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[Tomm]

bought a sexual new auto gauge from hellfrauds today with some vouchers i got for christmass and a very funky shift light, love it to bits hehe.

collecting my new pannels for my car now, i need...

drivers side a pannel
drivers side floor pannel
rear valance
could do with a scuttle
valance corners

also need to patch up the

rear heel board
rear floor
passanger rear quater under the window

found a roll cage up the road which i might buy and then add a few bars and that stuff.

I have chossent to go for a tahiti blue shell, with the roll cage painted cadbrys purple. I have come to the conclusion that the car will be deaseamed and will posibly have mk1 rear lights. My miglia arches are going to be bonded onto the shell and be altered a bit just to make the shell extra special. i am hoping to replace the boot floor for some thing flat and remount the battery in the back.
Hopefully my car will start to get some where now.

[jack_marshall]

Good progress Tomm.

My advice would be to stop thinking about finishing touches at the minute, just get a fully solid shell to play with.

Keep it up.

[Tomm]

Thanks jack! Yeh finishing ideas are just floating around in my head at the moment, i taken a leaf from your book and decided to get a solid shell going first of all so thanks for that jack!

[Tomm]

been in the garage 4 hours and ive deseamed about 12 inches i shal show ye' the pictures tommorow...

Sorry this is a small note to myself really....

6 point cage - £100
Fixed Cross to Rear Brace - £50
harness mounting bar - £15
dash bar - £15
Straight door bars £15

Think that will be it for now...

Edited by tomm, 01 January 2007 - 04:38 AM.

[minivanman]

Well, thats only another 3 weeks to go then

[Tomm]

Hah and the rest haha

[Tomm]

was in the garage from around 8:45/9:00 PM till 10:30 and i have got about 11 inches of the rear near side seam to do and then that will be that side done yay!!!

Tommorow i will have around 5 and a half hourse of just me and the car so i should get quite a bit of work done, I am hoping to move onto the roof guttering tommorow but i am not holding my breath, i cant wait to get my new valance on and my arches blended in....


Hummmmmmm, jacks project thread is to misleading!!!!

[Tomf]

Have you got any pics as i would love to see how it is done.

[bert998]

Have you got much experience of welding Tomm?

[Tomm]

No tom, i dont have any pics as of yet but just for you mate... ill get you some

Welding wise bert, to be honest no, ihave learnt as i have gone along, I started off using a gasless welder but i had a quick go on my uncles gas welder and i loved it, it was so much easier and was a lot tidier and i didnt burn through the metal at all which i did quite a bit with the gasless welder, so tommorow i shall go out and get myself a gas tank and have a go at deseaming using some gas aswell which should make life A LOT easier.

To be honest the hardest part is getting the filler to look half decent! Jack marshal said that to me but i thought id have more trouble welding rather to filling but he was right hehe. I have welded up from the inside aswell as welding on the outside which i find is a lot easier and i would have thought everyone would have done it but in certain areas like the roof and across the rear parcell shelf yopu cant weld from the inside which is a bit of a pain in the arse!

today i sat my smothed boot on and i got rather excited! i am after some MK1 conversion plates for my rear lights to give it a rather minimal look which should give it a rather tasty look, I am also going to alter the corners of my miglia arches so that they kind of "flow" off of the valance and into the arch.

He he i like this game

[Tomf]

Sounds like its going to be nice once you have finished, do you think it would be a hard job to remove just the rear bumper lip??

I got a welder for xmas and im thinking of taking the rear bumper off my next mini, i havent really got to use the welder yet as i only got some scrap metal today to prctice on, and i havent been able to try on that yet soo, thats what ill be doing tomurow. Do u have any tip for me?

[Tomm]

I would say i would do it for you for a small fee but then i read you had a welder and you wanted to give it a bash hehe!

urm, main things i can say really is get a half decent welding helmet one that you can use with both hands free because it really does help being able to use two hands.

You want to hold the end o tip of the trigger about 10-15mm away from the metal you are going to weld (if you understand what i mean?) and keep your hand at a even distance from the metal sheet to keep the weld fluent if that makes scence.

You want to keep the handset (i dont know the real word for it hehe) at the correct angle so that you can see what you are doing withought the sparks all in your face because thats useless.

Always have a fire exsinguisher around i have been with a fair few people when sparks have flown off and set some thing alight!

Just play around with the settings have a little fiddl, the main thing to get right it the amount of wire speed correct with how much wire is being used so that not to much wire is fed and not to little is fed. I taught myself with no knowlage of how to weld and now although my welding is not that amazing, i have enough faith in it to deseam my car!

When you come to debumpering the rear valance, run a weld along the seem from the inside of the valance as this makes it a lot easier to take the lip off! But dont do anymore than 8 inches a time at the absoloute max due to heat distorsion.

Another small thing what amp is your welder?

I think thats all really sorry if i rambeled on a bit mate hehe! all i can say is get practicing and when you feel confident enough just give it a bash, if you fell you really have gone nipples up drop me a PM on here or some thing and ill be more than happy to pop down and give you a hand!

Tomm

EDIT...

Sounds like its going to be nice once you have finished

Thanks mate, I really hope you are right!!

Edited by tomm, 03 January 2007 - 02:10 AM.

[Tomf]

Thanks for that quick run through Ill have a practice today and see how it goes.

[Tomm]

thats no problem tom how did it go?

Last night i managed to deseam the whole rear near side and i got started on the roof aswell, the hardest part is filling it in and making it look half decent

I just keep looking at jacks for reasurance hehe

[TOMMO0302]

Any pics? It would be good to see it at all stages even when its not looking so good!

Keep up the hard work