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People say i have too much time on my hands but really i just use my time productively and seeing that engine in there that far back... beats sitting at home watching tv Cut a serious chunk of floor out of the car to make way for the engine and gearbox and then got making the Sherman tank...

The MX5 inlet manifold uses a VICs system on some of the later cars which uses an actuator to adjust inlet runner length, the plan here is to get some decent power so i gutted these runners out in exchange for an open plenum chamber. I should have said earlier, its being turbo charged..

Got the strut towers welded in and some gussets to mate the Micra and MX5 legs and then chopped the bulkhead out and test fitted the engine and box which i had been tinkering with on the side hence the green rocker cover lol why not

My friend was with me when i was near ready to remove the temporary braces and before we left for the night he rigged up an engine location teaser lol

I really don't have any fancy tools, this is being done with basic tools unfortunately so out with the trusty spirit level, measuring tape and a few hundred diagonal, horizontal and vertical measurements later i got the MX5 chassis legs where they need to be and tacked in

Got the front completely gutted and a few temporary braces welded in and once again got grinder happy, chopped nearly all the Micra chassis legs out to make way for the MX's

Thats the back all dialed in and sorted ready for the front

Got the rear panel painted the delightful green color lol The driveshaft and PPF go right through where the original fuel tank is so i set about making a cardboard template tank that would fit in the boot - not ideal and i don't like it there encase of a rear impact but there really is nowhere...

Got the strut towers welded in which finished the welding on the back so got it all epoxy primed and sealed up

Few photos show there joining the MX5 legs to the Micra Legs with box section, the MX5 legs are narrower so it allowed me to run the box section up the side of the MX5 legs for more strength just a butt welded joint. Made the rear crossmember out of more box section that i found lying around, be...

Made a frame up to hold the subframe / suspension on a pneumatic axle stand to allow me to raise and lower it up into the car Cut the boot floor out of the Micra along with the lower half of the chassis legs and then set the MX5 chassis legs on the MX5 subframe and positioned it up into the...

Took all the suspension apart, got it sandblasted and powder coated and put it all back together with new uprated rubber bushes and new bearings all round.

Got myself a down and out rot box MK1 MX5 and started getting the drivetrain and chassis legs out of it before binning it

Compressing about a hundred photos from an iphone then uploading to this.... may take a while...

Don't know if this is the right section but here goes anyways! Thought I would post up a thread on my latest project which happens to be on my wife's first car, a mint K11 1.0 which has been waxoiled every year since she got it with 20k miles on the clock 9 years ago. Thought I would modify and...