Behold! It's finally ready! Thanks go to Alex Howard for transporting it for me, which he was under no obligation to do, so thanks for that Alex :)

It looks smaller than I thought it would be.

Trial run of fitting the engine, just to make sure there hadn't been a tremendous balls up already.

Since that photo I have taken the exhaust downpipe off, so it fits properly now.

Now for the terrifying prospect of actually having to bolt stuff in! Stay tuned.

Today the last of the suspension came apart. It was quite a struggle as Mazda obviously put it together with the intention of it never coming apart. It took a blowtorch and a 20 tonne workshop press (Supplied courtesy of my university colleague Alex Howard) to get them apart. What this means is that all the dissasembly is done, from now on, stuff just goes back together :)

To people who do this kind of stuff a lot, this blog would seem to be a bit long winded. But it shows to complete amateurs like me just how much there is on a car, and how complex they are. Even one made in 1996.

Day 12

A significant step has been today. The old MX-5 body has been taken away, which means that now I have space again!!

Obviously the other bits and pieces had to go back in, but it means that the engine hoist can stay assembled which is nice :)

With alot of sweating and swearing the back end has been mostly pull apart.

I think one more trip will have the garage ready to recieve the new chassis when it arrives in a few weeks.

Day 11

It's official, the car is now no longer a car, it's just a pile of bits. Both subframes are off, and the body is scheduled to be taken away in a weeks time :)

It'll be nice to have some space again! It's so underated.

As you can see, my nans garden looks more like a breakers yard (kudos to her for putting up with this)

Also my new chassis and suspension has just been ordered, and should be ready for collection in around a month, it's all coming together now :D

The only slight fly in the ointment is that I couldn't for the life of me get the suspension to part ways with the hubs, and I broke a socket trying. Still it'll come off eventually.