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23/08/2008 Prototype door cap made from thin plywwod and a length of central heating insulation sliced in half. I made a little tool using a craft knife blade and a piece of drain pipe to perform the slicing operation.	23/08/2008 Underside showing M5 fixings. I only used 3 in critical points so that the trim follows the curve of the door.	23/08/2008 Each end has a little ply piece to stop foam collapsing when covered with leathercloth. This is the front end which I cut at 45 deg to follow the line of the dashboard.	23/08/2008 Trimmed with some leathercloth I had left over from my last Marlin build 25 years ago! Not the final colour I might add - just to test the principal.


23/08/2008 In place on the door (OK so its held in place with selotape - I ran out of M5 nuts...) Looks good though.	23/08/2008 First attempt at making a curved plywood piece to fit the rear (Using Peter's mould). Total failure! Outer layer cracked and it de-laminated. Must try harder...	14/09/08 I made up a plate for the botton of the door to land on. It's made from a piece of nylon about 3mm thick (ex chopping board!) pop riveted to the cill about 2/3rds of way along from the hinge end. This stops the chance of the bottom of the door scraping on the cill when someone heavy handed shuts it. A simple but good mod IMHO.	14/09/08 Underneath of the MX5 seats showing the heavy duty construction and runners


14/09/08 Modified seat runners with spacers to fit to the flat Marlin floor. (Yes this is the other seat - no cover!)	14/09/08 I permanently riveted the scuttle top packing pieces into place as I can see them falling out once the car is in use.	14/09/08 Scuttle closing plate in place. Plate is pop rived to scuttle top and screwed to my bulkhead reinforcing tube. You can see how much the bulkhead top is distorted. Eventually I will seal along here with some sikaflex or something similar. Note my greasy fingerprints!	14/09/08 Plate for access to the BMW fusebox which now sits on a shelf in the passenger footwell. The rod on the right side is my bonnet support which clips handily into a BMW prake pipe clip.


14/09/08 Bulkhead reinforcing tube . The wiring poking through is for the windscreen wipers. (I am planning well in advance lol)	23/01/09 MX5 seat looking a bit past its sell by date	23/01/09 New leather seat covers.	23/01/09 MX5 seat in the nude! Foam in pretty good shape although I was to find out later that the drivers seat wasn't quite so good


23/01/09 The reason for using production seats. Fully adjustable backrest and strongly made. I ground off the no longer needed seat belt mount.	23/01/09 Seat base foam prepared for fitting of new cover. I used ti-wraps instead of hog rings. Much easier, adjustable and I didn't need to buy hog ring pliers	23/01/09 Two as new seats! They actually look better in the flesh than in the picture.