nice fab work... updates?

Amazing build, any progress in the last few months?

yesss updates please! this is a great inspiration.

I'm all about originality, every car ive ever had my hands on ive restored to stock, and perfection, but my hat is off to you sir, this car is awesome, i just got my fd and this thread alone is my motivation to keep it. I might be copying your two tone also, sorry. But it looks awesome. Amazing work.

I can't stop drooling on my key board - my favorite fd build - Cheers

That's a lot of hard work. Excellent!

Updates? dont let this awesome build thread die!

Any updates?

Really nice!!

On June 6th last year Thomas posted to his build thread on the UK FD forum, "hey guys, unfortunately i have hit a brick wall and i am going to have to break her for parts so that i can have somewhere to live"

He subsequently did exactly that.

Oh that sucks. Well I hope he'll be able to get back on his feet and do another one. Did he sell the car completely?

Lets hope so. I am not sure what he has left, just some bits and bobs by the looks of things here - FDUK Forum

Hi everyone, sorry for the lack of updates. I had to break the car for parts as my parents were moving away and i needed to put a roof over my head. However i am now a proud home owner (WITH LOTS OF SPACE TO BUILD A GARAGE AND START AGAIN)

i will be back with another project when i can and thanks for the kind words :blush:

congrats bro! take some pics of the garage! and car of course just for some teasing =)

Good luck man! Keep us posted. I love garages, so please post pics like Benny said lol.

That is very detailed work you've done. You're obviously very talented. I'll be watching and reading along.

-Dave

Digging the paint at first I didn't think itd look good but the final product is amazing well done!

in for updates

Impressive build Tom, nice to see something that's done on the right side of the Atlantic ;)

Updates??

well i haven't been on here in a while, heres a little update to cover the last 4-5 years since i had to break this car to buy my first house. So stage 1 was buying a house, which i did in a little place called droitwich in the UK.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...psea14c8c9.jpg

after owning a few MX5's (miata's to you guys) i finally got to a point where i could afford another FD, she was cheap and the paint was terrible amongst other problems but she ran ok so the deal was done

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i got deep in to building her as a drift car and did a few drift days

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even built a trailer to tow all my shit

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then i got married

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then i crashed

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After thinking about what to do for a few weeks, toying with the idea of taking it off the road and just towing it to events or re shelling...................another shell was purchased!

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With the shell being so clean it started out as just finishing what someone else had begun and make a very clean and fast road car. After really struggling to match the colour and me always getting carried away it very quickly spiralled out of control.

These next photos span around 3-4 months

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this was 1 body shops best attempt
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this was as close a match i could get after 3 attempts

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then the unthinkable happened

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rear rotor lost all compression, so a new engine was sourced and the real fun began, time to build something that i could be proud of. In the same way this thread started out as something i have had a hand in every stage, something i have done 99.9% of the work on and something when someone says "oh, where did you buy that" i can reply with.........

i made it.

Now living in the house we did this would have been very difficult to do on the drive having to constantly fight against the weather, so the time came to move ;)

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NEW GARAGE!! and not just any garage, this thing is 17 meters long.

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so here is the final montage, the only thing i haven't done on this build is paint the bonnet (i painted the rest but there was a reaction on the bonnet i couldn't stop) and map the engine.

She is street ported single turbo with 368hp at the wheels at only .8BAR. for now this will have to do as the house needs a lot of work and that is enough for me to enjoy some track days before i can afford to spend money on a clutch and mapping for more boost!

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https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5616/3...48a823e5_c.jpgIMG_3375 by thomas Ruston-shaw, on Flickr

https://c7.staticflickr.com/6/5531/3...e0e6be6e_c.jpgIMG_3367 by thomas Ruston-shaw, on Flickr

So the next stage is to attend a track day at Silverstone on the 20th of feb and basically see what breaks first, if nothing breaks then what can we make better!

My big plan is to keep the car and just enjoy and develop it as i go, i am lucky enough to have somewhere to keep it now if things get rough and as i am sure most of you are aware life can always surprise you (babies)

I am trying my best to delay that as much as possible by buying the wife a new cat every time she mentions it but we have three now and i don't think i can handle any more.

TRACK TIME!!

Congrats on marriage! The car looks good, I like how it turned out, and the add ons for the oil cooler intakes. I like that garage too lol. And you can get several more cats before the money starts getting comparable to having a kid haha.