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[1380rich]

a tad jelous lol looking good mate cant wait to see more.

i want a real one lol


rich

[rosco454]

Got a little more done tonight but it was one of those days where each job took twice as long as it should have.

Did a little bit of tidying on the rollcage where for whatever reason 2 bars on the car had been moved and rewelded about 10mm away from the original position leaving small amounts of them behind.While the welding was sound it had left a bit of a mess so i tidied it up as best i could and took the surface rust off from round about with a little wire wheel on the dremel.

Before


After


I then removed the checker plate floor cover from the footwell which took far too long and once it was out reveled a mess.Luckily its only surface rust with loads of muck and crud built up on it making it look far worse than it is.I wire brushed the loose stuff off and theres nothing at all to worry about,its barely even through the paint in most areas.




Was getting a bit late by then and I didnt want to go mad with the noise so i took the carbon parcel shelf out which was also a pain as it was bonded with some awful mastik impregnated cloth type stuff as well as riveted down.



Once this was off it revealed a snazzy dimpled vickers parcel shelf that matches the dash and a pillar tags etc.Il post some pics of the vickes shelf once ive cleaned the cloth stuff off it but I might just ditch the carbon one and leave it as it is.

More to follow tomorrow if time allows.Cheers Ross.

Edited by rosco454, 20 November 2009 - 10:24 PM.

[luigi86]

Got a little more done tonight but it was one of those days where each job took twice as long as it should have.

Did a little bit of tidying on the rollcage where for whatever reason 2 bars on the car had been moved and rewelded about 10mm away from the original position leaving small amounts of them behind.While the welding was sound it had left a bit of a mess so i tidied it up as best i could and took the surface rust off from round about with a little wire wheel on the dremel.

Before


After


I then removed the checker plate floor cover from the footwell which took far too long and once it was out reveled a mess.Luckily its only surface rust with loads of muck and crud built up on it making it look far worse than it is.I wire brushed the loose stuff off and theres nothing at all to worry about,its barely even through the paint in most areas.




Was getting a bit late by then and I didnt want to go mad with the noise so i took the carbon parcel shelf out which was also a pain as it was bonded with some awful mastik impregnated cloth type stuff as well as riveted down.



Once this was off it revealed a snazzy dimpled vickers parcel shelf that matches the dash and a pillar tags etc.Il post some pics of the vickes shelf once ive cleaned the cloth stuff off it but I might just ditch the carbon one and leave it as it is.

More to follow tomorrow if time allows.Cheers Ross.

loves this project.
If you decide to get rid of that carbon parcel shelf i would be interested!

[rosco454]

Thanks luigi,

Im afraid someone has already called first dibs on the shelf if i decide not to use it,you can be second in line though.

Cheers Ross.

[rayjake]

WOW what a mini!!!! the cage looks pretty special!!! just wondering what the dash is made out of?? and how its fixed to the car??

[gregh55]

can i be third inline for the shelf

thanks

greg

[rosco454]

Greg - Not a problem mate.

Rayjake - The dash is made from ally sheet and the design is quite similar to an Ian Curley carbon fibre one.I think this picture is probably already somewhere in the thread but it shows how the dash mounts up.Its basically riveted to whats left of the existing top dash rail,riveted at the side to mounting tags that come off the cage,the bottom is formed around the main cage dash bar and then ties into whats left of the standard bulkhead on the crossmember.




Cheers Ross.

Edited by rosco454, 22 November 2009 - 09:33 PM.

[rayjake]

Thanks ross, sorry the photo was on earlier but i didnt look close enough to see the rivots. Good luck with it, im reallllly jealous!!!!!

[minimotor_JD]

Wow, I really like the exterior colouring. Good work, cant wait to see what it looks like when its all done.

Keep up the good work

[rosco454]

Did a bit more this evening,got on with taking the surface rust off the front floor pan which revealed only slight pitting in the worst bits so no welding to do there.Just used a wire wheel on the drill and a dremel for the awkward bits.will just need treating before its repainted and jobs a good'un.



Close up of the worst bit.





I also had a go at the foot rest which is mounted off the rollcage at one end and to the floor at the other.The mount on the cage had been tacked inside an old cut off tube so decided to take it out and start again by welding it up myself.Took quite a long time to do because once the rivets were drilled through and it was cut off with the dremel,it was awkward to get the grinder in to take the thick off.Got there in the end though.

Before



Closer shot



After



Apart from that the only other news is that ive had several people recommend me the same body shop for spraying the interior which is promising and also i talked to a local motorsport fabricator about adding 2 cross over diagonals to the rear section of the cage but im not sure whether il bother with that or not.

Cheers Ross.

Edited by rosco454, 28 November 2009 - 08:47 PM.

[rosco454]

Managed to squeeze a bit of work in tonight,welding up the doors that came from my last mini to go onto the miglia.

I had already done the passenger side one ages ago using repair sections i made myself but for the drivers side i bought one of these door bottom repair panels from moss.The fit is reasonably good and for £18 i couldnt really grumble.



So cut the door bottom back to get rid of the rot and allow fitting of the repair section.



Tacked in place.



Ran a few pulse welds - took a while to get the settings right as the last thing i welded was a spit that needed full power on the welder.



Finished job all welded up



Theres still a couple of localised repairs needed to the front and rear edge of the door but thats the bottom sorted.Only real tweeking it needed was to take a bit of meat off the inside of the curved section at each end but literally a couple of mm so just being fussy.Only downside is that the door ive done previously now looks all over the place so might well invest in another repair section and redo the passenger side as opposed to ruining a doorskin trying to put it on with the lip slightly out of shape.

Cheers Ross.

Edited due to having the spelling ability of a small child.

Edited by rosco454, 02 December 2009 - 11:25 PM.

[rosco454]

Ordered the panel for the other side so once this ones finished I can redo the bottom section of the passenger door.

[Tillio]

Excellent stuff Ross.....

With the front of the cage plated and bolted to the bottom of the front subframe lower mounts, i reckon thats gonna be a teeth rattler

Have you got any pictures of the roof braces/bars?

[rosco454]

Excellent stuff Ross.....

With the front of the cage plated and bolted to the bottom of the front subframe lower mounts, i reckon thats gonna be a teeth rattler

Have you got any pictures of the roof braces/bars?

I think your about spot on,everything is solid mounted and the suspension is all rose jointed so theres not going to be much give in it!

The roof diagonal was cut out (presume it was in the way of someones lid) but il get a picture of whats left over the weekend for you.

[evil ewok]

this is a sexy looking project. love miglias.

do you have any more pictures of the turrets please mate? considering something like this for my project.

cheers