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[miniallsort]

wow looks great

[fattail95]

Looks like an awesome colour man! Loving the rebuild.

[mini_man_dan]

Cheers guys! Very pleased with the colour

Good news, She runs! Got her started on saturday, only for a few seconds as she doesnt have her radiator in but atleast we know she goes. Hoping to have her on the wheels this weekend and hopefully very close to completion!

[l_jonez]

Good choice of colour, its not far off mine

[olly917]

loving the rebuild its looking mint just a quick question, why have u gone to all that effort of making the shell, subframes suspension and brake and put the engine back in the car with a red block and a green head? are you going to repaint it at a later stage? hope u don't mind me asking just curious thats all!

ps look forward to more updates, olly

[mini_man_dan]

Good choice of colour, its not far off mine

BEAUTIFUL!! What colour is that? if you dont mind me asking.

loving the rebuild its looking mint just a quick question, why have u gone to all that effort of making the shell, subframes suspension and brake and put the engine back in the car with a red block and a green head? are you going to repaint it at a later stage? hope u don't mind me asking just curious thats all!

ps look forward to more updates, olly

No i dont mind at all!! il'd rather people tell me what they think aslong as its not insulting lol... with the colours i kept the head the green because that is the colour that bill richards painted it and i wanted it too look as if it wasnt a normal head as such. im not 100% sure if i like it that way, so may well paint it red at a later date.

oh and the camera makes the colours seem really bright on the engine, mainly due to my appalling skill with a camera

Edited by mini_man_dan, 20 May 2012 - 10:34 PM.

[l_jonez]

It's a one off in house colour. It's based on fusion green but has added pearl

[olly917]

cool just wanted to ask thats all, job job on the rest pal very nice n looking forward to seeing at a show soon! olly

ps thats if they don't keep getting cancelled due to weather that is lol

[mini_man_dan]

Thanks for all the comments! We have had a busy week on the car, getting up to the garage as many times as we could. The engine and exhaust has been finished, brakes bled, radiator connected etc. Although there is a noise coming from the timing gear that we arent happy about, going to have to remove the radiatior to get to the chain and see what the story is.

Other bits and peices such as the doors, windows, wheels have been put on making it look complete and schweeet! still a little way off completion but the end is nigh. Here as some pics to keep you entertained for the time being!











Heres the mk1 Carbon fibre boot that is going in, there will be no lamp on it, we are going to use screw LEDS to light the numberplate. this bootlid was made by arc angels



We have the carpet, dashboard and roof lining in. We hope to get the door cards and seats in this week!

[J_AUSTIN_B]

Nice colour combo! I'm thinking about picking up a carbon fibre flip front from arc angles...I would be interested in hearing what kind of a job they do.

[Midas Mk1]

Looks so clean and fresh, love it! :)
Is the carbon boot a double skin version? Would be interested in seeing the fit, as I'm looking at getting a mk1 boot, great progress on this bud :thumbup:

[mini_man_dan]

Nice colour combo! I'm thinking about picking up a carbon fibre flip front from arc angles...I would be interested in hearing what kind of a job they do.

Looks so clean and fresh, love it! :)
Is the carbon boot a double skin version? Would be interested in seeing the fit, as I'm looking at getting a mk1 boot, great progress on this bud :thumbup:

Thanks guys! Yeah the bootlid is double skin, option 3 on there website, and its very nice. The quality of the carbon, weave and lacquer is amazing. It was a toss up between arc angels and carbon weezel, i would have loved to gone with carbon weezel but the funds wouldnt allow it. However im over the moon with the quality of arc angels products, there customer service is very good even though i had to wait a little bit for the roof to be done.

Just a warning, i spoke to admiral and it seems they dont insure carbon and may be the same with other companys. i have to go through a mini specialist through adrain flux but its at a good price.

[mini_man_dan]

Another update. The interior is in and the source of the mysterious ticking noise has been located and remedied. Hopefully she will be running sweet as a nut when the radiator, timing chain etc are all back on.
Heres just a few quick pictures of the bootlid on, i think it looks really good and the fit is brilliant. Kudos to arc angels!

[timothy9601]

Smashing progress so far mate. It will be a top notch car when it is finished.

Edited by timothy9601, 13 June 2012 - 05:49 PM.

[Midas Mk1]

Love the carbon mk1 boot, really tempted now!

I reckon if you could get hold of a playmini carbon back box, it'd set the rear end off