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If you want one mate to spec I do one for £40+postage or £25+postage if you send me your old one Sent from my SM-G930F using Micra Sports Club mobile app

Today was hot. Too hot. 30 degrees outside, probably more inside. Got through half a crate of fizzy drinks. Fujiwara Ben showed up for a bit I had to butcher the bottom of the boot opening for various reasons, so that's being plated over again. Also got the captive bolts in for the rear...

Progress was slow today. Mainly because we spent a good chunk of the day laughing at Will for losing his bumper last night. And we had to facilitate an oil change (payday yo) Couple of friends popped by, including Fujiwara_ben (Ben Wilde). They're pulling the engine loom from the mx5. Turns...

Not a huge amount of progress, but had to cut the strut top mounts out and move them 40mm to the rear as they were fouling the lower arms on the rear. Jobs for the weekend include dropping the engine and box out of the mx5. If i can get clearance on the steering rack (Ben Wilde/Fujiwara_ben)...

Today's progress. Welded the rearmost panel of the car (boot shut) to the horizontal beam in the rear chassis. Got it rolling. Got the strut top mounts welded in. And just a cheeky taste of how the wheels may sit. I may lower it further yet, I haven't decided. Sent from my SM-G930F...

Got the plasma cutter out today, gussets and rear arches need to be made. Inner child in me decided to do this. Today was a productive day Sent from my SM-G930F using Micra Sports Club mobile app

Subframe level and square to the car, tacked into place and seam welded 75% of the way around. Once the car is sturdy enough to be flipped on its side, I'll finish the welding then Sent from my SM-G930F using Micra Sports Club mobile app

How it sat this morning. I built the frame to go above the diff subframe and will level out the car, and build to it. Drivers front chassis rail upright is going in. At this point I realise how little structure there is in these chassis rails, so I'm going to run box section down the sills...

Started the day by cutting out the floorpan in the back of the car. The engine location is determined by the length of the propshaft, and so getting the diff as far back in the car is a must. Decided I'm going to run 17s. On 14s it was sitting at over 3.5k at 70mph. I'd like it lower than...

Interior as it sits now. Apologies for poor quality photo. Sent from my SM-G930F using Micra Sports Club mobile app

It's back!!! Sent from my SM-G930F using Micra Sports Club mobile app

Loaded up ready to come back to the yard tomorrow via the steel suppliers. Lots of 50x50 box and 100x60 box and plate from 1.0 to 1.6 and some 2mm Sent from my SM-G930F using Micra Sports Club mobile app

Rear drivers side inner arch was rotted on the 1.0 above. Start Offer up a piece of plate Weld and primer. Seam sealer is horrible stuff when it's 20+ years old. Drivers seat floorpan rot Cut out, welded and made new again. Will hole saw and grommet tomorrow Didnt get photos of...

I find myself welding up lots and lots of micras. Here's one I was doing today. Prefacelift 3 door 1.0 in white. First, cut out the rot. Then make a card template and transfer to steel. Bend and shape. Then weld in the new piece. I forgot to take a photo of the nex5 template, But it...

Sooo. This is how the Micra currently sits. It's been neglected for quite some time. It was the micra I passed my driving test in (March last year), and being a CGA3DE, inevitable oil starvation led to it eating a bottom end. RIP. But first, introduction to how my micra obsession came about...