Dave@Deepcar Autobodies

For the last few years we have done our own project car to take to the shows a different one each year, we have been attending JAE for the last 5 years which is our favourite along with japfest retro rides japshow etc, here are a few of our own cars we have done

Our red mk3 which was at the Autosports show last year

Our Wide arched mk1

Our Pearl Yellow mk3 with facelift front end

This is our recent project car, its got a rare Japanese Pitcrew front end fitted, some of you may have seen this at Jae and the Autosports show earlier this month

Any questions please just message me on here or call me on 07800655903

Cheers Dave

We've painted a few shows cars in dark pearl purple and looked awesome, not 350z but i think it will look great, as long as its done properly,

Dave

Hmm interesting this close to me and would be my first show! Will let you know ASAP...

This really is a no brainer mate, its probably my favourite show of the year, 4 days of just having a great time with great people and awesome cars, what on earth could you be doing thats better than this

Dave

I've added our Facebook page link to our signature if any of you wanted to see some of our work, we are working on our website at the moment so it's not up to date but we try and keep on top of our Facebook so it's got lots more on

Dave

Looking forward to hearing from you Rickdon

Thanks for the welcomes guys

We get customers coming from all over the country Steveo , even as far as the isle of sky, we can collect you and drop off you off at the train station if that helps

Dave

We are always open for anyone wanting to just pop in for a chat and a cuppa or wanting any advice on anything,

Always great to meet new people with the same passion

Dave

Ha Ha small world Ryan great to see a few old faces on here

Dave

That would be awesome Gaz, even if i don't buy the 280 the owner will still let me bring it so should be ok

Dave

Well we'll be going with our mx5 pitcrew but we have just finished some work for one of our customers on his awesome 280zx which he is trying to sell me, and to be honest i love it and will be trying to raise the funds so i can fetch it to JAE as well, so may well be joining you

Dave

Hi Folks thanks for the warm welcome

As it turns out we know a few members on here already which is always a good thing

We are a friendly family run business based in Deepcar in Sheffield and pride ourselves on high quality work at affordable prices.

Over the years we have worked on many different Jap project cars for both customers and ourselves, it helps in this game to be an enthusiast, we pride ourselves in treating our customers cars with the same respect and passion as we do our own.

We have been going to most of the jap shows and events over the past few years with the mx5's and showing the projects that we have done and always had a good feedback on the cars we have taken, in fact we have only just come back from the Autosports show at the NEC where our own car was on the stand.

We think we spotted Amy who you will all know has the Baby blue convertible 350z on here taking a snap of our car, we saw her at the show and shine at JAE last year

We will keep posting pics of past and future projects that we have done as we go along

All the best Dave,Emily and the team at Deepcar Autobodies

You'll be fine buddy,

I'm just over 6ft and 17 stone and i'm fine with mine, although get some decent seats where you can sit lower, and becarefull what cage you get as they can restrict the amount of travel on the seat going back and can lose that few inches that makes all the difference.,

We are thinking about going 3 way on a track car this year as well with the guys at work should be good fun

Dave

Hey Buddy

Have you had problems with water in the passenger footwell at all, its a common problem that water gets in and floods the footwell where the ecu is situated and can damage the wires going into the ecu,

Easy to check, pull back the carpet and you will see a metal panel bolted with 3 or 4 10mm nuts, remove them and you will see the ecu, just check the wires going into it, possibly some of them may be corroded, you can sometimes just clean them up along with the connections and might be ok, if not you may have to source an electrician to check them out.

Hope this helps, or at least something to cancel out

Dave

Sweet , always loved the rota zero's they really suit the car ,looks a tidy example

Dave

Yes they are amazingly cheap, we were really lucky with the pitcrew and found the car on Ebay for an absolute steal. The lady that owned it had bought it as a fresh import, she knew it was 'an unusual' one but didnt quite realise what it was, even though she had looked it up. She was really sad to see it go (cried when we were leaving with it ) as she loved it but couldnt run it for her new job or afford to fix it up. We sent her all the build pics as it was going on and she was chuffed to bits bless her.

Wow, I do like that a lot! Is there a build thread somewhere?

 

and hope to see a 350 modded to that standard very soon!

Heres the facebook album Paddy78

Thanks! I may well PM you about that matey cheers. We actually came about the engine by accident to be honest, a customer offered us his car that was rotten but mechanically sound and had lots of goodies worth saving so we broke the car and decided to keep engine for the pitcrew. We popped it on rolling road and it came in at 165hp...as opposed to the 150hp it should be!

Thanks for the welcome guys, much appreciated!

Started with little jobs....first Alloys...look a million times better (even if I do say so myself)

Cheers guys. Weve got quite a history with the MX5's, and do a LOT of them in our bodyshop. Great fun little cars. Shame they are so lacking on power buy hey ho. We are however putting a BBR turbo engine in it very shortly so that should give it a bit more edge. The BBR turbo set up still isnt powerful, but to be honest, this car isnt about that so we dont mind. SteveoD, hardtop is on the to do list this year too

Heres a couple of the other MX5's we have had ourselves:

Autosports International last January, our Red MK3:

'Black Beauty'...a deep cherry black colour with Tuckin99 wide arches at JAE 2012;

Yellow MK3 JAE 2013:

This one isnt ours but we paint a lot of race cars for the MAX5 race series:

Paul Roddisons on the Nankang tyre stand at Autosport Int 2014

A few others lined up for MAX5 series: Think we painted all but 3 in this picture

a couple of customers custom builds we have done too:

V6 Italia

280zx

Splitty

Another MX5

We are really lucky that we get to work on some great cars!

Newbie to the 350z scene, but certainly not to Jap cars. Owned various things over the years, currently own two MX5s, a Toyota Sera (ongoing project), 2 VW vans a golf and a Hayabusa but heres our latest show car. It has a rare Pitcrew Racing front end, very marmite but we love it. We got this one customised and modded just in time for JAE last year so hopefully will be taking it to plenty of shows this year.

MX5s are great little cars, we specialise in them (bodywork) side and paint a lot of the MAX5 race cars so if anyone ever needs any advice just shout up.

We are based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire

JAE - 10th -13th Sep - Newark showground (new location) http://www.japcarclub.org/

Thanks guys...cheers Grundy I shall have a look at his site now!