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[scsracing]

Well had a nice arrival today,some boxes





Oh shiny,my powder coated bits(came to £110 inc blasting)



A heritage boot floor and inner arches,and heelboard





On the small side some other wee bits



Spent most of my time cleaning the underside again getting rid of all the filler,waxoil and sealant ready for the new panels so that we cold find the spot welds and the metal.

Cleaned up the soundproofing on the floor,still need to treat some surface rust on it.



The painted struts and heat matrix





From now on we have basiclyl all the panels for the rear of the car and got the door step and sills for the left side too.

How the car is at the moment,a storage place.

[dell_boy]

doesn't look like allot of room but its still loads more than i have. i can only just walk down one side of the car, i should probably start clearing sum space so i can start.

[scsracing]

In a single it would be tight even though the mini is small,feel sorry for you.Its ok when working as its a double so all the stuff can be moved over but a car has to go on the other side at night so everything is put back over.The shed is jammed packed too

Edited by scsracing, 29 October 2009 - 06:27 PM.

[Tim1970]

Some really nice work there!
powerdcoated bits look awesome.

[scsracing]

Thanks,all the welding is done by my dad and i tend to do all the stripping(sounds so wrong ) and cleaning up of bits and tidying up all the bits that need some welding done so that it makes my dads job easyier.

Going to get a quote from another Powder coaters when it comes to the front subframe and bits as they where quite slow getting it done as they had to get it blasted out of house where as the other coaters have there own one.

My uncle can blast everything bar the subframes though for beer so might get him to blast it all instead of getting coaters to do it(was £55 for the blasting for those bits above)

[minimaff]

Looking good, keep it up !!

[obiwan riley]

looking good now, good to see you taking care of it

[RowenBlaineSkinley]

awsome project man, coming along real nice...loving the powder coated parts, im gonna get my parts powder coated now

[scsracing]

Powder coating is much better than painting and cheaper too.

Well today not too much going on but my dad has welded bracing in the boot and across the floor prior to cutting out the heel board, boot floor and inner arches.

Hopefully tomorrow the cutting will begin

[scsracing]

Another update.

Most of the rear bench cut out



What was a new sill that has been badly fitted and treated



There was a piece of metal stuck here that was glued on



Spot welds drilled out and heel board removed



Heel board offered up



Welded in



Welds tided up(will eventually be seam sealed)



A new patch made after the last attempt by previous owner was terrible and was'nt doing very much.It still has to be seam welded only tacked in place at the moment



Rear piece of inner sill welded in place



That all for now,next time the boor floor and inner arches should be no more ,

[scsracing]

The rear right hand side is nearly finished now but some of the welds do need going over again to get them smooth.Just a coat of etch primer to stop the rust coming back for the time being until the whole car can be done.WIll be seam seal aswell in the end.



Underneath cleaned up and primed.



The same is happening to the left hand side but it has only just been started.

This is the old sill.



All the scrap bits so far

[scsracing]

My dad has been busy since last time.The boot floor and inner arches are no more and only some little bits are left too cut out.

The rear bulkhead needs some reconstruction work on the bottom lip as it is nearly all gone.

I have;nt got the pictures of the boot floor gone but i have some of the rear bumper lip which has been all cut out and replaced with some sheet metal.

















Still needs some filler but its basicly there.

Had to get a new rear bin aswell and even more cutting disc's(looking for a sponsor to supply discs )



Oh and 67lbs of car

Edited by scsracing, 25 November 2009 - 06:52 PM.

[scsracing]

After hours and hours of cutting by my dad the boot floor has been put in to test to see how well it fits.The fit is ok,not perfect but the car its self is abit mangled as one arch is 21" and the other is 22" .Still wanting on some more brackets for the boot(its surprising how many panels and brackets go into a boot floor ).

The bottom of the bulkhead needs some major surgery so that will be next before the floor will be welded in

There is still alot of tidying up to do but its getting there

Edited by scsracing, 02 December 2009 - 09:02 PM.

[obiwan riley]

nice progress

[sonikk4]

We still cannot figure out why the arches are different in length. I have checked and double checked all the measurements, heelboard to rear mount pickups, shock tower points to heelboard and so on. ITS REALLY TWISTING MY BRAIN. However a large precision calibrated impact tool will sort this out along with some more sophisticated panel beating.

I think a lot of it is down to the standard of the Heritage panels we are using along with the previous butchery from the last owner (welding skills of Stevie Wonder)

Still Mini's were never perfect from new but we can and will improve Project Erm.