{"id":8169,"date":"2015-06-04T19:01:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T19:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/?p=8169"},"modified":"2015-06-04T19:01:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T19:01:44","slug":"ewens-makes-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/06\/04\/ewens-makes-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"EWENS MAKES PROGRESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/news_ewens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8171\" title=\"news_ewens\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/news_ewens-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A newcomer that I\u2019m really liking the look of much is the Ewens Roadster, the work of Gary Downes at Peterborough-based Fenspeed, well-known for their Ford tuning prowess in addition to their mainstay general repair and MOT-work.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, Gary first built a version of the car some 10-years ago \u2013 Johnny Come Lately publications might not remember it on display at Newark show, back then.<\/p>\n<p>Now known as the Ewens Roadster, the car is based on Mazda MX-5 and uses a lot of the donor including engine, gearbox, differential, steering and uprights. The chassis is a fine-looking square tube spaceframe (there is a more expensive round-tube option) and body panels are aluminium with GRP used for nosecone and wings.<\/p>\n<p>Gary pre-fits the rear panel to the chassis as this is quite easy to get wrong and it\u2019s easier if it\u2019s fitted at the factory. A DIY-built Roadster should be do-able from around \u00a37500 (the kit price is \u00a33650) and despite the MX-5\u2019s NA engine delivering relatively meagre 120bhp, a well-known and hilariously effective upgrade to around 200bhp is a bolt-on supercharger kit.<\/p>\n<p>I really liked Kawasaki-coloured body wrap used on the car for the Stoneleigh show last month, incidentally.<\/p>\n<p>More on this one soon. In the meantime visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewenssportscars.co.uk\">www.ewenssportscars.co.uk<\/a> or find them at the other end of 01733 319 193 <strong>ENDS.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A newcomer that I\u2019m really liking the look of much is the Ewens Roadster, the work of Gary Downes at Peterborough-based Fenspeed, well-known for their <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/06\/04\/ewens-makes-progress\/\" title=\"EWENS MAKES PROGRESS\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}