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[Jordie]

Been trimming brkts and stuff back on the engine bay area..

 

 

 

Full underside painted with a liberal coat of black chassis paint...

[Jordie]

[hoody99]

Looked mean with the lower front panel like that lol kind of factory splitter look when blended in with the wings

[Jordie]

Had to buy a couple of different engine mounts, so awaiting those coming.

 

Also purchased acewell digi dash and a set of 5x 13" metro alloys.

[Jordie]

ahem...back on topic.

Engine mount parts finally arrived. quick trip to get some M12 flange nuts and we were ready to rock.




getting there.....need an extra pair of hands to help manourve it as i lift with crane.

[Jordie]

back out from some trimming around the shocker mounts and back in it goes....




Gearbox code....any ideas or info on this people?


Checking clearences....







Need to sort out this rear lower engine steady at some point.


Need to bolt on the side plates and drill holes for shocker brkt bolts.

[charie t]

pg1 gearbox, 4.2 open diff, cable operated

Edited by charie t, 07 October 2013 - 06:23 PM.

[Jordie]

Sorry it was copied and pasted from 16v mini forums.

 

I found the info just after i asked on there.

 

jordie

[Jordie]

So....the engine and box are out of the frame. Seperated the engine and gearbox.

 

Gearbox painted silver and clutch arm removed. Converting to the MGF hyd clutch arm and slave cylinder. Going to try and use as many factory parts as I can to prevent problems in future, such as having to modify a part to fit etc. This way I can use the mini master cylinder or similar setup with the MGF slave cylinder.

 

So......on order

1x clutch kit

1x clutch slave cylinder

1x clutch slave bracket

1x modified MGF clutch arm with grease channel

[Jordie]

Been a while since I updated this.....

 

new clutch fitted to engine.

 

gearbox cleaned and painted, new brackets added etc etc.....THEN decided to swap it for a different ratio, so C6BP box purchased. Currently cleaning that up etc before refitting to engine.

 

Subframe in and out several times whilst modifying to clear steering rack....sorted that today after re-modeling some of the metal and also welding up some of the seams.

 

Cut the front end off, what a pig of a job. Spot welded wings to scuttle......but no access to get in with a drill or grinder so unable to seperate them. Brute force with a small sharp chisel and hammer worked it free. Couple of the spot welds ripped holes in the scuttle corner, but easy repair.

 

So the front is off.....need to decide if im gunna weld the bonnet to it or not.....

 

Bare bulkhead..

 

Flipfront hinge...

 

Jordie

[SAL 821X]

Looking good Jordie.

 

Those brackets seem to be all the rage at the moment 

[Minidarren83]

Looking good Jordie.
 
Those brackets seem to be all the rage at the moment 

Hmm I wonder who started thatcurrent trend off lol

[mk3 Cooper S]

Well a trip to bonny scotland in the snow


to collect this.....


can you tell what it is yet??? bit of a better picture and picture of the breakdown below......


yes a very rotten mini van....plan is to make fibreglass upper quater panels (these panels are NLA new or pattern parts) to convert the estate into a van. Original plan was to cut the metal out and weld in, but more we look at the van, the more it begs to be restored (pending further investigation into documents).

First mould taken, so progress already.

On the van front, load bed is solid which is suprising considering the amount of soil, grass, weeds,stones that we had to dig out of it. Roof panel as been "knocked out" and is nearly back to original shape.

Jordie

Did you keep the front panel(or the grille section off this?)

[Jordie]

Yes somewhere we did....

[steven]

Nice work