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[Hegnirst]

Ahh thats one thing I worry about as come september i will be doing motorway miles for a bit to Uni and my stereos not that loud aha, well exhaust isnt first on my list so i have a while to think about it :)

i have some inside one's of my girl friend driving it so you can see how loud it is now :) will be up in a min for ya

[Alex_B]

Brilliant! This is most helpful and also cant beat the sound of your car, its very like my mates who has a similar exhaust, great fun car!

[Hegnirst]

rewiring...







and fitted much better







then an idea for a switch placement



lasted a week till i moved it LOL

then i took the arches off AGAIN ahaha

resprayed a bit as well..



then a photo opportunity happened ....



then i raised my bonnet and three more opportunities happened ahahaaha

[Hegnirst]

then i sold the Cosmics and started to pack them :)



and off they went!

i then rewired the rear of the dials





lovely :)

then i fitted an upper dash rail i bought :) as i had plans for a special dashboard hehehe

[Hegnirst]

Brilliant! This is most helpful and also cant beat the sound of your car, its very like my mates who has a similar exhaust, great fun car!

thanks mate :) awesome,

well heres without sound proofing with me goofing around seeing what rpm i could do it first safely (only been that high once as its not healthy to be honest ahaha)



and with...

[Hegnirst]

Brilliant! This is most helpful and also cant beat the sound of your car, its very like my mates who has a similar exhaust, great fun car!

thanks mate :) awesome,

well heres without sound proofing with me goofing around seeing what rpm i could do it first safely (only been that high once as its not healthy to be honest ahaha)



and with...

and you can hear there is a difference and in the second video the window was open as well

[The Otter]

From your videos I reckon your car sounds very similar to mine, just with a bassier note, probably due to your engine being another 30% bigger. My exhaust is a single box RC40 that flairs to 2" at the tip, so not all RC40s are quiet

Edited by J322OverTheTop, 09 May 2012 - 10:34 PM.

[Hegnirst]

And then i install some LED's as i dont have a interior lights, took me a while but very easy there is four strips



THEN i fitted a sun visor :) with some help from a friend...



when i had my engine put in, the gear stick hole was sorted out and welded properly so at this point i bought new carpets and door cards at the malvern show, so i then i ripped my old rubbish carpet out and put a proper one in..






and the new door cards and seats went back in...



LUSH!

then my dash came and i fitted that :)





Handy as well just need some side vents for it and interior is done forever!!!



I also picked some wood and picket arches up so i mocked them up




which i quite like the look of them, they suite clubman so much in my opinion i first saw them on MINI WILL's clubman on here which funnily enough he's called Will as well and hes got a clubman and its black and he runs mamba wheels and W&P arches weird ahahaha

random piccie on a day out with the Gem :)






then i stuck a cows head to the bonnet LOL!





and put some LED's in the dials :)




oooo prettyyyyy

[Alex_B]

Cant wait till my engine mods start! If it ends up sounding like yours then I will be a happy man! and loving the dashboard teaser in the second video ;)

EDIT: OOh where did you get that dash from its gorgeous!

Edited by Alex_B, 09 May 2012 - 10:45 PM.

[Hegnirst]

From your videos I reckon your car sounds very similar to mine, just with a bassier note, probably due to your engine being another 30% bigger. My exhaust is a single box RC40 that flairs to 2" at the tip, so not all RC40s are quiet

oh i know there not all quite :)
i heard you pull of, they do sound different but i know what you mean :)
i think engine size has a lot to do with this quite of stuff

[Hegnirst]

Cant wait till the engine mods start! and loving the dashboard teaser in the second video ;)

ahah its all up now :)
im getting a rev limiter then a weber then a stage 2 head in the next month or so cant wait! going on holiday first with my girlfriend Gem so probs after that ill be all brown LOL

[Hegnirst]

Edited by Hegnirst, 09 May 2012 - 11:02 PM.

[Hegnirst]

So then i decided in needed inner arches in it, so we took it too a body shop who does minis, lamborghini's, mg's everything! very very good in Wychbold, Bromsgrove way.

I turned out to be much more than just inner wings LOL
we had ordered some new outer wings both sides from MIN-its and we opted for next day delivery and they took a day to not even leave birmingham! so got our money back for them and it meant he was 3 days behind him self because he had other work to do :/ ao i think kits safe to say im never getting anything from him again :@

Because the wings were out by 1.5 inches on the passengers side and an inch out on the drivers side and were bent on the passengers side wing above the arch :S (how i dont know) a new bonnet was bought because the bonnet was full of filler (an inch to be exact) to fit the wonkyness of it all LOL

im also having the W&P arches fitted by him as he doing the wings anyway

so here we go more pictures.













SOooooooo close!


i will be fitting these as well for the bonnet catches



but im going to get outside ones instead of the flush ones as i dont think bonding plastic to metal is the best even though it would've looked neater
so thats it for now more updates tomorrow, this is it all up to date now!

Edited by Hegnirst, 09 May 2012 - 11:00 PM.

[Hegnirst]

Cant wait till my engine mods start! If it ends up sounding like yours then I will be a happy man! and loving the dashboard teaser in the second video ;)

EDIT: OOh where did you get that dash from its gorgeous!

its from somerford, no one does black anymore and i was looking for that for about half a year as well

[Hegnirst]

well some updates from today, i went to pick him up :)
had quite a bit of filler dust on it where it had been cut out ahaha the engine bay looks like it hasnt been touched in 40 years ahaha



so i gave it a go over with a rag, with some help from the rain




the front end is shiny until i get a paint job
so lets see how it goes

tomorrow im going to fit the front arches,
lower the back a little,
get rid of the negative camber so i turn full lock (as i cant cut the wings for the arches because they mount to the lip :/)
then drive it :)
oh and fit a horn and clean the engine bay and starting neatening up the wiring :)