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Re: Steve4321 - 430 build - bought the donor, ordered the kit
« Reply #15 on: July 09, 2016, 06:43:09 PM »
good colour.....

Real one:



Howsers DNA:



Nice looking cars

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Re: Steve4321 - 430 build - bought the donor, ordered the kit
« Reply #16 on: July 10, 2016, 12:13:16 PM »
Congrats on going for a build Steve, it's the guaranteed way to get exactly the car you want.

You have my number and know where I am if you have any q's.

Good luck with the build.

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Re: Steve4321 - 430 build - bought the donor, ordered the kit
« Reply #17 on: July 10, 2016, 08:29:02 PM »
Thanks very much Chris.

I hope to follow in the footsteps of yourself and others I've seen on this site.

It's going to be an interesting journey!


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Re: Steve4321 - 430 build - bought the donor, ordered the kit
« Reply #18 on: July 10, 2016, 08:31:30 PM »
Although I do fancy Silverstone Grey, I still think Rosso Red can't be beaten.

The wheels I've chosen will allow me to go either way :-). Decide later.
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Re: Steve4321 - 430 build - bought the donor, ordered the kit
« Reply #19 on: July 11, 2016, 08:45:09 AM »
Howza,s car always looked Great, it,s another good colour choice.
I think thats my Red one next to it.
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Re: Steve4321 - 430 build - bought the donor, ordered the kit
« Reply #20 on: July 11, 2016, 09:05:17 AM »
Let's not forget Steven's Grey with red interior. That was the build thread that led me to building mine.😉

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Re: Steve4321 - 430 build - bought the donor, ordered the kit
« Reply #21 on: July 12, 2016, 12:54:28 AM »
RED RED RED I mean white!!

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Re: Steve4321 - 430 build - bought the donor, ordered the kit
« Reply #22 on: July 12, 2016, 07:35:54 AM »
I have to say, I do like white, but the grey looks great, and Beany's yellow looked dramatic, but then can you do better than traditional Rosso............................ they all look great.............black chassis on the donor..................... decide colours later :-).
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Re: Steve4321 - 430 build - bought the donor, ordered the kit
« Reply #23 on: July 13, 2016, 04:56:55 PM »
Home from a business trip last night and able to put time into the strip down.

I realise what I post will be old news to most on here, and my apologies for that. I'm enjoying the journey.

6.5 hours of graft today, and loved it. Total time now 10.5 hours.

Most of the cutting/grinding done today, just need to sort the inner skin top-line of the doors for the DNA door cards. Need to file back and straighten cuts, and treat all cut edges.

Doors stripped and mirrors removed. Cut mark-out started. Nervs starting to show - getting closer to firing up the angle grinder!



Rear wings and arch liners off.



Exhaust cowl off.



Doors trimmed. Thanks Paul, without the guidance of your thread, I would probably have cut too deep and into the inner skin.




More trimming. Need to control the grinder better!


Rear bumper bar cut.


Seam folds bent over.



Freddie, [I know it's sickly], doesn't look like this anymore. Only had the car 8 days. Current value now stripped, around eight Bob!





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Re: Steve4321 - 430 build - bought the donor, ordered the kit
« Reply #24 on: July 13, 2016, 05:07:36 PM »
The roadmap so far:

Inspiration:
  • Meeting Beany and seeing his car.
  • 3 telephone conversations with Brian at DNA.
  • Moved by support from DNAOC members, and Dangerous/Madman/Paul79/Beany in particular.
  • Visit to DNA 6 days ago - ordered my kit.

Thoughts:
  • I've learnt a lot in not too many days, but realised I know less than I thought.
  • So far, I haven't created a workplan. Seems like a good idea so the way forward is more structured than it has been to date.
  • Will consider and document a task plan, and an expenditure strategy............. then add 50% contingency to both.
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Re: Steve4321 - 430 build - bought the donor, ordered the kit
« Reply #25 on: July 13, 2016, 05:39:04 PM »
Those black leather seats look good from what I can see, get them on MR2 roadster oc £200 - £250 then buy a cheap cloth set from same place £25-£40 it all helps. all panels, lights, wheels etc on same forum, more cash back. as it,s a pre-facelift car, lights and bumpers not as valuable as facelift ones.
Keep up the good work a great start
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Re: Steve4321 - 430 build - bought the donor, ordered the kit
« Reply #26 on: July 13, 2016, 06:41:16 PM »
Just don't tell them on the MR2 Roadsters OC what your doing..!

They go mental.... Believe me...!  I've removed myself from there after I advertised some TF300 seats on there for Mario..!

I thought I was going to get strung up when I said we were stripping it to make a kit car...

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Re: Steve4321 - 430 build - bought the donor, ordered the kit
« Reply #27 on: July 13, 2016, 07:05:55 PM »
Funny isn't it, I joined zroadster.org when I decided to build a 2fifty. I said I had bits to flog because I was doing a "project" ....of course they asked "what was the project?", so, a bit apprehensively, I told them.

They were all for it, want pictures, details and told me about other projects that people had used Z3's for, they are a great bunch, they love their cars but they are not so precious about them. I think to them if its got Z3 running gear they're interested, and don't seem at all bothered about body changes.

Oh, and I managed to flog my bits as a job lot to a guy on the forum....result  ;D

Strange old world  :)

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Re: Steve4321 - 430 build - bought the donor, ordered the kit
« Reply #28 on: July 13, 2016, 07:33:19 PM »
I had no problems selling my parts, even saying what I was doing. I once went to Hull to see Phils99 and we went to a meet of aprox 20 MR2s in my F430 spider rep. and had no bother at all.
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Re: Steve4321 - 430 build - bought the donor, ordered the kit
« Reply #29 on: July 13, 2016, 08:26:55 PM »
I'm not sure if it's because we stripped a TF300...

I think they get rather upset when another TF is taken off the road... Especially because it wasn't a Cat D.. It was straight.

Mario got banned off the site, as they said he was a garage/trader, and couldn't use the site for selling parts he had stripped off the car... Hence the reason I posted them instead...!

Very strange world, I must say  ::)