After nearly a year of being indecisive i have ordered my MK Indy. I haven't got a delivery day yet, hopefully not too long.
My question is, I am fitting a Pinto engine in the car and was wondering what the expected build time would be, spending 8 ish hours per week in the Garage?

I've built an R1 Indy in just under 4months. Thats not working full time on it, only a few evenings and odd weekends.

Some parts come together quickly and others seem to take forever.

It really depends on how good you are with your hands, how much knowledge you have already and how quickly you can do things.

All the best.

For me the bit that took the longest was figuring out what to do next and how to do it - doing it normally turned out to be much easier than I expected! I recommend spending as much time in the garage as possible rather than in the house thinking about stuff, and you'll be surprised how quickly you get stuff done. Good luck with the build!

Pete

For me, I've been building for approx 10 months now, the car is running, but I've still got a lot of finishing touches to do. The Things that seem to take the longest are the little things like.... how to route the brake lines, fuel lines, as scooby said, you can spend a lot of time just thinking about things rather than doing them. Of the major jobs, the one that took me the longest was the electrics, and I used a Premier loom and it still took ages. I probably worked on my car around 8 hours a week. I had a rolling chassis within 2 months.

If you haven't already I would spend some time in here reading up on all the ups and downs of building, it may save you from making some mistakes the others have already done, and please ask questions, you'll save a lot of time that way.

by the way, welcome to the gang.

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Biggest problem I found building my first one is how to resolve some of the simple things like clutch cable to pedal and where to get parts. Often took a while to get the parts once ordered or to find out what they called it.

Then stalls due to having to wait on things like exhausts because I was expecting a 1 week delivery to find out that it was a 4 week delivery which in truth was 2.5 months due to missing parts.

Hi there and welcome to the madhouse!!

Whereabouts are you located?

I reckon you are probably realistically looking at about a year to build it.

Rich.

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The real variable is how much time you spend reconditioning your donor parts You need to get on with that straight away.

Cheers

Mark

it really depends what sort of level of finish you want on the car.

you can 'knock one together' in a pretty short time, but if you want any real level of finish, it's going to take longer. you should get the big bits in pretty quickly, once they're cleaned up, which like mark, i reccomend you get on with as soon as, if not before the kit is ordered. after that, it depends what attention to detail you pay to stuff you won't neccessarily see when it's finished, like the engine bay, and boot section.

mine took 18 months, in which time i sat my a levels, but also worked through some very very cold winter months. it tended to slow progress, as the first part of every morning was spent chipping ice off the roof sheets, and the rest of the day avoiding drips. in the end though, i think the extra time spent does show, and i'm glad i invested my time in it.

each to their own i suppose, but it's worth thinking which way you want it to end up before you start
tom

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Originally posted by mookaloid
The real variable is how much time you spend reconditioning your donor parts You need to get on with that straight away.

Cheers

Mark

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I reflect indykid' comments. Three of us took 6 months to build it to a pretty high standard spending 22 hours/week on average. Alone I'd triple it at least... your motivation get's quite low apparently.

However - it is very very worth it in the end... he says having just returned from MK Sportscars this morning!!! Lovely fresh day... sights, sounds and smells - it's incredible! Good luck