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[Miniryan09]

Hello everyone!

As some of you may know, i'm currently doing up my 1992 998cc city and so I thought about time to make a thread for it!

So, its a 1992 city which I managed to pick up cheapish in london a couple years back, it was pretty tired when I bought it and in all honesty didn't really do much to it until a month or two ago...it was parked up on the drive under a cover and all the work i did on it, just rotted away every time it rained so thought with my head (and not my wallet!) and am now renting a nice cosy garage down the road... perfect for a project like this

So what have I done? Well when I bought it seemed pretty bad (nothing on the kinda things you guys have done but still i'm only 16 and its my first project) the engine problems were mostly simple, things like gear selector oil seal, distributor, general service items such as spark plugs, oil filter etc but the rust... it was more a rusty hole than a car...the sills and floor were ruined the guttering was ruined and the boot floor was non-existent.

Now though! Had it all fixed engine-wise (it started the other day!) and is pretty much perfect in the engine dept, just the dreaded rust now, generally gunna just chop it out and re-panel etc... gunna hopefully have all the sills done next weekend, then the boot and then just general bodywork. Next gotta get it sprayed up, then just put it back together and add chrome shiny bits!

Needs to be done by summer though b'cus I want to learn to drive in it!

Obviously i'm on a pretty tight budget too, being a student and all that.

Yea so anyway this thread will be just generally updated whenever I get to work on it, so watch this space!

Here's some photos:

More photos and more updates shall be added soon!

Cheers!

Edited by Miniryan09, 05 February 2012 - 11:12 PM.

[mini mayhem]

i want this thread name, i should have thought of it. ohh well next mini i do.

best of luck sorting it

[lil3on]

looks like a good project look forward to the updates
Good luck :)

Edited by lil3on, 06 February 2012 - 12:03 AM.

[Miniryan09]

hehe thought was a pretty good name gotta love fight club

Anyway not much of an update, but had abit of a fuel leak today! (yay!) Some fuel line just came a little loose and decided that it wanted to pour about 30 squids worth of premium unleaded all over my garage floor...Gotta love minis sometimes....

Yea so will get to work with the important stuff soon, spent all day clearing it up

-Ryan

[Miniryan09]

So, Short update

Bit tedious as just doing paint prep at the moment, so nothing exciting, but got some big plans for the next couple weeks, first off next weekend i'll get all the welding finished - hopefully! and then all will be ready for spray really, will have an inspection and then hopefully get it sprayed early march! then just going to put it part together - just enough for mot (lights,seatbelts,seats etc) then hope for it to pass and if it does, just gotta strap everything back on it and j'ai fini!

Like i said, nothing new really unless you want to see pics of the prep work (i'm sure you don't!) so no pics on this update, but hopefully welding done and then all up from then on!

Ryan

[Miniryan09]

Little update

Got a couple quotes from the spray shop, but now heres the big decision: what colour!?

Think i've narrowed it down to imperial blue or black? any suggestions would be appreciated though!

Just getting the final prep done, and then should be sprayed in a week or two!

[MiniFTW]

Just out of interest, what was you quoted for a respray? I presume you are doing a color change? Cheers

[Miniryan09]

Well he's coming tomorrow to do an accurate quote but he said on the phone £400-£700 (but i have done all/most of the prep)

[MiniFTW]

Ahhh fair enough! thats a good price I rang a proper shop in Nottingham and was quoted 3.5k down the phone. I reminded him that my car was a mini....

[Miniryan09]

haha yea i was quoted 2.6k from somewhere too! its stupid how much it varys! i got a best quote of £600 so just got to get the welding done next week and then should be sending it off to get sprayed, no piccys or updates until the weldings done! so next update should be next tues/wed!

Cheers

[Miniryan09]

UPDATE!

Let the welding begin! Hopefully all welding will be done by end of the week and can get it sprayed up ASAP, cut out all the rust, making up templates tomorrow and then get one or two in in the next couple days hopefully!

Just need to get myself a new boot lid, a nice solid one hopefully

Budget wise, still miles over! Bought my interior stuff the other day from optimise automotive, gotta say their service is A** would totally recommend! So that's another £250 spent! But hey ho, gotta spend sometime eh? Anyway, on phone at the moment so only a little update, big update expected in the next day or so though!

Pics to follow - Will add tomorrow when it's light!

Expect progress this week!

[oltonlad]

haha, all of your respray quotes are cheap................give southern classics a call.............they quoted me £8000..............and thats with me stripping the car for them..............hahahahaha............

i told them that i wanted 1 mini resprayed.....................not 10........lol

Edited by oltonlad, 05 March 2012 - 09:41 PM.

[Miniryan09]

Haha! Yea I'm lucky really, only got one stupid quote of like £3000! But £8000?! That's ridiculous!

[MiniFTW]

£8000 phwaaa! Was you having 24 carat gold flakes in the finish?

[Miniryan09]

Sod the flakes, for that price I would want it dipped in gold!