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[Bean]

Certainly did!!

Don't know why im surprised that it's looking good though... it crops up in conversation every now and then

[andywaller]

i do try my best!

i saw your project today, its looking like its gonna be good too.

[Bean]

why thank you

lookin forward to seeing yours tho gonna be ace!!

[Dog]

Hers is my excuse if I am delayed for Drag Wars! lol

[Bean]

Dont blame me, lol, ... your idea to start on saturday






(sorry to hijack )

[andywaller]

yeah but dog i run a mini every day that needs constant attention (me getting my excuse in quickly)

i went to the scrap yard this morning and cut out the little section i needed, the guy at the scrappy was lauging at me as i went to laods of effort for 3 inches of metal. but i wanted to get the rigth bit in so i dont need too much filler!.

thats now all welded in and grinded back, looks neat!

i also got my windows in from plastics 4 performance, they were good and came in 2 weeks like they said! they are also the correct length for my streetfighter doors, sliding windows are going to look cool!

the only bad thing about them is the rear quarterlites seem a bit on the small side in places, just have to see how they go when i bond them in!

im just about to go out and finish welding the passenger side front floor pan so should be cutting out the rest of the rust in the rear tomorrow

[andywaller]

the pasenger side floor plan is now welded it just got to grind back the welds.

i also think i have caught another bug, first it was (and still is) carbon

now its the KAD bug, i already have a quick shift and handbrake quadrants, now i have just seen a load of other bits on their website that i am going to purchase!

and i got a tax rebate for £115 today.

oh yeah my roll cage tube is here, and i pressed my clutch release bearing onto my plunger at work toady.

[Jammy]

Are you going to bend the tube yourself?

[]GoD[Zander]

My god you have done some work to that mini it looks great. it should be a really nice mini when finished. should be a competitions winner.

[andywaller]

Are you going to bend the tube yourself?

most of the bits i will be making are straight, but there is a garage near me and the guy does custom roll cages in minis, he is the one with the coswort V6 in the front of his mini, anyway im going to ask him to bend it for me.


cheers scott long time since youve been on here, i read you have progressed well with yours too! im hoping that people will appreciate all the work that i have done when it is finished!

i bought a load more stainless bolts for bits and bobs today, i also managed to get a wire wheel for an angle grinder too so i will be going at my subframes tommorow, my mate clubbymeup is going to seam weld, triangulate and lighten them for me so i need to get the paint off.

[miniman86]

looks like its coming along nicely andy, are you coming smag next week?

[andywaller]

cheers alex, yeah i will be there!


i have taken today and tommorrow of work to get some work done on the mini.

this morning i have been out and about sorting some bits out.

i droped off my

tie rods
rear camber brackets
clutch arm
rear anti roll bar and fittinfs
damper mounts

at the power coaters all to be done in gloss black got to go and pick them up saturday.

i also got my tyres fitted to the MB's i got them done at a place caller tyre tech in braintree and i am well ahppy with them. my local tyre fitters called supertyres are rubbish and said they wouldnt fit them > and were rude about it too.

so big up to tyre tech, he even made sure all the balance weights were on the inside, the only thing he said was next time let him have them a day in advance so he can stretch them.

i also thought i would put up some pictures of the work, i cut out the rust i found under the rear widon and welded that up.

















im now going to go out to the garage, mark up my subframes where they will be drilled for lightweight and going cut the rear inner sill out, this means i have no more rust!

[miniboo]

good work and those tyres dont look too stretched i thik

[Jammy]

Looking great.

Have you looked into any sort of special hard coating for the powdered coated tie-rods? Despite what people think, powder coating isn't that tough against harsh environments, ie. stones being flicked up from the road. I'd expect the powder coat to flake off quick quickly.

[andywaller]

na to be honest jammy i hadnt really thought about it for the little bits although it is something that i will be looking into when i get the subframes done.

all the bits that are going to be done already have some form of coating either zinc passivate or chemi black so its just going on as a cosmetic thing, if it does flake i will just paint over it i suppose.


ooooo just though i would say, my mini no longer has any rot, just surface rust which will get blown away when it gets media blasted!