there.

Honestly can't see where else I could remove weight from if I tried so I can see how Clive might struggle to get more weight out of his rx8.

Oh yeh there's a couple of areas of sound deadening to remove but other than that this car is now well and truly "stripped out"

Hoping to get all the rear end back in over the next week or 2 so I can get it back on its wheels

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[Grant Monkhouse]

Progress


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Shiny

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[Grant Monkhouse]

Going to paint it black

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