Hi,
as you sad in previous posts "start build thread, where is the build thread..." well here it is and we did quite a lot of work for one afternoon, pictures coming.
so our budget did go a bit down so we have about 7,000 pounds budget so I contacted KAD and they sad that they can make a nice 5-port 120hp engine with 4-speed dog box included, so we will make a decision in beginning of June.
and we decided that we want to keep the car as much original as possible so no weird suspension no Z cars subframes just old fashioned front and rear subframes with modern KAD brakes, that's another reason we didn't decided for 16 valve engine.
so we almost striped the whole interior of the car just the carpet's and the dashboard are still in, but otherwise the interior is done. exterior, the arches and the bumpers were taken of, fuel tank is of, front and rear lights are of with indicators, and the grille was taken off too, and of course the rear view mirrors too.
surprisingly there was hardly no rust on the car I was deeply surprised about that, but the screws we all well some were not but mostly rusted.
as it turns to an engine we have no lift and we can't borrow it from anybody so when everything is done we will take the car to a friend and he will take care of it.
then the car will go to the guy who fixes the body (I don't know how to say it in english) and in the meantime the engine will be ordered and the brakes and the stuff that will make the car start. and then we will take it to the paint job guy, the color will be flame red with probably black roof as the interior will be red with combination of red or just the other way it is not decided yet.
there will be a lot of parts for sale, when the car will be at body shop guy I will post pictures of the stuff that will be for sale here on the mini forum so if anybody will be interested please PM me.
here is the mini before we started working:
that's all the rust that I could find on the mini al tho the floor wasn't removed yes so we shouldn't jump to any conclusions yet.
left and right archers were removed
the left tail light was pretty hard to remove so we had to remove the fuel tank first before removing the light so the mini will not run until not set date yet
here it is the left lamp removed
fuel tank removed...
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here's the boot lid being striped down
front seats removed. I found the mini quite spacious...
rear seats removed...
the speaker board in being removed
but the board is totally destroyed
left and right door mats removed
and the rear door mats removed
and here is the car being lifted because we had to un screwed something which I don't know how to say in english again.
and sorry for bad picture quality my camera broke down so I had to get her fixed.
please comment.
manny thanks, Jure