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[zeemax89]

Sorry,  I was keen to ask then read the next few pages.  Hows progress now?

[sonikk4]

Sorry,  I was keen to ask then read the next few pages.  Hows progress now?

 

At the moment its completely stalled, he is wrapped up in the garage while Scott sorts things out in his life. Then once things have settled down then we should be able to rock on with it.

[zeemax89]

 

Sorry,  I was keen to ask then read the next few pages.  Hows progress now?

 

At the moment its completely stalled, he is wrapped up in the garage while Scott sorts things out in his life. Then once things have settled down then we should be able to rock on with it.

 

Well the best of luck to you and Scott.  lets hope he get sorted and things work out for the best

[sonikk4]

 

 

Sorry,  I was keen to ask then read the next few pages.  Hows progress now?

 

At the moment its completely stalled, he is wrapped up in the garage while Scott sorts things out in his life. Then once things have settled down then we should be able to rock on with it.

 

Well the best of luck to you and Scott.  lets hope he get sorted and things work out for the best

 

 

Cheers, hopefully it will all come good so we will both have a minis on the road together.

[wadeenie]

did this ever get finished!? I need to know now after spending a couple days (of works time) reading all of this. 

[sonikk4]

did this ever get finished!? I need to know now after spending a couple days (of works time) reading all of this. 

 

Nope, he is sitting under a cover in my garage gathering dust. However he has not beeen forgotten. My lad has recently bought a house and so all of his time and money is being ploughed into that.

 

He is still contemplating the engine conversion and also what other things we need to do. The roll cage is high on the list of things to do when i cut the roof off and fit a full CF one.

 

He had at one point thought about going Z cars route but with the issues they had he was put off. Then Promotive threw another curve ball into the mix.

 

So still no further progress after 7 years (where the hell has that time gone, i have done another two full body restos in that time as well)

[wadeenie]

Ah well, its going nowhere and still trickling up in value    and buying a house is a worthwhile thing to be doing at least

[scsracing]

Test

Edited by scsracing, 20 December 2019 - 07:09 PM.

[Bdshim]

Great project , shame about the paint set backs but its looking super nice now thanks for sharing the tip along the way

[sonikk4]

It will be nice to actually finish this but until Scott finds some spare wedge he will still sit in my garage.

 

The power plant will be the big question. 

[sonikk4]

So many years later we have reached a moment which i thought would not happen but has to go. We finally broke him out under his cover, gave him a wash ready for some piccies.

 

So apart from some very minor surface rust in the boot in the spare wheel well, (i might actually deal with that) a tiny paint chip on the rear panel top left corner of the boot cutout and some paint fretting on the roof panel where we kept the Carbon Weasel Carbon roof skin he is pretty much as was after he got painted and we made him mobile.

 

So i know this is not the valuation section and but thoughts peeps of TMF. Everything that was done to him is on this thread, everything. It will just be a rolling shell, so front and rear subbies, all of the attached suspension components (Gaz adjustable shocks, new doughnuts, refurbished radiius arms, new top arns, Minisport Hi lo's front and rear, steering column drop bracket, it has the 7.5' Minisport drilled discs but no calipers, they will be sold seperately, the steel wheels BUT i will be swapping out the nuts as they are for the Force racing Mini special wheels. Door seals, rear side window seals. We do have the painted trim strips as well, they are currently not fitted. Oh and the DSN Billet towing eye. 

So V5 in my lads name etc.