I have purchased the 818 guide and now a cant wait to order the kit! Looking foward to a tour and making the big purchase!
This is a good manual and includes instructions for stripping the donor car. For the Mustang-based cars this donor instruction is nice - for the Subaru cars which are not as well and widely known it is invaluable. Well illustrated manual.
Excellent easy to follow quick and easy to order
Very thorough, very well organized with enough details to successfully build the vehicle.
My mild irritation at having to pay for a PDF document was quickly replaced with shock when I realized exactly how long this thing is. At 700 pages, it took me several minutes just to scroll halfway through it. And boy is it detailed. From tearing down the donor to the finished vehicle, you get high quality pictures and clear instructions telling you what you need, what you don't, what you have to modify, what you can get away with(and what you can't), and most importantly, what exactly I'd be getting myself into.
I'm not a car guy. At best I'm a computer guy, at worst a bumbling idiot. But this manual makes me confident that even I could stumble my way through it.
A couple of things stuck out to me. For one, you have to modify a fair bit of the donor parts. Nothing more complicated than drilling, cutting, or wrenching some unnecessary part off, though watching them practically gut the transmission is more than a little disconcerting. But, nothing is without purpose. You can really tell that they put a lot of time and effort into making sure that they had an answer for whatever you ran into.
Which leads me to the second thing. They really know what they're doing. They point out specific parts and models that can give trouble. A good bit of the kit parts are designed to work a few different ways so to support a bigger variety of parts and situations. Want to keep the brake booster that they told not to use? No problem! There's a place for it.
Point is, this was helpful. I may never get the chance to build a Factory Five, but they have more than earned my respect and admiration.
Great manual and learning point if trying to decide if you can handle the build!
This manual won't really tell you how to disassemble the donor car, but otherwise it is perfectly good and tells you everything about assembling the new car.
Very thorough, I was impressed. I wasn't sure if I wanted to tackle the build and wanted to get a feel for what I was getting into before I spend the real cash. Just knowing that I'm not just getting a box of parts, then left to put the puzzle together (like my daughter's playset) was very reassuring. I highly recommend buying the manual even if you're just topying with the idea of building a Factiry Five.
Very detailed every step. Would recommend
I bought this to get a heads up on what I was getting into. Looks like we can do this
Down loaded assembly instructions. They were very good.
Quality as with all the manuals.
Good manual, helps to make my dection on on what's required regarding Donor Car, until I priced the kit in Australia and was shocked to find the kit landed here, was around 25k Aussie , This has dampened my enthusiasm some what, would be great is Factory Five could Ship Direct !!
Lots of pictures every step of the way. It's a great way to see what you are getting yourself into before you take that next step. also makes life easy, being able to use a search option on the digital version.
Having access to an electronic copy while working on the car is so much easier than the supplied paper copy. Searching for specific topics for example is very easy and quick for example.
I would recommend the relocation of an old 19" monitor to the workshop/garage to make it easier to read and look at the pictures though.
I enjoyed just reading through the manual. I was investigating to see if it would be possible for me to build the car. I do not see any issues. It gives me the confidence to make the plunge and get a kit!
Thanks FFR!
the build manual appears very complete and will be a great tool to assist in the build.
Using my I-pad I can research using the index the next part of my project while i relax in my easy chair!!
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