tipo 184 build diary
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2hrs
today after work i cleaned out the garage to make room to manoeuvre the car out , i thought i done a big mistake by putting the engine and gearbox in the middle of the car by the side, looking at the space i have i didn’t think i could get the rear wheels passed the engine !
what i have to do is move the engine and chassis at the same time so it will come out of the garage together, luckily i put the engine on a tescos wheeled pallet .
after figuring that out i drilled out the holes for the closing panels on both sides
today after work i cleaned out the garage to make room to manoeuvre the car out , i thought i done a big mistake by putting the engine and gearbox in the middle of the car by the side, looking at the space i have i didn’t think i could get the rear wheels passed the engine !
what i have to do is move the engine and chassis at the same time so it will come out of the garage together, luckily i put the engine on a tescos wheeled pallet .
after figuring that out i drilled out the holes for the closing panels on both sides
2.5 hrs today
big day today , getting the engine in
rolled car out as well as the engine on a tesco crate trolley which worked well
took about 45 mins to get the engine in , it was easy to get it in line but the hardest bit was lining up the engine mount bolts .
then i put the closing panel around the steering column and behind the seat
big day today , getting the engine in
rolled car out as well as the engine on a tesco crate trolley which worked well
took about 45 mins to get the engine in , it was easy to get it in line but the hardest bit was lining up the engine mount bolts .
then i put the closing panel around the steering column and behind the seat
wow, it’s been ages ! excuses are
1. the weather has been terrible, it’s been to cold to go and work in a single,un-heated , no powered garage
2. my football season started , of which iam the manager so every sunday i was doing that.
3. my work leading up to xmas was chock a block ,6 days a week
4. then loads of un-expected bills came in via my work van diesel particle filter blocking costing me £1,800 ,so money had to go on that
also darren has sold the company to westfield ,so there was a delayed response to me asking for parts, darren forwarded the emails to them, but it had to go through 3 different people till it got answered .
so now i’ve bought the mirror ,signal manoeuvre kit
and the dash kit , all i need to buy now is the seats and the fuel delivery kit then i will have everything
so in the next coming weeks i’ll have some updates to load
1. the weather has been terrible, it’s been to cold to go and work in a single,un-heated , no powered garage
2. my football season started , of which iam the manager so every sunday i was doing that.
3. my work leading up to xmas was chock a block ,6 days a week
4. then loads of un-expected bills came in via my work van diesel particle filter blocking costing me £1,800 ,so money had to go on that
also darren has sold the company to westfield ,so there was a delayed response to me asking for parts, darren forwarded the emails to them, but it had to go through 3 different people till it got answered .
so now i’ve bought the mirror ,signal manoeuvre kit
and the dash kit , all i need to buy now is the seats and the fuel delivery kit then i will have everything
so in the next coming weeks i’ll have some updates to load
1hr today
got the gear lever in which was only 12 bolts holding it on so didn’t take long
next was i put on the fuse box ,again two bolts and nuts
than i had a go at doing the flared brake pipes , didn’t go good
i just can’t do it, watched loads of different youtube videos and they all can do it with the same equipment i have ,so i gave up and got my local garage to do one for me on there flaring tool
he said he would do all of them for me if i cut and shape the copper tubing for him ,
my attempt, one of many
garages one
i also still have the carbon filter on the car and i’m not sure what to do with it of how to delete it
got the gear lever in which was only 12 bolts holding it on so didn’t take long
next was i put on the fuse box ,again two bolts and nuts
than i had a go at doing the flared brake pipes , didn’t go good
i just can’t do it, watched loads of different youtube videos and they all can do it with the same equipment i have ,so i gave up and got my local garage to do one for me on there flaring tool
he said he would do all of them for me if i cut and shape the copper tubing for him ,
my attempt, one of many
garages one
i also still have the carbon filter on the car and i’m not sure what to do with it of how to delete it
Edited by tricky360 on Friday 7th March 18:52
I re watched the build video and I think I found what i need regarding the filter 
Looks like Darren re fits the sensor on top of the engine
Also plugs off one of the hoses
This Saturday am my other half went to the gym so I took advantage of the dining room table and decided to do the gauges I bought from America
Original gauges before
Doing the new ones
Finished new ones
They were made to order which I had done ages ago
Looks like Darren re fits the sensor on top of the engine
Also plugs off one of the hoses
This Saturday am my other half went to the gym so I took advantage of the dining room table and decided to do the gauges I bought from America
Original gauges before
Doing the new ones
Finished new ones
They were made to order which I had done ages ago
had my local garage do the brake pipe ends this week also
so i fitted the brake pipes all the way to the brake master and have left them long until i know which hole i need to fit them to ,
i email darren last week and he said there was 3 different types of brake servos and that i should just keep my original one that came with the doner, but i can’t remember which hole did what
blue line was front
green was rear
red was front right i think but not sure if i need to plug off the red one as i have the t connector on the front that connects both left and right brake -pies into one pipe ?
