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#1 bradsarcher

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 01:35 PM

All body work is being carried out by Mintec Mini Spare in newton abbot i highly reccomend them

Rough Spec

Body
Bronze yellow BLVC 15
Old english white wellers
Debumpered Britax Style
Archhless
Tubed arches
Retro style roll Cage

Brakes and suspension
7.9 alloy calipers on millded down metro turbo discs
Fully adjustable for tracking and camber
Spax shocks
Few alloy parts
Braded hoses
Subframes mildly seam welded

Engine
998 over clutch turbo (janspeed style)
Spec to be decided

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 01:48 PM

A few pictures from before will shortly follow.

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 01:50 PM

Pics as promised

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 01:58 PM

having trouble figuring out the pictures sorry

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 02:06 PM

[IMG]http://i1265.photobucket.com/albums/jj504/bradsarcher/photo3.jpg[/IMG]

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 02:07 PM

sounds nice, what trouble are you having with the pics?

just copy the [img] code from photobucket

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 02:10 PM

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 02:10 PM

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 02:11 PM

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 02:27 PM

Now the start of the restoration-picture heavy

Going for a pretty standarted look regarding body modifications, retaining the rear seats and not drilling any holes the only major mods are flip front, de bumpered britax style and tubed rear arches and cut front but retainig the standered no arch look. All flip front fixing will possibly be hidden to make it appear as original as possible.

Complete new boot floor and seat base plus repairs to both arches and boot hinge panel and a few other nastys

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 02:41 PM

Both floor pans from front to back, new cross member, inner and out sils, repairs to rear bins, new complete heel board plus a bit of repair to the front by the subframe mounts

Floor pans/Sills

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 02:43 PM

New panels and cross member in starting to look a bit like a car again

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 02:53 PM

More pics, complete front end with removable fibre glass flip front and custom brace bars.

Repairs to scuttle ends, new A panels, cut down flitches, inner wing repairs, shock mount repairs plus lots of other stuff

Front end

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 02:55 PM

Repairs

Starting to get there
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Posted 31 May 2012 - 02:58 PM

Brace bars

Decided to go with something a little different and beefy, Matt at Mintec has done a great job, welds need finishing off and tidying up but so far so good

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More pics to follow of the front end when its mocked up, pics of the heel board and other metal work

Iam rebuilding the subframes in the next few weeks so will post some pics of the process soon

Comments welcome

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