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[1987_ParkLane]

looking good, keep it up!
nice lcb

Thanks, it is very nice .

I no lol, its great spending money when its not your own lol

Haha, well I suppose I egged you on about the turbo lol .

[1275 SPRITE]

True lol

[chadders15]

And well today, not really sure how it went today, so you can all let me know. To start off with I got some free stickers through the post :



Will find some good place to stick them .

Then I thought I would get the exhaust back on today, started off buy trying to drill the holes in the subframe for it to bolt into, only to find after about 45 minutes of trying, the drill bit was blunt , but got there in the end.

And here is how it sits:



But that is no where near completion yet , so after I had that bolted on, I decided to build the LCB up and get that in:



Only to find that I couldn't get it in assembled , so had to take it all back apart and try and put it back together under the car > . Then some of the pipes and stuff were to tight to got into each other, so it came off to open them up then back on, then back off, then back on, then back off to cut down the link pipe, then back on, then back off to cut it down some more, and by this time I think most of the street thought I had tourettes , but Dad was helping me so we were slowly getting there.

So we put the head back on, and got the manifold bolted onto that, then tightened everything back up and it looks and fits great no :











So a big thanks to my Dad , and hopefully it won't need to come off for a long time yet .

Then while I was looking at the finished piece, I realised the rear valance it not level (You can see it a bit in the last picture), so when its back on the road I might get it done and replaced, but not sure yet.

where do you get free stickers
i want some lol

[1987_ParkLane]

True lol

where do you get free stickers
i want some lol

I just asked the companies nicely , and they said they would send me some , I might have some more coming .

[1987_ParkLane]

Went out on the mini for a bit after work today got a little done:



Got the drivers side air vent out, and was greated with a little bit of rust , hopefully nothing to major, well it doesn't seem to be, not sure weather to just cover over each one with some fibre glass, as I'm not going to be using them.

Then took the heater out again, to get the carpet out, and get a bit of stone chip stuff down:



Then I was greated by this:



At first I thought I was going to poke it, and a massive hole was going to be uncovered, but it seems pretty solid, so will just treat and fill it in .

Then I just covered it all in stone chip:





So it was a pretty productive day, just a few more things to do, then the interior will be ready to be put back together, hopefully .

[AndrewJ530]

What ya worried about then? lol. 2 doors, bonnet and the boot. Everything from the fob would be well kool.

Haha, another dad influence , so go for the Micra boot release and the alarm?

LOL I no i am, remember when Simon was sellin the mini it was me that told you to have a look, and look what happened after that

You turned up on your mum and dads drive with a mini without even telling them

Haha yer, you got me to part with £650 for a mini that needed a new front end, then another £875 for a supercharger when we went to Morspeed about YOUR engine , your spending my money for me lol.

lol yeh definately. Will work a treat and you know it's gunna work forever being japanese lol. You mayswell stick some Kurust on that heater hole if your not going to use them. Pointless cutting them out if you don't need to.

[1987_ParkLane]

lol yeh definately. Will work a treat and you know it's gunna work forever being japanese lol. You mayswell stick some Kurust on that heater hole if your not going to use them. Pointless cutting them out if you don't need to.

Haha just thinking about buying it now , heater hole? Not sure what you mean lol, do explain please lol .

[1987_ParkLane]

Micra internal manual boot release, purchased .

[AndrewJ530]

Lol my apologies, the drivers side air vent. My lingo is severly not up to scratch lol.

[1987_ParkLane]

Lol my apologies, the drivers side air vent. My lingo is severly not up to scratch lol.

HAHA thats ok, I know what you mean now, might just do that then, cover them up with some fibre glass.

Edited by 1987_ParkLane, 10 March 2009 - 09:56 PM.

[AndrewJ530]

Be well kool that boot release. Proper custom lol.

[1987_ParkLane]

Be well kool that boot release. Proper custom lol.

Haha yer thanks .

[1987_ParkLane]

Well bit more done today, but also got some more:



FREE STICKERS .

Then moved onto the mini. I decided to take the rear door cards out, and get a good look into the rear bins:





They don't seem to bad, very crusty, but treatable .

Also started poking around on the rear seat and uncovered a little hole:



And a little bit on top of the wheel arch:



Neither are to serious, but can be fixed .

And this is how I left it today:

[analogue_radio]

Are you gonna be using all of those K&N stickers?

& dude drill out that ashtray, I did mine the otherday, it's useless & sticks out!

[1987_ParkLane]

Are you gonna be using all of those K&N stickers?

& dude drill out that ashtray, I did mine the otherday, it's useless & sticks out!

Haha no doubt I will lol, yer I might do that, depends though, bit of a retro feature .