so i fitted the brake pipes all the way to the brake master and have left them long until i know which hole i need to fit them to ,
i email darren last week and he said there was 3 different types of brake servos and that i should just keep my original one that came with the doner, but i can’t remember which hole did what
blue line was front
green was rear
red was front right i think but not sure if i need to plug off the red one as i have the t connector on the front that connects both left and right brake -pies into one pipe ?
car is getting on my nerves now !
still can’t resolve the brake pipe issue ,the red circle part in the earlier post is what i need ,i was thinking i could use a spare brake line to do the same job but not sure if it will work
also i though i would fit the accelerator cable , do you think that fits now , no chance , you can see how far off it is to the pedal fitting , i can get it to fit if the throttle is fully open ,so not sure what going on here
also been waiting for westfield to get stock in , it’s been 3 to 4 weeks now ,
not happy at the moment with it
still can’t resolve the brake pipe issue ,the red circle part in the earlier post is what i need ,i was thinking i could use a spare brake line to do the same job but not sure if it will work
also i though i would fit the accelerator cable , do you think that fits now , no chance , you can see how far off it is to the pedal fitting , i can get it to fit if the throttle is fully open ,so not sure what going on here
also been waiting for westfield to get stock in , it’s been 3 to 4 weeks now ,
not happy at the moment with it
David,
Someone has kindly posted a Mazda MX5 Brake pipe diagram for you, so you can see how pipes went before you took it off the donor car. The missing Mazda Banjo bolt and pipe you have lost from your donor are readily available from any MX5 parts place. We have discussed all this in recent emails. I will gladly help you with Tipo Build information, but cannot control what Mazda parts you loose or forget how they went.
The Tipo throttle cable (made to measure inner) is supplied with the Tipo Fuel Delivery Kit since you chose to buy your kit parts a bit at a time you are limited to what you can do without the parts you need.
Someone has kindly posted a Mazda MX5 Brake pipe diagram for you, so you can see how pipes went before you took it off the donor car. The missing Mazda Banjo bolt and pipe you have lost from your donor are readily available from any MX5 parts place. We have discussed all this in recent emails. I will gladly help you with Tipo Build information, but cannot control what Mazda parts you loose or forget how they went.
The Tipo throttle cable (made to measure inner) is supplied with the Tipo Fuel Delivery Kit since you chose to buy your kit parts a bit at a time you are limited to what you can do without the parts you need.
Darren C said:
David,
Someone has kindly posted a Mazda MX5 Brake pipe diagram for you, so you can see how pipes went before you took it off the donor car. The missing Mazda Banjo bolt and pipe you have lost from your donor are readily available from any MX5 parts place. We have discussed all this in recent emails. I will gladly help you with Tipo Build information, but cannot control what Mazda parts you loose or forget how they went.
The Tipo throttle cable (made to measure inner) is supplied with the Tipo Fuel Delivery Kit since you chose to buy your kit parts a bit at a time you are limited to what you can do without the parts you need.
iam only going on the build you-tube video, so when my brake servo was different that’s when i reached out to you for answers , if other builders have the same doner as mine ,which is different to the build video then you can see it will get confusing, i didn’t know i had to keep that brake pipe as it wasn’t in your build video , but anyway i’ve got one now from a car being broken on ebay ,it’s quite local so i can pillage what i need off it, , this build diary will help others as i know you can’t cover everything on one video Someone has kindly posted a Mazda MX5 Brake pipe diagram for you, so you can see how pipes went before you took it off the donor car. The missing Mazda Banjo bolt and pipe you have lost from your donor are readily available from any MX5 parts place. We have discussed all this in recent emails. I will gladly help you with Tipo Build information, but cannot control what Mazda parts you loose or forget how they went.
