Went over to MK on saturday to have a look around and order my kit. The cars are good quality but I was expecting a warm welcome, brew, test drives
or passeger drives. I got a look around, chat and price list. Still, i'm happy with what i paid and all being well will be picking it up in 4
weeks. Fingers crossed the time flys by
Good choice mate. They were probably busy...
The time will go quickly im sure. You have to gatehr your donor bits and get the painted and ready so when u get it you can get it together straight
away,.
Nice one a fellow MK in the village, that makes four now all within a 3/4 of a mile of each other.
By the way mate, what engine have you decided on. BEC?.
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You didn't get a warm welcome? You do have to put yourself out a little to get one of those... Sounds like you were a little backward in
coming forward... that's why you didn't get a Passenger drive. Test drive's (with any manufacturer) are very rare due to the unique
handling and rapid nature of this type of machine... enjoy your build!
Steve
will you be joining the mk owners club ?
Yes I shall be joining the MK owners club
It was more the fact when i asked for the passenger ride I was told there were no trade plates to use. A very kind man took me out in his though and
scared the crap out of me. When I got back the other guy was sticking the trade plates on the gixxer one. Ah well.
I decided to go for the car engined one as i have the 1600 16v vauxhall engine sat in my garage already so going to use it to keep costs down.
Tuneable and not to quick for my first kit car.
Got my donor sorted. Just got to pick it up from Hull now. Will probably end up getting recon calipers and stuff though for nice clean new parts.
Shame if i knew you were going you could have picked up my mates loom, never mind.
Oh what colour did you go for in the end?.
Well done. They are an easy car to build but if you ever get stuck.......well you know where to post! 
I have built 2 MK's and enjoyed both.
You will have to change your 'Building: excitement towards getting my kit' now to something more suitable.
Well i'm going back in four weeks if he needs me to grab it/anything else.
I had a look on the ral chart and had a rough colour in mind but rather than pick one and it be wrong I left them a photoshop the girlfriend did and
told them to colour match it will have to wait and see how it turns out.
I'm still building excitment until the call comes to tell me its ready to collect. I stuffed the polo taking up my garage at the end of the drive
with scrap metal signs and that went yesterday.[img]http://locostbuilders.co.uk/upload/a599469-blackwheels[1].jpg[/img]
If you need any help, give me a shout - I live in Coppull.
Only got my kit last year and have a rolling chassis.
Tip No.1 - If you're turning the chassis upside down to drill for the floor, get some pipe lagging from B&Q and put it around the roll bar
and wherever you put your axle stands to protect agains scratches.
Tip No.2 - when you get the kit and start drilling to rivet the floor on, get a can or two of Waxoil and squirt it in each hole to rust proof the
chassis.
How many hours have you put into getting it to rolling chassis stage?
I was thinking of ways of rust proofing the inside. I may do all my drilling for the floor, then paint it and then fix the floor in place after
shaking as much swarf as possible out. Dont want it rusting from the inside out
Well, saying that, i think i'm going to paint it over powder coating it maybe.
absolutely no need the car wont properly rust for a long long time!
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......... A very kind man took me out in his though and scared the crap out of me..........
And he told me he took it steady........... You'd usually get a bacon butty and a cup
of tea. LOL. If that was taking it easy I would hate to have been in giving it some stick. Really nicely finished car though. Hope mine turns out as nice.
Truely awesome experience though. I guess i'm used to being enclosed in my chunky Audi and not in a superpowered shopping trolley!
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Originally posted by Hellfire
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Originally posted by SyKaTurbo
......... A very kind man took me out in his though and scared the crap out of me..........
Ahhh, so you're the guy that our old man took for a passenger ride.
I heard it wasn't a usual Saturday morning at the units due to the BBC film crew being there.
Phil
I got my chassis powdercoated so I didn't have to worry about sanding and painting it - also it's pretty much brake fluid, oil, grease and
petrol proof!
Once I had all the bits, getting it to rolling stage didn't take too long, but I'm in no rush and tend to amble among.
Floor took me a weekend.
Wishbones/shocks/hubs/steering took two of us a weekend.
Mounting Diff & driveshafts (inc new bearings) took a weekend.
Engine, gearbox and prop took two of us a weekend coz of faffing about with geabox mount and snapped engine mount.
Brake lines have taken four weekends and counting!! (sent calipers off to Biggred but donor master cylinder appears to be pasing somewhere so I'm
swapping it for a new one tomorrow)
fuel lines will take a weekend.
No idea what I'm going to do about wiring as yet coz I want to use the Pinto efi & ecu but there doesn't seem to be an off the shelf
loom and I can't figure out what wires I need off the Sierra loom (there's sh1t loads of them as it was a dealer principals 2.0i ghia with
every conceivable extra fitted).
After that I'm on the home stretch with bodywork, trip, dash, lighting and seats.
Sounds like the best way to be. I tend to rush and will probably power through and have to sit looking at it over winter.
Sitting and stripping wires out of looms is mucho fun, did that on the Ka to lighten it and once had finished had to reattach the headlight loom I
accidently cut out.
Who did your coating? I used Garrick at Bamber Bridge on my Ka and although they were ok i found it chipped fairly easily, and brake cleaner melted
the coating.
I never got a warm welcome either after driving almost 2 hours so went elsewhere.