Early stages - CAD & accumulating parts...
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Having sold my Fisher Fury (which gave me the bug for light cars with bike engines), I decided to take on a new project.
This was something I have wanted to do for a while, and having done most of these jobs in isolation thought it was time to tackle them all in one project... building a car from scratch.
The first stages revolved around a lot of thinking and some mocking up of a layout - see below.
Once I confirmed everything would fit, it was time to nail down the suspension design. Quite a complex subject, but the main idea was to make the car fun and compliant to drive - pretty much like an MX-5 (hence the name, I'll come onto that later). Here's the geometry I decided on: http://tinyurl.com/phefzjt
This led to more CAD, as I then knew where the load points would be on the chassis.
Still very much a work in progress, but the basics are there...
Here's the bits that will go within the bunch of tubes:
GSXR 1000 K2 engine and bits, with thanks to David Birch (XTR2Turbo) for dropping these off at Silverstone this weekend while I was there.
This is where the name comes from: MX-R1000 is a combination of MX-5 and GSX-R1000 
MX-5 uprights, diff, driveshafts, hubs and brakes:
Rod ends and spherical bearing for one front wishbone... this is the expensive bit of the build! 
Nice lightweight seat I had kicking about:
And a lovely billet sump with swinging pickup for the engine:
It will be chain drive, with the MX-5 diff converted for this purpose. Got a Mk2 Escort rack on the way, then the rest should take care of itself, hopefully...
Will try and update every few weeks, wish me luck!
Cheers,
Adam
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