The Tipo throttle cable (made to measure inner) is supplied with the Tipo Fuel Delivery Kit since you chose to buy your kit parts a bit at a time you are limited to what you can do without the parts you need.
regarding the throttle cable,that answers that question , didn’t know it was part of the fdk, again not mentioned in the video that you get a new one , i thought it was me going mad !
Edited by tricky360 on Friday 4th April 17:23
Edited by tricky360 on Friday 4th April 17:24
2hrs today
got a new brake flaring kit today so i thought i would try it out, i wasn’t going to let this beat me , i want to be able to do these things myself,and i think it’s worked , only time will tell when i fill with brake fluid and bleed it
i also fitted the dash to the car
next to do was to fill the gearbox with oil , now i can’t get the fill plug out so will go and get a square socket 14mm to try and do it over the weekend
got a new brake flaring kit today so i thought i would try it out, i wasn’t going to let this beat me , i want to be able to do these things myself,and i think it’s worked , only time will tell when i fill with brake fluid and bleed it
i also fitted the dash to the car
next to do was to fill the gearbox with oil , now i can’t get the fill plug out so will go and get a square socket 14mm to try and do it over the weekend
It really is a lovely looking kit, I remember my first kit, a Dutton Phaeton S3- the build manual was 6 pages long with instructions like. " fit the front Suspension" . There are so many MX5's and variants there will always be differences between one build and another, but have you joined the owners club, that is for MX5's it may well be worth it as it is mainly a one doner kit and the clubs can be a great asset for finding those differences and suggesting alternatives and sources, they will have resources a small kit manufacturer won't have easy access to.
bank holiday monday ,finally a day off to do some work on the car !
had to wait about a month a half for westfield to get the fuel tank kit and the radiator kit in stock
which finally came so i though i would crack on with the front first
radiator was quite straight forward with nothing to note with everything covered by the build video
next was the radiator filler pot
next to do on the front was to cut down my positive cable for the battery
the original mx5 battery is in the boot so the cable length is way to long as the new battery is right next to the clutch
had to wait about a month a half for westfield to get the fuel tank kit and the radiator kit in stock
which finally came so i though i would crack on with the front first
radiator was quite straight forward with nothing to note with everything covered by the build video
next was the radiator filler pot
next to do on the front was to cut down my positive cable for the battery
the original mx5 battery is in the boot so the cable length is way to long as the new battery is right next to the clutch
1hr today
today i wanted to do the fuel filler and tank,
tank was straight forward , hindsight i think i would fit the rubber fuel hose on the tank before you fit it to the car as it’s quite tight to the frame to try and fit it after but i managed to do it by pushing on the tank and pulling back the rear frame .
this is a pic of the parts
fitted the filler part and the alien key bolts that come with it aren’t long enough to go through the fibreglass overflow catcher, cork gasket, and the metal filler neck ,so i had some longer bolts to do this
all fitted up , just need to re paint the fibreglass catcher ,as when you try to screw on the fuel cap , if you try to do it closed it scrapes the sides
ion the fuel deliver kit it come with the new throttle cable , i thought this was a longer mazda one but it turns out you get a bike cable and you have to thread it yourself ,
with my original throttle cable ,i buggered up the plastic clip that fits between the bulkhead and you need this, so i had to order up a new one
once this arrives i will do my throttle cable
the throttle cable is a bike one so if i get it wrong i can order one online ,there only £ 2-5
today i wanted to do the fuel filler and tank,
tank was straight forward , hindsight i think i would fit the rubber fuel hose on the tank before you fit it to the car as it’s quite tight to the frame to try and fit it after but i managed to do it by pushing on the tank and pulling back the rear frame .
this is a pic of the parts
fitted the filler part and the alien key bolts that come with it aren’t long enough to go through the fibreglass overflow catcher, cork gasket, and the metal filler neck ,so i had some longer bolts to do this
all fitted up , just need to re paint the fibreglass catcher ,as when you try to screw on the fuel cap , if you try to do it closed it scrapes the sides
ion the fuel deliver kit it come with the new throttle cable , i thought this was a longer mazda one but it turns out you get a bike cable and you have to thread it yourself ,
with my original throttle cable ,i buggered up the plastic clip that fits between the bulkhead and you need this, so i had to order up a new one
once this arrives i will do my throttle cable
the throttle cable is a bike one so if i get it wrong i can order one online ,there only £ 2-5
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