@@neilmchardy9061 - there’s no point having a forum like this if you didn’t show your arse occasionally, is there? I gave my opinion, that’s all. I didn’t say that anybody who disagreed with me was a prick. I still maintain that this project was a waste of a good MX5.
I own a Mk1 Mini and an old MX5 - and whilst I am not tempted to squeeze the two cars together, I think you have made a very decent job of this conversion - well done and thanks for sharing.
It's such a waste, and it not even original 🤷 I saw a similar conversion done many years ago but with a 4x4 chassis. I can't remember what car it was from, but it was like this but more professionally done. yet it still looked like a poor man's Maguire spaceframe mini lol
That’s some effort , I bet there were times you thought it would never get finished, and like most of these type of projects, you never really feel you have finished 👍
There are better examples. This guy was making it up as he when along. Piss poor planning, as can been seen near the end lol There's just no need to graft a mini onto another chassis like this. a good VTEC mod would be so much easier. Can you imagine how much that thing weighs now 😱
All this effort to ruin a clubman estate 😂 Now it just looks like a spaceframe (Maguire) racing mini from the 1970s, but worse 😅 A restored clubman estate would be worth a lot more than this piece of junk. Worst of all, it can no longer be registered as a mini! It would've been easier to use a fiberglass shell instead and restore the original mini 🤷
Did you know there is a kit to put a 5.7 liter Chevrolet engine in the Mazda. Talk about power to weight ratio. Especially if you put the 7 Liter all-aluminum Corvette engine in it. It most likely wouldn't weigh much more than the 4-cylinder that's already in it. Talk about instant elsewhere!
