And here's how mine looks!

A couple of ideas for interiors:

The new MEV sonic 7:

Today, Sept 6th 2009, for the very first time, it became a car. It's on it's wheels!

I've completed the mock suspension setup, fitted the rear wheels, dropped it off the stands and rolled it out of the garage.

I took a few photo's with our digicam, and along with the pictures from yesterday's complete kit car magazine track day at Llandow, I'll upload them soon (I've lost the cable for the camera).

Ok a little bit more progress today:

I discovered that if it tightened the front wheel nuts up using a socket on a breaker bar, then the studs would actually be forced through the nut caps (they are only very thin steel) and I could secure the front wheels properly. So the car has now been fitted with front wheels. These are 13" steel wheels from my old Ford capri. As far as the now broken front wheel nuts, they will do as mock-up parts for now, I will buy proper open nuts much later on in the build when I actually need them.

The steel capri wheels are quite rusty, so the plan is to take the tyres off 2 of them (I Have 5 altogether) and have them grit blasted to remove all the rust and old paint. I'll then paint them gloss black. At the rear I have a pair of 15" BMW crosspoke alloys which will be given the same treatment, I'm hoping that having all 4 wheels painted in a very dark colour will lessen the impact of them being different.

Also today i fitted the rear trailing arms to the axle carrier, the are now ready to have the mock suspension struts and brackets fitted, then I will fit the pair of 15" BMW wheels to the rear, and the car will be placed on all 4 wheels for the very first time! It's getting exiting now!

Tomorrow I will be attending Complete Kit Car magazine and Omex ECU's kit car only track day at Llandow race circuit, I'll take my camera along and hopefully post a few snaps up here. Depending on what time it finishes, I may or may not get some time in the garage, otherwise I'll have Sunday afternoon up there. Have a nice weekend everyone!

Well,

serves me right for saying it wasl flying along. Seems like weeks have gone by with very little progress. Just when I managed to pick up the pace, loads of things got in the way, my BMW broke down and it took me over a week to fix it, then the garage lights blew and it took me another few days to fix them. Well no more excuses now I'm getting back on with it.

I have now got the correct bolts for the front wishbones and they are now fully assembled. I've fitted some pieces of 25mm box section stell with 12.5mm holes drilled in either end, in place of suspension springs/dampers. This means that when I have the wheels fitted properly, I can put it on the floor on it's wheels.

Talking about the wheels, I've been unable to fit them properly as the nuts I got from a scrappie are capped and won't run far enough down the studs to clamp down on the wheels. So I need to get some ordinary, open-ended ford wheel nuts.

I've also got the correct bolts to hold the rear axle carrier in properly, and fitted it. So It's now doing it's job as a supporting member of the chassis. Today I cleaned up the rear semi-trailing arms And I'll get them fitted on soon. They will then get the same treatment as the front, with tubes in place of suspension for the time being.

I'm waiting on a steering rack to be delivered, I found a BMW 3 series (E36) one on ebay cheap the other day (£30 delivered) so when that arrives, I can start developing the steering.

Back from Blackpool and straight back on with it.

Going to work early today so not only got about half an hour in the garage, just dressed the edges of the floor and turned it back up the right way and stood in it to test the strength of the floor - it's plenty strong.

And it's got a floor!!!

This afternoon I riveted on the floor and front panel, also sealed up with silicone sealant. This is for 2 reasons, one is it acts as an adhesive, and the other is that it makes the panels watertight.

It's a good job I got so much done in the week, as I'm off to Blackpool for the weekend! I have taken some pictures, but unfortunately my phone is in the shop for repair, and I don't know how to get the pictures off the one they gave me as a loan phone. I will try to get them up.

The plan for next week is simply to finish painting the chassis, and finish cleaning up the rear axle carrier and trailing arms, as I'm not allowed to spend any more money on it this month.