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[leaky]

Any updates then Roofless?

[johnjamessims]

I love the rear lights, wis i could get them off the shelf.
Any update? whats happening with the clubby front?
I need to get a can of the colour you did your subframe in, its gunna look pristine

[roofless]

everything is pretty much on hold awaiting return of front subframe from MRA minis, which is now 9 weeks late, but thats 9 weeks late from assembly, the actual brakes, hubs and highly specialised parts they are doing were already 4 months late in January.

It'll be astounding when it finally comes, and people will freak out, but every week there seems to be an issue of sorts, and its really, really causing us problems and unbearable delays now.

[roofless]

subframes back with mahoosive disks and 100mm PCD flanges

please excuse the stains - I was rather excited









calipers in due course, Martin wants to fit them once we finished with mounting the frame, sorting bodywork, installing engine, and he can then do a 4 wheel laser alignment.

[GreaseMonkey]

Good God, those discs look huge!!

[roofless]

Good God, those discs look huge!!

285mm of vented pig-iron

[johnjamessims]

Hows this coming along mate?

whats happening with the dash?

[roofless]

Hows this coming along mate?

whats happening with the dash?

well, all being well, sub frame is going on tomorrow, it'll stand on its wheels for the first time, and calipers are coming for installation on Tuesday big fat and nasty six pots compliments of MRA minis that will hopefully make it stand on its nose

steelwork will commence again in 3 weeks time - commitments with other things mean its had to go on the back burner a little, but with sub frame back there is no reason or excuse to not crack on as soon as time permits now.

alexcrosse finishes Uni in May, and will be coming in to build the engine up as soon as he's sobered up , and I think some major progress will be seen from that point on.

[johnjamessims]

christ, you'll have better stopping power than a brick wall lol

I'll keep watching

[roofless]

with an estimated 300bhp, we're going to need it - hence the chunkiness of everything going into the front end, and also why we're going full steel front - we need as much strength as possible.
The turbo brake rig on the cabriolet is OK, but at 160-ish WBHP its just about on the limits of its capabilities, so I wanted this to be as good as it could be, so we've gone for the maximum size we feasiblly can what with the 14" wheels, and MRA were the only firm that could supply a rig of this nature - Even KAD's 6 pot type B conversion couldnt give us what we wanted, but this solution from martin looks as though it will be just perfect.

[HARBER07]

Can't wait to see this engine get built to be honest! Gonna be a right beast.

[roofless]

little bit of bulkhead fettling, welding, grinding and general hole making compliments of resident welder cookie and the subframe is on







front wheels dont appear to protrude quite enough, may look better tomorrow once its not floating, but already suspecting we need another 30mm on each side

[LOWRIDERHORNET]

I can see this in Mini in mini Mags soon i guss

[mini93]

bulkhead looks good...wish i could have spent more time on mine and made it look a little bit more "fitting" as such

[panelbeaterpeter]

Not sure how I've missed this! Nice attention to detail, and good to see a bit of imagination and fresh ideas. The BINI dash seems to fit very well! looks very in keeping to the whole look too. Keep up the great work