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The chap who bought some Recaros off me a few years back used to make carbon parts down on the south coast - still got his card but dunno if he's still in business: Mark James M&L Composite Lamintors 12 Selwyn Gardens Boyatt Wood Eastleigh SO50 4PX 02380 644843 07748 202097 Never saw his work so can't vouch for the quality but they didn't seem to think making me a carbon roof panel for my del sol would be any kind of challenge...

That's a gorgeous nsx dude. one of the cars on my "must own" list, but the money it takes to get a good one means its a bit out of budget at the moment! FWIW, I reckon you're probably right about getting it sold at the best time financially...

I'm debating that at the moment I'd like to keep it honda but it'll require some very complicated work so realistically it's a lot less hassle to use the rear subframe from the z... The front end will be all honda though, but I've got some integra DC2 front hubs waiting to go on with honda legend twin pot calipers for a bit more stopping power (and handily 5x114.3 so less mucking about with mis-matched wheels if I use the Z rear subframe)

wow, not seen that before (not a member on hondatech as there's too many know-it-all yanks for my liking) - I'm aiming to retain a lot more of the civic than that! I had considered just dumping the shell on another chassis, but that's not really a challenge, and you couldn't really call it a civic at the end of the project...

pete, I'll be welding in the full transmission tunnel from the zed anyway, so all the mounting points should be there, but thanks for the tip anyway!

I've seen 3 or 4 in the local area quite regularly! and bizarrely ryan, I need LWB as the civic has a massive 103.1" wheelbase!!

cheers jim - i'm on retrorides so i'll have a gander at that... and all the people saying i should just drive the Zed, no chance, i'd be just like everyone else if i did that and i'm very much an "individual" (basically an attention whore :P)

haha, thanks for all the kind replies guys, I was expecting a bit of a flaming :) had a good read of the buying guide, thats given me some good info on what to look for.... itching to get my grinder and welder out now! :D

Hey all. I'm a nasty horrible person that wants to buy a 300zx and chop it up :( basically, I'm attempting to rwd my civic, I looked at honda engines but most rotate the wrong way and the s2k has nearly a 10" shorter wheelbase than the EK hatch so that would mean an expensive custom propshaft and fabbing 10" of trans tunnel plus i want a turbo so thats more expense right there - so i started looking around at other cars with a similar wheelbase and the 300zx is less than 2" difference, nearlt the same track width, has plenty of power, turbos as standard and still has japanese reliability it's a bit of a crazy project, but I dont fancy spending thousands of pounds doing a k series swap just to park up next to 30 other guys at a show who've done exactly the same **awaits being pelyed with abuse** :ninja: