And so it begins...

I've been told that the bubble wrap will hinder my aerodynamics.

Well, the day has finally come, my 'kit in a box' has arrived. Technically though, it wasn't actually in a box but I won't hold that against anyone. For those that don't know what I'm rambling on about, I'm going to attempt to build a Mevabusa kit car.

So the giant jigsaw puzzle begins, I have to stress that I know nothing about the mechanical workings of a car and have never done anything other than check the tyre pressures on a car before. So it's a bit like the blind leading the blind, except that might actually be entertaining to watch, think of the scene from See No Evil, Hear No Evil where Gene Wilder is having to stomp his feet so that Richard Pryor can hear where he is... man I could watch that all day.

I think the quoted time is 250 hours, but in reality I have 1 year to do it (start the clock Anneka) to enable that I get a free IVA test from Road Track Race. Expect lots of close ups of things along with questions like "what is this?Where does it go? And, is it important?". 

It said 'kit in a box', more like 'kit in lots and lots of boxes'.

I'm asked a fair bit about what I'm going to do with it when it's built, well the current plan is to drive it to track days and have a bit of fun. It's not really a replacement car as it's not that practical, what with no doors, roof, engine cover or boot, but who needs those things, right?

Although I have the kit, one bit I am missing is the engine. This comes from a donor bike, a Suzuki Hayabusa to be exact. The powerful, lightweight engine 1300cc kicks out around 170bhp which doesn't sound a lot but the car itself only weighs 4-500kg, so it has a very nice power to weight ratio. This is the ethos I'll be building to, nothing that doesn't have to go on the car will, in fact some of the things that should go on probably won't either as I have no idea where they'll go!

So the next stage is to start the basics, and begin the hunt for a Hayabusa to buy and break. I could have done this already but funds haven't allowed it so far, so it might be Flintstone power for a while yet.