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[JonnyBMX]

I'm Jonny, and ive been rebuilding the front end of my mini...

just gunna upload a few pics etc of how its going! im not so good with all these words etc so ill let the pictures do the talking for me :)

This is my car before i started the rebuild!



Front end cut off :|


Inner wing will need welding on it!


Brand new heritage panels have arrived :)


4 new revos! also had new yokis put on em!


Bonnet with the lip!


Started removing the Lip by drilling out the spot welds!



Lip removed :)


Front end is now on! including new scuttle forgot to take pics as i was doing it all lol!


Left hand bonnet allignment


Right hand bonnet allignment


Front panel line up


had a fair bit of problems putting the A panels on, stupidly forgot to take pics of those finished.. but here are a few of when i was putting em on and fiddling around with them.







will take some more pics of the allignment of these with the door when i put em back on haha!

both my doors were pretty shocking at the bottom... so this had to be sorted!




have now finished these off better and you cant see where its been sorted... not that it can be seen anyways but may aswell do something properly if your doing it atall!

getting the car ready for primer!!





removing the stripe!

[JonnyBMX]

prep on doors and bootlid!





Masking the car up for primer!





the spraying begins!





cars fully primed!





Got the paint ready for the basecoat etc, still need to flat the primer back and do all the rest of the bits first though.

In the pic the laquer is final systems... but i will be using mipa laquer instead! plus the gun here is just a cheap 1.8 set up for hosing on that primer ahha! will be using devilbliss gti's to blast the car with!


will keep you all updated of how the rest goes as and when i do it!

thanks for looking

Jonny!!

[JonnyBMX]

quick update, guide coat is on for flatting back the primer will flat that all down today and then we are ready for basecoat!

[JonnyBMX]

primer is now fully flatted down and ready for the basecoat, painting the roof in purple first, flatted it down with 320 on the da and by hand in tricky areas, once that was done across the whole car (guide coat dissapeared and all pinholes sorted out) whole car was flatted with 500 on the DA... for the roof we are going to paint it only flatting back to 500 grit but for the body and all silver parts I will wet flat 1000 grit :)

hope your all having a good easter :)

[leadly]

Looking good. Look forward to some more updates!

[JonnyBMX]

another small update, roof is sprayed up!

Base coat goes on


and the money shot!


hopefully the bodys getting sprayed by myself tonight :)

[paul_s]

Looking good! What colour are you going for? I think I've seen your car around, I'll have to look out for the new colour when it's done now

[JonnyBMX]

where u seen it? you in beds? or at some mini shows??

its going silver, with deep purple roof and wheels and mirrors :) learning loads doing the spray job myself with my cousins supervision!

[paul_s]

I've seen it in Luton a couple of times, think possibly at Knebworth last year too? Live in Harpenden so often passing through :)
Sounds good though, look forward to seeing it! I'd love to have the time / space and tools to learn to spray mine, as well as learning to weld. One day!

[JonnyBMX]

ahh yeah been luton a few times, and yeah it was at knebworth :) yeah its been a hella of a learning curve, my full time job is electrical enigineering haha! but im a welder aswell! so now ive completed the set by learning not only how to prep the car but how to spray it aswell.. its been fun was a bit scared to start with but with my cousins advise and help its been fine :) shoudnt be long till its back on the road :)

alos i think the actuall compressor and spray guns are a big investment but obviosuly ive used my cousins spray booth so its been fine on that front ahha

[project mini chris]

Looking goood Jonny! Cant wait to see this back on the road!
Keep up the good work fella! Will have to pop over sometime to take a look at it when it's done! :)

[JonnyBMX]

thanks chris! im sure urll see it soon after its back

wet flatted primer with 1000 grit today ready for spraying tmoz. also all seams have been sealed with sealant. also purchased some new equinox decals ready to go on. and fixed the wiper stalk that i snapped earlier ahah!

[JonnyBMX]

Right, bit of an update here, cars now been painted and got all the bits back on the car. moved it outa the booth so we can get the doors, boot, and bonnet sprayed up too!

Have also taken the wheels back of to paint those (felt strange scotching up some brand new rims ahha)

Few pics of car after silver base coat!















so after a few coats of basecoat, it was time for the laquer to go on, we used Mipa


spraying it on :)












cars ready for things to start going back on :)




right, got the car back toghether apart from the doors, boot and bonnet and arches ofc, altough holes for arches have been drilled :) pulled car outa the booth ready for the other bits :)

Back view


Front view


and finnaly for this update... the other bits into the booth


all basically ready for primer now :)

Any thoughts welcome :)

thanks guys

Jonny

[iancook221188]

look like a good job you done jonny

[mini_in_progress]

looks a very nice job mate, you not putting the stripes back on?