France's new Manx Kickout SS build thread.

Mike-Presley · Post by **Mike-Presley** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 1:17 am

That's a great picture with two carbs, two distributers, and two alternators. And the other pictures are great also.

Post by **vincent9993** » Mon May 07, 2012 2:33 am

This week-end's progress...

Oil filter and coil mount completed:

Also replaced the nose cone with new hockey stick, backup switch and new bushings. It shifts like it's new (probably because it is

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Getting close to making some noise...

Both rides back in their box for another week...

Post by **vincent9993** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:25 pm

Here are some of the delivery pictures:

Post by **vincent9993** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:27 pm

A few more pictures from this week. As you can see, no progress.

Post by **vincent9993** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:29 pm

Between Grand Prix (F1), Football (CFL), fundraising activities, server crash and getting my buggy ship shape for our big trip in a few weeks, progress has slowed right down.

In any case, I was able to get the rear wheels installed:

I found out that the S2000 does not have the same bore size front to back... When I ordered the adapters, I never thought of checking and used a front wheel for dimensions. Well that was a mistake. The hub bore is 70mm front and 64mm back. I was able to machine the wheels down to 70mm to match the front ones. Not only did this allow me to continue to use the custom adaptors but I`ll be able to mount them up front if we're ever in trouble.

Post by **vincent9993** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:30 pm

Operation mariage...

Today marks another milestone, we test fitted the body on the pan.

Everything looks like it lines up perfectly. The seats will fit but we'll have a little adjustments to do.

We got the front discs replaced with the spacers.

Enjoy the rest of the camera roll.

Body will come down about 1", the seat brackets are holding it up about 1". We're very happy with the result!

Post by **vincent9993** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:32 pm

Seats are in and they fit nicely.

Post by **vincent9993** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:34 pm

Now that we're done driving for a little bit, we got some work on France's Kickout... We're also setting up in a brand new shop. We in the process of moving the tools over.

Got the body taped and bolted to pan.

Post by **vincent9993** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:38 pm

Made more progress on France's buggy this week-end. France was a real help this weekend.

On the 'done' list this week-end:

Front bumper
Hood hinge
Rear bumper
Front support mount
Rear support mount
Oil filter mount and oil lines
Rear tail lights
Dash*

Still lots to get done but at least we're making progress.

Post by **vincent9993** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:39 pm

Got to work on the rear deck lid today.

Opted not to drill the bolts through the cover and contacted my good NC friend Vince for some advice. He recomended I source some pieces of Teak and bond them to the under side using 3M 5200.

We counter sank the SS bolts that we crilled the head to insert a cross pin to prevent them from turning when we tighten them. This stuff takes 48h to bond and up to 7 days to completly cure. We left it for the week to cure.

As always, France was on deck to get her hands dirty.

France took care of business last week and had a beer fridge deliver for the new shop!

Post by **vincent9993** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:40 pm

I love it when an idea/plan works perfectly!

Post by **vincent9993** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:42 pm

France opted to simply paint them black.

We also started working on the wiring.

That will all get cleaned up later.

We also opted to paint the rollbar (for now...)

Post by **vincent9993** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:45 pm

Now that we're back home and France and I were able to get some work done on her SS. We got the new tires mounted, we went with 255/50ZR-16 and 205/55ZR-16 BFGoodrich g-Force Sport COMP-2. Looks like the 255 at the rear did the trick to fill the wheel well.

We also got the license plate mounted, I just need to fugure out what we want to do for license lights. At this time, I'm thinking LED bolts.

We got the gas tank modified and with a little more tweaking, we'll get it to fit.

Next time we're at the shop we should be able to button up the electrical and plum the fuel lines. We're getting close to making some noise.

Post by **vincent9993** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:46 pm

Made a little bit of progress today. We also opted to remove the protective tape, we were worried it would get too hard to remove if we kept it on for too long and with the cold comming.

We rolled it out in the sunlight to snap a few pictures. Enjoy.

Post by **vincent9993** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:53 pm

France was out today and busy getting the wiring done.

A little more progress.